Recaps

Second Team and First Team ran weighted laps after eating Deep Blue Oysters, and a rivalry between their captains scattered both groups. Tie Li chose to finish the run before turning back, while Tuo Yu had already gathered the missing Second Team members, leaving the teachers surprised by the team’s return.

• Tie Li and the other Second Team members ate Deep Blue Oysters, then ran around the mountain in Weighted Vests without using Soul Power.
• Tie Li formed Second Team into a line and set the pace, while Zhao Tianhe watched and Qin Ming waited ahead with First Team.
• Second Team encountered Yu Tianheng and First Team, and the captains sped up as their teams competed, causing members to fall behind.
• Yu Tianheng turned back to search for his missing teammates, while Tie Li led Gu Qi and Mu Wei past Zhao Tianhe before returning for the others.
• Tuo Yu gathered three separated teammates, and Tie Li brought the remaining group back together as both teachers watched in surprise.

Zhao Tianhe took the Second Team deep into the Heaven Dou Plain for training, where they had to rely on one another without the teachers nearby. After they prepared their shelter and settled in, Zhao Tianhe assigned them a weighted run that also required them to face the surrounding Soul Beasts for food.

• Tuo Yu explained how the Second Team had completed the earlier challenge, earning praise from Qin Ming.
• Zhao Tianhe led the Second Team into the Heaven Dou Plain with three accompanying teachers and settled them in an abandoned village.
• Zhao Tianhe told the students that the teachers would not intervene against ordinary Soul Beasts, forcing the team to defend itself.
• Tie Li assigned pairs to keep watch, and the students spent the night without incident.
• Tie Li organized the students into four huts, placing Ning Ning alone in the central hut and pairing the others for safety.
• Zhao Tianhe gave the Second Team Weighted Vests and ordered them to run a lap along his markers while warning them that nearby Soul Beasts would be their food.

Tie Li and the team endured six months of dangerous soul-beast training under Zhao Tianhe, with daily healing and nourishing food helping them grow stronger and trust one another. Their training ended after Tie Li reached rank forty and Mu Wei, Zhang Xiaohe, and Jue Dun reached rank thirty, leaving them ready to seek new soul rings.

• Tie Li led the team through an attack by hundreds of Earth Element Rats, and they defeated most of the swarm before treating their injuries and making a meal from the dead rats.
• Zhao Tianhe arranged for a support Soul King to heal the team after their daily training and provided them with special food to aid their recovery and cultivation.
• The team continued fighting cooperative herds of soul beasts, and their shared hardships steadily strengthened their trust.
• Over half a year, each member gained one or two Soul Power ranks, with Tie Li reaching rank forty and Mu Wei, Zhang Xiaohe, and Jue Dun reaching rank thirty.
• Zhang Xiaohe asked whether Teacher Zhao would take them to Sunset Forest or Star Dou Great Forest to obtain soul rings.

Zhao Tianhe led the students into Sunset Forest to find soul rings for Jue Dun, Zhang Xiaohe, and the others. Jue Dun began absorbing a thousand-year Mountain Rock Turtle’s soul ring, and the group spotted a Fine-Boned Snake suited to Zhang Xiaohe just as Li Ji moved to stop it.

• The teachers discussed Qin Ming’s plan for Shrek Academy to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Zhao Tianhe worried that he might lose his role leading the Second Team.
• Zhao Tianhe led the group from their inn into the depths of Sunset Forest and warned everyone to stay together.
• The group encountered a thousand-year Mountain Rock Turtle that suited Jue Dun, and Zhao Tianhe subdued it for him.
• Jue Dun killed the Mountain Rock Turtle and began absorbing its purple thousand-year soul ring as the others guarded him.
• A Fine-Boned Snake suited to Zhang Xiaohe emerged after being drawn by the blood, and Li Ji moved to stop it as it fled.

Jue Dun and Zhang Xiaohe obtained their third soul rings, while Zhao Tianhe’s group teamed up with Thunderclap Academy to find a lightning-attribute soul beast for Tie Li. Bai Ningwu led them to a dangerous Lightning Crystal Armored Beast, intending to trick Tie Li into absorbing a soul ring beyond his limit.

• Jue Dun finished absorbing a thousand-year soul ring and demonstrated his group-protection skill, which withstood Gu Qi’s attack for ten breaths.
• Zhang Xiaohe absorbed his third soul ring, gaining an attack-and-speed enhancement skill.
• After five days without finding a suitable soul beast, Zhao Tianhe led the group deeper and encountered teachers and students from Thunderclap Academy.
• Zhao Tianhe pressured Bai Ningwu into traveling together, then had Tie Li explain that he needed a fourth soul ring with a lightning attribute.
• Bai Ningwu led the group to a cliff where a Lightning Crystal Armored Beast lived and falsely described its cultivation as five thousand years, hoping Tie Li would be harmed by absorbing its soul ring.

Tie Li chose to absorb the soul ring of a Lightning Crystal Armored Beast despite warnings that its cultivation might exceed his limit. After Zhao Tianhe and Li Ji crippled the beast, Tie Li began absorbing its ring, and the teachers discovered it had been eight thousand years old; the process continued beyond the usual time, leaving everyone anxious.

• Tie Li insisted on hunting the Lightning Crystal Armored Beast, and Zhao Tianhe agreed after Bai Ningwu joined them.
• Zhao Tianhe and Li Ji fought the beast, and its lightning strike seriously injured Bai Ningwu before they crippled it.
• Tie Li killed the beast with his Purple Thunder Hammer and began absorbing its soul ring.
• Lei Ying identified the beast as an eight-thousand-year Lightning Crystal Armored Beast and told Bai Ningwu that its ring exceeded Tie Li's fourth-ring limit by three thousand years.
• Tie Li endured faint pain while absorbing the ring, but more than an hour passed and Zhao Tianhe turned an unfriendly gaze toward Bai Ningwu.

Tie Li absorbed an eight-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Mu Wei obtained her third Soul Ring before their team returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. The education committee planned to keep the Second Team as substitutes after Shrek Academy joined, while Tie Li sold his spoils in Heaven Dou City and caught the attention of a mysterious girl.

• Tie Li absorbed the Lightning Crystal Armored Beast's eight-thousand-year Soul Ring, then salvaged its valuable parts before Zhao Tianhe led the group away.
• Zhao Tianhe captured a thousand-year Scaled Armored Beast for Mu Wei, who absorbed it as her third Soul Ring.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Meng Shenji and the other committee members told Zhao Tianhe that the Second Team would remain in training as potential substitutes until Shrek Academy arrived.
• Tie Li sold most of his accumulated Soul Beast materials in Heaven Dou City for sixteen thousand Gold Soul Coins, then went sightseeing with snacks in hand.
• A short-haired girl with several powerful Soul Masters following her told them to wait for her signal, then put on a pitiful expression as she noticed Tie Li.

Tie Li learned that Heaven Dou Royal Academy was considering bringing in Shrek Academy, including an unusually young Soul Elder, and realized the timeline had shifted. He left uncertain about the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone and the academy’s plans, while learning that Zhang Xiaohe was spending time with Prince Xue Beng.

• Tie Li fled from a disguised girl whose weak Soul Power concealed a terrifying aura, then returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and studied soul-beast materials in the library.
• After Zhao Tianhe failed to resume his training, Tie Li continued his routine for over a month without seeing him.
• Tuo Yu told Tie Li that Qin Ming had come from Shrek Academy and that Heaven Dou Royal Academy planned to recruit its teachers and students, including an eleven-year-old control-type Soul Elder.
• Tie Li realized Tang San had arrived in Heaven Dou City two years early and worried that the changed timeline made seeking the Blue Silver Emperor soul bone too dangerous.
• Tie Li learned that Gu Qi and Ning Ning had returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Mu Wei had gone home, Jue Dun frequented the Great Soul Arena, and Zhang Xiaohe stayed with Prince Xue Beng.

Tie Li refined a lightning-powered kicking technique and tested it in an individual Soul Arena fight against the much higher-level Heavy Turtle. The chapter ended with Tie Li’s three rapid kicks cracking his opponent’s turtle shell.

• Tuo Yu told Tie Li he planned to return to his family in Rockfall City within a few days, then left.
• Tie Li used his Thunder Hammer form and full-body Thunder Armor to combine lightning-enhanced kicks with the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer technique.
• After spending the night refining the technique, Tie Li changed out of his academy uniform and went to the Great Soul Arena to test it.
• Tie Li met Yu Feng and the other members of First Team, who were preparing for a team fight under Teacher Qin Ming.
• Tie Li entered an individual fight against Heavy Turtle, a level-forty-eight Soul Ancestor, while Tie Li was level forty-two.
• Tie Li struck Heavy Turtle with three rapid lightning-enhanced kicks, cracking the turtle shell on his chest.

Tie Li won his individual soul fight, watched Yu Tianheng's team win, and met Jue Dun at the Great Soul Arena. He then bought lightning crystals and Whale Rubber in Heaven Dou City and commissioned a blacksmith to reforge his arm guard with a Thunder Python Horn.

• Tie Li defeated the burly man with a powerful kick and hammer blow, winning his individual soul fight.
• Tie Li watched Yu Tianheng and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy team overcome their opponents in a twenty-minute team soul fight.
• Tie Li met Jue Dun and a girl from Blazing Fire Academy, then left the Great Soul Arena to explore the city.
• Tie Li bought forty lightning crystals and an extra one at a discount, and found a thousand-year Whale Rubber to send to Tie Wu.
• Tie Li took his arm guard and a damaged Thunder Python Horn to a blacksmith and commissioned him to reforge them within three days.

Tie Li learned of Dolangbu’s killings and Seventh Master Ning’s scheme to obtain Dolangbu’s evolving soul bone, then handled several personal and business matters. He joined Mu Wei to investigate soul beast eggs in Sunset Forest, where they encountered the eggs’ thousand-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent guardian.

• Dolangbu killed another Soul King from Spirit Hall while two Soul Saints secretly watched him, and one reported his actions to Seventh Master Ning.
• Seventh Master Ning explained that he was protecting Dolangbu so his soul bone could evolve into a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone for the Rank 89 man in green.
• Tie Li sent Tie Wu Whale Rubber, received an anxious letter about Tie Wu’s encounter with a female Spirit Hall deacon, and sent him one thousand Gold Soul Coins with a blank letter.
• Tie Li arranged Lightning Crystals and commissioned defensive equipment from a Heaven Dou City blacksmith, paying deposits and agreeing to return in one month.
• Mu Wei told Tie Li about five or six soul beast eggs on a cliff in Sunset Forest, and they went to investigate after changing out of their academy uniforms.
• Tie Li and Mu Wei found another group collecting the eggs, but a thousand-year Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent appeared, prompting Tie Li to recognize it as Oscar’s chance to obtain a third soul ring.

Tie Li and Mu Wei encountered the Shrek Academy group after Zhao Wuji captured a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, then guided them to Heaven Dou Royal Academy. Flender and the Shrek members met the Education Committee, while Tie Li stayed to see how they would assess Tang San.

• Zhao Wuji safely lowered Tie Li and Mu Wei from the cliff, knocked out the Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent, and exposed their hiding place.
• Oscar absorbed the serpent's soul ring, and Flender asked Tie Li and Mu Wei to lead Shrek Academy to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Tie Li guided the group toward the academy and wondered whether Tang San would be tested and whether he still had the Eight Spider Lances.
• Qin Ming met the group at the academy, and Tie Li stayed with them to watch the Education Committee assess Tang San.
• Meng Shenji welcomed Flender and the Shrek group, introduced the committee members, and invited everyone into the committee building.

Tang San demonstrated his External Soul Bone to Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s Education Committee, securing their secrecy and strengthening Shrek’s case for joining the academy. After Shrek settled in, the teachers discussed team arrangements, and Qin Ming arranged a Soul Battle between Shrek’s students and First Team.

• Zhi Lin tested Tang San with increasing Soul Power pressure, prompting Tang San to reveal his Blue Silver Grass and eight crystalline tentacles.
• Grandmaster explained that Tang San’s External Soul Bone had fully merged with him, and the Education Committee members swore to keep it secret.
• Qin Ming settled Flender and the others in the dormitory district, then explained the academy’s internal problems and the question of how to build a team around the Shrek students.
• Zhao Wuji and Dai Mubai supported testing the students in a Soul Battle, and Qin Ming agreed to arrange it.
• Qin Ming asked the Education Committee to let Shrek face First Team in a Soul Battle, and Zhi Lin approved.

Tie Li and Second Team faced First Team in a Soul Fighting Arena match, and Tie Li’s opening attack disrupted their formation before he clashed with Yu Tianheng. The fight continued with both teams regrouping, and Tie Li prepared to use a Mushroom Sausage to target First Team’s support Soul Master.

• Tie Li followed the team’s plan by opening with his fourth soul skill, Thunder Fall, scattering First Team and breaking their formation.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass trapped Osler, while Dai Mubai and others attacked; Tie Li ate Oscar’s sausage and blocked Yu Tianheng and Yu Feng from supporting him.
• Tie Li injured Yu Tianheng in their exchange, but Dugu Yan’s poison mist struck Tie Li before Tang San pulled him back to Oscar’s detoxifying sausage.
• Oscar and Zhang Xiaohe were eliminated, while Ye Lingling healed Yu Tianheng and the teams regrouped with one member lost each.
• Tie Li proposed targeting First Team’s support Soul Master, then ate a Mushroom Sausage to gain flight and activated his first and third soul rings.

Tie Li's disregard for teamwork disrupted the soul battle, prompting Heaven Dou Royal Academy to plan individual training for him instead of dropping him. As the team faced uncertainty, Tie Li began planning to hunt a Man Faced Demon Spider for its Eight Spider Lances.

• Tie Li charged toward Ye Lingling, but Yu Tianheng and Yu Feng redirected their attacks against Dai Mubai, who was injured while supporting him.
• Master stopped the soul battle and told Qin Ming that he wanted to discuss the team's problems with the education committee members.
• Ning Rongrong learned that Tie Li belonged to Heaven Dou Royal Academy's Second Team and decided to enroll there to get revenge on him.
• The three education committee members decided to keep training Tie Li individually and assigned Zhao Tianhe to guide him.
• Flender brought Ma Hongjun to Heaven Dou City to address his evil fire, then noticed Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Tie Li considered searching the Star Dou Great Forest for a thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider so he could obtain the Eight Spider Lances.

Zhao Tianhe took Tie Li toward the Wind Thunder Sect's remnant site so Tie Li could cultivate in its Lightning Pool. Along the way, Tie Li encountered three Ivory Sect outer disciples extorting travelers in White Fang City and fought back when they threatened him.

• Zhao Tianhe explained that natural cultivation grounds could help Tie Li develop his lightning-attribute Purple Thunder Hammer and said he would take him to the Wind Thunder Sect's Lightning Pool.
• Zhi Lin welcomed Ning Rongrong to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and agreed to introduce her to the Second Team.
• After traveling for three days, Zhao Tianhe and Tie Li stopped for the night in White Fang City, where Zhao Tianhe suddenly left the inn.
• Three Ivory Sect outer disciples broke into Tie Li's room and demanded ten Gold Soul Coins as an entry fee.
• Tie Li caught one man's hand, then drew an electrified chain, prompting the three men to identify themselves as Ivory Sect disciples.

Tie Li and Zhao Tianhe learned that the Ivory Sect planned to seize a jade box the Cheng Family had found in the Wind Thunder Sect’s ruins, then watched the Ivory Sect attack the Cheng residence. Huyan Bao overwhelmed the first challengers, but other forces were still lurking nearby.

• Tie Li wounded three Ivory Sect disciples, and one revealed that the Cheng Family had obtained a jade box from the Wind Thunder Sect’s ruins.
• Zhao Tianhe confirmed the Ivory Sect planned to attack the Cheng Family that night and brought Tie Li along in disguises that blocked spiritual detection.
• Zhao Tianhe and Tie Li watched the Cheng residence as Huyan Bao arrived with the Ivory Sect’s elders and disciples.
• Huyan Bao exposed and killed wandering Soul Masters who had been hiding nearby, then led the Ivory Sect into the Cheng residence.
• Huyan Bao drove back several attackers from the White Family of Willowwood, killing them outside the residence.

Tie Li discovered and killed the Cheng Family’s three rescuers, obtained the sealed jade box after the young heir died, and rejoined Zhao Tianhe, who had seized another jade box during the battle at the Cheng residence. Zhao Tianhe brought Tie Li to meet White Fang City’s city lord.

• Zhao Tianhe and Tie Li entered the Cheng Family residence as Spirit Hall fighters joined the battle, while Tie Li returned to investigate a suspicion about the Cheng Family’s escape plan.
• Three Ivory Sect disciples woke and tried to escort the hidden Cheng Family heir out of White Fang City, but Tie Li found them in a courtyard and killed them.
• The boy gave Tie Li a sealed jade box, and a maid accidentally stabbed the boy while attempting to ambush Tie Li; Tie Li killed her and left with the box.
• Zhao Tianhe defeated the Spirit Hall Soul Emperor long enough to take a jade box bearing the Wind Thunder Sect’s mark, then escaped the residence.
• Zhao Tianhe met Tie Li outside the residence and took him to White Fang City’s city lord, who had informed Zhao Tianhe about the Cheng Family.

Tie Li and Zhao Tianhe traveled to the Wind Thunder Sect ruins, where Tie Li entered the Lightning Pool grounds alone and found the surrounding lightning too powerful to withstand. He took out the jade box as his only remaining chance to adapt, while its contents remained unknown.

• Zhao Tianhe presented Yu Yao with a jade box, but it opened empty, and Yu Yao concealed his disappointment before deciding to take Zhao Tianhe as his adopted son.
• Zhao Tianhe refused Tie Li’s suggestion to investigate Yu Yao’s Wind Thunder Sect pendant, and they continued toward the ruins with the jade box hidden in Tie Li’s Storage Ring.
• At the ruins, Zhao Tianhe used a royal token to bring Tie Li past the imperial guards, but the Lightning Pool’s rules allowed only one person to enter, so Zhao Tianhe gave Tie Li the token.
• Tie Li followed the stirring Soul Power toward the Lightning Pool, but its lightning overwhelmed his body and rejected his attempt to cultivate nearby.
• With no way to endure the lightning, Tie Li took out the jade box and relied on the trace of the Dark Thunder Demon Dragon’s characteristics in his Soul Power.

Tie Li opened the jade box with his corrosive lightning trait and absorbed the Dark Thunder Demon Dragon's essence blood to strengthen his Purple Thunder Hammer and withstand the Lightning Pool's aura. After ten days of tempering near the pool, he descended the mountain to reassure Zhao Tianhe.

• Tie Li used his Dark Thunder Demon Dragon-like corrosive Soul Power to open the jade box and found a drop of the demon dragon's essence blood inside.
• Tie Li swallowed the essence blood and endured violent pain while refining it with the Thunder Dragon Meditation Method, gradually moving closer to the Lightning Pool.
• Zhao Tianhe worried after five days without news, while a general explained that the pool's lightning repelled Soul Masters whose lightning rank was too low.
• Tie Li's Soul Power rose from level forty-two to level forty-three, and his Purple Thunder Hammer and lightning developed darker colors and stronger corrosive traits.
• Tie Li spent ten days tempering himself fifty meters from the Lightning Pool, then went down the mountain to find Zhao Tianhe.

Tie Li drove three Heavy Thunder Sect core disciples away from the Lightning Pool after overpowering them, then investigated a strange mark on a nearby Thunderstone. The mark appeared when he touched the stone with his lightning, and he recalled that Wind Thunder Sect core disciples bore special marks on their martial souls.

• Tie Li cultivated beside the Lightning Pool for three months, tempering his Purple Thunder Hammer with lightning.
• Three Heavy Thunder Sect core disciples confronted Tie Li, but retreated beyond the Lightning Pool’s boundary and attacked him there.
• Tie Li defeated the three disciples with his Thunder Hammer, seriously injuring them and forcing them to flee down the mountain.
• Tie Li touched the Thunderstone at the one-hundred-meter boundary with his lightning and made a strange mark appear.
• Tie Li recalled from Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s secret records that every Wind Thunder Sect core disciple had a special mark on their martial soul.

Tie Li discovered that Thunderstones could permanently strengthen his Purple Thunder Hammer with marks, absorbing three before reaching his martial soul’s limit. After the Heavy Thunder Sect sent its core disciple Zhou Yi to challenge him, Tie Li faced a powerful opponent with the same Purple Thunder Hammer.

• Tie Li struck three Thunderstones with his Purple Thunder Hammer and gained three different marks that increased his lightning attribute by ten percent each.
• Tie Li realized his martial soul could withstand only three marks and traced his ability to absorb them to its mutations and soul beast aura.
• The Heavy Thunder Sect’s Sixth Elder ordered Zhou Yi to teach Tie Li a lesson after the sect’s disciples returned injured.
• Tie Li resumed cultivating near the Lightning Pool, then saw Zhou Yi arrive with two Heavy Thunder Sect disciples.
• Zhou Yi challenged Tie Li, revealing a level forty-nine cultivation and a Purple Thunder Hammer martial soul matching Tie Li’s.

Tie Li defeated Zhou Yi in a hammer duel, then drove off another Heavy Thunder Sect disciple who tried to stall him. After Zhou Yi returned gravely injured, the Sixth Elder summoned Wu Dong, a powerful core disciple, to confront Tie Li.

• Tie Li overwhelmed Zhou Yi in a clash between their Purple Thunder Hammers, then knocked him unconscious with his eighth consecutive strike.
• A Thunder Roar Blade Soul Ancestor tried to delay Tie Li while the other disciple carried Zhou Yi away, but Tie Li broke through the lightning nets and let them escape.
• The Sixth Elder blamed Zhou Yi's defeat for damaging the Heavy Thunder Sect's reputation and ordered Wu Dong to be brought to him.
• Wu Dong, a thirty-six-year-old core disciple with Soul Power Level 54, arrived at the Law Enforcement Hall.

Wu Dong of the Heavy Thunder Sect went to the Wind Thunder Sect ruins to avenge his junior brother Zhou Yi, where he fought Tie Li. Though Wu Dong wounded Tie Li with his spear, Tie Li’s powerful Black Lightning and strengthened defenses limited the damage, and the battle continued.

• Wu Dong left the Heavy Thunder Sect for the Wind Thunder Sect ruins, intending to teach Tie Li a lesson without killing him and to investigate the Lightning Pool.
• Zhao Tianhe noticed Wu Dong’s arrival and realized that, unlike the previous Heavy Thunder Sect disciple, he was a Soul King.
• Wu Dong confronted Tie Li over his defeat of Zhou Yi, and both summoned their martial souls and soul rings.
• Tie Li’s Thunder Hammer clashes with Wu Dong’s Unlit Hornscale Spear, and Tie Li’s rapid kicks send Wu Dong flying and leave him bleeding.
• Wu Dong struck Tie Li with his fourth soul skill, piercing his Thunder Armor and wounding his abdomen, but Tie Li’s Black Lightning dispelled the golden lightning and kept him from being seriously harmed.
• Wu Dong acknowledged Tie Li’s strength but declared that Tie Li could not defeat him.

After a devastating clash with Wu Dong, Tie Li recovered in Thunderclap City and broke through his Soul Power bottleneck. As he recuperated, Lei Xiaokai secretly approached him to test his strength, revealing that a Martial Soul Hall deacon had sent him.

• Wu Dong and Tie Li unleashed their strongest attacks, injured each other, and left the mountain in opposite directions.
• Zhao Tianhe found the injured Tie Li and carried him down the mountain for treatment, while Wu Dong returned to the Heavy Thunder Sect and reported the fight to the Sixth Elder.
• Zhao Tianhe brought Tie Li to Thunderclap City, where City Lord Lei Yan arranged treatment with a powerful healing-type soul master.
• Tie Li's Soul Power broke through level forty-three during the battle, and after seven days he had largely recovered but stayed to check for hidden injuries.
• Tie Li caught Lei Xiaokai sneaking toward his room and learned that Brother Qi, a deacon at the Main Martial Soul Hall in Thunderclap City, had sent the boy to test him.