Recaps

Oscar lured the Hundred Flowers Sect's Holy Maiden into poisonous thorn vines, then rescued her with medicinal powder when she begged for help. Tie Li and Yue Yin discussed the Wind Thunder Sect's history, a lost soul bone, and Zhang Yang's new role in the army.

• Oscar escaped the Holy Maiden's attacks by flying into a soul beast forest, where he led her into a nest of poisonous thorn vines.
• Oscar used medicinal powder to free the Holy Maiden from the vines, caught her as she collapsed, and fled with her.
• Tie Li told Yue Yin that the Lightning Pool had become a cultivation site for various factions, and Yue Yin explained what he knew of the Wind Thunder Sect's near-destruction and restoration.
• Yue Yin urged Tie Li to seek the seventy-thousand-year Dark Thunder Demon Dragon Left Arm Soul Bone from Shrek Academy so Tie Li could strengthen his Quake Dragon Hammer.
• Yue Yin told Tie Li that Zhang Yang served under Marshal Ge Long and could perform a Martial Soul Fusion Skill with a soul master who possessed the Bone Dragon King martial soul.

Tie Li was confronted by three Hundred Flowers Sect elders who accused him of knowing where their missing Holy Maiden was. He fought them in the city lord’s manor, and the leading elder unleashed her Giant Dragon Seal against him.

• Yue Yin prepared to return to the army while Tie Li stayed in Hundred Flowers City, and Dugu Bo and Yang Wudi worried that Spirit Hall had turned its attention toward the Star Luo Imperial Family.
• Dugu Bo proposed that the Heaven Dou Imperial Family seal off the Wind Thunder Sect’s former grounds, but the Heaven Dou Emperor chose to keep them open for profit.
• Tie Li rejected a pill from the Hundred Flowers Sect and spent time cultivating and relaxing beneath a flowering tree at the city lord’s manor.
• Three Hundred Flowers Sect elders confronted Tie Li over their missing Holy Maiden and demanded to know where Flower Maiden was.
• Tie Li fought the three Soul Sages with his Quake Dragon Hammer, while Hua Wuyan held back and watched.
• The leading elder used her sixth soul skill, Giant Dragon Seal, to attack Tie Li with a massive dragon claw.

Tie Li defeated the Hundred Flowers Sect elders and left Hundred Flowers City, while the sect’s Holy Maiden returned after the elders paid a great price to bring her back. The story shifted to Tie Wu, whose teacher advised him about his assessment and relationships before Little Purple and White Moon confronted him as he set out for the Great Soul Arena.

• Tie Li shattered the Hundred Flowers Sect elders’ attacks, but Hua Wuyan stepped in before he could seriously harm them, and he withdrew his Quake Dragon Hammer.
• Three days after Tie Li left, the Hundred Flowers Sect’s Holy Maiden returned, and her master told her to rest after the elders’ sacrifice to save her.
• The Holy Maiden secretly took an item from her robes and smiled tenderly as her master left.
• Tie Li headed for Northland City with pills from Hua Wuyan, intending to give them to Tie Wu.
• Ruls reassured Tie Wu about his Soul Power Level 38 and urged him to manage his relationships with Little Purple and White Moon.
• As Tie Wu prepared to go to the Great Soul Arena, Little Purple and White Moon both appeared and asked to go with him.

Tie Li reunited with Tie Wu, gave him pills, and helped him force his Soul Power to Level 40 so he could rank well in Spirit Hall’s upcoming assessment. Tie Wu then faced questions from Little Purple and White Moon about his recent absence.

• Tie Wu slipped away from Little Purple and White Moon to meet Tie Li, who gave him a cultivation pill and asked about their family in Manno City.
• Tie Li warned Tie Wu that their distant relatives might be using his Spirit Hall status to gain protection and gave him a Waterforce Pill to raise his Soul Power by one level.
• Tie Wu cultivated for ten days with the Hundred Flowers Sect pill, reached Level 39, and then used the Waterforce Pill to reach Level 40, despite the resulting weakness and six-month cultivation stagnation.
• Tie Wu decided to obtain his fourth soul ring without Ruls’s help while Ruls was away on a long Spirit Hall mission.
• Little Purple and White Moon confronted Tie Wu about his absence and questioned why he looked weak.

Tie Li took Tie Wu into Northland Forest to find a fourth soul ring suited to Tie Wu’s Flame Wolf. Tie Wu absorbed a four-thousand-year Blazing Tiger’s soul ring and obtained its right-arm soul bone.

• Tie Li and Tie Wu encountered a group of soul masters pursuing an injured Blackwind Panther, and the group’s Soul King killed it so a companion could absorb its soul ring.
• Tie Li fought off a three-thousand-year Nether Cat while searching for a suitable soul beast for Tie Wu.
• Tie Wu learned that Tie Li was a Soul Emperor, then lost focus and was nearly caught by a four-thousand-year Blazing Tiger.
• Tie Li battered the Blazing Tiger with his Quake Dragon Hammer, and Tie Wu killed it and absorbed its purple soul ring.
• Tie Wu found a right-arm soul bone in the Blazing Tiger’s corpse, and Tie Li told him absorbing it would greatly improve him.

Tie Li returned to the Wind Thunder Sect ruins and cultivated near the Lightning Pool, stopping just short of entering it. Tie Wu’s new soul bone strengthened his fire attribute, but his Soul Power remained unchanged, and Luer warned him to stay alert for the upcoming assessment.

• Tie Wu absorbed the Blazing Tiger’s right arm soul bone, which strengthened his fire attribute and gave him greater confidence for the assessment.
• Tie Li parted from Tie Wu and traveled alone to the Wind Thunder Sect ruins, where his token granted him access to the Lightning Pool region.
• Tie Li passed the Thunderstones and stopped three meters from the Lightning Pool, then used his five marks to gather lightning and cultivate.
• After seven days, Tie Wu’s Soul Power had not changed, though he considered the soul ring and soul bone worth the lost half-year of cultivation.
• Luer told Tie Wu that Ruls had left on a mission and reminded him not to lower his guard during the assessment.

Tie Wu entered the Great Soul Arena to test the strength he gained from absorbing a soul bone and fought the level-forty-eight Shi Zhong. He defeated Shi Zhong with his fourth soul skill, Heavy Blaze Shattering Strike.

• Tie Wu reassured Luer, then went to a snack stall and asked the uncle whether local punks had been harassing him.
• Tie Wu ate three bowls of wontons, paid the uncle, and headed to the Great Soul Arena to test his improved strength.
• Tie Wu registered for an individual Soul Fight and was matched against Shi Zhong, a level-forty-eight power-type battle Soul Ancestor.
• Tie Wu used his first and third soul skills to break through Shi Zhong's defense, but Shi Zhong stunned and injured him with his fourth soul skill.
• Tie Wu unleashed Heavy Blaze Shattering Strike with his right fist and left Shi Zhong collapsed on the platform with severe burns.

Tie Wu traveled with the Northland City Spirit Hall delegation to Spirit City for an assessment and learned that he would compete in one-on-one group battles. There, he saw Little Purple spending time with Yan Yu and concluded that he had misjudged their relationship.

• After defeating a level forty-eight Soul Ancestor, Tie Wu confirmed his strength and briefly spoke with Gao Jin and the White Fang Sect disciples.
• Tie Wu left Northland City with six other young soul masters and three Soul Kings to attend the Spirit Hall assessment in Spirit City.
• At the lodging house, Tie Wu learned that Little Purple could not bring White Moon along on the trip.
• The next morning, Tie Wu saw Little Purple sharing breakfast with Yan Yu, a seventeen-year-old Soul Master at level forty-one, and left with Bai Ka.
• Staff announced that the assessment would use thirty-two groups of one-on-one battles, with the top two scorers in each group advancing.
• Tie Wu discovered that Yan Yu was in Group Seventeen with him and, after Little Purple had not sought him out, decided he had misjudged her.

Tie Wu won his Group Seventeen matches and advanced alongside Yan Yu, while Yan watched him with a troubling sense of recognition. The next assessment would pit sixty-four Soul Masters against one another on an uninhabited island until only sixteen remained.

• Yan Yu boasted about his strength before his match with Tie Wu, while Yan in the VIP seats noticed Tie Wu's familiar face and remembered unpleasant memories.
• Tie Wu used his Flame Clone to evade Yan Yu's attack and won their match by stopping his flaming claw just short of Yan Yu's neck.
• Tie Wu defeated a three-ring Soul Elder in the afternoon, then ignored Little Purple when she tried to explain the cafeteria incident.
• Tie Wu won nearly all his remaining Group Seventeen matches, and he and Yan Yu advanced as the group's top two contestants.
• Spirit Hall prepared the sixty-four advancing Soul Masters for an island assessment, while Yan told Mo Yu he had come to observe because the assessment differed from his own.

Tie Li discovered that Lightning Pool lightning could transform his soul bones, so he began cultivating at its edge while the power drove other soul masters away. Meanwhile, Tie Wu and two allied teams surrounded and eliminated the injured nine-member group on the deserted island.

• Tie Li reached the Lightning Pool but recoiled when its powerful lightning struck his left foot.
• Tie Li found that Lightning Pool lightning was improving his leg soul bones and began refining it at the pool’s edge.
• The violent lightning forced the soul masters cultivating nearby to abandon the outskirts.
• Tie Wu, Bai Ka, and Wild Bull joined forces with Yu Zhi’s team and Li Jin’s team to attack an injured group of nine.
• Tie Wu dismissed Little Purple’s appeal, and the three teams overwhelmed the group, eliminating its members one by one.

Spirit Hall’s advancing contestants clashed with members of the three major single-attribute clans, who challenged them to a seven-versus-seven match with stakes. The match began as Tie Wu faced Ma Hongjun, whose five-ring Soul King strength and ten-thousand-year soul ring shocked the arena.

• Spirit Hall’s team eliminated opponents on the deserted island and advanced, then stopped in a nearby city to rest.
• At the hotel, members of the three major single-attribute clans insulted Spirit Hall, and a steward accepted their challenge to a match with stakes.
• Tie Wu sensed a powerful flame aura from Ma Hongjun, while the clans chose him and Bai Chenxiang to lead their team.
• The two sides assembled for a seven-versus-seven team soul battle, and Ma Hongjun taunted Tie Wu before the referee started the match.
• Ma Hongjun revealed five soul rings, including a ten-thousand-year ring, stunning the arena.

Ma Hongjun led the three great single-attribute clans to defeat Spirit Hall’s team in the wagered battle, then accepted Yan’s challenge over the soul bone he had won at the Soul Master Tournament. The private one-on-one Soul Battle was arranged under the supervision of two Soul Douluos, with a Soul Sage appointed as referee.

• Tie Wu and Yu Zhi bypassed Ma Hongjun to attack the three great single-attribute clans, but their attacks failed against the agility and defense Soul Masters.
• Ma Hongjun burned Li Jin’s Golden Snake Vines and used his Fifth Soul Skill, Phoenix Meteor Shower, to eliminate several Spirit Hall fighters.
• Ma Hongjun punched Tie Wu off the platform, defeating Spirit Hall’s group.
• Yan arrived, recognized Ma Hongjun, and challenged him to a match, wagering his savings against Ma Hongjun’s tournament soul bone.
• Ma Hongjun demanded that Yan also wager both arms, and Yan accepted.
• Niu Gao and a platinum bishop restrained the opposing groups as the Great Soul Arena arranged a private one-on-one Soul Battle with a Soul Sage referee.

Ma Hongjun defeated Yan in a spirit battle, but a Platinum Bishop intervened before the outcome could be settled and Niu Gao secured the wager. The group then received their final assessment: endure as long as possible in White Flame Valley, where Tie Wu was placed on a relatively safe stone wall.

• Ma Hongjun used Phoenix Burst Strike to break Yan's defenses and seriously injure him, then pressed the attack with Phoenix Fireline.
• The Platinum Bishop interrupted Ma Hongjun's fourth soul skill to protect Yan, and Niu Gao blocked the bishop's Soul Power attack.
• Yan handed over his storage Soul Tool as the wager and left the Great Soul Arena with the Platinum Bishop.
• The group returned to the hotel, rested, and received details of the final assessment in White Flame Valley, where the top performer would receive a guaranteed ten-thousand-year fifth soul ring from Spirit Hall.
• A Spirit Hall steward carried Tie Wu to a relatively safe stone wall in White Flame Valley and told him to remain there until the assessment ended.

Tie Wu ventured deeper into a dangerous cave to gather Fire Essence Grass and used a seven-thousand-year stalk to break through the Waterforce Pill’s restriction, reaching Soul Power Level 44. He found five ten-thousand-year stalks among fire crystals, but the cave continued beyond them, leaving him to consider whether to press on.

• Tie Wu dodged eruptions from cracks linked to underground earth veins and collected increasingly old Fire Essence Grass as he went deeper.
• Tie Wu absorbed a seven-thousand-year Fire Essence Grass, breaking the Waterforce Pill’s restriction and raising his Soul Power Level to 44.
• Tie Wu continued deeper, suffered a magma burn to his left arm, treated the wound, and cautiously moved onward.
• Tie Wu found five ten-thousand-year Fire Essence Grass among crimson crystals, including one with a faint golden pattern.
• Tie Wu prepared to collect the five stalks, then noticed the cave extended farther and wondered whether he should continue.

Tie Wu found and consumed the Red Prison Dragonblood Hibiscus in White Flame Valley, transforming his martial soul and reaching Soul Power level fifty. After returning to Spirit Hall, he faced Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan, who recognized the herb’s fragrance.

• Tie Wu ventured deeper into White Flame Valley and found the immortal-grade Red Prison Dragonblood Hibiscus among the flame crystals.
• Tie Wu consumed the herb and endured a month of painful cultivation as fiery energy tempered him and his Flame Wolf martial soul.
• Tie Wu reached Soul Power level fifty, and his martial soul transformed into the Holy Flame Gray Wolf.
• Spirit Hall deacons failed to find Tie Wu and listed him as missing, but a deacon later discovered him as he emerged from a cave.
• Tie Wu returned to Spirit Hall in time for the assessment rewards, where Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan asked whether he had consumed the Red Prison Dragonblood Hibiscus.

Tie Wu was recognized by Chrysanthemum Douluo for his talent and gained the chance to obtain a fifth soul ring, while Tie Li advanced through an assessment in the Lightning Pool. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Wu saved Tie Wu from the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound, leaving him facing the dying beast.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo confirmed that Tie Wu had consumed the Red Prison Dragonblood Hibiscus and praised his talent after seeing his Holy Flame Gray Wolf Martial Soul.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo ordered Spirit Hall to take Tie Wu to the Star Dou Great Forest the next day to obtain his fifth soul ring.
• Tie Li completed seven steps in the Lightning Pool, earning a reward that raised his soul bones' age to eighteen thousand years.
• Xiao Wu ordered the Titan Giant Ape to severely wound the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound and save Tie Wu from its attack.
• Xiao Wu warned Tie Wu to leave the Star Dou Great Forest, and he vowed to repay her before turning toward the dying Three-Headed Red Demon Hound.

Tie Wu absorbed the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound’s soul ring and unusual head soul bone, then returned to Spirit Hall and drew the attention of Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo. He began a fight with Xie Yue to test his strength, and their clash was still underway.

• Tie Wu killed the Three-Headed Red Demon Hound and absorbed its fifteen-thousand-year soul ring, reaching Soul Power Level fifty-four.
• Tie Wu absorbed the beast’s head soul bone, which made three flame-wreathed heads grow from his own and strengthened his Holy Flame Gray Wolf martial soul.
• Tie Wu left the Star Dou Great Forest and gave Spirit Hall an account of the deaths of the seven deacons; Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo chose not to press him.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo praised Tie Wu’s potential, while Ghost Douluo proposed sending him to Death Canyon to compare him with Xie Yue’s group.
• Xie Yue challenged Tie Wu in a Soul Fighting Arena, and the two released their martial souls and fought as Soul Kings.
• Tie Wu’s three-colored flames clashed with Xie Yue’s Moon Blades, and their battle continued.

Tie Li completed the Lightning Pool’s forty-nine-step trial, raising his Soul Power Level to sixty-nine and his leg Soul Bones to sixty thousand years while gaining a third pair of bone wings. A second trial then began, pitting him against a lightning humanoid whose Quake Sound and amplified power made it a dangerous opponent.

• Tie Wu used stacked Inferno Rings against Xie Yue’s Full Moon, then feigned exhaustion and conceded without revealing his head Soul Bone.
• Tie Li’s leg Soul Bones reached thirty thousand years as he continued cultivating in the Lightning Pool and improved his affinity with lightning.
• After seven months of training, Tie Li advanced through forty-nine steps of the Lightning Pool, enduring increasingly powerful lightning beasts and reaching level sixty-nine.
• The trial’s reward raised Tie Li’s leg Soul Bones to sixty thousand years and caused a third pair of bone wings to emerge from his External Soul Bone.
• A humanoid lightning creature appeared in a Soul Fighting Arena and attacked Tie Li with a powerful, complete Quake Sound.
• Tie Li clashed with the creature and activated four amplification Soul Skills, but its own strength was amplified to match his.

Tie Li fought a series of lightning humanoids and acquired complete methods for several of the Thunder Dragon Six Sounds, discovering a flaw in his earlier cultivation. Meanwhile, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing prepared to flee the Star Luo Empire, while Dai Weisi confronted Zhu Zhuyun after she poisoned Dai Mubai.

• Tie Li defeated the Quake Sound humanoid, then overcame the Sound Penetration and Collapse Sound humanoids to obtain their complete cultivation methods.
• Tie Li battled the humanoid wielding Void Sound for two hundred rounds and obtained the complete Control Sound method, leaving him severely drained.
• Dai Mubai survived a poisoning attempt with Tang San's antidote and decided with Zhu Zhuqing to escape the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Mubai secretly contacted Flender and the others while making arrangements to leave without Dai Weisi discovering them.
• Dai Weisi bound Zhu Zhuyun in an underground palace and accused her of poisoning Dai Mubai, while Zhu Zhuyun demanded to know who he really was.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing reunited with Flender and Ning Rongrong, then learned that Oscar was missing, Ma Hongjun had been taken by Fallen Soul Masters, and Liu Erlong was injured. Meanwhile, Tie Li absorbed a Hundred Thousand Year torso soul bone, reached Soul Power Level seventy, and entered the first Thunder God Nine Trials challenge.

• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing reunited with Flender, Ning Rongrong, Zhao Wuji, and Chen Xin inside Heaven Dou Empire territory.
• Flender and Ning Rongrong told Dai Mubai that Tang San was absent, Oscar had gone to the Far North, and Ma Hongjun's Evil Fire had caused serious trouble.
• Flender's group returned to Shrek Academy and found Liu Erlong injured after two Fallen Soul Masters had broken in and taken Ma Hongjun.
• Chen Xin identified the intruders' cold, evil Soul Power and suggested Ma Hongjun's martial soul was connected to their interest in him.
• Tie Li completed the Thunder God Mark by absorbing a Hundred Thousand Year Thunder Spirit Dragon torso soul bone, and his Soul Power reached level seventy.
• Tie Li activated the Thunder God Nine Trials and entered the Land of Thunder Evolution as the mist around the Lightning Pool began to dissipate.

Tie Li entered the Land of Thunder Evolution and began fighting an endless succession of thunder beasts as he tried to survive for a year. Meanwhile, Tie Wu and Yan’s rivalry erupted into a duel in Death Canyon, where Tie Wu revealed a powerful Self-Created Soul Skill.

• Yu Xiaogang discovered in his clan’s archives that the Wind Thunder Sect had once been the Thunder God Sect, and considered seeking more records at Spirit Hall while searching for a solution to Ma Hongjun’s evil fire.
• Tie Li killed a thunder tiger thunder beast with his Quake Dragon Hammer and gained five hundred years of age for his left leg soul bone, but another beast immediately emerged.
• In Death Canyon, Tie Wu accused Yan of letting Gale Demon Wolves attack him, and Xie Yue warned Yan not to repeat the behavior as they prepared to enter Dark Valley.
• Yan attacked Tie Wu with a flaming rock, and the two entered Martial Soul Possession and began fighting while Xie Yue and the hidden Douluo watched.
• Tie Wu blocked Yan’s fifth soul skill with a spiral shield of tricolored flames, transformed it into a Three-Headed Red Demon Hound, and sent it charging at Yan.

Tie Wu defeated Yan with his Self-Created Soul Skill and was sent to the Spirit Hall Temple in Heaven Dou City as punishment. Chrysanthemum Douluo clashed with Dugu Bo outside the city, and Dugu Bo returned to the imperial palace determined to refine his poison pill and regain the advantage.

• Tie Wu badly wounded Yan with Skyfire Transformation, forcing Yan to abandon the trip to Dark Valley and return to Spirit Hall.
• Spirit Hall elders blamed Tie Wu for injuring Yan and assigned him to the Spirit Hall Temple in Heaven Dou City; Chrysanthemum Douluo accepted the decision.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo escorted Tie Wu to Heaven Dou City, then left after handing him to the Platinum Bishop.
• Dugu Bo intercepted Chrysanthemum Douluo outside the city, and their clash ended with both Title Douluo departing after their attacks shook the area.
• Dugu Bo told Prince Xue Xing that Chrysanthemum Douluo had likely come without a mission, then resolved to refine his poison pill after suffering a small loss.

Tie Wu clashed with Dai Mubai in Heaven Dou City and accepted a public wager match at the Great Soul Arena. As the fighters took the stage, Yu Xiaogang recognized Tie Wu and judged Dai Mubai had less than a thirty percent chance of winning.

• Tie Wu and two Spirit Hall soul masters encountered Shrek Academy students, and Dai Mubai challenged Tie Wu after their groups traded insults.
• Tie Wu proposed that the loser admit to being a dog, kneel, and shout “Grandpa” three times, and Dai Mubai accepted.
• The Great Soul Arena promoted the wager match, drawing Spirit Hall deputy hall master Wu Ersi, Prince Xue Beng, Ning Fengzhi, and Shrek’s teachers and students.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to Shrek Academy and joined the audience after failing to find a solution to Dai Mubai’s evil fire.
• Yu Xiaogang recognized Tie Wu as a Holy Flame Gray Wolf martial soul owner whose talent rivaled Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation, and estimated Dai Mubai’s chance of victory at under thirty percent.

Tie Wu used his explosive-flame soul bone and skills to gain the upper hand against Dai Mubai in their Soul Battle. After Flender suggested delaying payment of their verbal wager, Tie Wu knocked Dai Mubai unconscious and secured victory.

• Yu Xiaogang identified Tie Wu as an assault-type Soul Master whose explosive-flame soul bone greatly enhanced his Holy Flame Gray Wolf martial soul.
• Tie Wu and Dai Mubai exchanged close-range attacks, and Tie Wu's flames steadily injured Dai Mubai despite his slight strength disadvantage.
• Dai Mubai struck Tie Wu with his second and fourth soul skills, but Tie Wu used Skyfire Transformation and Flame Clone to evade the attacks.
• Tie Wu hit Dai Mubai with his Inferno Rings and Heavy Flame Rupture Strike, leaving him severely injured and barely standing.
• Flender proposed delaying the verbal wager, while Dai Mubai refused to concede and tried to provoke Tie Wu.
• Tie Wu saw through Dai Mubai's provocation, appeared behind him, and knocked him unconscious.

After losing the soul battle, Dai Mubai rejected the wager and secretly met Ma Hongjun, who tempted him with the power of ultimate evil. Dai Mubai agreed to seek that power, and when his disappearance was discovered, Flender and the others searched the Spirit Hall Temple, where Wu Ersi accused them of trying to evade the wager.

• Flender asked to delay the wager while Dai Mubai recovered, but Wu Ersi announced that Spirit Hall would come to Shrek Academy in three days to collect.
• After waking, Dai Mubai insisted the verbal wager did not count and left alone to meet Ma Hongjun outside Heaven Dou City.
• Ma Hongjun revealed he had become a Soul Emperor and urged Dai Mubai to pursue the power of ultimate evil, citing the widening gaps between Dai Mubai, Zhu Qing, and Third Brother.
• Dai Mubai agreed to seek a deity's attention and obtain the power of ultimate evil.
• When Dai Mubai disappeared, Flender asked Ning Rongrong to seek Chen Xin's help, and the group went to the Spirit Hall Temple.
• Wu Ersi accused Flender's group of staging the search to evade the wager, while Flender realized Dai Mubai had never been there.