Recaps

Dugu Xin and his wife nearly killed a fifteen-hundred-year-old Scale Armor Beast, but Yue Guan intervened so Qian Renchuan could claim it. Qian Renchuan began absorbing its Soul Ring despite Dugu Xin and his wife's warning that it was too old.

• Dugu Xin and his wife weakened the Scale Armor Beast with poison and arrows, then subdued it despite their own weakness.
• Yue Guan emerged from hiding and revealed himself as Chrysanthemum Douluo, a Titled Douluo from Spirit Hall.
• Yue Guan struck the wounded beast with his fifth Soul Skill, leaving it near death.
• Qian Renchuan killed the beast with a dagger and began absorbing its fifteen-hundred-year Soul Ring.
• Dugu Xin and his wife cried out that the Soul Ring was too old for Qian Renchuan.

Qian Renchuan endured the painful absorption of a fifteen-hundred-year Soul Ring while Qian Renxue ordered Gui Mei to spare Dugu Xin and his wife. The couple remained shocked as Qian Renxue realized her brother’s strength exceeded her expectations.

• Qian Renchuan began absorbing a fifteen-hundred-year Soul Ring as his First Soul Ring, leaving Dugu Xin and his wife stunned.
• Dugu Xin and his wife recognized Qian Renxue and Qian Renchuan as Spirit Hall’s young heirs and feared they had witnessed a plot against the Pope’s eldest son.
• Qian Renxue recognized Dugu Xin as Dugu Bo’s son and ordered Gui Mei to kill him and his wife.
• Qian Renxue stopped Gui Mei and spared the couple, saying Qian Renchuan would be upset if he learned they had been killed.
• Qian Renxue wondered how Qian Renchuan could withstand the Soul Ring without Whale Rubber as he continued enduring its pain.

Qian Renchuan successfully absorbed a fifteen-hundred-year Soul Ring and gained the Soul Skill Hundred-Scale Transformation. After demonstrating its power, he recognized Dugu Xin and his wife as members of Dugu Bo’s family.

• Qian Renchuan completed the painful absorption of the Scale Armor Beast’s Soul Ring, astonishing everyone present.
• Qian Renchuan discovered that his first Soul Skill, Hundred-Scale Transformation, let him reshape his scales into weapons and defenses.
• Qian Renchuan pierced the Scale Armor Beast’s tough hide with a blade formed from his hand, impressing the onlookers.
• Qian Renchuan approached Dugu Xin and his wife and identified their Martial Soul as the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor.
• Dugu Xin confirmed that he was Dugu Bo’s son, while Qian Renxue and the two Douluo wondered how Qian Renchuan recognized the Martial Soul.

Qian Renchuan spared Dugu Xin and his wife, giving them a jade pendant that promised his help if their daughter Dugu Yan ever needed it. Qian Renxue privately resolved to bear the burden of dealing with Dugu Bo herself, while the gathered Spirit Hall members praised Qian Renchuan’s remarkable first Soul Ring.

• Qian Renchuan let Dugu Xin and his wife leave and gave them a jade pendant as compensation for the Scale Armor Beast he had taken.
• Qian Renxue remembered Dugu Bo’s future threat and decided to handle him herself rather than burden Qian Renchuan.
• Qian Renxue praised Qian Renchuan for absorbing a fifteen-hundred-year First Soul Ring without harm.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei concluded that Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue’s talents would likely spare them punishment for Qian Yuhao’s departure.

Qian Renchuan strengthened his First Soul Ring with accumulated Soul Power and fell asleep by the campfire, while Huo Yuhao struggled through the Star Dou Great Forest. The chapter ended with Huo Yuhao recognizing Tang Hao and Ah Yin camping near his hiding place.

• Qian Renchuan and his companions camped for the night, and Yue Guan roasted Scale Armor Beast meat for dinner.
• Qian Renchuan checked his system panel, saw that Huo Yuhao’s cultivation had increased his accumulated Soul Power, and used it to strengthen his First Soul Ring.
• The strengthening left Qian Renchuan exhausted, and he fell asleep beside the campfire.
• Huo Yuhao, worn out after a day of evading Soul Beasts, hid in a hollow tree to recover.
• Huo Yuhao heard three people set up camp nearby and recognized Ah Yin and Brother Hao as Tang Hao and Ah Yin.

Huo Yuhao recognized Tang Hao and Ah Yin in the Star Dou Great Forest and recalled how Tang San had used him to steal the Douluo Continent's fortune. When Ah Yin located him hiding in a hollow tree, Huo Yuhao fired his Soul Cannon at Tang Hao.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Tang Hao and Ah Yin and remembered that Tang San had used him as a vessel to drain the continent's fortune for the Tang Family.
• Huo Yuhao restrained his urge to attack, but his killing intent escaped from the hollow tree.
• Tang Hao sensed the killing intent, and Ah Yin used her Blue Silver Emperor abilities to locate Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao readied his Class 1 Fixed-Installed Soul Cannon as Tang Hao approached the hollow tree.
• Tang Hao pulled aside the vines, and Huo Yuhao fired a Soul Cannon Shell at him.

Huo Yuhao attacked Tang Hao with a Fixed-Installed Soul Cannon but was overpowered and spared after Ah Yin intervened. The next morning, Tang Hao and the others had left, and Huo Yuhao took Ah Yin’s food before resuming his cultivation.

• Huo Yuhao fired a level-one Fixed-Installed Soul Cannon at Tang Hao, but the shot missed and destroyed a tree.
• Tang Hao pulled Huo Yuhao from the hollow and nearly killed him, but Ah Yin stopped him and helped the injured boy.
• Huo Yuhao introduced himself and refused Ah Yin’s offer to help him find a Soul Ring, then ate the food she gave him and promised to repay her.
• Huo Yuhao returned to the hollow, vowing to kill Tang Hao with a Fixed-Installed Soul Cannon one day.
• The next morning, Huo Yuhao found Tang Hao and the others gone, took the food Ah Yin had left, and resumed practicing the Mysterious Heaven Skill and Purple Demon Eyes.

Qian Renchuan discovered that his First Soul Ring had been strengthened to 2,300 years, then continued with Qian Renxue, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei to search for a Second Soul Ring. Back at Spirit Academy, Huyan Ye returned with his brother Huyan Feng and challenged Qian Renchuan after learning his seat had been reassigned.

• Qian Renxue, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei found Qian Renchuan asleep beside the campfire and could not wake him until he came around on his own.
• Qian Renchuan checked his system panel and saw that his First Soul Ring had reached 2,300 years after consuming about 30,000 accumulated Soul Power.
• Qian Renchuan set out with Qian Renxue, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei to find a Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear for his Second Soul Ring.
• Huyan Ye returned to Spirit Academy with his seventeen-year-old brother Huyan Feng, a level thirty-one Soul Elder.
• Zhang Meng told Huyan Ye that Qian Renchuan had given his old seat to Li Yan so Li Yan could tend the flowers there.
• Huyan Ye gritted his teeth and shouted for Qian Renchuan to come out.

Huyan Ye and Huyan Feng returned to the class, where Huyan Feng attacked Li Yan and destroyed Qian Renchuan’s flowers while Qian Renchuan was away. In the Pope’s Palace, Bibi Dong’s hatred of Qian Xunji and the Angel Family surged until mysterious black mist appeared inside her sealed chamber.

• Huyan Ye learned that Qian Renchuan had been away for over a month and regained his confidence.
• Huyan Feng threw Li Yan aside, smashed the flowerpots, and threatened the class after Zhang Meng challenged him.
• Huyan Feng released his Soul Power and pressured Zhang Meng and the other students while Huyan Ye insulted Qian Renchuan.
• Bibi Dong reached level eighty-seven, then recalled how Qian Xunji had violated and imprisoned her and condemned him and the Angel Family.
• Black mist seeped through the walls of Bibi Dong’s sealed Quiet Chamber, and she reacted in shock.

Bibi Dong accepted the Rakshasa God's inheritance and its trial to kill Qian Xunji within five years and devour everything he had. She hid her hatred when Qian Xunji visited her after her seclusion and began telling her about the three children.

• The Rakshasa God appeared to Bibi Dong, revealed that her hatred made her a suitable successor, and offered her the godhood inheritance.
• Bibi Dong accepted the trial to kill her teacher, Qian Xunji, within five years and devour everything he had.
• The Rakshasa God entered Bibi Dong and left a scythe mark on her forehead before the secret chamber returned to normal.
• Bibi Dong resolved to wait for an opportunity to kill Qian Xunji, then composed herself and left the quiet room.
• Qian Xunji visited Bibi Dong after she emerged from seclusion, praised her Level 87 breakthrough, and spoke about the three children, including young Chuan.

Qian Xunji told Bibi Dong about Qian Renchuan’s growing strength and asked her to care for their children, while she secretly planned to kill him. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Qian Renchuan absorbed a Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear’s Soul Ring and gained Dark Gold Tear, then ordered the system to strengthen it.

• Qian Xunji praised Qian Renchuan’s fighting ability and asked Bibi Dong to show their children more care when they returned.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Xunji she would see the children, but privately resolved to stay near him and wait for a chance to kill him.
• Qian Renchuan ignored Yue Guan and Gui Mei’s concerns about the Darkgolden Terrorclaw Bear’s age and absorbed its Soul Ring.
• Qian Renchuan gained the second Soul Skill Dark Gold Tear, which summoned ten powerful Dark Gold Dreadclaws from his fingers.
• Qian Renchuan checked his system panel and ordered the system to strengthen his Second Soul Ring as far as his body could withstand.

After absorbing his Second Soul Ring, Qian Renchuan collapsed and slept, alarming Qian Renxue, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei before they discovered he was unharmed. He woke with his Soul Ring strengthened to 3,600 years and his cultivation at level 29, then prepared to test his new Soul Skill.

• Qian Renchuan fainted after absorbing his Second Soul Ring, and Qian Renxue ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to examine him.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei found Qian Renchuan asleep and were astonished by his unusually powerful body.
• Qian Renxue led the group out of the Star Dou Great Forest while Gui Mei carried the sleeping Qian Renchuan.
• Qian Renchuan woke half a day later and discovered his Second Soul Ring had strengthened to 3,600 years and his cultivation had risen to level 29.
• Qian Renchuan said he wanted to test his new Soul Skill, drawing the others' attention.

Qian Renchuan demonstrated the overwhelming power of his second Soul Skill and revealed that he had reached the twenty-ninth rank. On the way back to Spirit City, Qian Renxue resolved to protect Spirit Hall in this life, while Qian Renchuan read Yu Xiaogang’s famous book and she recalled how he had stolen Spirit Hall’s research.

• Qian Renchuan used Dark Gold Rend to tear through towering trees, astonishing Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Qian Renxue with the power of his second Soul Skill.
• Yue Guan sensed that Qian Renchuan had reached the twenty-ninth rank, shocking Qian Renxue and Gui Mei.
• Half a month later, Qian Renxue entered Spirit City and remembered its destruction and the deaths of Spirit Hall’s members in her previous life.
• Qian Renxue resolved to become a god and protect Spirit City, Spirit Hall, and her big brother, Qian Renchuan.
• Qian Renchuan read The Ten Core Competencies of Soul Masters, and Qian Renxue recalled that Yu Xiaogang had passed off Spirit Hall’s accumulated knowledge as his own.

Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue arrived in Spirit City and found a Spirit Hall steward struggling to take two orphaned children to the nursery. After the steward explained that their parents had died on a mission, the children fell silent, leaving Qian Renchuan to decide what to do next.

• Qian Renxue criticized Yu Xiaogang’s book while Qian Renchuan read it during their carriage ride into Spirit City.
• Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue heard children crying in the street and went to investigate, followed by Yue Guan.
• The Spirit Hall steward snapped at Qian Renchuan, and Yue Guan forced him to his knees after revealing the identities of Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue.
• The steward explained that the children’s parents, low-ranking Spirit Hall members, had died during a mission near the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The steward said Spirit Hall had ordered him to take the children to its nursery, but they had cried for their parents throughout the journey.

After learning that Xie Yue and Hu Liena were orphans, Qian Renchuan recognized them as future Golden Generation members and bound them as targets for his system. He stopped Qian Renxue from killing Hu Liena by bringing the siblings to live at his Riverside Courtyard, where Qian Renxue vowed to watch Hu Liena closely.

• Qian Renchuan asked the orphaned children their names and learned that the boy was Xie Yue and his little sister was Hu Liena.
• The system detected Xie Yue and Hu Liena as high-fortune targets, and Qian Renchuan confirmed their bindings.
• Qian Renxue remembered Hu Liena's future betrayal of Spirit Hall and prepared to kill her, but Qian Renchuan stepped between them.
• Qian Renchuan told the deacon not to send the siblings to the nursery and instead arranged for them to live at his Riverside Courtyard.
• Qian Renxue resolved to keep Hu Liena under close watch as the grateful children followed the deacon away.

Qian Renchuan realized he could bind more gifted characters as bond targets, then returned to Spirit Academy with Qian Renxue. After Yue Guan reported their Soul Hunting results, Qian Xunji celebrated their extraordinary cultivation and ordered the academy’s senior students to keep pressuring Qian Renchuan, unaware they had already become his lackeys.

• Qian Renchuan considered binding more talented characters like Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Dugu Yan, and Ning Rongrong to gain cultivation returns.
• Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue arrived at Spirit Academy, and he refused to visit Qian Xunji at the Pope's Palace.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei told Qian Xunji that Qian Renchuan had reached rank twenty-nine and Qian Renxue rank twenty-four after gaining thousand-year Soul Rings.
• Qian Xunji dismissed Qian Yuhao's departure and praised Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue's talent.
• Qian Xunji ordered Yue Guan to have Spirit Academy's senior students continue targeting Qian Renchuan, while Yue Guan concealed that they had become his lackeys.

Qian Xunji told Bibi Dong that Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue had returned with thousand-year first soul rings, while she remained cold and resentful toward him and the children. At Spirit Academy, Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue were mobbed by curious classmates, as Huyan Ye prepared to carry out the Pope’s order to challenge him.

• Qian Xunji approved Qian Renchuan taking in two orphaned children and decided to tell Bibi Dong about the siblings’ achievements.
• Qian Xunji told Bibi Dong that Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue had obtained thousand-year first soul rings, and said their third child had left Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong criticized Qian Xunji for caring about the eldest and second children while letting the third leave, and said she hoped the third would die.
• Students crowded around Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue when they returned to Second-Year Class, while Huyan Ye went to find the fourth-year students to provoke Qian Renchuan.
• Qian Renxue ordered the students to clear the corridor, and Qian Renchuan brushed off their questions about his level and soul ring.

Qian Renchuan discovered that Huyan Feng had destroyed his flower and challenged him to a duel in the Spirit Academy’s Soul Fighting Arena. As news of the fight spread, Qian Renchuan looked forward to testing the whetstone Qian Xunji had arranged for him.

• Qian Renchuan returned to the Second-Year Class and learned from Li Yan that someone had smashed his flower and its pot.
• Huyan Feng entered with his younger brother Huyan Ye and admitted he had destroyed the flower, seeking revenge for Huyan Ye’s earlier defeat.
• Qian Renchuan recognized Huyan Feng as a likely challenge arranged by Qian Xunji and agreed to fight him in the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Huyan Feng accepted the duel, and news of the match spread through the Spirit Academy.

Qian Renchuan faced Huyan Feng in a Soul Fighting Arena duel and stunned the spectators by revealing his level and two thousand-year soul rings. Bibi Dong arrived at the Spirit Academy, learned that the duel was part of Qian Xunji’s scheme, and headed to see Qian Renchuan and Miss Xue.

• Qian Renchuan declared himself a level twenty-nine Soul Grandmaster, shocking the crowd and Huyan Feng.
• Huyan Feng summoned his Diamond Mammoth martial soul and revealed three soul rings as the soul fight began.
• Qian Renchuan activated his Skin martial soul and revealed two purple thousand-year soul rings, alarming Huyan Feng.
• Bibi Dong arrived at the Spirit Academy and asked to see Qian Renchuan and Miss Xue.
• A chief told Bibi Dong that Qian Renchuan was dueling Huyan Feng as part of a stress test arranged by Qian Xunji, and Bibi Dong privately condemned Qian Xunji’s scheme.

Qian Renchuan used his thousand-year soul skills to defeat Huyan Feng in one decisive attack, stunning the arena and infuriating Bibi Dong. After Qian Renxue watched proudly, Bibi Dong left without speaking.

• Bibi Dong entered the Soul Fighting Arena expecting Qian Renchuan to be beaten, but saw that he possessed two purple thousand-year soul rings.
• Qian Renchuan dodged Huyan Feng's repeated charges and then unleashed his second soul skill, Dark Gold Rend.
• Huyan Feng's Diamond Barrier shattered, and Qian Renchuan's attack wounded him and knocked him unconscious.
• The crowd celebrated Qian Renchuan's victory, while Huyan Ye collapsed in shock.
• Qian Renxue watched proudly, then noticed Bibi Dong staring coldly at Qian Renchuan before turning and leaving.

Qian Renchuan defeated Huyan Feng, while Bibi Dong watched and left in hatred after seeing his talent. The fight’s aftermath exposed that the Pope’s Palace had ordered the Elephant Armor Sect to provoke him, and Qian Renchuan warned everyone not to target him again.

• Qian Renxue watched Bibi Dong leave the arena and vowed to protect Qian Renchuan from her schemes.
• Bibi Dong rejected a Chief’s offer to summon Qian Renchuan and Miss Xue, then left in her carriage after bitterly calling them “wonderful.”
• Huyan Ye rushed to his unconscious, bloodied brother Huyan Feng and revealed that the Pope’s Palace had told the Elephant Armor Sect to provoke Qian Renchuan.
• Qian Renchuan mocked Huyan Ye, issued a final warning to anyone who targeted him, and left the ring.
• Zhang Meng, Li Yan, and the other followers surrounded Qian Renchuan and praised him for defeating a Soul Elder in one move.

After Qian Renchuan’s arena victory drew the attention of several upper-year girls, Qian Renxue pulled him away and warned him that Bibi Dong might be dangerous. Qian Renchuan brushed off her concerns and praised the girls’ looks, prompting Qian Renxue to resolve to grow up and show him what true beauty was.

• Upper-year girls crowded around Qian Renchuan after his match, praising him and trying to win his favor.
• Qian Renxue drove the girls back with her Soul Power and led Qian Renchuan out of the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Qian Renxue told Qian Renchuan that Huo Yuhao had warned her about Bibi Dong’s coldness and urged him to be wary of her.
• Qian Renchuan questioned Qian Renxue’s warning and said the girls at the academy were pretty.
• Qian Renxue decided to eat well and grow up quickly so she could show Qian Renchuan what true beauty was.

Qian Xunji decided to visit the Spirit Academy after learning that Bibi Dong had coldly left without seeing their children. There, Qian Renchuan grew angry at the praise for Yu Xiaogang’s book and decided to write a rival work exposing its flaws.

• Qian Xunji learned Bibi Dong had watched Qian Renchuan’s duel but left without speaking to him or Qian Renxue, and he resolved to visit the Spirit Academy himself.
• Qian Xunji summoned Yue Guan and ordered him to prepare for the trip.
• At the Spirit Academy, Qian Renchuan’s classmates gathered around him after class and invited him to go fishing and grill fish.
• Zhang Meng and the others praised Yu Xiaogang and his Ten Core Competencies of Soul Masters, calling him a leading theoretical authority.
• Qian Renchuan dismissed the book’s claims as flawed and decided to write his own book to expose Yu Xiaogang.

Qian Renchuan decided to write his own book challenging Yu Xiaogang’s theories, despite his followers’ disbelief. Qian Xunji arrived at Spirit Academy and took Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue for a walk, leaving the students to praise his apparent fatherly concern.

• Qian Renchuan denounced Yu Xiaogang’s Ten Core Competencies of Soul Masters as nonsense and resolved to publish his own theories.
• Zhang Meng, Li Yan, Zhao Mang, and Qian Renxue doubted that Qian Renchuan could write a book, but he refused to change his mind.
• Qian Xunji arrived at Spirit Academy with its Chiefs and senior instructors, startling the students.
• Qian Xunji greeted Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue warmly, asked how they were settling in, and invited them for a walk.
• The Chiefs praised Qian Xunji’s fatherly devotion as Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan and Ghost Douluo Gui Mei privately mocked their flattery.

Qian Renchuan asked Qian Xunji for whale rubber, unrestricted access to the Spirit Hall Library, and permission to leave Spirit Academy whenever he wanted so he could write a book criticizing Yu Xiaogang. Qian Xunji refused, fearing Bibi Dong’s reaction, but Qian Renchuan insisted that his father honor his promise.

• Qian Xunji praised Qian Renchuan and Qian Renxue’s talents and predicted Spirit Hall’s future glory as they walked through Spirit Academy.
• Qian Renxue reflected on Spirit Hall’s destruction in her previous life and resolved to become strong enough to control her own fate.
• Qian Renchuan asked Qian Xunji to collect whale rubber for him and grant him unrestricted library access and freedom to leave Spirit Academy.
• Qian Renchuan declared that he wanted to write a book exposing Yu Xiaogang’s flawed theories and ruin his reputation.
• Qian Xunji forbade Qian Renchuan from writing the book because he feared it would provoke Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renchuan accused Qian Xunji of breaking his promise and insisted that he would write the book rather than accept another reward.