Recaps

The Shrek Seven Devils continued fighting the Imperial Fighting Team after Ye Lingling healed Yu Tianheng. The Shi brothers badly injured Xiao Wu, sending Tang San into a fury as the battle intensified.

• Ye Lingling healed Yu Tianheng, who returned to the fight and reassured Dugu Yan.
• The teams clashed across the arena, with Xiao Wu struggling to hold off the Shi brothers while the others fought their opponents.
• The Shi brothers used their tortoiseshell shields to trap Xiao Wu in a storm of spinning fragments and wound her severely.
• Tang San abandoned his fight with Ning Chen, rescued Xiao Wu, and tried to stop her bleeding and heal her.
• Dugu Yan ordered her team to press forward, while Ma Hongjun powered up and attacked her with Phoenix Fire Line.

Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing used Hell White Tiger to knock Yu Tianheng and Yu Feng off the stage, but both were left unable to continue fighting. Enraged over Xiao Wu’s injuries, Tang San attacked the Shi brothers with his Eight Spider Lances, and Ning Chen intervened; their fight began with Ning Chen gaining the upper hand.

• Dai Mubai called Zhu Zhuqing to him, and they combined their powers to summon Hell White Tiger.
• Hell White Tiger defeated Yu Tianheng and Yu Feng, sending both off the stage before Zhu Zhuqing passed out and Dai Mubai lost the ability to fight.
• Tang San manifested his Eight Spider Lances and charged at the Shi brothers, while the lances absorbed Dugu Yan’s poison.
• Ning Chen shoved the Shi brothers out of danger and blocked Tang San’s attack with his Starlight Bracer.
• Tang San attacked Ning Chen with his Eight Spider Lances and Blue Silver Grass, but Ning Chen evaded and countered, breaking the grass restraint and closing in with a heavy punch.

Ning Chen overwhelmed Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils, securing victory for the Imperial Fighting Team. After the battle, Qin Ming warned Ning Chen that he had gone too far and left to handle other matters.

• Ning Chen shattered Tang San's Eight Spider Lances with Thousand Peaks Shaking Mountains and knocked him unconscious.
• Ning Chen used Illusory Stars on Oscar and Ning Rongrong, kicked Oscar away, and seriously injured Ning Rongrong with a punch.
• Flender caught Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu before they hit the ground, while Ning Chen restrained his killing intent.
• The host Doudou announced the Imperial Fighting Team's victory, though its members recognized that Ning Chen had decided the battle.
• Qin Ming told Ning Chen he had been too heavy-handed, and Ning Chen replied that Tang San had meant to kill him.
• Qin Ming sent the team back and hurried away to handle other matters.

After the Imperial Fighting Team defeated the Shrek Seven Devils, Qin Ming apologized to his former academy, while Yu Xiaogang left with Tang San, stung by the loss. Ning Chen later went to Shrek Academy at night, where a powerful stranger stopped him with killing intent.

• Yu Feng and the Imperial Fighting Team discussed Qin Ming’s connection to Shrek Academy, and Ning Chen and the others defended Benqi’s actions in the match.
• Qin Ming greeted Flender and Zhao Wuji, apologized to the Shrek Seven Devils, and learned that Yu Xiaogang had taken Tang San away in anger.
• Two days later, Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan prepared to hunt for Spirit Rings while the rest of the Imperial Fighting Team remained in Suotuo City to train.
• Ning Chen learned where Shrek Academy was and went there at night, intending to approach Ning Rongrong.
• A broad, powerful man beneath an old locust tree confronted Ning Chen with overwhelming killing intent.

Ning Chen’s nighttime attack on Ning Rongrong was derailed when Tang Hao discovered him and pursued him through the forest. Tang Hao recognized the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda as a potential threat to Xiao Wu and struck at Ning Chen, whose eighth Soul Ring activated at the last moment.

• Tang Hao noticed Ning Chen near Shrek Academy and questioned whether he recognized him, so Ning Chen used Voidstep to flee.
• Tang Hao pursued Ning Chen, who used the Nine Yang Divine Skill and the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s speed boost to escape through the forest.
• Tang Hao saw Ning Chen’s nine-tiered pagoda and suspected he could detect Xiao Wu’s identity as a transformed soul beast.
• Tang Hao summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and his nine Soul Rings, then swung the hammer at Ning Chen’s back.
• As the fatal blow descended, Ning Chen’s eighth Soul Ring lit up.

Ning Chen used his eighth soul skill, Nine Treasure Divine Light Body Protection, to survive Tang Hao’s attacks, but each hammer blow weakened his defenses. After failing to persuade Tang Hao to spare him, Ning Chen stopped pleading and prepared to fight back.

• Ning Chen’s protective light withstood Tang Hao’s first physical strike, but the blow staggered him as he tried to flee.
• Tang Hao struck Ning Chen again with a stronger, Soul Power-charged hammer blow, sending him crashing across the ground while his protective light dimmed.
• Ning Chen appealed to their ties to the Upper Three Sects, but Tang Hao dismissed him and declared that he must die.
• Ning Chen realized Tang Hao was killing him to protect Tang San and Xiao Wu, then abandoned his humble act and confronted him.
• Ning Chen unleashed his level eighty-three Soul Douluo aura and filled his Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda with nine-colored light.

Ning Chen used the Nine Treasure True Body and Thousand Mountains Formula to confront Tang Hao, first striking with five phantom mountains and then merging their power into his body. Tang Hao acknowledged Ning Chen’s strength but unleashed a crushing hammer blow, leaving the clash unresolved.

• Ning Chen activated Nine Treasure True Body and enhanced himself with his first six spirit skills.
• Ning Chen dodged Tang Hao’s Clear Sky Hammer and attacked him with five phantom mountains from the Thousand Mountains Formula.
• Tang Hao shattered all five phantom mountains with precise hammer strikes, though the force drove the ground beneath him downward.
• Ning Chen summoned the phantom mountains again and merged them into his body, transforming his aura and challenging Tang Hao to kill him.
• Tang Hao admitted he had underestimated Ning Chen, then stepped forward and brought down a powerful Clear Sky Hammer strike.

Ning Chen fought Tang Hao and briefly matched one of his hammer strikes, but Tang Hao's Clear Sky Avatar overwhelmed him. Ning Chen survived the crushing blow and vowed to remember the defeat.

• Ning Chen fused seven phantom mountain peaks into his body and met Tang Hao's hammer strike with a punch, ending their clash in a draw.
• Tang Hao activated his seventh Spirit Ring and used Clear Sky Avatar to bring down his enormous Clear Sky Hammer.
• Ning Chen fused all ten phantom mountain peaks into himself and launched an all-out punch against Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao remained standing after the collision, while Ning Chen was hurled away and left severely wounded with a broken right arm.
• Ning Chen sat up, told Tang Hao he would remember this, and left Tang Hao frowning at his defiance.

Ning Chen escaped Tang Hao’s fatal attack with a Minor Teleportation Talisman and returned to Suotuo City after treating his grave wounds. Tang Hao decided Xiao Wu should return to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Ning Chen began recovering at the Imperial Fighting Team’s lodging.

• As Tang Hao prepared to kill him, Ning Chen activated a Minor Teleportation Talisman and vanished before the Clear Sky Hammer struck.
• Tang Hao realized Ning Chen had escaped and worried that Gu Rong and Chen Xin could threaten Xiao Wu, so he decided she should return to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ning Chen reappeared in a forest over a hundred kilometers from Suotuo City, where he used medicinal herbs and the Nine Yang Divine Skill to stabilize his injuries.
• After leaving the forest, Ning Chen returned to the Imperial Fighting Team’s lodging in Suotuo City and continued treating his wounds with herbs and the Nine Yang Divine Skill.
• Ning Chen restored some movement to his arm but concluded that his internal injuries would take ten days to half a month to heal.

After escaping Tang Hao, Ning Chen returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and pushed himself to cultivate, inspiring his teammates to train harder as well. Two months later, Ye Lingling told him that Shrek Academy had arrived to join the academy but had already clashed with Prince Xue Beng.

• Ning Chen returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy with the Imperial Fighting Team after their soul-beast hunt and resolved to cultivate until he could protect himself from threats like Tang Hao.
• Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, the Shi brothers, Yu Feng, Osler, and Ye Lingling all trained harder after seeing Ning Chen's dedication, while Qin Ming watched over Ye Lingling to keep her from overtraining.
• Two months later, Ye Lingling told Ning Chen that the Shrek Seven Devils and their teachers had come to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to join it.
• Ye Lingling warned Ning Chen that Shrek Academy had clashed with Prince Xue Beng and that he would likely ask Prince Xue Xing to make trouble for them.

Ning Chen continued cultivating while Shrek Academy failed to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy after Dugu Bo intervened, and Qin Ming left with them. Flender led the group toward Blue Tyrant Academy to reunite with Liu Erlong, while Prince Xue Xing and Xue Beng quietly welcomed the academy’s failure.

• Ye Lingling told Ning Chen that Dugu Bo had accompanied Xue Beng to confront Shrek Academy, but Ning Chen chose not to watch.
• Over two months, Ning Chen reached rank eighty-five Soul Power and advanced his Thousand Mountains Formula to eleven mountain phantoms.
• Dugu Bo’s interference kept Shrek Academy out of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, and Qin Ming left with the Shrek group.
• Xue Xing and Xue Beng secretly felt relieved because they feared Shrek Academy would end up under Xue Qinghe’s influence.
• Flender abandoned his plan to join Heaven Dou Royal Academy first and led Shrek Academy toward Blue Tyrant Academy to find Liu Erlong.

After Liu Erlong and Yu Xiaogang reunited, Tang San realized he loved Xiao Wu, but Dugu Bo ambushed him and carried him into Sunset Forest. Tang Hao intercepted Dugu Bo and demanded that he release Tang San, while Dugu Bo pleaded to keep him because he hoped Tang San could cure his granddaughter’s poison.

• Liu Erlong handed Blue Tyrant Academy to Flender, who renamed it Shrek Academy, while Xiao Wu remained away and Tang San was left with her letter and a three-year promise.
• Yu Xiaogang went to Liu Erlong, and Tang San realized his feelings for Xiao Wu went beyond sibling affection.
• Dugu Bo appeared in the clearing, poisoned Tang San into unconsciousness, and carried him away to investigate how he had neutralized Dugu Yan’s poison.
• Tang Hao blocked Dugu Bo in Sunset Forest with his Clear Sky Hammer and ordered him to put Tang San down.
• Dugu Bo acknowledged Tang Hao’s identity but asked to keep Tang San, saying the boy held secrets that might save the Jade-Scaled Snake lineage.

Tang Hao attacked Dugu Bo after discovering that he had abducted Tang San, overwhelming him with the Clear Sky Hammer. He spared Dugu Bo and demanded that he choose between secretly protecting Tang San and dying.

• Tang Hao ignored Dugu Bo's explanation and struck him with the Clear Sky Hammer, badly injuring his Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor avatar.
• Dugu Bo used his eighth Spirit Skill, Time Freeze, but Tang Hao's Clear Sky Avatar shattered the control effect.
• Dugu Bo counterattacked with his serpent's tail, but Tang Hao smashed it apart and forced him out of his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Tang Hao suppressed his urge to kill Dugu Bo and offered him a choice: secretly protect Tang San or be killed.

Tang Hao forced Dugu Bo to agree to secretly protect Tang San for five years by threatening Dugu Yan, then warned him to hide the truth from Tang San. Dugu Bo took the unconscious Tang San back to the Icefire Yin-Yang Well, still intending to learn how Tang San could cure Dugu Yan’s Jade-Scale Purple Poison.

• Dugu Bo refused Tang Hao’s demand to protect Tang San and said he would rather die than serve as a child’s bodyguard.
• Tang Hao threatened to kill Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo pleaded for his granddaughter’s life before learning Tang San was Tang Hao’s son.
• Tang Hao offered Dugu Bo a choice between protecting Tang San for five years and death for both Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo accepted the deal and promised that no one would harm Tang San during those five years.
• Tang Hao checked Tang San, warned Dugu Bo to conceal his identity and their encounter, and vanished into the forest.
• Dugu Bo treated his injuries and carried Tang San to his lair at the Icefire Yin-Yang Well, hoping to learn how he would resolve Dugu Yan’s poison.

As the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament began, Shrek Academy dominated the Heaven Dou division’s preliminary rounds while the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team waited for the finals. Ning Chen’s team kept its strongest fighter, Cao Benqi, hidden as a planned surprise for Star Luo.

• Dugu Bo grew close to Tang San and became an advisor to Shrek Academy, frustrating Dugu Yan and confusing Xue Xing.
• The Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team’s members improved their Soul Power, while Cao Benqi reached Level 53 and was kept out of the public lineup.
• Shrek Academy replaced the absent Xiao Wu with Jing Ling and entered the tournament with the Shrek Seven Devils largely matching their original strength.
• Shrek Academy defeated the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Second Team, then beat Elephant Armored Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, Thunderclap Academy, and other opponents.
• Shrek Academy secured a qualifying position, while Yu Tianheng, Dugu Yan, and their teammates grew impatient waiting to compete in the finals.

Ning Chen traveled toward Spirit City with the Heaven Dou delegation and told Qian Renxue he was confident facing the other tournament teams, though he acknowledged Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation. The imperial convoy came under a deliberate rockslide ambush, and Ning Chen and Qian Renxue suspected Spirit Hall was responsible.

• Xue Ye sent five hundred Heaven Dou Imperial Knight Corps soldiers and Xue Qinghe to escort the tournament teams to Spirit City.
• Qian Renxue summoned Ning Chen before departure and used the journey to speak with him about the tournament contenders.
• Ning Chen dismissed the threat from the Two Great Empires’ teams and Shrek Academy, while acknowledging Spirit Hall’s Golden Generation as formidable.
• The convoy encountered a deliberate rockslide ambush, and the Imperial Knight Corps split into columns to shield the teams as they passed through.
• Ning Chen told Qian Renxue the attackers were unlikely to be ordinary bandits, and she suspected Spirit Hall.

Spirit Hall ambushed the tournament convoy to kill Tang San, but Dugu Bo intervened and blocked the Soul Douluo’s attack. The Golden Eagle Douluo refused to abandon his mission and summoned a powerful ally.

• Spirit Hall attackers ambushed the convoy, overwhelming the Imperial Knight Corps and striking at the scattered academy groups.
• Tang San used hidden weapons to kill many attackers, while Qian Renxue praised his talent and considered recruiting him.
• A Soul Douluo and two Soul Sages attacked Tang San, engaging Flender and Liu Erlong and forcing Tang San to defend himself.
• Dugu Bo confronted the Golden Eagle Douluo and protected Tang San, refusing to let the attacker pass.
• The Golden Eagle Douluo rejected Dugu Bo’s ultimatum and called for a powerful figure to join the fight.

Dugu Bo tried to protect Tang San from Spirit Hall Elders Yue Guan and Gui Mei, but Sword Douluo Chen Xin intervened before Yue Guan could kill him. Ning Fengzhi arrived with Xue Qinghe and Ning Chen, while Ning Chen watched the sect master with unresolved resentment.

• Yue Guan urged Dugu Bo to stop defending Tang San, but Dugu Bo refused and warned that Tang Hao would retaliate.
• Gui Mei joined the battle and overpowered Dugu Bo, while Yue Guan sent a storm of chrysanthemum blades at Tang San.
• Chen Xin blocked Yue Guan's attack and confronted the Spirit Hall Elders.
• Ning Fengzhi declared that the Upper Three Sects stood together, arriving with Xue Qinghe and Ning Chen.
• Ning Chen watched Ning Fengzhi, remembering what he had suffered in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin helped drive off Spirit Hall’s attackers, and the group arrived safely in Spirit City for the tournament finals. After the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team won its second-round match, it drew the Martial Soul Hall Academy Team in the third round, and Ning Chen urged his teammates to face the challenge.

• Ning Rongrong questioned Ning Chen, but Ning Fengzhi stopped her and explained that he had come to protect Xue Qinghe.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Dugu Bo’s arrival led Gui Mei and Yue Guan to order Spirit Hall’s masked soul masters to retreat.
• The group traveled peacefully to Spirit City, where the teams prepared for the tournament finals and the three seeded teams received first-round byes.
• The Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team won its second-round match without sending Ning Chen into battle.
• The third-round draw matched the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team against the Martial Soul Hall Academy Team, and Ning Chen encouraged his teammates to fight rather than lose heart.

The Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team rallied before facing the Martial Soul Hall Academy Team, and Ning Chen revealed that he was a Soul King, startling the crowd and his opponents. The match began with both teams clashing across the arena, while Xie Yue found Ning Chen far more formidable than expected.

• Ning Chen, Ye Lingling, and Yu Tianheng rallied the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team and declared their confidence in winning.
• Ning Chen took the front position as the teams entered the arena and released their Martial Souls.
• Ning Chen revealed five spirit rings, including a black ring, shocking the spectators and earning the Golden Generation's attention.
• Xie Yue attacked Ning Chen while Hu Liena used her Charm, but Dugu Yan's poison mist blocked it.
• Yan tried to burn away Dugu Yan's poison, and Yu Tianheng intercepted him with support from Ye Lingling.
• The teams engaged their opponents, and Xie Yue sensed that Ning Chen's skills and strength were exceptionally difficult to gauge.

Ning Chen used the Thousand Mountains Formula and concealed Earth Vein Aura to overpower Xie Yue, while the other Heaven Dou Imperial Academy fighters fell into danger. Hu Liena joined Xie Yue and fused their powers, emerging from a red curtain of light.

• Ning Chen dodged Xie Yue’s Moon Blades with Voidstep, then struck back with a mountain-heavy punch that sent Xie Yue stumbling.
• Ning Chen used Illusory Stars to disguise the Earth Vein Aura covering his fist and continued attacking Xie Yue.
• Ning Chen wounded Xie Yue and taunted him as the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy team struggled across the battlefield.
• Hu Liena knocked Dugu Yan off the arena and rushed to support Xie Yue.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena fused their Soul Power inside a spreading red mist, and a figure emerged from the light.

Xie Yue and Hu Liena’s Demon Charm fusion helped the Martial Soul Hall Academy Team eliminate all of Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s fighters except Ning Chen. Ning Chen refused to surrender and met Yan’s powerful attack head-on, leaving the outcome of their clash unresolved.

• Xie Yue and Hu Liena formed Demon Charm and spread red mist across the arena, disrupting Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team.
• Yan kept Yu Tianheng occupied while the Martial Soul Hall Academy Team eliminated Dugu Yan and then Ye Lingling.
• After Ye Lingling was eliminated and her healing stopped, Yan defeated Yu Tianheng and helped clear the rest of Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s team.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena urged Ning Chen to surrender, but Ning Chen refused and charged at Yan and Demon Charm.
• Ning Chen and Yan exchanged punches, and their clash cracked the arena floor.

Ning Chen overwhelmed the Martial Soul Hall Academy Team’s Golden Generation, breaking Yan’s arm and shattering Xie Yue and Hu Liena’s Demon Charm fusion with his mountain-powered punch. After Xie Yue and Hu Liena fell, Ning Chen struck Yan down again, leaving him unconscious and badly injured.

• Ning Chen broke Yan’s forearm with one punch, and the Golden Scepter Support-type Soul Master used healing power to stabilize Yan.
• Demon Charm confronted Ning Chen and unleashed Xie Yue’s Self-Created Soul Skill, Full Moon.
• Ning Chen shattered the Full Moon with a punch and struck Demon Charm, breaking the fusion and injuring Xie Yue and Hu Liena.
• Yan attacked Ning Chen in his enlarged, flame-covered state, but Ning Chen punched him in the chest and sent him unconscious.

Ning Chen used the Starlight Bracer’s Star Lake domain and unleashed a final punch against the Spirit Hall team. His strike shattered the arena, leaving the spectators stunned by his immense power.

• The referee caught the unconscious Yan and arranged for Spirit Hall healers to stabilize his injuries.
• Xie Yue and Hu Liena struggled back to their feet, but Ning Chen summoned the Star Lake domain and prepared his final attack.
• Ning Chen gathered starlight and power into his fist, then dove toward the center of the arena as the Spirit Hall team scattered.
• Ning Chen’s punch shattered the arena and blasted the Spirit Hall team back with its shockwave.
• The spectators and Spirit Hall’s high-ranking Soul Masters stared in disbelief as Ning Chen stood in the crater.

Ning Chen defeated the Martial Soul Hall Academy Team with a single punch, securing Heaven Dou Imperial Academy’s victory and shocking the tournament audience. News of the upset spread across the Two Great Empires, and Pope Bibi Dong received the report in a tense Papal Palace.

• Ning Chen asked whether the fallen Martial Soul Hall Academy Team wanted to continue, and Xie Yue admitted defeat.
• The Heaven Dou Imperial Academy Team celebrated Ning Chen’s victory while he calmly asked the referee to announce the result.
• The red-robed bishop declared Heaven Dou Imperial Academy the winner, prompting cheers from the team and spectators.
• News of the defeat spread through Spirit City and the Two Great Empires.
• A Spirit Hall knight reported the loss to Pope Bibi Dong, who sat in the Papal Palace beneath an oppressive silence.