Recaps

An Chen investigated Rock City, learned that Rock Douluo might still be protecting it, and reached level fifty while searching for people who needed guidance. He entered North District and chased after a child who had tried to steal a copper bracelet from him.

• An Chen found Rock City calm and learned from a waiter that nearby towns had suffered while rumors claimed Lord Panshi still protected the city.
• An Chen searched local books for information about Rock Douluo but found only sensational and unhelpful titles.
• An Chen broke through to level fifty and decided to seek people who might need guidance in North District.
• An Chen reached the run-down district and saw hungry youths, struggling families, and children living in poverty.
• An Chen caught a child trying to steal his copper bracelet, released him after the child begged, and then hurried after him.

An Chen learned that San Gou and other children in Rock City’s northern district resorted to theft because they had nowhere else to work, and he offered to help them. After giving the children guidance and resources, he fully digested the Rose Bishop Potion.

• An Chen caught up with San Gou in an alley, gave him food, and learned his mother had died and Brother A Gui had taught him to steal.
• San Gou led An Chen to an abandoned warehouse, where An Chen met the one-armed Soul Master A Gui and asked about the children’s circumstances.
• A Gui explained that Rock City barred children under seventeen from working and that he could no longer hunt Soul Beasts.
• An Chen gave A Gui ten Gold Soul Coins and asked him to gather the leaders of others like him so An Chen could help them.
• An Chen gave the children a booklet about hunting Soul Beasts and his meditation method, then heard them call goodbye as his Rose Bishop Potion reached full digestion.

After reaching Soul Power rank fifty, An Chen set out for the Star Dou Great Forest to find a powerful Soul Beast, traveling in disguise through Suotuo City. Meanwhile, an Angel-emblem-clad man learned that an Evil Soul Master worshiping The Hanged Man was near Rock City and set out to hunt him; strange lights continued to flicker in the eyes of Masks.

• An Chen examined the tattered Mask San Gou had given him, found the words “Rock Style One” inside, and decided he needed a Fifth Soul Ring after reaching rank fifty.
• An Chen used Youxiang Grass to ease the Babble’s symptoms, disguised himself as a merchant, and chose the Star Dou Great Forest as his destination.
• As An Chen left Rock City, a glimmer flashed in the eyes of the Mask on the Rock Douluo statue.
• A man wearing a Six-Winged Angel emblem read a report about an Evil Soul Master near Rock City who worshiped The Hanged Man, then left to eliminate the threat.
• An Chen traveled by carriage to Suotuo City, where he noticed another Rock City-style Mask and again sensed someone watching him.
• As An Chen approached Suotuo City’s gates, a strange light flashed in the eyes of a Mask on a luxurious carriage returning to Rock City.

An Chen hunted Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest with his shadow clone and discovered a rift into a corrupted, monster-filled world. After he sent the wolf king through the rift, a towering monster emerged and approached the two An Chens.

• An Chen and his shadow clone trapped and drained an antelope and a pack of horned wolves for their hides and Soul Rings.
• The two An Chens subdued the wolves’ two-thousand-year-old king and dragged it into a dimension they discovered through An Chen’s shadow.
• An Chen opened a rift to a dark world filled with corruption, strange auras, and monsters, then threw the wolf king inside.
• Lightning revealed that the wolf king had vanished and the monsters in the wasteland had changed.
• As the two An Chens argued over which was the original, a towering, scythe-handed monster appeared at the rift and moved toward them.

An Chen fought the Monster that emerged from the rift, using his regenerative body, shadow abilities, and an Iron Pot to counter its attacks. After discovering that the Monster could absorb his shadow and disrupt his Flesh Magic, he pinned it down and prepared to use the Copper Bracelet against it.

• An Chen’s duplicate melted into the shadow beneath him as the Monster entered the Star Dou Great Forest and set the surrounding trees ablaze.
• The Monster’s influence drove An Chen to attack, but it cut him in half with its Bone Scythe; An Chen’s halves sank underground, and he reformed before unleashing Black Fog from an Iron Pot.
• An Chen struck the Monster with shadow-made weapons and gray mist, but the Monster grew more violent and absorbed his shadow, while its attack briefly disrupted his Flesh Magic.
• An Chen bound the Monster with tentacles and arms pulled from its shadow, then drove a shadow greatsword into its back to create a small pit.
• An Chen poured Soul Power and Spirituality into his Copper Bracelet and drew the surrounding black ash toward its green light while focusing on the pit in the Monster’s back.

An Chen defeated the Monster, obtained its unusual Soul Ring and bone scythe, and absorbed the ring to gain his Fifth Soul Skill. After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, he reached a nearby town and began planning for Shepherd's Ritual.

• An Chen searched the Monster's charred remains, found a Copper Bracelet, and uncovered a bone scythe that he stored in a Jade Box.
• An Chen absorbed the Monster's Soul Ring and resisted its violent consciousness by fusing his Mental Power with his Spirituality.
• An Chen gained his Fifth Soul Ring, sensed its corrupting quality, and recovered from his charred state.
• A Mask watched An Chen from a distant cliff, while a Black-Robed Figure bearing a Six-Winged Angel Emblem also observed him and set off.
• An Chen reached level fifty-three Soul Power, considered how to prepare for Shepherd's Ritual, and changed from a merchant disguise into a Canghui Academy student before entering an inn.

An Chen survived an assassination attempt at an inn, but a Black-Robed Figure tracked him down and sealed his abilities in the mountains. Just as the figure prepared to kill him, a hunched old man chose to keep watching instead of intervening.

• An Chen entered his room at the inn, where a moonlit illusion of spinning blades sliced him into a mist of blood.
• The Black-Robed Figure dispersed the blood mist, but An Chen reformed as black liquid and escaped through the shadows.
• An Chen fled for a day and a night before stopping in the mountains to recover, where the Black-Robed Figure stabbed and sealed him.
• The Black-Robed Figure identified An Chen as Zhang Jiao, accused him of serving an evil god, and prepared to execute him beneath the sunlight.
• A hunched old man watched the execution attempt, then lowered his raised fist and decided to wait.

An Chen tried to drink a newly prepared potion while escaping Spirit Hall’s enforcer, who attacked him and provoked him by claiming his teacher had been badly wounded. The enforcer died under mysterious circumstances, and an aged hand transformed his corpse into a scythe-marked Mask.

• An Chen escaped underground with his Spirituality nearly exhausted, then summoned the system and claimed a potion reward that broke the silver seals on his body.
• An Chen prepared a gray potion in his Big Iron Pot, but a Clown Warning alerted him to the enforcer’s surprise attack.
• The enforcer taunted An Chen about his teacher’s injuries and trapped him in a moonlit illusion while attacking with blades and a scythe.
• An Chen activated Darkflame Domain and fought back, but the illusion ended with the enforcer impaled on a stone spike and dead.
• An aged hand appeared, crumbled the stone spike, and transformed the enforcer’s corpse into a moon-white Mask bearing a scythe image.

Rock Douluo killed An Chen to seize the power in his potion, then drank the Shepherd Potion himself. After a day and night of agony and transformation, Rock Douluo became a grotesque mass of flesh with five heads.

• Rock Douluo trapped An Chen and questioned him about the power and medicinal liquid in his pot.
• Rock Douluo impaled An Chen with stone spikes, killed him, and transformed his corpse into a mask engraved with an iron pot.
• Rock Douluo put on the mask and learned An Chen's memories, discovering that the potion was called the Shepherd Potion.
• Despite learning that the potion could cause loss of control and madness, Rock Douluo drank it, convinced his strength would let him suppress it.
• Rock Douluo endured a day and night of horrific changes as his body and soul split and grew new forms, leaving him a mass of flesh with five heads.

An Chen returned from death, defeated Rock Douluo’s grotesque remains, and used the gray hand to complete his Shepherd advancement. He successfully became a Shepherd and immediately grazed the corpse to see which Soul Skill he would obtain.

• An Chen resurrected from a gray fog and burned the writhing mass of flesh that remained of Rock Douluo.
• An Chen divined that the gray hand could be consumed directly as a potion and examined his Spirit Body Thread Control ability.
• An Chen devised a plan to fulfill the Shepherd ritual by separating his head, controlling his living body’s spirit body threads, and feeding it the gray hand.
• An Chen cut off his head, used Spirit Body Thread Control to make his body consume the hand, then rejoined it and endured the transformation.
• An Chen completed his advancement to Shepherd, used Grazing on Rock Douluo’s corpse, and waited to see which Soul Skill he would gain.

An Chen gained Grazing Rock Douluo’s earth, gravity, and mask-making abilities, then used the mask ability to experience Rock Douluo’s memories. The memories revealed Rock Douluo’s hidden mask martial soul, his life guarding Rock City, and the curiosity that led him to follow An Chen and drink the strange liquid.

• An Chen grazed Rock Douluo’s remains and gained earth element control, gravity control, and the ability to turn flesh and soul into a mask that revealed a person’s life.
• An Chen made a mask from Rock Douluo’s remains and put it on, entering Rock Douluo’s memories.
• As a child, Rock Douluo awakened a dust martial soul and level three innate soul power, while his father urged him to carry on the family’s mask-making inheritance.
• Decades later, Rock Douluo reached level 90 with both a dust martial soul and a mask martial soul, then returned home and became the masked guardian of Rock City.
• Rock Douluo discovered that strange beings could grant power through prayers and grew curious about the world beyond the continent, but held back after seeing the effects of fanatical faith.
• Rock Douluo secretly followed An Chen to observe his abilities and lack of side effects, until curiosity drove him to drink the strange liquid.

An Chen traveled to Sunset Town to find Yu Tianyao and learn whether his teacher was truly injured, while suppressing the voice inside his soul. He found Yu Tianyao’s alias, Du Lei, and waited outside a camp near Sunset Forest for him to arrive.

• An Chen buried the battlefield, left the nearby city, and traveled in disguise while using Youxiang Grass to replenish his mental power.
• An Chen checked his system, saw that his Potion digestion had reached 7%, and considered the promised Door as he planned to reach level sixty and digest the Potion.
• An Chen passed through Heaven Dou City and continued to Sunset Town, where he asked a tavern owner about lone mercenaries.
• The tavern owner identified Du Lei, a lightning-wielding lone Soul Master, and An Chen suspected he was Yu Tianyao.
• An Chen followed directions to a camp near Sunset Forest and waited with a crowd for Du Lei to arrive.

An Chen found Yu Tianyao at a camp near Sunset Forest and asked him to investigate whether his teacher had been badly injured in Spirit Hall’s suppression of a rebellion. Their conversation was interrupted by debt collectors who threatened Yu Tianyao’s bedridden father, leaving An Chen present as the confrontation escalated.

• An Chen watched Du Lei return from Sunset Forest with a charred tiger corpse, then followed him into the camp as he took commissions.
• After the other visitors left, An Chen revealed his identity to Yu Tianyao and asked him to use his clan’s resources to check on An Chen’s teacher.
• Yu Tianyao said the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan was short-handed, and An Chen questioned why he was earning money by taking commissions.
• A scarred man and his mustached companion entered to demand repayment from Yu Tianyao, who insisted he had already paid the debt.
• The mustached man claimed Yu Tianyao still owed interest and threatened to collect from his bedridden father.

An Chen paid off the loan sharks who threatened Yu Tianyao’s bedridden father, then killed them and their two accomplices with black flames. After finding the accomplices at the father’s courtyard, An Chen left with Yu Tianyao.

• Two loan sharks threatened to target Yu Tianyao’s bedridden father unless he repaid his debt, and Yu Tianyao threatened to fight them.
• An Chen offered to pay the debt, handed over a thousand Gold Soul Coins, and secretly retrieved the coins from the loan sharks’ storage bracelet.
• The bracelet exploded, and black flames burned the mustached man and the scarred man to ashes.
• An Chen and Yu Tianyao went to the secluded courtyard where Yu Tianyao’s father lived and found the two remaining accomplices.
• An Chen struck the accomplices with black flames, burned them to ashes, and left with Yu Tianyao.

An Chen listened as Yu Tianyao comforted his dying father, then gave Yu Tianyao medicinal liquid that helped him break through to rank forty. The two set out for Sunset Forest to find Yu Tianyao a soul ring and complete a commission, joined by Yang Qihao.

• An Chen overheard Yu Tianyao's injured father urge him to focus on cultivation and reveal his regret over marrying Yu Tianyao's mother from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• An Chen gave Yu Tianyao a bottle of medicinal liquid, and Yu Tianyao accepted it before cultivating in seclusion.
• After a day, Yu Tianyao emerged having broken through to rank forty and asked An Chen about the liquid's effects.
• An Chen offered to help Yu Tianyao hunt for a soul ring, and Yu Tianyao agreed.
• An Chen and Yu Tianyao collected Yang Qihao, the boy who had commissioned Yu Tianyao to hunt a hundred-year soul beast, and headed toward Sunset Forest.

An Chen advised Yang Qihao to pursue an agility-based soul skill, then helped him obtain a Shadowclaw Leopard soul ring and demonstrate the power of his own skills. After Yang Qihao asked to become his disciple, An Chen and Yu Tianyao continued toward Thunder Mountain in Sunset Forest.

• An Chen suggested that Yang Qihao seek an agility-attack or shadow-cloning skill for his twin maces, then demonstrated his five soul rings and shadow abilities.
• Yang Qihao accepted An Chen's advice, and An Chen quickly captured a roughly 350-year-old Shadowclaw Leopard for him.
• Yang Qihao absorbed the leopard's soul ring and gained a skill with consecutive strikes and phantom splitting.
• An Chen and Yu Tianyao decided to escort Yang Qihao back because the area ahead was dangerous, and Yang Qihao asked An Chen to take him as a disciple.
• An Chen said they could discuss discipleship later, then returned with Yu Tianyao to Sunset Forest and headed toward Thunder Mountain.

An Chen and Yu Tianyao encountered members of the Five Great Heretical Sects preparing to receive a message from the Fallen Star Knight. After the sect members pursued them, the pair fought back but were trapped by a black substance from an iron box, leaving An Chen sealed and unable to move.

• An Chen and Yu Tianyao found a group of soul masters bound for Thunder Mountain, including a man marked with flowing stars who planned to hunt a ten-thousand-year soul beast.
• The star-marked man assembled an altar and placed a Silver-White Stone on it, prompting An Chen to recognize it as similar to one he had kept in his Copper Bracelet.
• When the stone glowed, An Chen pulled Yu Tianyao into a retreat, but the star-marked man spotted them and used a force to lift them into the air.
• An Chen threw a severed hand while Yu Tianyao struck the pursuer with lightning, and An Chen’s blood-red attack interrupted the force long enough for them to fall and flee.
• Seven sect members blocked their path, and their leader threw an unfolded iron box that released a black substance, which swallowed An Chen’s spear and sealed his body, spirituality, and soul power.

Yu Tianyao and An Chen fled the pursuers, but both succumbed to the black substance’s sleep-inducing effect. An Chen escaped his seal with the system, then fought the blue-robed man and ended the confrontation by exploding into a bloody tempest.

• Yu Tianyao failed to break the black substance sealing An Chen and fled with him as the blue-robed man and seven men pursued them.
• Yu Tianyao fell asleep near the edge of Sunset Forest, and An Chen used the system to dispel the black substance and regain access to his powers.
• An Chen carried the sleeping Yu Tianyao away, but the blue-robed man intercepted them and struck An Chen with a beam that set his body ablaze.
• An Chen created a duplicate to carry Yu Tianyao, then fought the blue-robed man with his Iron Pot, black flames, and greatsword.
• The blue-robed man overpowered An Chen and accused him of killing the six Wan brothers after noticing a copper ring on his wrist.
• The copper ring turned into flesh and fell away, and An Chen’s body cracked apart and exploded into a blood-red tempest.

After escaping the injured man in blue and his group, An Chen and Yu Tianyao headed into Thunder Mountain to seek a Thunder Wyrm. They reached a cave after climbing through increasingly intense lightning, where Yu Tianyao suspected a Thunder Wyrm was dwelling.

• The man in blue warned his companions not to pursue the ten-thousand-year Thunder Wyrm, then passed out after the group teleported away with the iron box.
• An Chen left his hiding place and found Yu Tianyao waking up; he claimed he had dealt with the man in blue without revealing what had happened.
• An Chen and Yu Tianyao realized the group had left instead of going to Thunder Mountain, then set off toward the mountain themselves.
• The pair fought off several minor lightning-attribute Soul Beasts and entered a valley where electrical arcs grew denser as they climbed.
• A deep bovine bellow came from a cave, and Yu Tianyao explained that a lightning-attribute Soul Beast could evolve into a Thunder Wyrm after reaching 9,999 years of cultivation.

An Chen and Yu Tianyao discovered that the supposed thunder wyrm was actually a rare mimic fox, which An Chen named Big Ears and brought along. After An Chen killed a lightning-charged boar and drained its corpse, they reached the mountain summit and spotted a pride of thundercloud mane lions, including a lion king with at least five thousand years of cultivation.

• An Chen and Yu Tianyao investigated the strange cries in a cave and found a frightened mimic fox imitating other soul beasts.
• Yu Tianyao explained that mimic foxes were rare, low-cultivation soul beasts, and An Chen subdued the fox and named it Big Ears.
• An Chen charged a herd of lightning-charged wild boars, killed the boar king, and drained its body with the Heavy Sword.
• Yu Tianyao remarked that An Chen's ability resembled an Evil Soul Master's, but An Chen did not answer and continued onward with Big Ears.
• An Chen and Yu Tianyao reached the summit and observed a pride of thundercloud mane lions; Yu Tianyao identified the lion king as having at least five thousand years of cultivation.

An Chen and Yu Tianyao defeated the Thundercloud Mane Lion, and Yu Tianyao began absorbing its purple soul ring. Elsewhere, a white-clad man learned that the Thunder Wyrm had appeared and teleported away with the pale man, hoping to find an eighty-thousand-year-old wyrm.

• An Chen used shadowy arms and tentacles to restrain the pride of lions while Yu Tianyao helped kill the Thundercloud Mane Lion.
• Yu Tianyao sat beside the corpse and began refining its purple soul ring as An Chen recovered and kept watch with Big Ears.
• At the Continental Material Science Research Institute, the white-clad man learned that Lady Carl had survived but her hands were ruined.
• A messenger reported that the Thunder Wyrm had appeared in the Thunder Mountain Range, and the white-clad man asked the pale man to teleport them there.
• The white-clad man and the pale man vanished, hoping the Thunder Wyrm was an eighty-thousand-year-old wyrm.

An Chen and Yu Tianyao encountered a powerful white-robed man in the Thunder Mountain Range after Yu Tianyao absorbed a domain-type soul skill. As An Chen tried to escape with Yu Tianyao and Big Ears, the stranger petrified An Chen’s legs, leaving them trapped before a crushing wave of stone.

• Big Ears mimicked An Chen’s curses, and An Chen silenced it while Yu Tianyao finished absorbing his soul ring and gained a weak domain-type soul skill.
• A greenish-yellow light brought a pale, unconscious man and a burly white-robed man to the summit, where the stranger searched for something and then approached An Chen and Yu Tianyao.
• An Chen recognized the unconscious man as one of the group they had encountered earlier and fled with Yu Tianyao, but the white-robed man dispersed An Chen’s Black Fog and pinned them down with heavy pressure.
• An Chen used Rock Douluo’s gravity control to free them, then tried to shield Yu Tianyao and Big Ears from a pursuing wave of stone with an earthen wall.
• An Chen grabbed Yu Tianyao and attempted to escape through their shadow, but the white-robed man shot two rays that turned An Chen’s legs to stone as the stone wave broke through the wall.

An Chen was captured by a white-robed man and subjected to a purifying light, but escaped into the Shadow Space before it could kill him. There, he re-formed after eating Yu Tianyao’s stored meat, though he remained badly weakened.

• An Chen sent Yu Tianyao and Big Ears into his Shadow Space, then cut off his petrified legs and was engulfed by the stone wave.
• The white-robed man pulled An Chen from the rubble, tortured him with purifying light, and demanded to know where the Thunder Wyrm was.
• An Chen escaped into his Shadow Space, where the light faded because there was no sun and the shadows overwhelmed it.
• Yu Tianyao recognized An Chen’s voice and gave him the meat from his Storage Soul Tool.
• An Chen ate the meat and regained a human shape, then weakly cursed Big Ears for nearly getting him killed.

An Chen and Yu Tianyao escaped the white-clad man and returned from Sunset Forest, where An Chen spent a month recovering and learning how to digest the Shepherd Potion. He left to seek suitable targets and secretly check on Elder Chen in Spirit City, worried that the Spirit Hall might know about his abnormalities.

• An Chen recovered enough Soul Power to open a shadow door, and he and Yu Tianyao escaped from Thunder Mountain with Big Ears.
• As they traveled through Sunset Forest, An Chen replenished himself by absorbing Soul Beast flesh and suspected the white-clad man shared a Beyonder Pathway with several people he had met.
• An Chen reacted fearfully to sunlight and disguised himself in a gray robe before he and Yu Tianyao reached town, where locals crowded around Yu Tianyao with requests.
• An Chen stayed at Yu Tianyao's courtyard for a month, cultivating until his Soul Power reached rank fifty-five and concluding that grazing souls and abilities would help digest the Shepherd Potion.
• An Chen learned that Bibi Dong had returned to Spirit City and Spirit Hall had regained control, but, still lacking word from Elder Chen and fearing detection, he set out with Big Ears to find a chance to check on him.

An Chen learned that a battle involving a Thunder Wyrm may have caused the earthquake in Sunset Forest, then traveled to Xiliang City. There, the ragged man from the inn tried to scam him with a map, but An Chen countered with a strange soul-power-rich liquid.

• An Chen overheard soul masters speculate that a battle involving the Heaven Dou Imperial Family's Thunder Wyrm caused the earthquake in Sunset Forest.
• An Chen left the inn with Big Ears and traveled to Xiliang City.
• The ragged man from the inn found An Chen at another inn and offered him a map to an Ancient Soul Master Cave Abode.
• An Chen challenged the man's offer by claiming he had a cultivation-enhancing substance of his own.
• An Chen revealed a Small Jade Bottle containing black, foul-smelling liquid, and the old man stared at it in anticipation.