Recaps

The Destruction God King punished Tang San after discovering that his future self had reached into the Douluo Continent, while Yin Hongye kept slapping Long Yeyue to collect the Spirit Pagoda’s bounty. After receiving payment, Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen left the Tang Sect Headquarters, where Qian Renxue asked whether they cared about the escaped thing.

• The Destruction God King questioned Tang San about his contingency plans on the Douluo Continent, and Tang San denied leaving anything beyond his inheritance.
• The Destruction God King struck Tang San with repeated bolts of Destruction Divine Thunder.
• Yin Hongye slapped Long Yeyue again, while Mu Hongchen recorded the beating and livestreamed it to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng watched the slap count rise and faced Yin Hongye’s demand for the bounty payment.
• After the payment arrived, Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen said goodbye to the Passionate Douluo and left the Tang Sect Headquarters.
• Qian Renxue asked Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen whether they cared about the thing that had escaped.

Yin Hongye, Mu Hongchen, and Qian Renxue discussed how they had knowingly toyed with Tang San’s divine soul, while Tang San searched for his followers and found the Sea Princess Tribe gone. Back in Mingdu, Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen sorted through stolen Tang Sect equipment and explained its weapons, including ones Yin Hongye had survived being attacked by.

• Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen told Qian Renxue that they had recognized Tang San’s divine soul and had toyed with his plans because they did not fear a god.
• Tang San reached the Sea Princess Tribe’s ruined coral palace and found no Sea Princesses or trace of their wills.
• Tang San left to search for the Demon Soul Great White Sharks after wondering whether the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King had destroyed the Sea Princess Tribe.
• Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen returned to Mingdu with Tang Sect equipment, precious metals, and more than ten billion in bounty money, then complained about the secondhand goods they had taken.
• Mu Hongchen introduced the Mother-Child Soul Chaser and other Tang Sect weapons, while Yin Hongye explained that the Peacock Plume and Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles had failed to kill him when he was a three-ring Soul Master.
• An urgent message arrived from the Federation while Yin Hongye and the others were tallying their spoils.

Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen learned that Tang San’s Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud Crystal was moving through the North Sea, but chose to keep watch rather than attack. Yin Hongye accepted Qian Gu Qingfeng’s invitation to the Spirit Pagoda’s opening ceremony for a huge fee, while the group continued discussing the Sea God’s divine soul and Qian Gu Qingfeng’s past.

• Yin Hongye ordered the North Sea Legion to observe the anomalous energy signature without attacking, and he and Mu Hongchen identified it as Tang San’s Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud Crystal.
• Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen decided to let the Sea God’s divine soul remain under observation, believing it could not cause trouble for the time being.
• Qian Gu Qingfeng invited Yin Hongye to witness the Spirit Pagoda’s new opening ceremony and help settle its conflict with Shrek Academy, and Yin Hongye agreed for a fee of at least ten billion Federation Credits.
• Mu Hongchen explained that Qian Gu Qingfeng had lost his inheritance prospects after failing to inherit the family Martial Soul and had left home at fourteen.
• Yin Hongye explained that Qian Gu Qingfeng returned twenty years later, defeated his younger brother Qian Gu Dongfeng, and then left the Spirit Pagoda without taking a position.

Yin Hongye traced the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud Crystal through karma and used the Golden Dragon King's divine power to attack Tang San's divine soul. Tang San fled in terror, while Yin Hongye planned to locate his true body and strike whenever he could.

• Mu Hongchen and Yin Hongye discussed Qian Gu Qingfeng's need to prove himself, while Qian Renxue tried to steer their talk away from medicine and dark histories.
• Yin Hongye followed the karmic trace to the crystal in the West Sea and confirmed it was traveling west rather than seeking Chen Xinjie.
• Yin Hongye borrowed the Golden Dragon King's divine power and sent Golden Dragon Claws through space to strike the crystal.
• Tang San realized the Golden Dragon King was still alive on the Douluo Continent and panicked as repeated attacks cracked the crystal.
• Yin Hongye decided to find Tang San's true body and use Flying Thunder God to attack him whenever an opportunity arose.

Yin Hongye used karma to attack Tang San across multiple points in time, then continued exploring ways to grow stronger. Meanwhile, Tang San failed another brutal Sea God swimming test, and Spirit Academy’s opening ceremony began amid a large crowd.

• Yin Hongye sensed Tang San through his Karmic Fire and sent golden dragon claws through space, wounding Tang San in the Divine Realm and Tang San from ten thousand years earlier.
• The Destruction God King suspected the Golden Dragon King had broken free and went to inspect his seal, while Yin Hongye considered growing stronger through Laws and the Asura Blood Sword sensed him through Xiao Wu.
• During a daily Sea God test, Tang San tried to outswim Demon Soul Great White Sharks as Sea Princesses attacked him, but he was badly mauled and failed.
• The Sea God announced that Tang San’s next test would be twice as difficult, while the Goodness God King’s other daily challenges awaited him.
• Yin Hongye arrived at Spirit Academy’s opening ceremony with Mu Hongchen and Qian Renxue, where graduates and Federation officials had gathered; an unexpected event then disrupted the ceremony.

As Long Yeyue confronted Qian Gu Dongfeng at the academy gates, Yin Hongye watched the Spirit Pagoda’s clash with Shrek Academy and identified the powerful Soul Masters accompanying it. He then provoked Qian Gu Dongfeng to punish Shrek Academy by cutting off its access to Soul Spirits.

• Long Yeyue, followed by Tang Yinmeng and Lan Muzi, arrived at the gates and declared that she would not accept the Spirit Pagoda opening its academy at Shrek Academy’s expense.
• Yin Hongye explained that Yun Tian Heng had been expelled from Shrek Academy’s Inner Court for his love of killing, while Mu Hongchen mocked the academy’s treatment of people without powerful backing.
• Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen introduced several of the Spirit Pagoda’s accompanying Soul Masters, including Fist Emperor Douluo and Witch Douluo Li Mengjie, and Yin Hongye noted that two disguised men were women.
• Yin Hongye urged Qian Gu Dongfeng to blacklist Shrek Academy and its students’ families and prevent them from buying Soul Spirits, deliberately stoking the conflict.

Qian Gu Dongfeng was persuaded to blacklist Shrek Academy’s students and their families from buying Soul Spirits, then defeated Long Yeyue when she challenged him. Observers recognized that the decision would alienate the Federation’s families, while Mu En learned that Long Yeyue’s past love involved someone called Elder Bei.

• Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen persuaded Qian Gu Dongfeng that banning Shrek Academy from buying Soul Spirits would weaken the school without directly confronting it.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng declared that Shrek Academy’s students and their families would be placed on the Spirit Pagoda’s Soul Spirit sales blacklist.
• Mu En, Yan Shaozhe, Xu Jiawei, and Jing Hongchen recognized that the blacklist would make the Spirit Pagoda enemies of the Federation’s families.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng defeated the injured Long Yeyue and threatened to make her watch Shrek Academy decline.
• Yin Hongye told Qian Renxue that Shrek Academy had called Long Yeyue’s former love Elder Bei, leaving Mu En to connect the remark to Bei Bei.

Yin Hongye explained how Tang San and Huo Yuhao helped Tang Wutong form dual Soul Cores to expel death Qi, prompting the Goddess of Life to question why Tang San had let his daughter suffer. The Goddess of Life confronted Tang San in the Divine Realm, but the God of Destruction repeatedly struck him with lightning whenever he tried to answer.

• Yin Hongye explained that Tang Wutong formed Yin-Yang Complementary Dual Soul Cores with help from Tang San and Huo Yuhao after Zhongli Wu's attack infected her with death Qi.
• Qian Renxue questioned why Tang San had allowed Tang Wutong to endure the death Qi, and Yin Hongye said he could only guess that she had been willing.
• The Goddess of Life heard the account and wondered why Tang San had not expelled the death Qi himself.
• Xiao Wu heard what Tang Wutong would suffer and wept alone in the Sea God Temple.
• The Goddess of Life confronted Tang San, but the God of Destruction repeatedly hit him with Destruction Divine Thunder whenever he tried to answer her.