Recaps

An Chen defeated Kane Ye by turning Kane Ye’s painted Soul Beasts against him, but discovered the painting was not inside Kane Ye’s Storage Soul Tool. He found Dongxi and explained that they were in the Painting World, where Guan Yue and Dongxi’s grandfather were fighting Adrian, before a sharp blade cry interrupted them.

• Kane Ye used a Wind-Crest Falcon and golden paint to help the Thunder Saint Tiger resist An Chen’s attacks, while the beasts’ attacks drove An Chen from cover.
• An Chen used black liquid to corrupt Kane Ye’s painted creatures, then emerged behind Kane Ye and incapacitated him with the grayish-white cane’s murmurs.
• The corrupted Soul Beasts turned on Kane Ye and tore him apart, while An Chen took Kane Ye’s brooch and searched it for the painting.
• An Chen found no painting in the brooch and decided to locate Guan Yue and the others before making another plan.
• An Chen found Dongxi and explained that they were in the Painting World and that Adrian had sealed Dongxi’s grandfather there five years earlier.
• An Chen and Dongxi heard a sharp blade cry from the distant sky.

An Chen, Guan Yue, and Modili confronted Adrian as he used his painting scroll to sacrifice Arles City’s residents and summoned two hundred-thousand-year Soul Beasts to stall them. While Guan Yue and Modili fought the beasts, An Chen entered the shadows and headed toward the Blue Silver Grass encircling Adrian.

• An Chen learned that Modili preserved spent Soul Power as Soul Points, while Adrian’s mental attack knocked Dongxi unconscious.
• Adrian began sacrificing Arles City’s residents, and Modili revealed that he had already sacrificed outsiders sent into the city.
• Adrian urged Modili and Guan Yue to worship a powerful existence and help him surpass Spirit Hall, but they refused.
• Adrian summoned the Sky Azure Bull Python and Titan Giant Ape from his painting scroll to fight Guan Yue and Modili while Blue Silver Grass enclosed him.
• The city’s sky turned blood-red as its residents were devoured, and An Chen entered the shadows to approach Adrian’s enclosure.

An Chen learned from Adrian that Douluo Continent’s original trajectory lacked a Divine Realm and that Earth lay beyond the Gray Fog, then agreed to cooperate with him in exchange for removing his mark and freeing Arles City’s residents. Adrian vanished after releasing the captives, leaving An Chen with a blank painting that could summon him.

• Adrian told An Chen he was a variable absent from Douluo Continent’s original trajectory and showed him Douluo Star, Earth, and the Gray Fog separating them.
• An Chen struggled with the revelation but regained his composure and asked Adrian what he wanted.
• Adrian asked An Chen to help him escape the limits of their world, and An Chen agreed on the condition that Adrian remove his mark.
• Adrian erased An Chen’s mark, stopped the sacrifice, released the residents of Arles City, and gave An Chen a blank painting to contact him.
• Modili and Guan Yue arrived as Adrian said farewell and vanished, leaving the group in Vanxi Square.

After leaving the City Lord's Mansion incident behind, An Chen broke through to level thirty-six and traveled toward Spirit City. On the way, he wiped out a bandit group with his shadow powers and arrived at Spirit City two weeks later.

• An Chen told Modili that freeing him had been one of the conditions he negotiated with Dongxi, and Modili said he held no grudge against his old friend.
• An Chen stayed three more days, broke through to level thirty-six, and set out for Spirit City while wondering about the Monocle Man and Adrian.
• Black Wind Stronghold bandits tried to rob the travelers on the road, and An Chen turned the one-eyed Soul Master's arrows back on him and two other Soul Masters.
• When the bandits charged An Chen, he used shadow arms to drag them all into the shadows, then continued on without accepting thanks from the travelers.
• Two weeks later, An Chen reached Spirit City and saw its towering walls, patrolling Spirit Hall Soul Masters, and Six-Winged Angel emblem.

An Chen entered Spirit City, where the monocle-wearing man who had followed him from Shrek restrained him and gave him several Immortal Herbs. An Chen then reached Spirit Hall Advanced Soul Master Academy and reunited with Elder Chen.

• An Chen entered Spirit City and searched its quiet streets before stopping at a teahouse.
• The monocle-wearing man revealed that he had initially parasitized An Chen, restrained him, and placed several Jade Boxes of Immortal Herbs on the table as compensation.
• An Chen found Aromatic Silk Beauty, Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Infernal Delicate Apricot, and other Immortal Herbs in the Jade Boxes, but grew wary when the man said he would watch him from the shadows.
• An Chen went to Spirit Hall Advanced Soul Master Academy and used Elder Chen's Black Card to gain entry.
• A Spirit Hall deacon led An Chen to Elder Chen's courtyard, where An Chen greeted him as his teacher.

An Chen reunited with Elder Chen, revealed that he had helped resolve the Xiangshi Valley anomaly, and received his Spirit Hall academy credentials. With Elder Chen guarding him, he prepared to refine his Immortal Herbs and chose the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid as his first step.

• An Chen told Elder Chen that he had reached level thirty-six and helped solve the Xiangshi Valley anomaly, then showed him the Youxiang Grass he had gathered.
• An Chen said he planned to refine herbs, break through to above level forty, and hunt for his Fourth Soul Ring before the tournament.
• Elder Chen gave An Chen an academy token, uniform, and exclusive Spirit Hall badge, and explained that An Chen would need to earn a place on Spirit Hall's tournament team.
• Elder Chen revealed that his current body and the one An Chen had known in Tieyan City were Clones, then offered to guard An Chen while he refined the herbs.
• An Chen entered a room protected by Elder Chen's Soul Power barrier, examined his eleven Immortal Herbs, and settled on refining the Eight-Petal Immortal Orchid first.

An Chen used his Iron Pot to refine several Immortal Herbs into a potent medicinal liquid, which raised his Soul Power beyond level forty. After giving Elder Chen some of the liquid, An Chen prepared to seek a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.

• An Chen discovered that his Iron Pot could stew Immortal Herbs into medicinal liquid and began combining herbs while collecting the black impurities it produced.
• An Chen drank the refined liquid, gained a Soul Power level, and continued consuming it until he developed drug resistance.
• An Chen emerged from his room after five days and told Elder Chen that he had broken through level forty.
• An Chen gave Elder Chen a bottle of Seven-Colored Medicinal Liquid, and Elder Chen found it could raise his true body's cultivation by a level.
• Elder Chen agreed to send a level-eighty clone with An Chen to hunt a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast in the Star Dou Great Forest, and An Chen set out for Suotuo City.

An Chen returned to Suotuo City and traveled with Elder Chen to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a Shadow Attribute Soul Beast. After the wolf they sought proved to be gone, they tracked down a battle-scarred Shadow Demon Wolf, and Elder Chen told An Chen to fight it himself.

• An Chen inspected his Big Iron Pot Martial Soul and found that its three cracks had been replaced by patches of mist.
• Elder Chen explained that his Clones could share memories and told An Chen about Shadow Demon Wolves in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Elder Chen discovered that the pack's wolf king had changed and that the descendant they had hoped to find was missing.
• Elder Chen and An Chen used shadow-merging abilities to approach a huge Shadow Demon Wolf with a missing ear and a shadow prosthetic leg.
• Elder Chen said he could handle the wolf but left An Chen to fight it so he could test An Chen's progress.

An Chen tested how his mutated Soul Skills had changed, then absorbed a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring from a Shadow Demon Wolf and reached Soul Power level forty-eight. His new Fourth Soul Skill, Shadow Servant, let him create a shadow double and switch places with it.

• An Chen discovered his first three Soul Skills had gained new effects, including drawing out emotions, causing Babble, and banishing targets to dimensional spaces, though the skills consumed more Soul Power.
• Elder Chen explained that the Shadow Demon Wolf could switch places with a shadow Clone, then used an imprinted Light Giant God Bear to capture the wolf.
• An Chen absorbed the Shadow Demon Wolf's Soul Ring while Elder Chen stood watch, enduring intense physical and mental pain.
• An Chen emerged from absorption at Soul Power level forty-eight, and Elder Chen attributed his rapid cultivation growth partly to his medicinal liquid.
• An Chen demonstrated Shadow Servant, creating a shadow double that moved independently and allowed him to switch places with it.

An Chen demonstrated his Shadow Servant Soul Skill before Elder Chen, then learned that Spirit City had been attacked and Bibi Dong was missing. After being sent toward Tieyan City, he encountered an uncanny town where a ritual killed his Shadow Servant, and he reached a small city at dawn.

• An Chen showed Elder Chen his Shadow Servant Soul Skill, and Elder Chen told him to keep the Shadow Demon Wolf King’s corpse to strengthen his foundation.
• Elder Chen told An Chen that Spirit City had suffered a devastating attack and that Bibi Dong was missing, then sent him toward Tieyan City while he went to handle anomalous Soul Masters.
• After the azure bird disappeared in flight, An Chen landed near a silent town filled with corpses and black lumps of flesh.
• An Chen watched Soul Masters perform a ritual that caused babies to emerge from their bodies, and one worshipper transformed into a woman and noticed him.
• A supernatural force made An Chen’s Shadow Servant swell with a baby and dissolve into black liquid; the real An Chen sensed its death and fled until he reached a small city at dawn.

An Chen claimed the Rose Bishop Potion reward and gained Flesh Magic, which let him reshape his body, regenerate, and weaponize flesh. After testing his new abilities and considering where to go next, he felt a sudden earthquake and heard a deafening boom.

• An Chen claimed the system rewards and drank the potion, which caused his body to melt before he transformed and recovered with Flesh Magic.
• An Chen tested Flesh Magic on the giant wolf's corpse, creating a protective Crimson Cloak, a flesh bomb, and a Shadow Servant with real flesh and blood.
• An Chen changed his appearance into Tang San and then Zhu Zhuqing, but discovered he could not change his sex.
• An Chen returned to the Inn and weighed traveling to Sunset Forest, investigating Spirit City, or figuring out how to act as a Rose Bishop.
• The ground shook as An Chen considered his next move, and a deafening boom followed.

An Chen survived an ambush at the Inn by turning into a blood-red storm and using gray Fog to incapacitate his attackers. He fled toward Spirit City, while the shriveled old man and the young man were ultimately consumed by his Flesh.

• A shriveled old man impaled An Chen with a branch, and a young man arrived to find the apparent kill complete.
• An Chen's scattered Flesh erupted into a blood-red storm that flattened the Inn and corroded the old man's body while the young man struggled to repel it.
• Gray Fog spread through the ruins and left both attackers in agony as An Chen's Flesh escaped underground; a cloaked woman then flew away on birdlike wings.
• An Chen reformed in a mountain forest, decided to flee toward Spirit City, and swallowed two lumps of Flesh after feeding them pieces of his little finger.
• The old man and the young man recovered, but Flesh emerged from their bodies and consumed them before two beams of light shot into the starry sky.

An Chen was pursued by a cloaked bird-woman whose powers weakened him and burned away his Spirituality, but he tricked her with a disguised Shadow Servant and detonated it in a Blood Flesh Storm. He replenished himself from a giant wolf corpse and continued his journey, while the badly injured woman recovered and later found the wolf skeleton.

• An Chen realized the bird-woman was tracking him through the crimson mist in his Big Iron Pot and attacked her with the mist and a shadow spear, but she evaded both.
• The bird-woman weakened An Chen with an unknown word, burned away his Spirituality with black flames, and approached him after he collapsed.
• An Chen revealed that he had replaced himself with a Shadow Servant and flesh and blood, then detonated the decoy in a Blood Flesh Storm that severely injured the woman.
• The woman regenerated her damaged body with green light, but her Spirituality was depleted, and she left the blood pool.
• A thousand miles away, An Chen drained a giant wolf corpse to replenish his flesh and blood, then continued traveling.
• A day later, the woman found the giant wolf skeleton, examined it, and walked away.

An Chen disguised himself as Old Yang and traveled with a caravan toward Tieyan City while using buried flesh to watch for Birdman. After sensing a flesh servant, he realized something had changed and sent it underground to investigate.

• An Chen learned from Elder Chen that Spirit City was unsafe because several Elder Hall elders had died and Bibi Dong was missing.
• An Chen wore a bracelet made from Soul Power-sealing ore and joined a caravan bound for Tieyan City to avoid Birdman tracking him.
• An Chen worked alongside a middle-aged driver, maintained his Old Yang disguise, and told him about his family's death and his army service.
• After the caravan stopped for the night, An Chen planted more flesh and sensed a figure resembling his original appearance.
• An Chen created a flesh servant with Flesh Magic, and it melted into the ground to investigate.

An Chen followed a strange pull to an altar and was attacked by six men, but used his flesh and the shadows to kill them and take their possessions. He returned to the caravan and resumed pretending to be an old man, while the middle-aged man beside him remained unaware.

• An Chen tracked a faint pull to an altar where six men studied a glowing Shitou and sensed teachings about the Three-Body Motion.
• The Shitou fired dangerous green beams at An Chen, and the six men attacked him with gravity, accelerated punches, and another beam.
• After the men believed they had killed him, An Chen unleashed a fleshstorm and dragged them into the shadows, killing all six.
• An Chen absorbed the men’s flesh and found a bronze Storage Soul Tool containing body-refinement recipes, an altar, and the Shitou.
• An Chen returned to the town and secretly slipped back into the old man’s body while his tent companion lay down to sleep.

An Chen traveled with a caravan while pondering what it meant to be the Rose Bishop. After overhearing three Soul Masters plan to let bandits attack the caravan and then kill the witnesses, he decided the bishop’s duty of protection meant he could not stay uninvolved.

• An Chen learned from Old Yang that Steward Wang had offered him only two Silver Soul Coins for the journey.
• When the caravan reached Yuanxi Town, An Chen overheard three Soul Masters plot to steal the Wu Family’s goods and exploit Spirit Hall’s distraction.
• An Chen questioned the middle-aged man about the Soul Masters, then used his little finger to monitor what was happening near the camp.
• The next day, An Chen overheard the Soul Masters plan to let bandits attack the caravan and kill anyone who could expose them.
• An Chen looked at the oblivious middle-aged man and decided that the Rose Bishop’s duty of protection required him to act.

An Chen watched bandits attack the convoy and secretly killed one who pursued the middle-aged man and Old Yang. After the caravan’s three Soul Masters slaughtered the bandits, Old Yang walked out of hiding to inspect the scene.

• Six masked bandits ambushed the convoy, killed a worker, and attacked An Chen’s carriage.
• The middle-aged man shielded Old Yang, and Old Yang’s fall knocked a bandit’s blade aside as they escaped into the woods.
• A pursuing bandit’s attack vanished, and he melted into black liquid after An Chen secretly intervened.
• The convoy’s three Soul Masters revealed their strength, killed the bandit leader and his men, and claimed the spoils.
• The middle-aged man hid with Old Yang, but Old Yang ignored his warning and walked out to look at the aftermath.

An Chen revealed his power and defeated the three Soul Masters who had been hunting him and the middle-aged man. He trapped the surviving pair in his Shadow Space and sent them into the Echo World.

• The three Soul Masters confronted Old Yang and the middle-aged man, and the square-faced Soul Master attacked with water arrows.
• An Chen blocked the arrows with a Flesh Cloak, then escaped the female Soul Master's vines by melting into blood.
• An Chen's thrown finger exploded into a storm that mangled the Werewolf, while the other two Soul Masters tried to heal him and then fled.
• An Chen seized the square-faced and female Soul Masters through their shadows and dragged them into his Shadow Space.
• An Chen sent the pair into the Echo World, recalled the Flesh Cloak, and walked toward the stunned middle-aged man.

An Chen covered up the caravan massacre, then entered Tieyan City in disguise and reunited with Shitou at the Iron Rock Intermediate Soul Master Academy. He asked Shitou to find Qian Yiming so they could catch up, while secretly merging a severed finger into Shitou.

• An Chen warned the surviving middle-aged man to report that bandits had killed the caravan, then staged a fire and left in disguise.
• The middle-aged man fled toward Far West Town while An Chen changed his appearance and headed the opposite way.
• An Chen entered Tieyan City and found Shitou being mocked by Caesar, who offered him Gold Soul Coins to lick his shoes.
• An Chen revealed himself to Shitou, who tearfully recognized him as Brother Pot and claimed he had been doing well.
• An Chen asked Shitou to fetch Qian Yiming from the Cafeteria and secretly merged his severed finger into Shitou as they left.

An Chen reunited with Shitou and Qian Yiming in Tieyan City, gave them cultivation medicine, and then left to watch over a village tied to his origins. Near the city’s border, the Birdman caught up with him, and after An Chen detonated two fingers to attack her, her voice sounded behind him.

• Shitou told An Chen how he and Qian Yiming had entered the Tieyan City Intermediate Soul Master Academy and supported themselves with odd jobs.
• An Chen explained that he had left Shrek Academy and was heading back to the Spirit Hall Advanced Soul Master Academy for the tournament.
• An Chen gave Shitou a Jade Bottle of medicinal liquid, then reunited with Qian Yiming and gave him one as well.
• An Chen watched a couple in a village from afar, removed his dimmed Stone Bracelet, and hurried toward the edge of Tieyan City's jurisdiction.
• The Birdman appeared and weakened An Chen with a word, so he detonated two severed fingers in a Blood Flesh Storm.
• As An Chen prepared to escape, the Birdman spoke from behind him, saying she had finally found him.

An Chen defeated the Birdman and trapped her in the Shadow World, but discovered she could resurrect repeatedly. As he left, black flames began killing residents in towns across the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire.

• The Birdman tracked An Chen by sensing his flesh, but he escaped her first attack and ran while injured by her howl.
• An Chen used the Big Iron Pot, Gray Cane, Pink Mist, and shadow creatures to incapacitate the Birdman and drag her into the Shadow World.
• The Birdman resurrected inside the Shadow World, where its creatures repeatedly tore her apart as she tried and failed to escape.
• An Chen watched the Birdman’s repeated resurrections for a day, scattered flesh and bone dregs around the shadow as a precaution, and then left.
• Black Flames appeared on residents in a town in the Heaven Dou Empire, killing them, and similar deaths began in villages and towns across both empires.

An Chen resolved to become a god and pose as a religious guide to digest his potion, adopting the name Deacon Zhang Jiao. After protecting a village from a wild Soul Beast, he introduced the villagers to his unfamiliar lord, whose identity they did not recognize.

• An Chen reflected on his Hanged Man Pathway and his uncertainty about where to go, then decided to break out of his world’s cage by becoming a god.
• An Chen disguised himself as a bearded middle-aged man and introduced himself to a village as Deacon Zhang Jiao, offering guidance despite not belonging to Spirit Hall.
• An Chen learned that a Soul Beast was damaging the villagers’ fields at night and agreed to watch over them.
• An Chen killed a Wild Soul Pig that entered the fields and absorbed its flesh, leaving behind its hide and skeleton.
• An Chen showed the villagers the remains and described his lord as a wounded figure hanging on a cross, but the old man said he had never heard of that deity.

An Chen investigated Granny Li’s pregnant grandson and removed the strange creature growing inside him. He left the boy alive and returned the creature to his copper bracelet.

• Granny Li told An Chen that her grandson’s belly had swollen after he visited a village where everyone, including Spirit Hall members, had died.
• An Chen took Granny Li through the shadows to her home and found her grandson asleep with a translucent, swollen abdomen.
• An Chen restrained the boy with black arms and pulled a writhing black creature from his belly.
• An Chen examined the boy and confirmed that he was safe, then sealed the creature in a bag and stored it in his copper bracelet.
• Granny Li saw her grandson’s flattened belly and wept with relief as An Chen declared them both safe.

An Chen used Divination to uncover the Copper Bracelet’s gravity-control and weakening-ray abilities, then tested them and renamed it the Gravity Bracelet. After the test wrecked the house, he disguised himself as Deacon Zhang, accepted the villagers’ thanks, and left for a new destination.

• An Chen checked his potion digestion progress at 47% after helping villagers and tempering his body with medicinal herbs.
• An Chen used Divination to learn that the Copper Bracelet could control gravity, emit weakening rays, and attract nearby objects as a side effect.
• An Chen tested the bracelet’s gravity ability, then fired its eerie green rays through the room before transforming into flesh and blood to avoid them.
• An Chen recovered the bracelet, named it the Gravity Bracelet, and disguised himself as Deacon Zhang.
• An Chen told the gathered villagers the destruction came from practicing a soul skill, declined to insist on compensation, and departed.

An Chen refused to let two villagers follow him and instead gave them cultivation and combat books, Gold Soul Coins, and advice to build their own team. His guidance furthered his digestion, and he entered Rock City, where a statue and a passerby’s story introduced him to the masked Rock Douluo.

• Two young men asked An Chen to take them as disciples, explaining that bandits threatened their village and they wanted to become strong.
• An Chen told them they lacked experience with Soul Beasts and anomalies, then urged them to gather other cultivators and form a team.
• An Chen gave the boys a Cultivation Method, Combat Techniques, and Gold Soul Coins to help them train and hunt Soul Beasts.
• As he walked away, An Chen felt his digestion increase and checked the system panel, which showed 62% digestion.
• An Chen entered Rock City and read a plaque explaining that Rock Douluo had been born there and that the city had been renamed in his honor.
• An Chen inspected Rock Douluo’s statue and overheard a father tell his daughter that no one had seen the Titled Douluo’s real face and that his many Masks might resemble defeated enemies’ Martial Souls.