Recaps

Yin Hongye revealed that Tang Sect possessed the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well, prompting public outrage and drawing Tang San's murderous attention. After Tang San was struck by a hidden counterattack, Yin Hongye and his companions planned a trip to Star Luo City to inspect an auction and earn money.

• Common people condemned Shrek Academy after the Heavenly Screen exposed its actions, while Flender faced students trying to withdraw and the original four academies seeking independence.
• Yin Hongye advised Qian Renxue to rest after her failed attempt to form a second Soul Core, and Mu Hongchen mentioned the Immortal Herbs at Tang Sect's Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well in Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Bo wondered how the Ice-Fire Yin-Yang Well had become Tang Sect's property, while Tang San threatened Yin Hongye for exposing the treasured land.
• Tang San's killing intent triggered a hidden counterattack that pierced his chest with a blood-red chill, leaving him barely alive as Ma Hongjun caught him.
• Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen discussed building a robot, then Mu Hongchen noted that an auction in Star Luo City would draw Spirit Pagoda and Tang Sect.
• Yin Hongye planned to take Na'er and Yuanen Yehui to earn money at a Tang Sect branch, and Qian Renxue agreed to join them to see the herbs.

Yin Hongye led Qian Renxue, Na'er, and Yuanen Yehui into a Dazzling Tang Sect campus to seize its supplies and gather evidence. After knocking out two guards, they reached the treasure vault, whose contents astonished Qian Renxue and Yue Guan.

• Yin Hongye told Qian Renxue to impersonate Yan Shaozhe or Ye Xishui as the group entered the campus with surveillance disabled.
• Yin Hongye struck the lobby guard with a gold brick and explained his disregard for reputation before leading the group toward the warehouse.
• Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi watched the group, while Tang San remained stranded near the Star Luo Empire border and Dai Mubai urged him to seek help there.
• Yin Hongye claimed to be Gong Changkong, and Qian Renxue claimed to be Mingfeng Douluo Ye Xishui when a Titled Douluo guard confronted them.
• Yin Hongye knocked out the guard, kicked open the warehouse door, and revealed a vault full of treasures.

Yin Hongye led Qian Renxue, Yuanen Yehui, and Na'er in stripping a Tang Sect treasury and taking its financial records, which Mu Hongchen used to trigger an investigation and a public scandal. The group left Mingdu for a high-end auction in Star Luo City, where Yin Hongye expected rare spiritual herbs and possibly a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast.

• Yin Hongye guided the group through the Tang Sect treasury, where Yuanen Yehui and Na'er packed away all the spiritual herbs and treasures while Qian Renxue questioned their methods.
• Yin Hongye took original account books and copied files from the Tang Sect's finance office, saying the evidence would keep the sect from complaining about the robbery.
• Mu Hongchen sent the ledgers to government agencies and media outlets, and the Federation Tax Administration opened an investigation into the Tang Sect the following day.
• A paid-work scandal further damaged the Tang Sect's reputation, while Passionate Douluo recognized Yin Hongye and Qian Renxue as the likely culprits but could not openly condemn them.
• Yin Hongye, Qian Renxue, and Na'er left Mingdu for Star Luo City to attend a high-end auction.

Yin Hongye and the others visited Star Light Auction Hall, where they discussed Star Luo history and learned that the auction’s featured Soul Beast was the seven-hundred-thousand-year-old Heavenly Snow Woman. They reviewed the auction catalog as the people from twenty thousand years ago reacted with shock to the future’s Soul Spirit technology.

• Yin Hongye and the others entered a private VIP room at Star Light Auction Hall, and Qian Renxue asked why it was not called the Star Luo Royal Auction Hall.
• Mu Hongchen and Yin Hongye explained how the Xu Family and Crown Sect had shaped Star Luo history after the Sun Moon Continent collided with Douluo Continent.
• Yin Hongye revealed that the auction’s featured Soul Beast was the Heavenly Snow Woman, and Ice Empress and Snow Empress realized humans had captured her after a failed tribulation.
• Yin Hongye and the others received auction catalogs containing intermediate Ascension Platform tickets, which Mu Hongchen dismissed as common.
• Yin Hongye explained that Ascension Platforms helped Soul Masters raise Soul Ring ages, while people from twenty thousand years earlier longed to learn how to create Soul Spirits.

Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen decided to seize the Life Everlasting Vine rather than bid for it, while Qian Renxue learned more about Yin Hongye’s nature and lifespan. After the Spirit Pagoda won the vine, Tang Sect’s Medicine Hall master ambushed its branch master, and Yin Hongye arrived to claim a share.

• The auctioneer presented a Life Everlasting Vine that could restore damaged life origins and extend lifespan, and Yin Hongye told Qian Renxue it could heal her backlash.
• Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen discussed robbing the vine, while Yin Hongye revealed that his lifespan was nearly infinite and that he was neither fully human nor a Soul Beast.
• The Spirit Pagoda branch master outbid Tang Sect’s Medicine Hall master and bought the vine for two hundred and ten million.
• Tang Sect’s Medicine Hall master followed the Spirit Pagoda branch master into a secluded alley and demanded that he hand over the vine.
• Yin Hongye appeared from the darkness and asked the ambushers for a share.

Yin Hongye arrived as the Tang Sect and Spirit Pagoda fought over the Life Everlasting Vine, then revealed his power by killing and reviving a Tang Sect disciple. He declared both groups guilty and trapped them in his blood-red domain, leaving them at his mercy.

• The Tang Sect Medicine Hall Master and the Star Luo Spirit Pagoda Master recognized Yin Hongye and feared that he had come for the Life Everlasting Vine.
• Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen claimed they would only collect protection money and let the two groups fight, while both sides remained wary.
• A young Tang Sect disciple dismissed Yin Hongye as merely a murderer, and the Medicine Hall Master warned that Yin Hongye had repeatedly self-destructed and revived to defeat powerful enemies.
• Yin Hongye crushed the disciple into blood mist, then used Time Reversal to restore him and threatened to kill him repeatedly.
• Yin Hongye accused the Tang Sect and Spirit Pagoda groups of gathering to fight, obstructing an investigation, sheltering evil soul masters, and resisting law enforcement.
• Yin Hongye restrained everyone and unleashed a blood-red domain that swallowed the alley and cut it off from the outside world.

Yin Hongye annihilated the Tang Sect and Spirit Pagoda forces who attacked him, then dismissed Qian Renxue’s worries about the fallout. As he framed his actions as divine judgment, Myriad Demon King reached Heaven Dou City and resolved to bring Beast God’s wrath upon Shrek.

• Shura God watched Yin Hongye’s blood domain and recognized him as the successor he wanted, while Sea God doubted Tang San would ever get to enjoy the Divine Realm.
• Yin Hongye summoned twin divine swords and killed the Tang Sect and Spirit Pagoda leaders and their forces by severing their origins, leaving them beyond resurrection.
• Yin Hongye gave Qian Renxue the Life Everlasting Vine to restore her origin and argued that the dead had sheltered evil soul masters and resisted law enforcement.
• Yin Hongye declared that he could judge gods and urged people to revere him as they would God, prompting Qian Daoliu to reconsider Spirit Hall’s promotion of Angel God.
• Myriad Demon King traced the matter to Heaven Dou City, heard Shrek called an evil soul master academy, and left intending to bring Beast God’s wrath upon it.

Di Tian unleashed the Dragon God's Claw on Shrek Academy and half of Heaven Dou City, believing he had repaid one of his many debts to Shrek. Meanwhile, back in Mingdu, Yin Hongye advised Qian Renxue to understand herself and take control of her martial soul.

• The Myriad Demon King told Di Tian that Shrek Academy was in Heaven Dou City, and Di Tian flew there to settle the score.
• At a banquet, Emperor Xue Beng and Shrek's teachers celebrated Tang San's journey to Sea God Island and anticipated his return as a god.
• Di Tian transformed his arm into the Dragon God's Claw and destroyed Shrek Academy and half of Heaven Dou City with a single strike.
• Factions across the continent recognized Di Tian's power and stayed away from the Star Dou Forest, while Di Tian believed he had wiped out Shrek Academy.
• In Mingdu, Yin Hongye criticized Qian Renxue's understanding of her martial soul and urged her to act according to herself rather than follow what she thought was correct.

Qian Renxue questioned whether her past actions could coexist with the Angel God's ideals, then learned about the Yue Family's control of the Southern Legion and the Holy Angel Clan's sacrifice ability. The chapter ended with Yin Hongye criticizing Qian Daoliu, Bibi Dong, and Tang San as comparable in their failure to deal with evil soul masters.

• Qian Renxue wondered whether she could still earn the Angel God's recognition after her years of deception and bloodshed.
• Yin Hongye explained that the Yue Family and other southern clans controlled much of the Southern Legion and held major political influence.
• Mu Hongchen and Yin Hongye described the Holy Angel Clan's deep foundation and its ability to burn life force to strengthen its holy power.
• Yin Hongye outlined the Federation's eight legions and said the Central Legion was needed to keep the others in line.
• Yin Hongye compared the Yue Family's failure to control evil soul masters with Qian Daoliu's and accused Tang San of being an evil soul master.
• Tang San felt that Yin Hongye had slandered him.

Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen discussed the Yue Family’s Sacred Baptism and planned to search the Southern Legion’s records for its location and the Angel Set Soul Bones. They then talked about Mu Hongchen’s Positive Cycle Source mecha research and the possibility of meeting its Tang Sect researcher, while Yin Hongye privately considered a plan to break Tang Hao’s level blockade.

• Tang San denounced Yin Hongye’s accusations before collapsing asleep again, and Qian Renxue asked Yin Hongye what Bibi Dong had done.
• Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen discussed the Yue Family’s Sacred Baptism, and Yin Hongye asked Mu Hongchen to search for where it had been performed and for the Angel Set Soul Bones.
• Qian Renxue withdrew to her room after hearing Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen discuss excavating the Angel God’s skull.
• Mu Hongchen explained that he had built one Positive Cycle Source mecha and described its high cost and battlefield potential.
• Yin Hongye suggested adding artificial intelligence and a self-destruct function, and he and Mu Hongchen discussed the banned technology and its Tang Sect researcher.

After two years of waiting, Tang San and his companions set sail for Sea God Island, but the Evil Spirit Killer Whale pack wrecked their ship and forced them to escape under the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud. Meanwhile, Na'er entered the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy, Yin Hongye continued his schemes, and the chapter left Yu Xiaogang still raging amid the ruins of Heaven Dou City.

• Tang San boarded a Star Luo Empire warship with Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Zhu Zhuqing and set course for Sea God Island.
• The Evil Spirit Killer Whale King led its pack in attacking and splitting the warship apart, forcing Tang San to conceal the group with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• The Sea God doubted Tang San would reach Sea God Island and considered Vast Sea Douluo a better prospect.
• Yin Hongye brought Na'er to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy and taught her to hit back if anyone bullied her, while Di Tian watched from afar.
• Yin Hongye visited the Hall of Bright Virtue with Qian Renxue and praised a former student who had become a Titled Douluo through hard work.
• Yu Xiaogang raged at Yin Hongye's remarks from his wheelchair as bird droppings fell on his head, while Liu Erlong remained gravely injured and Heaven Dou City lay in ruins.

Yin Hongye told Qian Renxue about Ji Juechen, who rose from innate level-three soul power and an ordinary sword martial soul to become a Titled Douluo through relentless cultivation. As Yin and Qian continued to the Hall of Bright Virtue’s storage room, Yu Xiaogang rejected the story, while Yin revealed that he was researching potions to let ordinary people become soul masters.

• Yin Hongye explained that Ji Juechen hunted his first hundred-year soul beast at age eight and later became a Titled Douluo without taking pills.
• Chen Xin and Bibi Dong admired Ji Juechen’s perseverance, while Bibi Dong compared him to Yu Xiaogang and questioned whether her own choices had been worth it.
• Liu Erlong tried to reassure Yu Xiaogang that he could become a Titled Douluo, but Yu shouted that Ji Juechen’s achievement violated soul master theory and insisted the story was fabricated.
• Yu Xiaogang fell into a pit when the ground collapsed beneath him, while Yin told Qian that most academy students who used soul-power-raising medicines could not advance beyond seven rings.
• Yin said Ji Juechen alone was qualified to claim that there were no useless martial souls, only useless soul masters, then revealed that he was researching potions to help ordinary people become soul masters.
• Qian Renxue asked about soul-power-raising pills, and Yin explained that they squeezed out a person’s potential.

Yin Hongye explained the effects and makers of several pills to Qian Renxue, including how Xu Tianran had used pills to reach Titled Douluo. He then took her to observe the Divine Craftsman forging at the Ascension Platform, where people capable of Ring Detonation were approaching.

• Yin Hongye described the Xuanwater Pill, prompting outside Soul Masters to covet it and Soul Beasts to fear that their kind had been used as ingredients.
• Yin Hongye explained the Soul-Raising Pill and revealed that Xu Tianran had taken pills to become a Titled Douluo, while Qian Renxue questioned how far pills could raise someone’s strength.
• Yu Xiaogang demanded to know why he could not reach Titled Douluo with enough resources, and bird droppings filled his pit until he could climb out.
• Yin Hongye brought Qian Renxue to the Ascension Platform to watch the Divine Craftsman forge Heavenforged Metal from a distant rooftop.
• People capable of Ring Detonation approached the Ascension Platform.

Yin Hongye and Qian Renxue watched Zhen Hua perform Heavenly Forging at the Blacksmith Association headquarters, while Lou Gao witnessed the process and confronted the limits of his own skill. As the forging neared completion, Yin Hongye noticed an old acquaintance and a blood-red curse shot toward them.

• Yin Hongye explained to Qian Renxue that the Blacksmith Association's rooftop dome protected the Ascension Platform, where Heavenly Forging could be attempted.
• Zhen Hua began forging rare metals on the Ascension Platform, fusing them and advancing them through Thousand Forging, Spirit Forging, and Soul Forging.
• Yin Hongye admitted he could not imitate a Divine Craftsman's Heart Forging and shaped his Soul Power into a fearsome humanoid figure.
• Four divine lightning bolts struck the humanoid metal, transforming it as Lou Gao watched in awe and lamented that he was not a Titled Douluo.
• Yin Hongye spotted an old acquaintance, and a blood-red curse shot toward him and Qian Renxue.

Dark Blood Demon and the Holy Spirit Cult attacked the Ascension Platform, but Yin Hongye and the War God Hall held them off. As Dark Blood Demon detonated a soul ring, Yin Hongye announced he had learned the Clear Sky Sect’s secret technique.

• Dark Blood Demon led a force of evil soul masters against the Ascension Platform, and Yin Hongye intercepted him while the War God Hall prepared to defend.
• Yin Hongye fought Dark Blood Demon and neutralized his blood curses, while Qian Renxue suppressed Scorpion Tiger Douluo and the War God Hall held back the other attackers.
• Dark Blood Demon unleashed his soul skills against Yin Hongye, but none could overcome Yin Hongye’s apparent immunity.
• Dark Blood Demon detonated his first soul ring, shocking the watching Clear Sky Sect members.
• Yin Hongye watched Dark Blood Demon’s Ring Detonation and said he had learned how to do it.

Yin Hongye learned Ring Detonation and defeated the Dark Blood Demon, prompting outrage and alarm within the Clear Sky Sect. Nether Emperor Halosa arrived and summoned twelve armored powerhouses before engulfing the sky in gray mist.

• Yin Hongye shattered his first soul ring to use Ring Detonation, then overwhelmed the Dark Blood Demon with a sword strike that fatally wounded him.
• Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders recognized Ring Detonation and debated how a fallen soul master had learned their secret technique.
• The Dark Blood Demon called for help, and Nether Emperor Halosa emerged from gray mist and attacked Yin Hongye.
• Halosa opened twelve gates and summoned twelve heavily armored figures, each bearing a three-word battle armor domain halo.
• Halosa activated Netherworld Rebirth, and gray mist swallowed the sky.

Halosa and his underworld army attacked Qian Renxue and Yin Hongye, who answered with a sea of blood and a devastating sword strike that split the sky. The strike wiped out the creatures in its path and drew another blessing from Tang Hao, while Halosa and the Dark Blood Demon believed Yin Hongye had fallen into weakness.

• Halosa opened twelve gates and unleashed an enormous underworld army as Qian Renxue fought the Scorpion Tiger Douluo, who detonated all nine of his soul rings.
• Yin Hongye clashed with Halosa, revealed that karmic fire had replaced his flesh-and-blood body, and warned that he could destroy Halosa beyond revival.
• Yin Hongye restored his injuries with his eighth soul skill, detonated all nine soul rings, and unleashed a sword strike that split the sky.
• The sword strike erased underworld creatures, while Halosa evaded it with spatial power and the Dark Blood Demon sacrificed a bone dragon to escape.
• Halosa and the Dark Blood Demon called for an attack when they thought Yin Hongye had weakened, not realizing he had already used his eighth soul skill on himself.

Yin Hongye used his eighth soul skill to restore his soul rings after Ring Detonation and fought Halosa and Dark Blood Demon above Mingdu. After Halosa’s ninth soul skill failed to overcome him, Halosa ordered a retreat, leaving Yin Hongye victorious.

• Yin Hongye revealed that his eighth soul skill could rewind him to a recorded moment and restore his soul rings after Ring Detonation.
• Halosa unleashed Hades Descends while Dark Blood Demon attacked Yin Hongye, and Yin Hongye met them with his Red Lotus defense and blood-based powers.
• Halosa used his ninth soul skill, Sishen, and clashed with Yin Hongye’s combined sea of blood and Red Lotus Karmic Fire, sending destructive shockwaves across Mingdu.
• Qian Renxue and Haori Douluo watched the battle, while Qian Daoliu and Bo Saixi observed it through the heavenly curtain and discussed the power of Rank Ninety-Nine soul masters.
• Yin Hongye recovered his strength with his eighth soul skill after the clash, and Halosa ordered Dark Blood Demon and his knights to retreat.

After Ha Luosa’s attack devastated Mingdu’s industrial district, Yin Hongye and the others explained his history and the terrible toll of his massacres. Xiao Bai and the sea’s inhabitants turned against Tang San’s Sea God inheritance, while the Sea God insisted Tang San could endure the challenge.

• Qian Renxue, Haori Douluo, and Yin Hongye surveyed the ruined industrial district and confirmed that the Divine Craftsman and Ascension Platform were safe.
• Yin Hongye advised Qian Renxue that compassion for the weak should not become weakness, prompting her to ask who the gray-armored attacker was.
• Haori Douluo and Yin Hongye identified the attacker as Underworld Douluo Ha Luosa and recounted his origins, resurrection, and deadly history.
• Yin Hongye explained that Ha Luosa’s massacres killed vast numbers of people and even more Sea Soul Beasts before leading the others to inspect Hong Chen’s research.
• Di Tian reacted to the death toll, while Xiao Bai angrily condemned Tang San and threatened his attempt to inherit the Sea God’s Divine Position.
• The Sea God dismissed the obstacles ahead as mere hardship and said Tang San could handle them.

After the battle, Yin Hongye criticized Qian Renxue’s lack of combat experience and demonstrated sword intent while explaining how she could grow stronger. He then brought her to Mu Hongchen’s laboratory, where a spatial-folding project sparked ideas for weapons and retrieving people from a distance.

• Yin Hongye told Qian Renxue that greater strength could have ended the battle sooner and criticized her inexperience and decision to fight Scorpion Tiger Douluo head-on.
• Yin Hongye demonstrated invisible sword intent, splitting the clouds with a strike powered by soul power, and urged Qian Renxue to train and seek her own understanding.
• Yin Hongye explained Ring Detonation’s debilitating side effects, prompting Qian Daoliu to realize he had repeatedly fought Tang Chen’s Great Sumeru Hammer head-on while Bo Saixi thought of Tang Chen and Tang San’s coming journey to Sea God Island.
• Yin Hongye brought Qian Renxue to Mu Hongchen’s laboratory, where Mu Hongchen demonstrated short-range spatial folding designed for robots and potentially applicable across Mingdu.
• Yin Hongye suggested using the technology to teleport fixed-installed soul-guided missiles, then asked whether it could pull someone from far away because of the Tang Sect’s immortal herbs.

Mu Hongchen and Yin Hongye discussed the Federation’s upcoming satellite launch before Qian Renxue questioned their assumption that Ring Detonation users were evil soul masters. Yin Hongye then revealed that the Clear Sky Sect had once been managed by two Soul Beasts, leaving the sect’s elders furious and Di Tian confronting the beasts beside him.

• Mu Hongchen invited Yin Hongye to attend the Federation’s satellite launch showcase, and Yin Hongye agreed.
• Qian Renxue asked why Mu Hongchen immediately blamed evil soul masters for using Ring Detonation, and he jokingly concluded that Clear Sky Sect disciples were evil soul masters.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s elders denounced the accusation, and Tang Xiao ordered an investigation into Tang Hao’s whereabouts.
• Yin Hongye claimed that the Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape had managed the Clear Sky Sect during Ling Bing Douluo’s era.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s elders erupted in anger at the revelation, while Di Tian confronted the two beasts beside him about becoming Tang San’s soul rings.

Di Tian punished the Titan Giant Ape and Azure Bull Python for willingly becoming Xiao Wu’s soul rings, while the revelations about Tang San’s future actions enraged the Clear Sky Sect. Qian Renxue then learned that Na’er had been involved in a fight at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy and set out to pick her up with Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen.

• Di Tian ordered Xiong Jun to take the Titan Giant Ape and Azure Bull Python away and punish them for agreeing to become human soul rings.
• Yin Hongye revealed that Tang San had entrusted the Clear Sky Sect to two Soul Beasts and made his daughter its young master, prompting Qian Renxue and Mu Hongchen to react with disbelief.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s First Elder ordered an investigation into Tang San, while Tang Xiao reflected on the sect’s decline and Tang Yuehua wept over Tang San’s role in it.
• Qian Renxue received a call reporting that Na’er had helped a little girl fight ten people at the academy and confirmed that Na’er was unharmed.
• Qian Renxue prepared to go to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineering Academy to pick up Na’er, and Yin Hongye offered to come with her.

Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen defended Na'er after she beat ten boys who had bullied another girl, then gave her ruthless advice about dealing with troublemakers. Days later, Yin Hongye, Qian Renxue, and Na'er attended the Federation’s first satellite launch, where he explained that satellites would transform warfare through information.

• Yin Hongye and Mu Hongchen confronted the principal after Na'er beat ten boys who had bullied a girl, and Yin Hongye demanded a thousand-year spiritual item from each family as compensation.
• Qian Renxue asked Na'er what had happened, and Na'er explained that she had stepped in when the boys mocked a girl for lacking talent.
• Yin Hongye told Na'er she should have dealt with the boys discreetly and advised her to bury them in a pit; Mu Hongchen added his own grim suggestions.
• A few days later, Yin Hongye, Qian Renxue, and Na'er arrived at the Federation’s first satellite launch, where they saw representatives from the Spirit Pagoda, Tang Sect, and Shrek Academy.
• Yin Hongye explained that the satellite would change warfare by transforming how information was used.

Yin Hongye explained how satellites could give a military decisive information and reconnaissance advantages, then visited the rocket research team with Qian Renxue and encountered Tang Sect researcher Ling Zichen. The discussion turned to the Tang Sect’s ancient secret weapons, while Tang San watched the heavenly curtain and discovered they had not been passed down.

• Yin Hongye explained satellites to Qian Renxue and described how they could guide Soul-Guided shells to precise targets.
• The old Star Luo Emperor recognized the value of the satellites and ordered his ministers to record everything shown on the heavenly curtain.
• Yin Hongye and Qian Renxue entered the technical area, where Mu Hongchen introduced Ling Zichen as the Tang Sect researcher responsible for the rocket’s propulsion materials.
• Mu Hongchen and Yin Hongye discussed the Tang Sect’s ancient secret weapons and poison, and Yin Hongye formed a Rainstorm Pear Blossom Needles from blood.
• Tang San and the others crawled ashore outside Eastsea City, and Tang San condemned Yin Hongye for holding a Tang Sect secret weapon before realizing the weapons had not been passed down.

Yin Hongye and Ling Zichen explained how the Tang Sect abandoned traditional hidden weapons, then became a leading soul-tool power after Ling Bing Douluo reformed it. When Qian Renxue asked about Tang Ya’s censored past, Yin Hongye began to reveal the secret, but Passionate Douluo arrived.

• Yin Hongye told Mu Hongchen that the Tang Sect had stopped using hidden weapons, and Tang San reacted angrily to their decline.
• Ling Zichen explained that cheap soul tools had nearly erased the Tang Sect’s inheritance until Ling Bing Douluo combined hidden-weapon designs with soul-tool technology.
• Yin Hongye asked Ling Zichen why she avoided discussing Tang Ya, and her reaction made Qian Renxue wonder what the former Tang Sect Master had done.
• Bibi Dong learned that the Tang Sect had disappeared, Heaven Dou City lay in ruins, and Lou Gao was studying forging at Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi studied Qian Renxue’s notes on soul tools and resolved to develop them for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Yin Hongye warned Qian Renxue that the Tang Sect had purged records of Tang Ya’s past, then Passionate Douluo arrived with a young man as Yin Hongye was about to explain more.