Recaps

Ye Lin refined the fifty-thousand-year Whale Rubber while suppressing its aphrodisiac effects, and persuaded Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong to leave him alone. When Hu Liena came to visit, she grew suspicious of his strange behavior and tried to enter his locked room.

• Ye Lin felt the Whale Rubber's powerful energy strengthening his body and realized its aphrodisiac effects could become difficult to suppress.
• Ye Lin told Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong that refining the Whale Rubber would take a day or two and convinced them to leave.
• After they left, Ye Lin continued refining the Whale Rubber and strengthening his bones, muscles, and Qi and Blood.
• Hu Liena knocked on Ye Lin's door and invited him for a walk, but he told her not to come in because he was cultivating.
• Hu Liena suspected something was wrong, returned to the door, and tried to enter, but found it locked from the inside.

Ye Lin tried to suppress the aphrodisiac effects of Five Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, but Hu Liena refused to leave and offered to help him. The next morning, Yu Xiaogang heard them together and quietly walked away, deciding Ye Lin had recovered quite well.

• Hu Liena broke the lock and entered Ye Lin's room after he refused to open the door.
• Ye Lin explained that he was absorbing Five Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue and that its aphrodisiac effects made it dangerous for her to stay.
• Hu Liena closed the door, confessed that she liked Ye Lin, and chose to help him.
• Ye Lin lost control and lunged at Hu Liena.
• Yu Xiaogang went to check on Ye Lin the next morning, heard Hu Liena praise him from inside, and silently left.

Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong that Hu Liena had shown more courage than her teacher, while Ye Lin finished absorbing the whale rubber and honestly told Hu Liena he might love others too. Hu Liena accepted his feelings, then returned to the academy limping, where Xie Yue guessed what had happened and Yan realized she had become close to Ye Lin.

• Yu Xiaogang told Bibi Dong what he had heard outside Ye Lin's room, and they reflected on the years they had spent apart.
• Ye Lin finished absorbing most of the fifty-thousand-year whale rubber and told Hu Liena he could not give her all of his heart.
• Hu Liena said she had guessed he might have other partners, and Ye Lin promised that he liked her and would protect her.
• Hu Liena returned to the cultivation room limping and told Xie Yue she had taken a fall.
• Xie Yue guessed that Ye Lin was involved and accepted Hu Liena's decision, while Yan realized she had spent the night with Ye Lin and felt jealous.

Ye Lin’s body grew stronger after absorbing Five Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, and Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang took him, Hu Liena, and Yue Guan to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to find ingredients for a body-refining formula and Hu Liena’s Fifth Spirit Ring. There, Dugu Bo confronted Yue Guan and explained how their old feud began.

• Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong examined Ye Lin and confirmed that his physique had improved, though he still had not achieved his Body Martial Soul’s Second Awakening.
• Bibi Dong showed Yu Xiaogang Yue Guan’s body-refining formula, and Yu Xiaogang said he knew where to find its missing ingredients; the group set out with Hu Liena to find her Fifth Spirit Ring.
• Gui Mei reported Bibi Dong’s departure to Qian Daoliu, who told him he would be rewarded for pursuing power.
• Two days later, the group arrived above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Dugu Bo was eating Dragon Soul Grass.
• Dugu Bo and Yue Guan argued, and Dugu Bo told Yu Xiaogang that Yue Guan had once tried to recruit him into Spirit Hall, fought him after he refused, and lost only because Prince Xue Xing’s army intervened.

Yu Xiaogang introduced Bibi Dong as his lover to Dugu Bo, who quickly accepted her and warmed to the visitors. After Yu Xiaogang explained their search for rare herbs to support Ye Lin’s body-refinement treatment, Dugu Bo and Yue Guan revised Yue Guan’s medicinal formula together.

• Bibi Dong silenced Dugu Bo and Yue Guan with her pressure, and Yue Guan addressed her as the Pope.
• Yu Xiaogang introduced Bibi Dong as his lover, and Bibi Dong confirmed it by linking her arm through his.
• Dugu Bo welcomed Bibi Dong and asked Yu Xiaogang why the group had come.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that Yue Guan’s body-refinement formula needed rare herbs from Dugu Bo’s collection for Ye Lin.
• Dugu Bo praised the formula, suggested changes, and worked with Yue Guan to revise it.

Ye Lin agreed to find Hu Liena a suitable ten-thousand-year soul beast for her fifth spirit ring and chose the rare Three-Eyed Demon Fox as their target. After a fruitless search and a night camping in Sunset Forest, the four resumed the hunt the next morning without discussing what had happened in their tents.

• Dugu Bo and Yue Guan refined a body-tempering prescription together while Bibi Dong and Yu Xiaogang prepared to take Hu Liena to find her fifth spirit ring.
• Bibi Dong left Ye Lin responsible for finding a suitable ten-thousand-year soul beast for Hu Liena and helping her hunt it.
• Ye Lin recommended a Three-Eyed Demon Fox for its powerful spiritual abilities, though he warned that the mutated soul beast was extremely rare.
• The group searched Sunset Forest for more than half a day and found only a five-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Fox, so they camped for the night.
• The next morning, Yu Xiaogang, Bibi Dong, Ye Lin, and Hu Liena resumed their search for the Three-Eyed Demon Fox without mentioning the night before.

Ye Lin and Hu Liena found a newly transformed, ten-thousand-year Three-Eyed Demon Fox, and Ye Lin helped Hu Liena kill it so she could absorb its Spirit Ring. While guarding her, he discovered a rare three-tailed External Soul Bone in the beast’s corpse.

• Ye Lin sensed a twice-mutated Three-Eyed Demon Fox that had just reached ten thousand years of cultivation and asked Yu Xiaogang and Bibi Dong to watch over the fight.
• The Three-Eyed Demon Fox saw through Ye Lin’s clones and struck him with a purple spiritual laser, but he emerged uninjured.
• Ye Lin’s eight Qi Soul Clones overwhelmed the fox, and Hu Liena killed it and began absorbing its Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Ye Lin sent his clones to patrol the area while he searched the corpse and found a bright yellow, three-branched tail-shaped External Soul Bone.

Ye Lin gave Hu Liena the Three-Eyed Demon Fox’s three-tailed External Soul Bone, and she absorbed it after reaching rank fifty-one. Back at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Dugu Bo and Yue Guan finished their herbal body-tempering method, and Bibi Dong revealed she had a top-tier secret body-tempering technique to pair with it.

• Hu Liena successfully absorbed the Three-Eyed Demon Fox’s Spirit Ring and reached rank fifty-one.
• Ye Lin gave Hu Liena the Three-Eyed Demon Fox’s three-tailed External Soul Bone, and she absorbed it while Ye Lin stood guard.
• Hu Liena manifested three fox tails, and Ye Lin touched one before she told him to do it secretly that night.
• Ye Lin, Hu Liena, Bibi Dong, and Yu Xiaogang returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found that many medicinal herbs were gone.
• Dugu Bo and Yue Guan presented their completed herbal body-tempering method and said it needed a secret body-tempering technique to reach its full potential.
• Bibi Dong revealed that she had a top-tier secret body-tempering technique.

Ye Lin combined medicinal body tempering with Golden Crocodile Douluo’s secret method, enduring three days of intense pain as Dugu Bo and Yue Guan watched over him. He emerged with greatly enhanced strength and a second awakening of his Body Martial Soul.

• Yu Xiaogang showed Dugu Bo and Yue Guan Golden Crocodile Douluo’s Golden Body-Tempering Secret Method, and Dugu Bo explained how it could complement Ye Lin’s herbal body tempering.
• Dugu Bo and Yue Guan prepared a medicinal liquid, sealed Ye Lin inside an iron barrel, and heated it while he cultivated the secret method.
• Ye Lin endured repeated cycles of bodily damage and repair, while Hu Liena worried and Dugu Bo assured her that the process was working.
• After three days, the iron barrel’s top exploded and Ye Lin emerged glowing with golden light, with four Spirit Rings and three External Soul Bones appearing.
• Dugu Bo observed that Ye Lin’s strength and Soul Power circulation had improved and concluded that his Body Martial Soul had completed its second awakening.

After Ye Lin's body tempering, his Martial Soul underwent a second awakening, prompting Yu Xiaogang to theorize that Body Martial Souls could evolve through extreme physical and mental training. The group parted ways as Bibi Dong and Hu Liena returned to Spirit Hall, while Ye Lin and Yu Xiaogang flew back to Shrek Academy.

• Ye Lin told Yu Xiaogang that his Martial Soul had completed a second awakening and gained about thirty percent more potential.
• Yu Xiaogang theorized that strengthening the body and using Spiritual Power could trigger further evolutions of a Body Martial Soul.
• Hu Liena asked Ye Lin to put his clothes on after noticing he had emerged from the iron barrel naked.
• Bibi Dong prepared to return to Spirit Hall and encouraged Hu Liena to cultivate diligently so she could be with Ye Lin in the future.
• Bibi Dong and Yue Guan flew to Spirit Hall with Hu Liena, while Ye Lin and Yu Xiaogang said goodbye to Dugu Bo.
• Ye Lin and Yu Xiaogang rode the Radiant Sacred Dragon toward Shrek Academy.

Yu Xiaogang returned to Shrek Academy with Ye Lin, but Xiao Wu was missing. He told Tang San that Xiao Wu had gone home and might not return for years, leaving Tang San furious and suspecting Yu Xiaogang had arranged her departure.

• Yu Xiaogang and Ye Lin arrived at Shrek Academy on Luo Sanpao, and Liu Erlong and Tang San came to greet them.
• Tang San searched for Xiao Wu, while Yu Xiaogang secretly considered entering the Soul Master Tournament to pursue its fifty-thousand-year Spiritual Wisdom Skull for Ye Lin.
• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang where Xiao Wu was, and Yu Xiaogang claimed she had left to handle a family matter and would be away for at least two or three years.
• Tang San was shocked and privately blamed Yu Xiaogang for making Xiao Wu leave, disrupting his plan to have her sacrifice herself for him.
• Yu Xiaogang secretly mocked Tang San and told him to respect Xiao Wu’s decision to go home.

Xiao Wu returned to the Star Dou Forest, leaving Tang San upset and giving Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing more time with Ye Lin. Dai Mubai later asked Ye Lin for advice about a girl who did not return his feelings, and Ye Lin recognized that he meant Zhu Zhuqing.

• Tang San hid his anger over Xiao Wu leaving and said he was worried about her.
• Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing comforted Ye Lin and each held one of his arms, while Ye Lin said Xiao Wu would return.
• Dai Mubai watched Zhu Zhuqing grow close to Ye Lin and decided he needed to speak with him.
• That night, Dai Mubai invited Ye Lin on a walk to the lake and asked why a girl he liked was cold toward him.
• Ye Lin told Dai Mubai that neither a person's feelings nor the lack of returned affection could be changed, and Dai Mubai admitted Zhu Zhuqing left him at a loss.

Ye Lin helped Dai Mubai understand why Zhu Zhuqing resented him, and Dai Mubai confronted how he had abandoned her and squandered the time she bought him. His realization triggered his White Tiger Martial Soul’s evolution into the Evil-Eyed Holy King, whose ancient spirit appeared before him.

• Ye Lin told Dai Mubai to consider whether he had hurt Zhu Zhuqing and reminded him that nobody owed him understanding or loyalty.
• Dai Mubai realized he had fled the Star Luo Empire without considering Zhu Zhuqing’s danger, then spent his time at Shrek Academy pursuing pleasure while she struggled alone.
• Dai Mubai admitted he had acted like a beast and was unworthy of Zhu Zhuqing, then resolved to leave his old self behind.
• Dai Mubai’s White Tiger Martial Soul transformed into the Evil-Eyed Holy King, and his Soul Power rose as a fourth, black-and-white Bloodline Spirit Ring appeared.
• An ancient figure emerged in Dai Mubai’s Sea of Consciousness and identified himself as the Evil-Eyed Holy King.

Dai Mubai learned that the Evil-Eyed Holy King might be trying to possess him after awakening his bloodline power and evolving his Martial Soul. He resolved to guard his consciousness, then went to speak with Zhu Zhuqing after realizing their Martial Souls no longer shared their former connection.

• Dai Mubai asked Ye Lin about the Evil-Eyed Holy King, and Ye Lin explained that Dai Mubai had awakened the ancient guardian's bloodline and gained a powerful Bloodline Spirit Ring.
• Ye Lin warned Dai Mubai that the Evil-Eyed Holy King might be seeking a body and could gradually take control of Dai Mubai's mind and body.
• Dai Mubai rejected the Evil-Eyed Holy King's claims and vowed to keep control of himself while thanking Ye Lin for the warning.
• Dai Mubai went to Zhu Zhuqing's room and asked her to talk with him by the lake.
• Dai Mubai realized that his evolved Martial Soul no longer resonated with Zhu Zhuqing's Nether Civet Martial Soul, and he grew more certain that the Evil-Eyed Holy King had told the truth about that change.

Dai Mubai ended his engagement with Zhu Zhuqing and vowed to face the Star Luo Royal Family’s succession struggle alone after revealing his newly awakened Evil-Eyed Holy King Martial Soul. Zhu Zhuqing accepted that their relationship was over, then visited Ye Lin and asked what someone should do when they cannot stop dwelling on something.

• Dai Mubai told Zhu Zhuqing he wanted to end their engagement and apologized for how he had treated her.
• Zhu Zhuqing reminded Dai Mubai that the Star Luo Royal Family’s rules left him no way to escape its succession struggle.
• Dai Mubai revealed his Evil-Eyed Holy King Martial Soul and declared that he would claim the throne and change the royal rules himself.
• Zhu Zhuqing said she had once hoped Dai Mubai would become someone she could rely on, but that his change had come too late.
• Dai Mubai apologized, promised to shoulder the royal disputes alone, and ended his engagement with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing visited Ye Lin and asked what someone should do when they could not stop dwelling on something.