Recaps

Xu Huxiao helped Hua Yuerong obtain a mutated Purple-Gold Cloud Sunflower Soul Ring, restoring her health before they parted at the lakeside. Back at the royal castle, he discovered that the Soulmate Stone Hua Yuerong gave him accelerated his absorption of solidified Soul Bone energy.

• Xu Huxiao offered Hua Yuerong a 1,680-year-old Purple-Gold Cloud Sunflower Soul Beast that matched her martial soul and could restore her weakened body, and she accepted.
• Xu Huxiao startled the Purple-Gold Cloud Sunflower into fleeing, caught it with White-Ring Flash Shift, and brought it to Hua Yuerong to deliver the killing blow.
• Hua Yuerong absorbed the Soul Ring, recovered her strength, and increased her Soul Power by a level and a half.
• Xu Huxiao and Hua Yuerong parted ways at the lakeside, and Hua Yuerong watched him leave while hoping they would meet again.
• Xu Huxiao meditated with Hua Yuerong's Soulmate Stone and discovered that it increased his absorption of Soul Bone energy by roughly fifty percent.

Xu Huxiao investigated the mysterious Green Crystal Staff taken from Douluo Mu Sen’s funeral procession while his family returned to Spirit City. The chapter ended with the Xu Family leaving Cupid Kingdom and the kingdom settling into a new routine after the Snake Demon Beast Tide.

• Xu Huxiao found that the Soulmate Stone boosted his cultivation efficiency by fifty percent and shortened the time needed to condense his second Blood-Essence Flower.
• Meriel held a state funeral for Douluo Mu Sen, whose coffin was later sent with Prince Yan and Chen Yingshan to Spirit City for burial in Douluo Hall.
• Xu Bayan gave Xu Huxiao the Green Crystal Staff from Mu Sen’s funeral, and Xu Huxiao kept it because he suspected it was connected to a strange prophecy.
• Ning Fengyu tried to make Xu Huxiao return the staff, but Xu Bayan defended his son and placated his wife with a Starry Sky Gemstone necklace.
• The Xu Family left Cupid Kingdom for Spirit City, while the kingdom recovered from the beast tide and residents began calling the Snake Demon islands the Everlasting Sun Islands of Forbidden Carnival.

Yan challenged Xu Huxiao to a wagered duel at Spirit City's Great Soul Arena, staking ten thousand Gold Soul Coins to reclaim Mu Sen Douluo's Green Crystal Staff. Xu Huxiao easily countered Yan's first attack, but Yan launched his second Soul Skill and the battle continued.

• Yan stayed in Spirit City after Mu Sen Douluo's burial and challenged Xu Huxiao to a one-on-one wagered soul battle for the Green Crystal Staff.
• Xu Huxiao accepted, wagering the staff against Yan's ten thousand Gold Soul Coins, and entered the arena to test Yan's fighting style.
• Yan activated Flame Demon Vajra Body and charged at Xu Huxiao while Chen Yingshan praised his strength and Luo Ming predicted his defeat.
• Xu Huxiao blocked Yan's punch and knocked him several meters away with a front kick that broke through his first Soul Skill.
• Humiliated and injured, Yan activated his first and second Soul Rings and charged up Lava Cannon Fist against Xu Huxiao.

Xu Huxiao defeated Yan in their wagered battle, while Yan chose to remain in Spirit City and train so he could challenge Xu again. Back home, Xu began preparing to cultivate the Copper Body realm of the Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill.

• Xu Huxiao used Six Dragons Revolving and Dragon Appears in the Field to withstand Yan's Lava Cannon Fist, leaving Yan's full-power barrage unable to harm him.
• Yan exhausted his Soul Power and collapsed, so the referee declared Xu Huxiao the winner, and Xu left the Great Soul Arena with Luo Ming and his winnings.
• After waking, Yan refused to return to the kingdom and asked Chen Yingshan to report that he would stay in Spirit City to study and train.
• Yan bought a residence, enrolled in the Spirit Hall Intermediate Soul Master Academy, and vowed to defeat Xu Huxiao and reclaim the Green Crystal Staff.
• Xu Huxiao returned to training and began his first Copper Body session, instructing A-Qiang, A-Long, A-Bao, and A-Jin to strike the marked areas of his body with wooden staffs.

Xu Huxiao completed his first Copper Body tempering session and used the medicinal meal and bath to recover. Realizing the Indestructible Diamond Divine Skill would take decades to master, he activated his Shrek Martial Soul and entered Absolute Sleep to accelerate his healing.

• Xu Huxiao endured two hours of staff strikes in the Copper Body horse stance without his skin breaking, completing a nearly perfect tempering session.
• Xu Huxiao rewarded the four men who struck him, then ate a medicinal meal and soaked in a medicinal bath while planning his training.
• Xu Huxiao calculated that reaching the Golden Body would take at least twenty-two years and decided he needed to shorten the recovery interval between sessions.
• Xu Huxiao remembered that his Shrek Martial Soul could provide extraordinary recovery through Absolute Sleep and summoned it despite having no Soul Rings on it.
• Xu Huxiao examined his transformed Shrek appearance, manifested nine Blank Soul Rings, and entered Tortoise-Breath State at the bottom of the bath before becoming transparent through Absolute Sleep.

After recovering from his first Copper Body tempering with Absolute Sleep, Xu Huxiao realized he could temper himself once each day. He visited Meteor Blacksmith Shop to commission battle clothes and ended up buying four daggers.

• Xu Huxiao woke after absorbing the medicinal bath and found that Absolute Sleep had restored and strengthened his body.
• Xu Huxiao concluded that he could complete one Copper Body tempering session per day and planned to continue cultivating the next day.
• Xu Huxiao went with Luo Ming to Meteor Blacksmith Shop and commissioned custom battle clothes designed to accommodate his Size Multiplication Soul Skill.
• Xu Huxiao asked Li Baoshan for a durable dagger capable of piercing a Thousand Year Soul Beast’s scales.
• Xu Huxiao examined four recommended daggers with his Eye of Omniscience and bought all four, instructing Luo Ming to pay.

Xu Huxiao uncovered the Bloodshadow Dagger’s awakening requirements and investigated the strange shifting nature of the Green Crystal Staff, growing more cautious about relying on his foreknowledge. After improving his training routine, he used disguised identities to get around the Great Soul Arena’s one-fight-per-day limit, then arrived to begin his third fight of the morning.

• Xu Huxiao bought the Bloodshadow Dagger and asked Luo Ming to gather blood from seven kinds of Earth Dragon-bloodline Soul Beasts to awaken it.
• Xu Huxiao discovered that the Green Crystal Staff alternated between being identified as an item and a Soul Beast, and suspected it was evolving into a living creature.
• Xu Huxiao began spending the night in Absolute Sleep under Shrek Martial Soul Possession and found his body ready for another round of Copper Body training.
• Abomination registered at the Spirit City Great Soul Arena, won a fight with a chain-kick combination, and left.
• Banner registered afterward, defeated a broadsword-wielding opponent with a punch, and left.
• Xu Huxiao arrived at the Great Soul Arena in his usual clothes to begin his third Soul Fight of the morning.

Xu Huxiao used his disguised alt accounts to train for separate Soul Battle styles, while Orleans arranged a match to confront him over her buried feelings and resentment. She challenged him on the arena stage, convinced she had uncovered the secret behind his strength: self-created Soul Skills.

• Xu Huxiao waited at the Great Soul Arena after registering alt accounts Abomination and Banner, using the Tortoise Breath Skill and Bone Shrinking Skill to conceal his identity and appearance.
• Xiaomei privately admired Xu Huxiao and mistakenly imagined him, Abomination, and Banner as a combination rather than recognizing them as alternate identities.
• Orleans, now a level-twenty-one Soul Master after using medicinal treasures at a cost to her future cultivation, waited to punish Xu Huxiao for his treatment of her and her unreturned feelings.
• With help from Ao Lai, Orleans arranged to be Xu Huxiao's random-match opponent and faced him in the twelfth division arena.
• Orleans and Xu Huxiao activated their Martial Souls, and Orleans declared that she had discovered his secret: self-created Soul Skills.

Xu Huxiao defeated Orleans in a Soul Battle by countering her shadow-form attacks with Revisiting the Dragon, then overcame her surprise scissor-leg grapple and forced her to surrender. After winning his morning matches, he continued his training until classes began at Spirit Hall Intermediate Soul Master Academy, where he was also set to join Spirit Hall Elite Training.

• Orleans used Flame Shadow Thrust to pass through Xu Huxiao and attack him from behind with Flame Soul Hundred Claws, but he recalled his palm force and knocked her down.
• Xu Huxiao explained how Revisiting the Dragon retained and withdrew part of its power, and Orleans pretended to concede before trapping his neck with Flame Leopard Soul-Severing Scissors.
• Xu Huxiao feinted a fall and regained his balance, disrupting Orleans's grapple; he pulled her off, threatened to strike, and made her surrender.
• Xu Huxiao won the Soul Battle and raised his Silver Fighting Soul badge score to 2,105 points.
• Xu Huxiao left the Great Soul Arena for his afternoon training and followed his training plan until Spirit Hall Intermediate Soul Master Academy began classes, preparing to participate in Spirit Hall Elite Training.

Xu Huxiao and Yun Ji arrived at Spirit Hall’s elite training island, where Borba launched a seven-day ranking challenge across the Bronze, Silver, and Gold ranks. Xu Huxiao stepped onto the Bronze arena first, determined to climb the ranks and impress the hidden observer, Pope Bibi Dong.

• Yan San, Liu Er, and Zhang Da briefly became sworn brothers before Yan San abandoned them to follow Xiao Ji’s group after receiving Gold Soul Coins.
• Xu Huxiao and Yun Ji reached the elite training island and joined the Bronze Rank students, where Xu Huxiao recognized several familiar students, including Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena.
• Borba explained the king-of-the-hill challenges, which let students advance to a higher rank after three victories and gave each rank’s champion preferential treatment.
• Xu Huxiao used the Eye of Omniscience to discover that Pope Bibi Dong was secretly watching the training session from a pavilion.
• Xu Huxiao stepped onto the Bronze arena first, intending to become the strongest in his rank and challenge the higher ranks.

Xu Huxiao revealed part of his strength during the academy’s battles, defeating Xie Yue with a powerful Self-Created Soul Skill. His display impressed the elite teachers and caught Bibi Dong’s interest, while he planned to investigate whether the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan posed a threat.

• Xu Huxiao decided that revealing his recovery, Soul Power, and Golden Dragon Palm techniques was worth the risk, and planned to check Spirit Hall’s records about the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Xie Yue challenged Xu Huxiao, hoping to gauge the difference between them after gaining his second Soul Ring.
• Xu Huxiao repelled Xie Yue’s Half Moon Slash, then defeated his Moon Wheel Gale Slash with Twin Dragons Emerge from Water, carefully withdrawing the force before it could cause serious harm.
• Xu Huxiao encouraged the discouraged Xie Yue by telling him that losing to him was normal.
• The teachers recognized Xu Huxiao’s Golden Dragon Palm as a fully developed Self-Created Soul Skill, and Bibi Dong watched with growing interest.

Xu Huxiao defeated Hu Liena and Yan after his earlier victory over Xie Yue, sweeping the Golden Generation in three consecutive Bronze Arena battles. He then challenged the Silver students, inviting them to face him on the Silver Arena.

• Hu Liena challenged Xu Huxiao, but her Red Fox Illusion Demon was destroyed by his Inner Force, and she conceded after he explained that he countered her abilities.
• Yan stepped up to fight Xu Huxiao, who knocked him from the arena with Twin Dragons Emerge from Water and left him with only minor injuries.
• Xu Huxiao completed three consecutive victories, defeating Xie Yue, Hu Liena, and Yan and leaving the teachers and students astonished by his strength.
• Xu Huxiao jumped from the Bronze Arena to the Silver Arena and announced that he would challenge the Silver students.

Xu Huxiao defeated Xu Yanran and advanced to Silver Rank, then challenged Xu Luo after provoking the Silver Rank students. Xu Luo took the stage but was immediately overwhelmed by Xu Huxiao’s attack.

• Xu Luo stirred up the Silver Rank students against Xu Huxiao, who admitted he had not been taking them seriously.
• Xu Yanran challenged Xu Huxiao, but he knocked her out of the arena with a single use of Twin Dragons Emerge from Water.
• Xu Huxiao advanced to Silver Rank and called Xu Luo onto the arena; Xiao Ji shoved Xu Luo forward, leaving him no choice but to accept.
• Xu Luo and Xu Huxiao announced their Martial Soul information and possessed their Martial Souls before the challenge began.
• Xu Luo activated his soul skills and tried to carry out his plan, but Xu Huxiao struck first and pummeled him in front of the watching students and teachers.

Xu Huxiao brutally defeated Xu Luo, then won his third Silver Arena match when Xiao Ji staged a fall to avoid fighting him. He moved on to the Gold Arena and challenged the Gold Rank students for Gold Number One.

• Xu Huxiao overwhelmed Xu Luo with punches and repeated slams until Xu Luo surrendered, then frightened the Silver Rank students into silence.
• Xu Huxiao called out Xiao Ji, who accepted the match after learning he could refuse the challenge.
• As Xu Huxiao prepared to attack, Xiao Ji pretended an invisible force threw him off the arena and claimed defeat, dropping to Bronze Rank.
• After earning three Silver Rank victories, Xu Huxiao declined to challenge for Silver Number One and leaped onto the Gold Arena.
• Xu Huxiao challenged the Gold Rank students for Gold Number One and promised not to forcibly teach them any “reason.”

Xu Huxiao waited for a Gold Rank challenger while trying to impress Bibi Dong, his teacher, and the Pope arrived in person to watch. After he publicly declared his loyalty to Spirit Hall, Bibi Dong rewarded arena victories with Gold Soul Coins and Merit, leaving the students eager to compete.

• Xu Huxiao waited on the Gold Arena, but the Gold Rank students hesitated to challenge him because they feared his Golden Dragon Palm and unknown Soul Skills.
• Bibi Dong arrived at the training grounds, stopped Xu Huxiao from kneeling, and revealed that he was her disciple.
• Bibi Dong recognized that Xu Huxiao’s second Soul Ring had reached the purple thousand-year level and praised his performance.
• Xu Huxiao declared that he would defend Spirit Hall’s glory, and the other students followed his lead in swearing loyalty to the Pope.
• Bibi Dong announced that students who won an arena match before noon would receive fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins and Merit, while those who lost would have Merit deducted.

Bibi Dong’s rewards sparked fierce arena challenges, while her spiritually tainted inspection plunged Hu Liena into despair. Xu Huxiao noticed her distress and encouraged her to reclaim her confidence, leaving her ready to fight as he challenged the students to prove their strength.

• Bibi Dong offered Merit Points and Gold Soul Coins to students who challenged Xu Huxiao, and Xiao Ji rushed onto the Bronze arena as battles began across all three ranks.
• Hu Liena felt overlooked beside Xu Huxiao and fell into a spiral of self-doubt after Bibi Dong’s spiritually tainted gaze intensified her negative emotions.
• Xu Huxiao noticed Hu Liena’s distress, used a Golden Dragon roar to draw her attention, and encouraged her to step forward bravely.
• Xu Huxiao asked whether the students wanted to fight at his side, and Hu Liena regained her resolve by deciding to fight for herself and her wish to stand beside him.
• Xu Huxiao told the Gold Rank students that anyone who wanted to team up with him would have to prove their strength, because their weakness had begun to bore him.

Xu Huxiao challenged the Gold team to send stronger opponents, prompting the Golden Seven Sons to fight him. He defeated Yang Lan, Lei Hao, and Tuoba Yong in succession, and another member of the group stepped onto the arena as Bibi Dong watched.

• The Golden Seven Sons grew angry at Xu Huxiao's provocation, and their leader, Xu Lin, approved their decision to fight.
• Bibi Dong asked Borba to introduce the Golden Seven Sons as Yang Lan entered the arena.
• Xu Huxiao defeated Yang Lan in three palm strikes, and Lei Hao took his place.
• Xu Huxiao caught and defeated Lei Hao with one palm strike.
• Tuoba Yong released his Dragon Might, but Xu Huxiao's Dragon Subduing force overwhelmed him and left him with minor internal injuries.
• Another member of the Golden Seven Sons walked onto the arena as Bibi Dong watched the challenges continue.

Xu Huxiao continued his Gold Arena streak, defeating five of the Golden Seven Sons and several other elite students while his martial arts advanced toward the Qi Intent Realm. Hu Liena also won four fights and advanced from Bronze Rank to Silver Rank, bringing her closer to fighting alongside her senior brother.

• Xu Huxiao defeated Huyan Tiexin with a throw, knee strike, and palm, then made Lei Gu concede after resisting all three of his control skills.
• After a fifteen-minute rest, Xu Huxiao received food and healing from his classmates while Hu Liena defended her Bronze Rank arena, defeated a Silver Rank opponent, and advanced to Silver Rank before withdrawing from further challenges.
• Xu Huxiao knocked Wang Ming unconscious with palm strikes and a whip kick, leaving only Xu Lin among the Golden Seven Sons.
• Xu Huxiao defeated five more Gold Rank students as they were forced to challenge him, extending his streak to fourteen victories.
• As Xu Huxiao's victories mounted, his Golden Dragon Palm Force merged more naturally with him, signaling the approach of the Qi Intent Realm.

Xu Lin challenged his cousin Xu Huxiao for the top Gold Rank position, unleashing his Flash Shadow technique after an intense exchange. Xu Huxiao overwhelmed him with his Golden Dragon force and was declared Gold Number One.

• Xu Lin entered the arena as the last Gold Rank student and faced Xu Huxiao, while Borba told Bibi Dong about Xu Lin’s abilities and self-created Soul Skill.
• Xu Lin attacked with his speed and Black Lightning Demon Blades, but Xu Huxiao read and countered his moves without using his full strength.
• Xu Lin unleashed Twin Hook Flash Shadow Kill, filling the arena with Flash Shadow clones and forcing Xu Huxiao to take the fight seriously.
• Xu Huxiao used his Golden Dragon force and Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms to destroy Xu Lin’s shadows and strike his true body.
• Xu Lin admitted defeat and fell unconscious, and the referee announced Xu Huxiao as Gold Number One.

Xu Huxiao won the Gold Number One title, earned Spirit Hall rewards, and received Bibi Dong’s personal token and praise. He secured permission to train independently, while Borba secretly considered him a threat to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Xu Huxiao finished the arena challenge undefeated, earning 1.05 million Gold Soul Coins and twenty-one Merit Points as Gold Number One.
• Bibi Dong praised Xu Huxiao and Hu Liena, gave Xu Huxiao her Personal Token, and ordered Huo Qi to classify information about both disciples as top secret.
• Xu Huxiao decided to leave the special training and arrange his own schedule, using the Pope’s token to persuade Gale and Borba to agree.
• Borba watched Xu Huxiao leave and secretly worried that his growth could endanger the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s neutral position.

Xu Huxiao searched Spirit Hall’s archives for threats connected to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and identified Borba and Lei Dao as targets to investigate. He then encountered Qian Daoliu, whose information revealed that the level 99 elder had begun experiencing dizziness and memory lapses.

• Xu Huxiao entered Spirit Hall’s Collection Pavilion with the Pope’s Order and dismissed its Self-Created Soul Skills as crude and impractical.
• Xu Huxiao read the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan dossier and learned that the clan had a hidden Titled Douluo called Black Dragon and a far-reaching network of collateral branches.
• Xu Huxiao recognized Borba in the dossier and decided to monitor him while asking his father to find the missing Lei Dao.
• Xu Huxiao encountered a gray-robed man in the archives and used the Eye of Omniscience to identify him as Qian Daoliu, a level 99 Soul Master suffering dizziness and hazy memories.

After encountering Qian Daoliu, Xu Huxiao returned home to meditate while tensions over him broke apart the girls’ team. Yun Ji then teased Hu Liena and Bao Jingjing about their feelings for Xu Huxiao, leaving both embarrassed and retreating while she imagined them marrying him together.

• Xu Huxiao wondered about Qian Daoliu’s dizziness and hazy memories, then returned home and meditated with the Soulmate Stone.
• Orleans argued with Hu Liena over Xu Huxiao and demanded that Yun Ji and Bao Jingjing take her side.
• Yun Ji and Bao Jingjing refused to choose sides, so Orleans left and declared the team disbanded.
• Yun Ji found Bao Jingjing’s notebook of recipes for Xu Huxiao and guessed that Bao Jingjing liked him.
• Yun Ji said she, Hu Liena, and Bao Jingjing could all marry Xu Huxiao, making Hu Liena and Bao Jingjing blush and withdraw.

Orleans struggled to decide whether she hated Xu Huxiao himself or his indifference, then chose to seek information so she could take revenge. After three months of training, Xu Huxiao completed the Perfect Copper Body and planned to develop Palm Force Fusion, realizing that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s Heart Separation Control could help him.

• Orleans moved into Xu Yanran’s single dorm room and told her what had happened with Xu Huxiao.
• Xu Yanran suggested Orleans might resent Xu Huxiao’s attitude rather than hate him, but Orleans chose to gather information on his movements and vent her anger.
• Over three months, Xu Huxiao trained in the Soul Arena and tempered his body until iron-rod training completed his Perfect Copper Body.
• Xu Huxiao assessed his boosted strength, then planned to begin Silver Body Tempering while refining his Soul Bone energy.
• Xu Huxiao decided to reduce his Soul Arena matches and cultivate Palm Force Fusion for the Eighteen Dragon Subduing Palms.
• Xu Huxiao realized Heart Separation Control, a secret technique of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, could help him fuse the palm forces.

Xu Huxiao explored how Ring Fusion could work with his Shrek Martial Soul, confirmed that he possessed the talent, and learned Heart Separation Control from Ning Fengyu. Two months later, he had developed automatic defenses from fused palm forces and hardening techniques, and Luo Ming told him of an auction offering a six-thousand-year left arm Soul Bone.

• Xu Huxiao reasoned that his Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda bloodline might give him Ring Fusion Talent and could let him combine the Soul Power of the Soul Beasts he controlled.
• Ning Fengyu confirmed that Xu Huxiao likely had the talent, taught him how to test it, and saw him make both Soul Rings light up at once.
• Ning Fengyu taught Xu Huxiao Heart Separation Control, and he added practicing it and Palm Force Fusion to his training schedule.
• Over two months, Xu Huxiao mastered Three-Aperture Heart of Force Control and fused two palm forces into Force Manipulation, creating automatic Force Shields alongside localized Copper Body defense.
• Luo Ming told Xu Huxiao that an auction in Spirit City would offer a damaged six-thousand-year left Arm Soul Bone, which could help him obtain his third Blood-Essence Flower.

Xu Huxiao tried to buy an incomplete Left Arm Soul Bone at auction but lost the bidding war to Orleans, who had deliberately outbid him. Afterward, Orleans taunted him and offered the Soul Bone only if he begged, while secretly intending not to sell it.

• Xu Huxiao attended a Soul Master auction with Ning Fengyu, Yun Ji, and Luo Ming to bid on an incomplete Left Arm Soul Bone.
• Bidders from the VIP rooms drove the Soul Bone's price above two million Gold Soul Coins, and Ning Fengyu warned Xu Huxiao not to overpay.
• Xu Huxiao borrowed Yun Ji's three hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins and raised his bid to two million one hundred thousand, but VIP Number Two outbid him at two million two hundred thousand.
• Xu Huxiao discovered the winning bidder was Orleans, who had deliberately competed against him after learning he would attend.
• Orleans blocked Xu Huxiao and offered to give him the Soul Bone if he begged, though her inner thoughts revealed she had no intention of selling it.