Recaps

Huang Yun bonded with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and tested its invisibility by walking unseen through Heaven Dou City’s heightened security. He then headed for Dugu Manor to steal Dugu Bo’s Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch before taking the Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Huang Yun used a drop of blood to make the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud acknowledge him as its master and learned to activate its invisibility.
• Huang Yun walked past Imperial Guards, search squads, and the city gates without being detected.
• Huang Yun decided to take the remaining Immortal Herbs and obtain Dugu Bo’s Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch so he could carry them away with their roots and soil.
• Huang Yun located Dugu Manor in Heaven Dou City’s western noble district, concealed himself, and approached the estate.

Huang Yun searched Dugu Manor for Dugu Bo’s Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch but found it was not there, then tracked Dugu Bo to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He chose to wait for an opening, planning to use the Immortal Herbs and a cure for Martial Soul Backlash Poison to gain Dugu Bo’s trust.

• Huang Yun infiltrated Dugu Manor and searched Dugu Bo’s study, but the Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch was missing.
• Huang Yun suspected Dugu Bo had brought the pouch to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and flew to Sunset Forest to investigate.
• Huang Yun spotted Dugu Bo meditating beside the well beneath a thick cloud of poisonous mist.
• Huang Yun decided not to risk stealing the pouch from Dugu Bo’s waist and instead waited for him to leave.
• Huang Yun planned to consume the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, then use his knowledge of the Martial Soul Backlash Poison to earn Dugu Bo’s trust.

Huang Yun confronted Dugu Bo at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and offered to cure the backlash poison afflicting him and Dugu Yan. The chapter ended with Dugu Bo lowering his hostility and questioning how Huang Yun knew about the poison.

• Huang Yun revealed himself at dawn and appeared in the basin before Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo confronted Huang Yun over stealing his spiritual herbs, and Huang Yun formally introduced himself and proposed a deal.
• Huang Yun claimed he could cure Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul Backlash Poison, provoking Dugu Bo to attack him.
• Huang Yun evaded Dugu Bo’s attempt to seize him and explained that he could cure both Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan.
• Dugu Bo’s anger subsided, and he asked Huang Yun how he knew about the Martial Soul backlash.

Huang Yun told Dugu Bo that the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass could cure his family’s Backlash Poison at the cost of his poison techniques. To prove his claim, Huang Yun swallowed both herbs and plunged into the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he struggled to survive their opposing forces.

• Huang Yun explained that combining the two Immortal Herbs could end Dugu Bo’s Backlash Poison but would erase his poison techniques.
• Dugu Bo agreed to watch Huang Yun test the herbs, though he warned that the medicinal power could kill him.
• Huang Yun pulled up the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, swallowed them together, and jumped into the spring.
• The herbs’ opposing energies tore through Huang Yun’s body, and he used his Soul Power and Indestructible Vajra Body to protect himself underwater.
• Dugu Bo watched the ice and fire surge around Huang Yun and wondered at the boy’s knowledge, while Huang Yun fought to keep his organs intact.

Huang Yun survived refining the infernal delicate apricot and octagonal mysterious ice grass in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, strengthening his body and gaining immunity to poison and ice and fire. He emerged at rank fifty-eight and asked Dugu Bo to discuss their deal.

• Huang Yun endured the well’s extreme heat and cold as the herbs purged and toughened his body.
• Dugu Bo watched Huang Yun survive the refinement and wondered about his mysterious background.
• The ice and fire energies settled into balance, and Huang Yun completed the refinement after several hours.
• Huang Yun gained resistance to all poisons and ice and fire, advanced his Indestructible Vajra Body, and rose from rank fifty-seven to rank fifty-eight.
• Huang Yun walked out of the well and asked Dugu Bo to discuss their deal.

After refining the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass, Huang Yun emerged naked and bald, then explained to Dugu Bo how his blood could cure the Backlash Poison. Dugu Bo agreed to let him prepare the first batch of medicine and promised a suitable sixth Spirit Ring if the cure worked, while Huang Yun chose to remain in the valley and cultivate.

• Huang Yun discovered the Immortal Herbs had burned away his clothes and hair, dressed himself, and endured Dugu Bo's teasing.
• Huang Yun explained that his blood could guide the Backlash Poison into Dugu Bo's Spirit Bones, stopping the damage without weakening his poison arts.
• Dugu Bo questioned Huang Yun's plan, then agreed to test the first batch of medicine before allowing him to leave.
• Huang Yun agreed to stay in the valley, prepare the medicine, and cultivate among its abundant herbs.
• Dugu Bo promised to hunt a suitable sixth Spirit Ring for Huang Yun if the treatment successfully resolved the Backlash Poison.

After the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was stolen from the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace, Xue Ye ordered the Golden Marshal to conceal the loss and investigate the thief in secret. Xue Ye vowed to find the boy and either make him submit or destroy him.

• The Golden Marshal reported how the thief’s Clones had restrained him and escaped with the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Xue Ye ordered the theft suppressed, declared the Shroud displayed at the Lantern Festival to be genuine, and had the guards involved reassigned across the empire.
• Xue Ye ordered a secret warrant for the thief and directed the Intelligence Bureau to search for him without alarming the public or neighboring powers.
• Xue Ye told the Golden Marshal to investigate smiths and Soul Tool workshops for anyone who had handled Dragon Crystal recently.
• After the Golden Marshal left, Xue Ye vowed to find the boy and make him submit or destroy him.

Huang Yun prepared medicine that began transferring Dugu Bo’s Backlash Poison into his Spirit Bone, earning Dugu Bo’s trust and the temporary use of the Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch. He planned to spend five months at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, cultivating and moving its Immortal Herbs elsewhere.

• Huang Yun spent three days surveying the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and made twelve pills from supplementary herbs and his blood.
• Huang Yun gave Dugu Bo the pills, and Dugu Bo swallowed one to test them.
• Dugu Bo felt the poison in his Meridians begin moving toward his Spirit Bone and accepted that Huang Yun’s medicine worked.
• Dugu Bo let Huang Yun cultivate at the well, promised to provide herbs, and lent him the Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch until he cured Dugu Bo and his granddaughter.
• Over the next half month, Huang Yun prepared more pills as Dugu Bo took one every seven days, transferring about one-tenth of the poison.
• Huang Yun estimated that curing Dugu Bo would take at least five months and planned to cultivate toward Soul Emperor while moving the Immortal Herbs from the basin.

After the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud was stolen, Heaven Dou’s Imperial Intelligence Bureau, Qian Renxue, and Ning Fengzhi searched for the masked boy, each hoping to recruit him. Ning Fengzhi learned Dai Weisi had already found the boy in Gengjin City and was blocking other factions from reaching him, while the boy remained missing.

• Xue Ye suppressed news of the theft, while the Imperial Intelligence Bureau searched for the masked boy across Heaven Dou Empire without finding a trace.
• Qian Renxue ordered Spirit Hall operatives to expand their search and planned to recruit the boy into her faction.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect personnel to investigate the boy and report his location without alerting him.
• Ning Fengzhi learned Dai Weisi had witnessed the boy fight in Gengjin City's Soul Fighting Arena, failed to recruit him, and then concealed his whereabouts from rival factions.
• Ning Fengzhi concluded the boy was likely occupied with something important and would return stronger, making sincerity and bargaining chips decisive for whoever found him first.

After five months of cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Huang Yun reached level sixty and discussed Dugu Bo’s recovery and Yan Yan’s treatment. Dugu Bo revealed that the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, Spirit Hall, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect were searching for Huang Yun, while Huang Yun began considering what Soul Beast to hunt for his sixth Spirit Ring.

• Huang Yun reached level sixty after five months of cultivation, and Dugu Bo praised his achievement at age thirteen.
• Dugu Bo confirmed that Huang Yun’s medicine had cleared his Backlash Poison and gave him the Wishful Hundred Treasure Pouch, which contained the Immortal Herbs Huang Yun had collected.
• Huang Yun offered to treat Yan Yan’s Backlash Poison, and Dugu Bo agreed to bring her to the well and continue searching for a suitable Spirit Bone.
• Dugu Bo told Huang Yun that the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, Spirit Hall, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect were searching for him, but promised to keep his location secret.
• Dugu Bo offered to help Huang Yun hunt for a sixth Spirit Ring, and Huang Yun said he first needed to decide what kind of Soul Beast would suit him.

Huang Yun chose a fifty-thousand-year Thunder Roc as his sixth Spirit Ring to gain a control domain and greater speed, then traveled with Dugu Bo to the ancient Thunderclap Ruins in Sunset Forest. Dugu Bo drew the Thunder Roc out of the thunderclouds, and Huang Yun prepared to attack as the hunt began.

• Huang Yun studied Soul Beast records and found a fragment describing a fifty-thousand-year Thunder Roc with a Thunderstorm Domain and exceptional speed.
• Huang Yun asked Dugu Bo to help him hunt the Thunder Roc, and Dugu Bo agreed after hearing that Huang Yun believed he could withstand its Spirit Ring.
• Dugu Bo told Huang Yun about a Thunder Roc nesting in the ancient Thunderclap Ruins deep in Sunset Forest, and they left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well at once.
• Dugu Bo led Huang Yun through a hidden passage behind a waterfall into the ruins, where they sensed the Thunder Roc in the storm clouds above.
• Dugu Bo entered the clouds and drew the Thunder Roc down, while Huang Yun waited below with his Dragon Fang Knuckle Duster ready.

Huang Yun and Dugu Bo fought the Thunder Roc, and Huang Yun killed it with a precise strike during its flight. He absorbed its fifty-thousand-year Spirit Ring, evolved his Lightning Falcon into the Thunder Roc Falcon, and claimed it had reached roughly Demigod Rank.

• Dugu Bo struggled to hit the fast Thunder Roc while Huang Yun watched for a pattern in its flight.
• Huang Yun unleashed his Thundercloud Domain and used Lightning, Teleportation, Dragon Shadow Flash, and Clones to ambush the Thunder Roc.
• Huang Yun pierced the weak spot beneath the Thunder Roc’s neck with his Dragon Fang Knuckle Duster, killing it.
• Dugu Bo praised Huang Yun’s decisive attack as the Thunder Roc’s black Spirit Ring rose from its corpse.
• Huang Yun absorbed the fifty-thousand-year Spirit Ring and endured the violent energy as his Martial Soul transformed.
• Huang Yun told Dugu Bo that his Lightning Falcon had evolved into the Thunder Roc Falcon, with quality around Demigod Rank.

After evolving his Thunder Roc Falcon and reaching rank sixty-three, Huang Yun tested his new Sixth Spirit Ability, Thunder Prison, with Dugu Bo. Dugu Bo approved of its range and suppressive power, and they prepared to leave the Thunderclap Ruins after Huang Yun collected the Thunder Roc's remains.

• Dugu Bo asked about Huang Yun's evolved martial soul and learned that Huang Yun had reached rank sixty-three.
• Huang Yun explained that Thunder Prison created a lightning field with a twelve-hundred-meter radius that paralyzed and suppressed its targets.
• Huang Yun activated Thunder Prison across the courtyard, and Dugu Bo tested its effects before asking him to withdraw it.
• Dugu Bo praised the ability's power and said it could become more formidable when combined with Huang Yun's thunderclouds.
• Huang Yun summoned twenty clones, cut up the Thunder Roc Bird's corpse for his Storage Ring, and startled Dugu Bo with the total of twenty-one figures.

Huang Yun and Dugu Bo searched for a Ten-Thousand-Year Man Faced Demon Spider so Dugu Bo could prepare a Spirit Bone for Sister Yan. Huang Yun found a powerful Man Faced Demon Spider King and tested Thunder Prison on it, leaving the Spider King paralyzed and overwhelmed by the field.

• Huang Yun showed Dugu Bo that his evolved Martial Soul let him summon twenty-one clones, which had dismantled the Thunder Roc's corpse.
• Dugu Bo asked Huang Yun to help find a Ten-Thousand-Year Man Faced Demon Spider, and Huang Yun agreed to test Thunder Prison in combat.
• Huang Yun sent twenty clones through the forest and located a Man Faced Demon Spider King estimated to be over twenty thousand years old in an eastern swamp.
• Huang Yun asked Dugu Bo to let him test Thunder Prison, then expanded the field across the swamp and killed more than a dozen smaller Man Faced Demon Spiders.
• Thunder Prison paralyzed and slowed the Spider King, while its venomous silk burned away before reaching Huang Yun.

Huang Yun and Dugu Bo killed the Man Faced Demon Spider King and found a rare growth-type Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone. They returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with plans to bring Dugu Yan there the next day so she could receive the bone and be detoxified.

• Huang Yun suppressed the Man Faced Demon Spider King with his Thunder Prison until Dugu Bo could kill it.
• Dugu Bo found a Twenty-Thousand-Year Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone on the beast's corpse, and Huang Yun explained that it could grow and be attached to Dugu Yan's back.
• Huang Yun collected the spider's useful remains and eggshell fragments while Dugu Bo examined the Spirit Bone.
• Dugu Bo said he would bring Dugu Yan from Heaven Dou Royal Academy the next day, and he and Huang Yun flew back to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Huang Yun sorted the collected materials while Dugu Bo studied the Eight Spider Lances and Huang Yun prepared for Dugu Yan's arrival.

Dugu Bo arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy to take Dugu Yan away for treatment, telling her he had found a way to cure her Backlash Poison. After saying goodbye to Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan left with her grandfather to meet the person who could save her life.

• Dugu Yan watched the students train while suffering from the effects of Backlash Poison, and Ye Lingling noticed her worsening condition.
• Dugu Bo arrived at the academy and told Dugu Yan he had arranged a leave so he could take her somewhere to cure her poison.
• Dugu Yan agreed to leave for six months to a year after hearing her grandfather's explanation.
• Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling she was leaving, and Ye Lingling encouraged her to go and promised they could team up again before the tournament.
• Dugu Bo led Dugu Yan away, saying he was taking her to meet someone who could save her life.

Dugu Bo brought Dugu Yan to meet Huang Yun, who would treat her illness. Before beginning detoxification, Dugu Yan absorbed the Eight Spider Lances Spirit Bone and, with Dugu Bo’s help, achieved a perfect fusion with it; Huang Yun then prepared to begin her detoxification.

• Dugu Yan questioned whether thirteen-year-old Huang Yun could cure her, and Dugu Bo assured her that he had cured his Backlash Poison.
• Dugu Bo gave Dugu Yan the twenty-thousand-year Eight Spider Lances External Soul Bone and told her to absorb it before treatment.
• Dugu Yan fused the Spirit Bone with her body and manifested eight spider lances, but sensed that they had not fully merged with her.
• Huang Yun explained that external pressure could complete the fusion, and Dugu Bo gradually pressed Soul Power against Dugu Yan’s back.
• Dugu Yan achieved perfect fusion, thanked Huang Yun, and prepared to begin detoxification.

Dugu Yan challenged Huang Yun to a spar and discovered that he could evade all her attacks and was immune to her poison. Shaken by the gap between them, she began training harder while Huang Yun continued helping her recover at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Dugu Yan challenged Huang Yun to spar after spending half a month recovering at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Huang Yun calmly evaded Dugu Yan's attacks and tapped her back before she could react.
• Dugu Yan unleashed her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison, but Huang Yun remained unharmed and revealed his immunity to all poisons.
• Dugu Yan recognized Huang Yun's overwhelming superiority and asked whether Yu Tianheng could defeat him; Huang Yun said he could not.
• Dugu Yan began training harder, while Huang Yun continued preparing medicine and monitoring her recovery.

Shrek Academy defeated the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team in Suotuo City's Great Soul Arena, leaving Yu Tianheng and his teammates lamenting Dugu Yan's absence. As Shrek celebrated, Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing reflected on Huang Yun and resolved to grow stronger before they met him again.

• Shrek Academy's coordinated tactics overwhelmed the Heaven Dou Royal Academy Team, and Yu Tianheng collapsed before the referee declared Shrek the winner.
• The Heaven Dou Team blamed Dugu Yan's absence for the loss, and Yu Tianheng said they would challenge Shrek again when she returned.
• Flender warned the celebrating Shrek students not to underestimate their opponents, while Xiao Wu praised Tang San's performance.
• Dai Mubai recalled Huang Yun defeating him with Raikiri and vowed not to lose when they met again.
• Zhu Zhuqing remembered Huang Yun rescuing her and hoped to become strong enough to stand beside him when they reunited.

After a year of cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Huang Yun reached level sixty-eight while Dugu Yan cleansed her Backlash Poison and strengthened her Eight Spider Lances. They confessed their feelings and spent the night together, and Huang Yun prepared to leave the basin the next morning, intending to return often.

• Huang Yun advanced from level sixty-three to level sixty-eight, while Dugu Yan reached the late stages of the Four-Ring Soul Ancestor realm and fused her Backlash Poison into the Eight Spider Lances.
• Dugu Yan showed Huang Yun the Eight Spider Lances' newly fused poison, and he praised its ability to threaten even a Titled Douluo.
• Dugu Yan asked whether Huang Yun minded that she was eight years older, and he assured her that age was only a number to cultivators.
• As they prepared to part, Dugu Yan asked Huang Yun to stay with her for one night, and he agreed.
• Huang Yun and Dugu Yan spent the night together after sharing memories and confirming their feelings.
• The next morning, Huang Yun left Dugu Yan sleeping and decided it was time to depart, though he planned to return often.

Huang Yun left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to travel, while Dugu Yan prepared to return to Heaven Dou Royal Academy after a year away. As Dugu Bo brought her toward Heaven Dou City, she held onto the medicine Huang Yun had left her and trusted that he would return.

• Huang Yun left the basin before Dugu Yan got up, and she dressed after confirming he was gone.
• Dugu Bo returned and teased Dugu Yan about Huang Yun, then agreed to take her back to the academy.
• Dugu Yan told Dugu Bo that she planned to return because the Advanced Soul Master Elite Tournament was approaching.
• Dugu Bo asked how far Dugu Yan and Huang Yun's relationship had progressed, and she admitted it was deep.
• Dugu Yan clutched the jade bottle Huang Yun had left her as Dugu Bo flew her toward Heaven Dou City.

Huang Yun consumed the Aromatic Silk Beauty in a secluded valley, evolving his Thunder Roc Falcon into the divine-rank Thunder Kunpeng and advancing to level 71. He gained a hundred-thousand-year innate spirit ring and the Thunder God Domain, then began planning his next steps.

• Huang Yun settled in a secluded valley and swallowed the Aromatic Silk Beauty to strengthen his martial soul.
• The herb transformed the Thunder Roc Falcon's origin into the divine-rank Thunder Kunpeng and greatly increased Huang Yun's physical and soul power.
• Huang Yun's soul power surged to level seventy, and a hundred-thousand-year innate spirit ring formed from the Thunder Kunpeng's bloodline.
• Huang Yun learned his seventh spirit skill, Thunder Kunpeng True Body, and awakened the Thunder God Domain.
• Huang Yun's soul power settled at level seventy-one, and he withdrew his spirit rings before considering his path ahead.

Huang Yun encountered a Clear Sky Sect Soul Douluo torturing a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast for its Spirit Bone and demanded it as compensation for a near-miss hammer strike. After Huang Yun threatened to report him to Spirit Hall, the Soul Douluo attacked with his strongest skill.

• Huang Yun narrowly dodged a Clear Sky Hammer strike that blasted apart a hill.
• Huang Yun used the Thunder Kunpeng Eyes to spot a Clear Sky Sect Soul Douluo beside a tortured Soul Beast and a forming Spirit Bone.
• Huang Yun demanded the Spirit Bone as an apology, but the Soul Douluo mocked him and invoked the Clear Sky Sect's reputation.
• Huang Yun called the man a sect outlaw and threatened to report his actions to Spirit Hall.
• The Soul Douluo activated his eighth Soul Skill, Clear Sky Suppresses the Mountain, and brought his giant hammer down toward Huang Yun.

Huang Yun used his evolved Thunder Kunpeng powers to kill a Clear Sky Sect Soul Douluo who had attacked him. After collecting the dead man’s valuables and the remains of a fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast, he flew westward.

• Huang Yun evaded the Clear Sky Sect Soul Douluo’s hammer strike and revealed his seventh Spirit Ring was a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring.
• Huang Yun activated his Thunder Kunpeng True Body and three domains, trapping and weakening the Soul Douluo in an ocean of lightning.
• Huang Yun overwhelmed the Soul Douluo with rapid attacks, then pierced his heart with heavenly lightning and killed him.
• Huang Yun collected the Soul Douluo’s fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone, Storage Ring, and Soul Beast materials, then burned the corpse.
• Huang Yun used thirty Clones to carve up and store the fifty-thousand-year Soul Beast corpse before flying westward.

Huang Yun returned to Suotuo City as a fourteen-year-old Level-71 Soul Sage and learned that Shrek Academy might disband because it lacked official accreditation. As he considered visiting Shrek and meeting Zhu Zhuqing again, Flender gathered the teachers and students to discuss their future.

• Huang Yun entered Suotuo City and saw posters celebrating Shrek Team's victory over the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Huang Yun wandered through the city and heard rumors that Flender's conflict with the Balak royal family could force Shrek Academy to relocate or disband.
• Huang Yun recalled Shrek's likely crisis, wondered how Zhu Zhuqing had fared, and considered visiting the academy.
• Flender met with the teachers and seven students in his office, where they faced a serious discussion about the academy's future.