Recaps

Luo Fan revealed that he was an eight-year-old level thirty-three Soul Elder with a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, astonishing Tang San and Yu Xiaogang. During their spar, Luo Fan used his third Soul Skill, Deep Forest Emergence, to overwhelm Tang San and transform the Second Prince’s courtyard into a forest, while a cloaked observer watched from a distant rooftop.

• Luo Fan showed Tang San his third, black Soul Ring, and Yu Xiaogang realized he had become an eight-year-old Soul Elder.
• Tang San accepted Luo Fan’s challenge to fight, and Luo Fan announced that he was level thirty-three.
• Tang San attacked with Blue Silver Entanglement and hidden weapons, but Luo Fan dodged with Instant Flash and called out to Xue Qinghe before using his promised third Soul Skill.
• Luo Fan unleashed Deep Forest Emergence, filling the courtyard with rapidly growing trees that trapped Tang San and amazed the onlookers.
• A cloaked figure watching from a rooftop hundreds of meters away trembled at the sight of Luo Fan’s forest.

Tang Hao witnessed Luo Fan’s Deep Forest Emergence and wondered whether its power to accelerate plant growth could help Ah Yin recover. After Luo Fan defeated Tang San with the skill, Xue Qinghe praised its potential battlefield value.

• Tang Hao watched Luo Fan use Deep Forest Emergence and hoped it might accelerate Ah Yin’s growth and allow her to return.
• Luo Fan defeated Tang San by restraining him with Deep Forest Emergence.
• Tang San asked why Luo Fan had not used Wood Clone or Rasengan, and Luo Fan said he had wanted to demonstrate his Third Soul Skill to the Second Prince.
• Tang San lost his temper and rushed at Luo Fan, who bound him with branches and hurled him over the courtyard wall.
• Xue Qinghe applauded Luo Fan and recognized Deep Forest Emergence as a powerful skill for large-scale battles.

After Luo Fan’s overwhelming display left Tang San and Yu Xiaogang shaken, Tang Hao revealed his identity and told Tang San about his family, the Clear Sky Sect, and the Spirit Hall grudge, restoring some of Tang San’s confidence. Meanwhile, Luo Fan practiced his Transformation Technique until Tang Hao appeared in his courtyard and greeted him.

• Tang San brooded over his defeat by Luo Fan, while Yu Xiaogang struggled to comfort him and eventually left him alone.
• Tang Hao appeared in Tang San’s room, showed him his nine Soul Rings, and told him about Ah Yin, the Clear Sky Sect, the Clear Sky Hammer, and their grudge against the Spirit Hall.
• Tang San learned that Tang Hao had killed the previous Supreme Pontiff and regained confidence from the Clear Sky Hammer’s power and his family’s history.
• Luo Fan sent a Wood Clone to attend classes at Heaven Dou Royal Academy while practicing the Transformation Technique in his courtyard.
• Luo Fan transformed into an unconvincing version of Xiao Wu, who objected to being his practice target.
• A cloaked Tang Hao entered Luo Fan’s courtyard, and Luo Fan recognized him as Uncle Hao.

Tang Hao visited Luo Fan in Heaven Dou City and tested whether Luo Fan’s plant-growing ability could help Ah Yin. After seeing the plant grow rapidly, Tang Hao urged Luo Fan to return to Holy Soul Village, leaving Xiao Wu shocked to learn he was Tang San’s father and a Titled Douluo.

• Tang Hao greeted Luo Fan and assured him he would not interfere in Luo Fan and Tang San’s sparring.
• Tang Hao asked Luo Fan to use Deep Forest Emergence on a small potted plant, and Luo Fan grew it to over a meter tall.
• Tang Hao realized Luo Fan might eventually help Ah Yin grow and transform, then encouraged him to visit Holy Soul Village.
• Tang Hao glanced at Xiao Wu before leaving, and Luo Fan told her that Tang Hao was Tang San’s father.
• Xiao Wu froze and recalled that Tang San’s father was a Titled Douluo.

Luo Fan reflected on his training over the past year, reaching Soul Power level 39 and improving his Transformation Technique. At a farewell dinner with Oscar and Xue Qinghe, he revealed that he was leaving, but the chapter ended before he explained where he was going.

• Luo Fan confirmed that the Titled Douluo who had just left was Tang San's father, and Xiao Wu realized how close she had come to danger.
• Luo Fan focused on building his Soul Power so he could better use Deep Forest Emergence and reach level 40 for his fourth Soul Skill.
• Over the next year, Luo Fan rose from level 33 to 39 and became much more proficient at using the Transformation Technique to imitate Xiao Wu.
• Luo Fan prepared a lavish dinner, and Xue Qinghe and Oscar arrived as Oscar prepared to hunt for his second Soul Ring.
• Luo Fan told Oscar and Xue Qinghe that the dinner was a temporary farewell, and Xue Qinghe asked where he was going.

Luo Fan returned to Holy Soul Village after three years away, catching up with Old Jack and learning that Tang Hao and Tang San were back at the blacksmith shop. He went to visit them, drawn by the promise of seeing his old acquaintances and the smell of dinner.

• Luo Fan told Xue Qinghe he would return to Holy Soul Village and might hunt for a fourth Soul Ring if his Soul Power reached level 40, and she urged him to be careful.
• The next day, Xiao Wu returned to the Star Dou Forest after arranging to meet Luo Fan again in a month, and Luo Fan set off for Notting City.
• Luo Fan visited the principal of Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, who congratulated him on becoming a Three-Ring Soul Elder and welcomed him back as a former student.
• Luo Fan arrived in Holy Soul Village, where the villagers recognized and warmly greeted him before he went to Old Jack's home.
• Old Jack told Luo Fan that Tang Hao had returned to the village a year earlier and was living at the blacksmith shop with Tang San.
• Luo Fan went to Tang San's blacksmith shop and smelled delicious food coming from inside.

Luo Fan visited Tang Hao and Tang San, where Tang Hao warmly welcomed him and revealed that he had waited a year for his return. Tang Hao then brought Luo Fan to Ah Yin, hoping Luo Fan’s Soul Skill could help her grow faster.

• Luo Fan arrived at the blacksmith shop, and Tang Hao ordered Tang San to serve him dinner despite Tang San’s objections.
• Tang San learned that Luo Fan had reached level 39 and planned to visit Star Dou Forest for his fourth Soul Ring, while Tang Hao praised his rapid progress.
• After dinner, Tang Hao made Tang San clean up and train while he took Luo Fan to the back mountain.
• Tang Hao showed Luo Fan the Blue Silver Grass that was Ah Yin and asked him to use his Soul Skill to help her grow.
• Luo Fan agreed and stepped forward to try his Soul Skill on Ah Yin.

Luo Fan used Deep Forest Emergence to raise Ah Yin from a Ten-Year to a Hundred-Year Soul Beast, prompting Tang Hao to move to the Back Mountain to protect her. After another week of cultivation, Luo Fan reached Soul Power Level 40 and was summoned to Star Dou Forest.

• Luo Fan spent most of his Soul Power on Deep Forest Emergence, raising Ah Yin to a Hundred-Year Soul Beast.
• Tang Hao thanked Luo Fan, then refused to let Tang San speak badly of him and decided to move to the Back Mountain to protect Ah Yin.
• Tang Hao built a wooden cabin near Ah Yin and moved his belongings there, sparking discussion among the villagers of Holy Soul Village.
• Luo Fan stayed in Holy Soul Village for another week and reached Soul Power Level 40 by cultivating with his Wood Clones.
• When the agreed day with Xiao Wu arrived, Contract Summoning transported Luo Fan to Star Dou Forest.

Luo Fan and Xiao Wu found a thirty-thousand-year Spirit-Eyed Star-Moon Flower guarded by two powerful fifty-thousand-year snakes. As three ancient Soft Bone Rabbits fought the snakes, Luo Fan turned his attention to the flower after it wounded one of them, sending more than a hundred Wood Clones wielding Rasengans into an attack.

• Xiao Wu told Luo Fan that the Spirit-Eyed Star-Moon Flower was guarded by two fifty-thousand-year snake-type Soul Beasts.
• Luo Fan and the Soft Bone Rabbit Tribe reached the flower’s clearing and watched a blue python freeze and swallow an approaching ten-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Luo Fan assigned the ninety-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit to fight one python and the two eighty-thousand-year rabbits to fight the other, while he supported them with Deep Forest Emergence.
• The Spirit-Eyed Star-Moon Flower fired a beam that gave the ninety-thousand-year Soft Bone Rabbit a superficial wound.
• Luo Fan created more than a hundred Wood Clones, each forming a Rasengan, and sent them charging at the Star-Moon Flower.

Luo Fan used his Wood Clones and Rasengans to kill the Spirit-Eyed Star-Moon Flower and claim its thirty-thousand-year Soul Ring. After Xiao Wu found an eye-type External Soul Bone, Luo Fan absorbed the Soul Ring and unlocked his fourth soul skill.

• Luo Fan's Wood Clones overwhelmed the Spirit-Eyed Star-Moon Flower with Rasengans, leaving it near death.
• Luo Fan used his remaining Soul Power to finish off the Spirit-Eyed Star-Moon Flower and obtain its black Soul Ring.
• The two giant pythons withdrew after the flower died, while Xiao Wu and the three Soft Bone Rabbits guarded Luo Fan.
• Xiao Wu found an eye-type External Soul Bone, which Luo Fan put away before absorbing the Soul Ring.
• Luo Fan recovered, absorbed the thirty-thousand-year Soul Ring, and unlocked his fourth soul skill.

After absorbing his fourth Soul Ring and an eye-type External Soul Bone, Luo Fan faced an attacking Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear to test his new fourth Soul Skill, Sage Mode. He entered Sage Mode and formed a Big Ball Rasengan as the bear struck at him.

• Xiao Wu asked Luo Fan about his Soul Power, and he sensed that he had reached level 42 after absorbing the thirty-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Luo Fan absorbed the eye-type External Soul Bone in just over ten minutes.
• A Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear appeared, and Luo Fan finished absorbing the bone before stepping forward to face it.
• Luo Fan used Deep Forest Emergence, but the bear smashed through the trees and charged at him.
• Luo Fan activated Sage Mode, transformed his Soul Power, and formed a Sage Art: Big Ball Rasengan as the bear attacked.

Luo Fan tested Sage Mode by driving off a four-thousand-year-old Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear, then continued traveling with Xiao Wu and reached Suotuo City. At a hotel, a blond youth demanded that Luo Fan give up his room.

• Luo Fan used Sage Art: Big Ball Rasengan to break two claws of the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear and send it fleeing.
• Luo Fan explained Sage Mode to Xiao Wu and said his External Soul Bone also granted an exclusive Soul Skill.
• Luo Fan and Xiao Wu left the area, and he later reached Suotuo City after traveling for a week through the Star Dou Forest.
• Luo Fan booked the hotel’s most expensive room, but a blond youth arrived and ordered him to hand it over.

Luo Fan confronted Dai Mubai over the blond youth’s demand for his hotel room, then revealed himself as a Level 42 Soul Ancestor with four extraordinary Soul Rings. Dai Mubai dismissed the display as an illusion and attacked, but Luo Fan caught his wrist.

• Dai Mubai summoned his White Tiger Martial Soul and demanded that Luo Fan give up his room.
• Luo Fan reassured the hotel owner, then summoned his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and revealed four Soul Rings, including two purple and two black.
• Luo Fan announced his name and Level 42 rank, leaving Dai Mubai and the hotel guests stunned.
• Dai Mubai decided Luo Fan’s display was a trick and attacked him.
• Luo Fan struck and grabbed Dai Mubai’s tiger-claw wrist.

Luo Fan defeated Dai Mubai with one throw, then paid for the damage before returning to cultivate. When Flender and Zhao Wuji came to confront him, Flender introduced himself and tried to recruit Luo Fan into Shrek Academy, but Luo Fan refused.

• Luo Fan broke Dai Mubai’s White Tiger Body Shield with his physical strength and threw him through the hotel floor.
• Luo Fan paid the hotel owner for the damage and returned to his room.
• Dai Mubai reported his defeat to Flender, and Zhao Wuji said Shrek Academy would not let the matter go.
• Luo Fan cultivated overnight using Wood Clones and considered seeking a high-age head Soul Bone to strengthen his spiritual power.
• The hotel attendant warned Luo Fan that Dai Mubai had returned with Flender and Zhao Wuji, but Luo Fan went downstairs to meet them.
• Flender introduced himself as a level-76 Soul Sage and invited Luo Fan to join Shrek Academy, but Luo Fan refused.

Luo Fan escaped Flender and Zhao Wuji’s attempt to bring him to Shrek Academy, then encountered five Fallen Soul Masters in a forest. As they closed in, he activated his third soul skill, Advent of a World of Flowering Trees.

• Flender tried to recruit Luo Fan, but Zhao Wuji proposed taking him to Shrek Academy by force.
• Luo Fan reminded them that he had been with the people who took Oscar two years earlier, and Zhao Wuji and Flender recognized him.
• When Zhao Wuji and Flender moved to seize him, Luo Fan created more than two hundred Wood Clones and used the confusion to escape Suotuo City.
• More than an hour later, Luo Fan was cornered in a forest by five Fallen Soul Masters who said they intended to devour him.
• As the Fallen Soul Masters approached, Luo Fan entered Sage Mode and unleashed his third soul skill, Advent of a World of Flowering Trees.

Luo Fan used his Sage Mode and tree-based abilities to defeat and kill five Fallen Soul Masters, including their Soul King leader. He brought their corpses to a Spirit Hall Branch to report the case, leaving its bishop stunned by the young cultivator’s feat.

• Luo Fan entered Sage Mode and restrained four Fallen Soul Masters with Deep Forest Emergence, whose branches drained Soul Power and whose pollen weakened them.
• The Soul King-level leader trapped what he thought was Luo Fan with a spiritual Soul Skill, but Luo Fan had used a Wood Clone and hidden himself with the Transformation Technique.
• Luo Fan struck the leader with Sage Art: Big Ball Rasengan and killed him, then crushed the four bound Soul Ancestors with the trees.
• Luo Fan collected all five corpses in his Soul Tool and traveled to a nearby city to report the killings at its Spirit Hall Branch.
• The branch’s bishop examined the corpses and stared in disbelief at Luo Fan, who might not even be ten years old.

After Luo Fan killed a group of Fallen Soul Masters, Spirit Hall discovered his astonishing talent and sent his records to Pope Bibi Dong. Back in Heaven Dou City, he demonstrated Sage Mode’s overwhelming power, and the chapter ended with Bibi Dong receiving news about him.

• Luo Fan admitted that he had killed Noss and four other Fallen Soul Masters, and the branch bishop awarded him fifty thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Luo Fan updated his Spirit Hall records, revealing that he was a level 42 Soul Ancestor despite being under ten years old and having awakened his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul just over three years earlier.
• The branch bishop sent Luo Fan’s information to Spirit City for delivery to Pope Bibi Dong.
• After Luo Fan returned to Heaven Dou City, Xue Qinghe asked about his fourth Soul Ring and Sage Mode Soul Skill.
• Luo Fan fought Pufferfish Douluo with his Sage Mode and other Soul Skills, impressing Xue Qinghe and prompting Pufferfish Douluo to say that Luo Fan could challenge Soul Emperor-level opponents.
• Pope Bibi Dong received the information about Luo Fan at the Spirit Hall Main Hall.

Bibi Dong was astonished by Luo Fan’s extraordinary abilities and ordered Gui Mei to investigate and recruit him, even offering to make him her final disciple. Back in Heaven Dou City, Luo Fan learned that the eldest prince had died and Dugu Yan invited him to join the academy team’s Spirit Arena battles.

• Bibi Dong read Luo Fan’s report and was shocked by his age, Soul Ring configuration, rapid cultivation, and victories over powerful opponents.
• Bibi Dong ordered Gui Mei to investigate Luo Fan and recruit him into Spirit Hall, offering to accept him as her final disciple if he agreed.
• Luo Fan returned to Heaven Dou City, summoned Xiao Wu, cultivated, and continued mastering the Transformation Technique during the academy break.
• News spread that the eldest prince of the Heaven Dou Empire had died, and Luo Fan recognized the event as part of Xue Qinghe’s plan.
• Dugu Yan visited Luo Fan and invited him to join the Heaven Dou Royal Team’s Spirit Arena matches; Luo Fan said he had visited his hometown and obtained his fourth Soul Ring in Star Dou Forest.

Luo Fan told Xue Qinghe he knew she was tied to the First Prince’s death and offered to help assassinate the Third Prince. He demonstrated that his improved Transformation Technique made him useful for infiltration, leaving Xue Qinghe to consider his offer.

• Dugu Yan invited Luo Fan to join the Heaven Dou Royal Team for Great Soul Arena battles, and he agreed.
• Luo Fan visited Xue Qinghe and brought up the Third Prince’s accusations about the First Prince’s death.
• Luo Fan pointed out that Xue Qinghe wanted the Crown Prince position and had a Titled Douluo protecting him, revealing how much he had deduced.
• Luo Fan offered to help Xue Qinghe assassinate the Third Prince, explaining that he excelled at infiltration and assassination.
• Luo Fan used his Transformation Technique to take the forms of Xiao Wu, the Void Escape Beast, and Xue Qinghe.

Luo Fan used his perfected Transformation Technique to help Xue Qinghe destroy the Third Prince’s reputation before moving to eliminate him. After a week of scandals left the Third Prince disgraced, Xue Qinghe prepared to close the net, while Ghost Douluo arrived in Heaven Dou City.

• Luo Fan demonstrated his Transformation Technique to Xue Qinghe and explained that his new eye-type External Soul Bone had improved it.
• Xue Qinghe proposed ruining the Third Prince’s reputation before assassinating him, and Luo Fan agreed to carry out the plan.
• Luo Fan impersonated the Third Prince and made insulting public remarks, while Xue Qinghe secretly spread the resulting scandal.
• Luo Fan impersonated the Third Prince again and was found in the pleasure district during a guard raid on Fallen Soul Masters.
• After a week of scandals left the Third Prince disgraced, Xue Qinghe decided it was time to close the net, and Ghost Douluo arrived in Heaven Dou City.

Ghost Douluo investigated why Spirit Hall had not recruited Luo Fan and learned that Qian Renxue had already taken him in. After Su Yuntao enthusiastically recounted Luo Fan’s achievements, Ghost Douluo headed to the Second Prince’s residence, where Luo Fan was preparing to finish dealing with the Third Prince.

• Ghost Douluo confronted Salas for failing to recruit Luo Fan, and Salas explained that Qian Renxue had taken him in.
• Ghost Douluo asked Salas to report what he knew about Luo Fan, and Salas summoned Su Yuntao.
• Su Yuntao described Luo Fan’s Innate Full Soul Power, his Whale Rubber physique-strengthening method, his Twin-Bloom Lotus Soul Ring, and his help to Su Yuntao.
• Ghost Douluo left after praising Su Yuntao’s loyalty, privately suspecting Salas had concealed the Whale Rubber method on Qian Renxue’s orders.
• Ghost Douluo went to the Second Prince’s residence to see Qian Renxue and meet Luo Fan, while Luo Fan discussed with Xue Qinghe ending the Third Prince’s downfall.

Qian Renxue sent Gui Mei to follow Luo Fan to the Third Prince's Residence and protect him while observing his abilities. Gui Mei discovered Xiao Wu's identity and watched Luo Fan use a transformation to enter the residence openly.

• Qian Renxue ordered Gui Mei to follow Luo Fan, back him up, and keep him alive if he faced danger.
• Gui Mei recognized Xiao Wu as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in human form but kept his discovery to himself.
• Gui Mei followed Luo Fan toward the Third Prince's Residence, marveling at how often the boy sensed someone nearby.
• Luo Fan transformed into the residence's chief steward and entered through the front gate, leaving Gui Mei astonished.

Luo Fan used his Transformation Technique and Hypnotic Eye to infiltrate the Third Prince’s chambers, poison him, and stage his death as suicide. Xue Qinghe welcomed the news as his path to the Crown Prince position cleared, then asked Ghost Douluo what he thought of Luo Fan’s abilities.

• Luo Fan disguised himself as the Third Prince’s butler and gained access to the prince’s chambers.
• Luo Fan transformed into the Third Prince, hypnotized him with his Hypnotic Eye, and fed him poison.
• Luo Fan staged the scene as a suicide and escaped the residence disguised as a cat while Ghost Douluo watched.
• The Third Prince was found dead the next morning, and his butler denied having visited him the previous night.
• Xue Qinghe celebrated the deaths of his rivals and asked Ghost Douluo for his assessment of Luo Fan.

Ghost Douluo praised Luo Fan’s abilities to Xue Qinghe, and two months later Xue Qinghe was officially invested as crown prince. During dinner at Luo Fan’s house, Xue Qinghe asked what he thought of Spirit Hall and its pope, leaving Luo Fan poised to explain his views.

• Ghost Douluo praised Luo Fan’s self-created skills and confirmed that Xue Qinghe knew Xiao Wu was a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Luo Fan trained while his clone attended school, and his Soul Power reached level 43 over the next two months.
• Emperor Xue Ye and the officials selected Xue Qinghe as crown prince, and ministers flocked to congratulate her.
• Xue Qinghe visited Luo Fan for dinner, and he refused her offer to share the realm if she became emperor.
• Xue Qinghe asked Luo Fan about Spirit Hall, and he said he respected the institution but disliked Pope Bibi Dong.

Luo Fan explained why he supported Spirit Hall’s work for commoners while disapproving of its leaders’ ambitions, and reassured Xue Qinghe that he cared about her above her identity. Xue Qinghe then asked whether he had suspected her and began revealing that she was not truly Xue Qinghe.

• Luo Fan cited Spirit Hall’s attacks on Poison Douluo and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect as evidence of its leaders’ ambition to unify the continent.
• Luo Fan praised Spirit Hall for awakening commoners’ martial souls, distributing Soul Master subsidies, and fighting fallen Soul Masters.
• Xue Qinghe asked what Luo Fan would do if he controlled Spirit Hall, and he joked that he would let her become Pope and live comfortably.
• Xue Qinghe pointed out that two Titled Douluo served her despite the Heaven Dou Empire having only one, and asked whether Luo Fan had doubted her identity.
• Luo Fan said he only recognized her as Brother Xue, and Xue Qinghe asked what he would say if she was not truly Xue Qinghe.