Recaps

Huang Yun accepted Ge Long’s challenge to spar in three days, after receiving an honorary appointment to the Heaven Dou Empire’s education committee and the title of Champion Marquis. Back at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, he reassured Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan that he knew how to handle the fight, then spent the night with Dugu Yan.

• Ge Long challenged Huang Yun to spar at Emperor Academy’s training grounds, and Huang Yun accepted.
• Xue Ye’s personal guard told Huang Yun that the emperor and court officials would attend the match in three days.
• Huang Yun returned to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and considered how his new titles would make other powers view him as an ally of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan warned Huang Yun about Ge Long’s strength and battlefield experience, while Huang Yun said he would avoid making Ge Long’s defeat too humiliating.
• Dugu Yan asked whether Huang Yun was confident, and he said he was before she stayed with him for the night.

Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall to watch Huang Yun and assassinate him if he left the Heaven Dou Empire, while the Star Luo Empire decided to recruit him. The Star Luo court betrothed Zhu Zhuyun to Dai Mubai and exiled Dai Weisi, as Huang Yun remained at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, unaware of the powers’ plans before his fight with Ge Long.

• Bibi Dong learned that Huang Yun had become the Heaven Dou Empire’s Champion Marquis and ordered Spirit Hall’s agents to track him and kill him if he crossed the empire’s borders.
• Gui Mei reported that Tang Hao might have been nearby during the canyon battle, but Bibi Dong set the matter aside and ordered an investigation into Huang Yun’s ties to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Dai Mubai told the Star Luo Emperor that Zhu Zhuqing had given her heart to Huang Yun, and the Emperor accepted her choice while deciding to recruit Huang Yun for the empire.
• The Star Luo Emperor betrothed Zhu Zhuyun to Dai Mubai and sentenced Dai Weisi to live in a remote northern fief for the rest of his life.
• Dai Mubai left court with Zhu Zhuyun, while Huang Yun stayed at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with three days remaining before his fight with Ge Long.

Huang Yun fought Ge Long in a friendly match at Emperor Academy, revealing overwhelming speed, strength, and defense as he countered the General’s attacks. The battle continued as Ge Long unleashed his sixth soul skill and charged Huang Yun as a massive dark-red shock wave.

• The Emperor Academy arena filled with officials, faction representatives, and academy members as Huang Yun and Ge Long prepared to fight.
• Ge Long opened with rapid punches and a powerful second soul skill, while Huang Yun dodged and blocked his attacks with a lightning shield and swift movement.
• Ge Long used his Yazi possession and Blood Claws, but Huang Yun countered with his Dragon Fang Knuckle Duster and Raikiri, cutting through Ge Long’s scales and forcing him back.
• Ge Long unleashed his fifth soul skill, but Huang Yun stood unmoved as his Indestructible Vajra Body deflected the blood-colored blades.
• Ge Long activated his sixth soul skill and transformed into a massive dark-red shock wave charging straight at Huang Yun.

Huang Yun defeated Ge Long in a public duel without using his Martial Soul Avatar or his full strength, leaving the gathering stunned by his power. After Emperor Xue Ye praised him, Huang Yun turned his attention to the Far North Ice Plains and the Second Trial awaiting him.

• Ge Long transformed with his Seventh Spirit Skill and launched his strongest attack, but Huang Yun summoned lightning that shattered the assault and brought Ge Long down.
• Ge Long admitted defeat, while Dugu Bo, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong recognized that Huang Yun had held back to preserve the general’s dignity.
• Flender, Liu Erlong, Yu Xiaogang, and the Shrek students reacted to Huang Yun’s overwhelming strength as the gathering applauded his victory.
• Emperor Xue Ye praised Huang Yun and departed with Ge Long, and Ning Rongrong, Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Yan met Huang Yun outside the training grounds.
• Huang Yun acknowledged that he had held back and focused on his next destination, the Far North Ice Plains, where the Second Trial awaited him.

After defeating Ge Long, Huang Yun told Ning Fengzhi he was leaving to undertake his second divine trial, then flew toward the Far North. Spirit Hall sent Nihuang Douluo and a squad of Soul Douluos to intercept him, and the chapter ended as Huang Yun unleashed his Thunder Kunpeng True Body and heavenly lightning against them.

• Huang Yun warned Ning Fengzhi that he would be away for about a year to continue his divine trials, but Ning Fengzhi kept their employment agreement in place and promised to protect Rongrong and Zhuqing.
• Bibi Dong learned that Huang Yun was heading north and ordered Nihuang Douluo to kill him before he could complete another trial.
• Huang Yun flew into the Far North and sensed Nihuang Douluo leading a group of flying Soul Douluos after him.
• Nihuang Douluo demanded that Huang Yun submit or join Spirit Hall, but Huang Yun rejected her and said his tie to Heaven Dou was only employment.
• Huang Yun summoned his Thunder Kunpeng Martial Soul Avatar, and Nihuang Douluo ordered her squad to scatter as heavenly lightning crashed down.

Huang Yun escaped Spirit Hall’s interception and continued into the Far North to reach the site of his Second Divine Test. The Snow Empress and Ice Empress confronted him over his divine beast aura, then let him pass and followed him.

• Nihuang Douluo used her eighth Soul Skill to revive her wounded subordinates, but stopped them from pursuing Huang Yun into the Far North.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress sensed Huang Yun’s divine beast pressure and flew to investigate.
• Huang Yun dismissed his Thunder Kunpeng form and headed toward the ancient ruins, intent on completing his Second Trial.
• The Snow Empress and Ice Empress blocked Huang Yun and demanded an explanation for the disturbance.
• Huang Yun revealed his Divine Test and released the Kunpeng’s divine might, convincing the two empresses to let him pass while they followed.

Huang Yun entered the Thunder Abyss for his Second Trial and began tempering his body with its ancient lightning and extreme cold. As half a year passed, the Ice and Snow Empresses cultivated nearby, learning to absorb the gentler Thunder Breath and growing closer to him.

• Huang Yun found the entrance to the Thunder Abyss in the Far North and began his year-long Second Trial while the Ice and Snow Empresses waited outside.
• Huang Yun descended into the underground Ice Abyss and sat beside the Thunder Pillar, letting its lightning temper his body and awaken his Thunder Kunpeng bloodline.
• Huang Yun periodically rested on the Ice Platforms, while the Ice and Snow Empresses gradually moved closer to the Thunder Abyss to cultivate with its escaping Thunder Breath.
• The Ice and Snow Empresses learned to blend Thunder Breath with their power of ice and snow, discovering a subtle resonance between the two forces.
• The Snow Empress left Huang Yun ten-thousand-year cold ice marrow, and the Ice Empress asked how he controlled heavenly thunder; Huang Yun said it was the Thunder Kunpeng's innate talent.

Huang Yun completed a year of training in the Thunder Abyss, strengthening his body and raising his soul power to the threshold of level eighty. Ice Empress and Snow Empress developed ice thunder and accepted him as a human friend, while Huang Yun prepared to break through to Soul Douluo.

• Huang Yun endured a three-day thunder tide in the Thunder Abyss, then recovered while Ice Empress teased him about losing his hair and Snow Empress watched with quiet amusement.
• Ice Empress mastered ice thunder in the sixth month, and Snow Empress achieved a purer form of the power a month later.
• Snow Empress gave Huang Yun ten-thousand-year cold ice marrow, and she and Ice Empress thanked him for helping them benefit from the Thunder Abyss.
• Huang Yun endured three increasingly fierce thunder tides over the year, advancing his Indestructible Vajra Body and raising his soul power from level seventy-five to the threshold of level eighty.
• At the end of the year, Huang Yun emerged from the Thunder Abyss, and Snow Empress recognized that he was about to break through as he began stabilizing his soul power on the ice platform.

Huang Yun broke through to level eighty and received the Thunder Abyss Divine Test's Second Trial rewards, including a hundred-thousand-year mental head spirit bone and strengthened spirit rings and bones. He learned that the Third Trial required him to hunt a lightning-attribute soul beast over a hundred thousand years old, then left the Far North after bidding farewell to the Ice Empress and Snow Empress.

• Huang Yun used the Ancient Thunder God's remaining Thunder Abyss Origin to break through from level seventy-nine to level eighty, becoming a Soul Douluo.
• Huang Yun received a hundred-thousand-year mental head spirit bone and the Second Trial reward that increased the age of all his spirit bones and spirit rings by fifty thousand years.
• The Divine Test declared the Second Trial complete and set the Third Trial's objective: Huang Yun had to hunt and kill a lightning-attribute soul beast over a hundred thousand years old and absorb its spirit ring and spirit bone.
• Huang Yun told the Ice Empress and Snow Empress that he had reached level eighty and said he was leaving the Far North.
• Huang Yun flew away toward the edge of the Far North as the Ice Empress and Snow Empress watched him go.

One year after Huang Yun vanished while pursuing a Divine Test, leaders across the continent remained uncertain of his fate. Spirit Hall stopped searching for him and focused on completing its plan to seize the Heaven Dou Empire, while Bibi Dong expected Huang Yun to return and planned to make him submit or disappear.

• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin discussed Huang Yun's year-long disappearance and noted that Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing were waiting for his return.
• At Shrek Academy, Flender, Zhao Wuji, and Yu Xiaogang discussed Huang Yun's absence and the extraordinary strength and spirit rings he had revealed.
• Xue Ye and Ge Long found no new information about Huang Yun, then discussed the Crown Prince's apparently normal conduct.
• Xue Qinghe read a report on Huang Yun's disappearance, hid it, and followed Qian Daoliu's order to remain undercover.
• Bibi Dong accepted Nihuang Douluo's failure to find Huang Yun, recalled the search teams, and ordered Spirit Hall to advance the Nation-Stealing Plan at full strength.

Huang Yun and Chen Xin each summoned their true body and began a fierce duel in the valley. Huang Yun held his own against Chen Xin’s probing attacks, while the onlookers realized how powerful he was even without an eighth soul ring.

• Huang Yun summoned his Thunder Kunpeng True Body, and its pressure frightened Zhu Zhuqing’s Nether Civet and Gu Rong’s Bone Dragon.
• Chen Xin summoned his Seven Kill True Body and challenged Huang Yun to a serious fight.
• Chen Xin’s opening sword strike forced Huang Yun to defend with Raikiri, and their collision sent both fighters back.
• Huang Yun launched a rapid assault, and Chen Xin parried, countered, and exchanged blows with him across the valley floor.
• Gu Rong judged Huang Yun to be at least as strong as himself and warned that Spirit Hall might react once Huang Yun gained his eighth soul ring.