Recaps

After Gu Yuena revealed that her Mental Power had reached the Spirit Abyss Realm, Tang Wuling was shaken but refused to accept her restraint. Qi Ji considered seeking a powerful Soul Spirit in the Dragon Tomb and left Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena anticipating a surprise at the finals.

• Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena earned high praise in the forging and mecha design competitions, respectively.
• Gu Yuena told Tang Wuling that her Mental Power had reached the Spirit Abyss Realm, and Tang Wuling bristled when Gu Yuena said she would not use it against her.
• Qi Ji reflected on his own Mental Power and considered entering the Dragon Tomb at level fifty to seek the Dragon God as a Soul Spirit.
• Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena said they expected to reach the finals, and Tang Wuling resolved to ask Tang San to unlock more of the Golden Dragon King's seal.
• Qi Ji told Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena that he would give them both a surprise when the finals arrived.

Qi Ji interrupted the Skysea Alliance Grand Tournament finals to challenge the young geniuses, replacing the expected match between Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena with a fight against himself. Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena entered the arena together to face him.

• Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena wondered what surprise Qi Ji had promised them.
• The tournament reached its finals after the Eastsea Academy Class Zero students were eliminated, and Xu Xiaoyan revealed through the narration that she had accepted Qi Ji's offer to train under him.
• Qi Ji hijacked the gymnasium screens and declared that anyone who wanted to prove themselves had to get past him first.
• Qi Ji appeared in the arena, and Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena agreed to face him together despite their doubts and bickering.
• Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena stepped onto the arena from opposite sides as the crowd watched Qi Ji.

Qi Ji intervened in the final and challenged Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena to fight him together. After his appeal, the rivals agreed to work as a team, and Qi Ji prepared to face them.

• Qi Ji stepped onto the arena and said he would play the villain so Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena would have to cooperate.
• Qi Ji urged Tang Wuling to set aside her dislike of Gu Yuena and explained that people at the top needed companions who could stand beside them.
• Gu Yuena decided she wanted to support Qi Ji’s future as the Dragon Clan’s crown prince and offered Tang Wuling her hand.
• Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena shook hands and stood side by side, agreeing to fight together despite their lingering tension.
• Qi Ji welcomed the two rivals as they prepared to challenge him, and the crowd cheered at the unexpected two-on-one final.

Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena faced Qi Ji in the final battle, but his overwhelming power and relentless attacks left them unable to keep up. As Tang Wuling lay injured, Gu Yuena began merging their Golden and Silver Dragon King origins to use a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Qi Ji summoned his Nine-Tassel Crown as Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena divided their roles, with Tang Wuling taking the attack and Gu Yuena seeking an opening.
• Tang Wuling charged Qi Ji under her Golden Dragon enhancements while Gu Yuena tried to control the battlefield with gravity, but Qi Ji countered with his Mountain Suppression Domain.
• Qi Ji struck Tang Wuling with his Dragon God Spear, then endured Gu Yuena's light and darkness attacks while healing himself and advancing.
• Tang Wuling's Invincible Golden Body ran out after its third use, and Qi Ji's spear sent her flying; Gu Yuena opened a portal to catch and return her.
• With Tang Wuling injured and the pair unable to defeat Qi Ji, Gu Yuena embraced her and began merging their origins for a Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Gu Yuena and Tang Wuling fused into a powerful Dragon God form to fight Qi Ji, but their imperfect compatibility let him find and shatter its weakness. Qi Ji won the decisive battle at Skysea Gymnasium, while Gu Yuena and Tang Wuling collapsed unconscious.

• Tang Wuling accepted the Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Gu Yuena fused their powers into a nine-colored Dragon God form.
• Gu Yuena attacked with nine-colored elemental power, but Qi Ji advanced through the barrage and restrained her with Binding Law.
• Qi Ji overpowered Gu Yuena in a clash of spears and spotted a crack in her battle armor with Breaking Delusion.
• Qi Ji struck the armor's weakness and forcibly dismantled the fusion, causing Gu Yuena and Tang Wuling to fall unconscious.
• The gymnasium erupted in cheers as Qi Ji was declared the winner.

After two and a half years of cultivation, Qi Ji broke through to level fifty and became a Soul King. He asked Chen Xinjie to negotiate with the Tang Sect so he could enter the Dragon Tomb and seek a Dragon King-level Dragon Soul as his second Soul Spirit.

• Qi Ji broke through his level-forty-nine bottleneck after two and a half years and reached level fifty.
• Qi Ji lamented that Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena had become Soul Ancestors without suffering the cultivation slowdown that afflicted him.
• Qi Ji decided to pursue his plan to find a Dragon King-level Dragon Soul in the Dragon Tomb as his second Soul Spirit.
• Qi Ji called Chen Xinjie and asked him to help arrange access to the Tang Sect's secret realm.
• Chen Xinjie agreed to speak with Passionate Douluo, and Qi Ji waited for news while planning his next steps.

Qi Ji emerged from seclusion after two and a half years and considered how the Dragon Tomb could help him break through Rank 50. He reviewed the former Class Zero students’ progress and was left facing the prospect of Tang Wuling and Gu Yuena catching up to him.

• Qi Ji decided that he needed to enter the Tang Sect-controlled Dragon Tomb to find a powerful second Soul Spirit and advance his cultivation.
• Qi Ji had arranged for the former Class Zero students to transfer to Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineering Academy as exchange students, with his side taking responsibility for their training.
• Xu Xiaoyan’s martial soul evolved into a pure Star Staff after Qi Ji helped her cultivate, while Xie Xie pushed himself to Rank 36 and awaited a breakthrough.
• Wu Changkong advanced from Rank 69 to Rank 82 in two and a half years after resolving his inner knot.
• Tang Wuling reached Rank 47, and Gu Yuena kept pace with him, leaving Qi Ji worried that they would soon catch up to his rank.

Qi Ji emerged from seclusion and reunited with Tang Wuling, Gu Yuena, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie, discussing his upcoming visit to the Tang Sect’s Dragon Clan secret realm. He reassured Xie Xie that his potential would eventually emerge, and left him hopeful that the Dragon Tomb might provide the opportunity he needed.

• Tang Wuling congratulated Qi Ji on completing his seclusion and joked that she still had not caught up to him.
• Gu Yuena congratulated Qi Ji and asked about the Dragon Clan secret realm; Qi Ji said it was controlled by the Tang Sect and offered to call her while he stayed there.
• Xu Xiaoyan congratulated Qi Ji, and he praised her control abilities while patting her head.
• Xie Xie worried that he was useless compared with the talented people around him, and Qi Ji reassured him that he would eventually reach his potential.
• Qi Ji considered the Dragon Tomb a possible opportunity for Xie Xie to develop his Space-Time Sacred Dragon Martial Soul.

Qi Ji learned that the Tang Sect would let him enter the Dragon Tomb if he met its vice sect master, Zang Xin. With Chen Xinjie reassuring him and promising his support, Qi Ji agreed to go without bringing a gift.

• Qi Ji received Chen Xinjie's call and asked whether the Tang Sect had agreed to let him enter the Dragon Tomb.
• Chen Xinjie said the Tang Sect had agreed on the condition that Zang Xin meet Qi Ji.
• Qi Ji wondered why Zang Xin wanted to see him and worried the Demigod might harbor hostility toward him.
• Chen Xinjie said Zang Xin was likely curious about Qi Ji and assured him that the vice sect master would not mistreat a junior.
• Qi Ji asked whether he should bring a gift, and Chen Xinjie told him to go empty-handed because Zang Xin had requested the meeting.

Qi Ji traveled alone to the Tang Sect in Heaven Dou City and met with its vice sect master, Zang Xin. The chapter ended as Qi Ji recognized the kindly man who had been waiting for him.

• Qi Ji reflected on the Tang Sect’s underground network, the Body Sect’s decline, and why he had chosen not to pursue the Body Sect’s methods.
• Qi Ji disguised himself as an ordinary tourist and traveled to the Tang Sect’s famous mountain gate in Heaven Dou City.
• Qi Ji left the public path and reached the Tang Sect’s internal entrance, where the receptionist recognized him and said the vice sect master was waiting.
• Qi Ji entered a private room and met a white-robed man who welcomed him warmly.
• Qi Ji identified the man as Passionate Douluo Zang Xin.

Qi Ji met Zang Xin, the Tang Sect’s leader, who learned that Qi Ji had once hoped to join the sect and regretted that it had failed to recruit him. Zang Xin gave Qi Ji a ten-thousand-year Wangchuan Qiushui Dew to win his goodwill, and Qi Ji accepted it.

• Qi Ji remained composed and praised Zang Xin while privately weighing the Tang Sect leader’s intentions.
• Qi Ji told Zang Xin he had once planned to join the Tang Sect but had not been recruited by one of its Titled Douluo.
• Zang Xin sensed that Qi Ji was telling the truth and regretted that the Tang Sect had missed such a promising genius.
• Zang Xin presented Qi Ji with a ten-thousand-year Wangchuan Qiushui Dew suited to improving his Mental Power.
• Qi Ji thanked Zang Xin and accepted the immortal herb, while Zang Xin hoped the gift would secure his goodwill.

Qi Ji secured permission from Zang Xin to enter the Dragon Tomb and bring Xie Xie, then returned to his hotel and began cultivating with Wangchuan Qiushui Dew. He left the chapter striving to break through to the Spirit Abyss Realm.

• Qi Ji and Zang Xin discussed Tang Sect and the continent, and Zang Xin agreed to let Qi Ji enter the Dragon Tomb with Xie Xie.
• Qi Ji returned to his hotel and reflected on Cao Dezhi, the plane of Douluo Continent, and his need to grow strong enough to confront Tang Hao and Ah Yin.
• Qi Ji took Wangchuan Qiushui Dew from his Storage Soul Tool and drank it.
• Qi Ji sat down to cultivate, guiding his Soul Power and the herb's medicinal power toward the Spirit Abyss Realm as the barrier before him began to loosen.

Qi Ji and Xie Xie sailed aboard a Tang Sect ferry toward Star Luo Continent, where Qi Ji planned to visit Dragon Tomb. Their conversation hinted at Xie Xie's future role as Qi Ji's shadow guard, while Qi Ji reflected on the loneliness and losses that might lie ahead.

• Qi Ji boarded a Tang Sect ship for Star Luo Continent with Xie Xie as his only companion, leaving Xu Xiaoyan, Gu Yuena, and Tang Wuling behind in Mingdu.
• Xie Xie nervously joked that Qi Ji might take advantage of their being alone, and Qi Ji knocked him on the head and threatened to send him back in a lifeboat.
• Qi Ji compared Xie Xie to Lu Mingfei and teased him with references Xie Xie did not understand.
• Qi Ji told Xie Xie that bringing him instead of a girl meant something important was happening and suggested he would often be alone with him in the future.
• Xie Xie said he would stick with Qi Ji, and Qi Ji told him he was very strong before turning his gaze toward the sea.

Qi Ji and Xie Xie traveled by ship to Star Luo Continent, where Wu Siduo confronted Qi Ji and challenged him. Wu Siduo explained that she had left for Star Luo because Shrek Academy lacked a strongest student like Qi Ji.

• Qi Ji meditated aboard the ship and woke Xie Xie for lunch.
• Qi Ji searched the crowded restaurant with his Spirit Abyss Realm Mental Power and found an empty table by the window.
• Wu Siduo reached the table at nearly the same time and challenged Qi Ji despite knowing their strength gap.
• Wu Siduo introduced herself as a twelve-year-old Rank 42 Soul Ancestor and the tenth-ranked genius on the Young Genius Rankings.
• Wu Siduo said she was traveling to Star Luo because Shrek had no strongest student like Qi Ji.

Qi Ji agreed to Wu Siduo's request for a challenge after dinner, while Xie Xie worried that she would be crushed by the gap in their strength. Qi Ji used the moment to make Xie Xie feel responsible for being too weak to protect him from challengers, leaving Xie Xie determined to remember his weakness.

• Qi Ji reflected that his influence had made talented youths like Wu Siduo less eager to enter Shrek Academy.
• Xie Xie returned with food, recognized Wu Siduo from the Young Genius Rankings, and asked why she was with Qi Ji.
• Wu Siduo declared that she wanted to challenge Qi Ji, and Xie Xie questioned her decision because of Qi Ji's overwhelming strength.
• Qi Ji accepted Wu Siduo's challenge and said they would fight after he finished eating.
• Qi Ji told Xie Xie that he had to accept challenges because Xie Xie could not fend them off, prompting Xie Xie to blame his weakness.
• Qi Ji urged Xie Xie to remember that feeling and said he would one day soar into the sky.

Qi Ji fought Wu Siduo in the ship's arena and easily broke apart her Hell White Tiger Martial Soul Fusion Skill. Afterward, he touched her chest, then used his Mental Power to knock her unconscious, leaving her collapsed on the stage.

• Qi Ji led Xie Xie and Wu Siduo to the ship's arena, where passengers gathered to watch their duel.
• Wu Siduo summoned her Hell White Tiger and charged Qi Ji with its overwhelming strength.
• Qi Ji stopped the Hell White Tiger with Soul Power pressure, found its weak point with Breaking Delusion, and split the fusion skill apart.
• Qi Ji touched Wu Siduo's chest while she recovered, then sent Mental Power into her sea of consciousness and made her collapse unconscious.

Qi Ji explained that he had grabbed Wu Siduo to give her a reason to grow stronger, though he privately admitted he had acted on his attraction to her. As the ship neared the Star Luo Continent, Wu Siduo approached him alone on deck at night, seemingly ready to confront him.

• Qi Ji told Xie Xie that making Wu Siduo hate him could motivate her to keep cultivating, and admitted to himself that he had also wanted to touch her.
• Wu Siduo followed Qi Ji and Xie Xie around the ship for several days, fleeing whenever Qi Ji tried to speak to her.
• As the ship neared the Star Luo Continent, Qi Ji went to the deck at night and sensed someone approaching.
• Wu Siduo emerged in a white dress, stopped three paces from Qi Ji, and gathered her courage to speak.

On the ferry at night, Wu Siduo questioned Qi Ji about his past actions and the damage suffered by those who challenged him. She asked to challenge him again, but he told her he would only reveal his true strength after she could defeat a Titled Douluo.

• Wu Siduo told Qi Ji she had wondered whether he might have become an insurmountable rival, and she believed his earlier touch had been intended to help her rather than simply to take advantage of her.
• Qi Ji let Wu Siduo keep her mistaken interpretation and asked whether she had any other questions.
• Wu Siduo asked Qi Ji for another challenge so she could see his full strength.
• Qi Ji claimed he could defeat a Titled Douluo and said he would show Wu Siduo his true strength once she could do the same.
• Wu Siduo watched Qi Ji leave, reflecting on the gap between them and feeling excited by the challenge.

Qi Ji and Xie Xie arrived at Star Luo Continent, where Qi Ji explained Wu Siduo’s connection to the imperial family before they met Tang Sect vice sect master Hu Jie. Hu Jie welcomed them and reminisced about his unrequited love as they began their journey from the harbor.

• Qi Ji stopped Xie Xie from insulting the people of Star Luo Continent and criticized his ignorance of history.
• Xie Xie noticed Wu Siduo receiving an imperial-style welcome, and Qi Ji explained that she had come to acknowledge her ancestry.
• Qi Ji and Xie Xie followed a Tang Sect representative to a vehicle waiting at the harbor.
• Qi Ji recognized the enormous-bellied man in the vehicle as Hu Jie, the Smiling-Faced Douluo and a Tang Sect vice sect master.
• Hu Jie reminisced about his senior sister, and Qi Ji praised his strength to lift his spirits.

Qi Ji, Xie Xie, and Hu Jie traveled to Dragon Valley, where Qi Ji revealed that his domain could protect Xie Xie in the spacetime passage. As they arrived at the summit, Dragon Valley opened unexpectedly, and Elder Wu suspected that something on Qi Ji had drawn it open.

• Qi Ji declined Hu Jie's offer to take him to the Tang Sect headquarters in Star Luo City and traveled with Xie Xie to the Tang Sect stronghold near Dragon Valley.
• Hu Jie warned that Xie Xie was below rank forty and could not withstand the spacetime passage, but Qi Ji said his domain soul skill could protect him.
• Qi Ji explained that his domain could share its effects with people who recognized him as their sovereign, and Hu Jie agreed to let Xie Xie try entering Dragon Valley.
• Hu Jie led Qi Ji and Xie Xie through the mountains overnight to meet Dragon Valley's guardian, Elder Wu.
• A seven-colored pillar of light opened Dragon Valley on its own, and Elder Wu said something on Qi Ji had drawn it in.

Qi Ji’s arrival opened Dragon Valley, and Elder Wu tried to seize him to learn why. Qi Ji’s dragon and sovereign might forced Elder Wu to kneel, and Qi Ji then asked Hu Jie for permission to enter Dragon Valley with Xie Xie.

• Elder Wu manifested his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and reached to grab Qi Ji.
• Xie Xie stepped in front of Qi Ji, but Qi Ji moved him aside and faced Elder Wu himself.
• Qi Ji shouted “Kneel,” unleashing his twin Martial Souls and suppressing Elder Wu until he fell to the ground.
• Elder Wu submitted to Qi Ji, while Hu Jie struggled to understand how a Titled Douluo had been overpowered.
• Qi Ji asked Hu Jie whether he and Xie Xie could enter Dragon Valley.

Qi Ji and Xie Xie entered Dragon Valley, where Qi Ji remained unaffected by its power-sealing rules and revealed his authority over the Ancient Dragon Clan. The dragons of the valley answered his roar with submission, leaving Qi Ji reigning over the small world.

• Qi Ji and Xie Xie entered Dragon Valley as its entrance closed behind them, and Qi Ji sent Gu Yuena and Tang Wuling the entrance coordinates.
• After they disappeared, Elder Wu warned Hu Jie that Tang Sect must never become Qi Ji’s enemy, and Hu Jie resolved to report the encounter to Zang Xin and the Sect Master.
• Qi Ji caught Xie Xie as he fell through Dragon Valley’s sky, then used Binding Law to carry him safely to the ground despite the valley sealing Xie Xie’s martial soul and Soul Power.
• Qi Ji felt the Ancient Dragon Clan’s aura welcome him home and released a dragon roar that drew answering cries of submission from across Dragon Valley.
• Qi Ji declared that the emperor had returned as he surveyed the valley from the air.

Qi Ji absorbed Dragon Clouds with Xie Xie and led a procession of Dragon Souls to the Dragon Tomb. Overcome by grief at the sight of the fallen dragons, Qi Ji leaped into the restricted valley while Xie Xie remained under guard.

• Qi Ji absorbed the Dragon Clouds and sent some of the emerald clouds to Xie Xie, who meditated to cultivate.
• Qi Ji saw the Dragon Souls gathered before him and told them to rise, choosing not to absorb them.
• Qi Ji had True Dragons carry Xie Xie and led a Dragon Soul procession toward the Dragon Tomb.
• At the edge of the valley, Qi Ji saw the vast remains of fallen dragons and roared with grief, anger, and longing.
• Qi Ji left Xie Xie in the care of intelligent Dragon Souls and plunged into the Dragon Tomb.

Qi Ji reached the deepest part of the Dragon Tomb, where a colossal seven-colored Dragon Soul appeared before him and triggered a vision of the Dragon God’s crown prince. The vision revealed the crown prince’s lonely upbringing and his growing belief that he had to earn his father’s approval, leaving the Dragon Clan’s future decline unknowingly set in motion.

• Qi Ji greeted the Mountain Dragon King’s skeleton and passed it to reach the deepest valley of the Dragon Tomb.
• Qi Ji crossed the seven-colored mist and saw a vast, radiant Dragon Soul before his vision changed.
• The crown prince recalled how he served the Dragon Clan from childhood while longing for the Dragon God’s attention.
• The Light Dragon King suggested the Dragon God missed the deceased empress, and the crown prince concluded that his birth had caused his mother’s death and his father’s rejection.
• The crown prince decided to seek the Time Dragon King’s advice, while the Light Dragon King remained unaware that the Dragon Clan’s decline had begun.

Qi Ji met the Dragon God's Soul in the Dragon Tomb, where the Dragon God mistook him for his dead son and struggled with guilt. When Qi Ji asked to become stronger, the Dragon God offered him a seven-colored core, but the Light Dragon King's Soul arrived before he could take it.

• Qi Ji faced the Dragon God's Soul and wondered whether he was the reincarnated Dragon God Crown Prince or simply carried his bloodline and memories.
• The Dragon God recognized his child's aura and, overwhelmed by guilt and nervousness, remained silent until Qi Ji asked if he should call him Father.
• The Dragon God said he was unworthy of being Qi Ji's father, and Qi Ji told him he wanted to become stronger.
• The Dragon God first offered his bones for Qi Ji to make soup, then produced a seven-colored core from his foreclaw.
• The Light Dragon King's Soul appeared and apologized for arriving late to the Dragon God and Qi Ji.