Recaps

Ning Chengyi and Zhu Zhuqing wore down and wiped out the Evil Soul Masters, then parted ways after Zhu Zhuqing gave Ning Chengyi her kitten’s bell. Ning Chengyi reached Suotuo City, where Snake Lance Douluo confirmed the assignment was complete and took him back toward Heaven Dou City.

• Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Chengyi repeatedly harassed the Evil Soul Masters, keeping them from resting until they were exhausted.
• Ning Chengyi killed the chief in a duel, and he and Zhu Zhuqing defeated the disorganized Evil Soul Masters, leaving none alive.
• Ning Chengyi erased traces of the battle, and Zhu Zhuqing gave him a bell before leaving; he stored it beside Little Black’s tooth.
• Ning Chengyi traveled to Suotuo City and rested at the Nightglow Tower.
• Snake Lance Douluo inspected the battlefield, confirmed Ning Chengyi had completed the assignment, and took him toward Heaven Dou City.

After Ning Chengyi returned from his mission, Su Yao confronted him, and Xue Qinghe ordered resources and accelerated training to test his potential. Zhu Zhuqing waited at Shrek, thinking of Ning Chengyi and watching a blond man she despised.

• Snake Lance Douluo She Long returned with Ning Chengyi and reported the grisly, one-strike deaths of the Evil Soul Masters to Xue Qinghe.
• Su Yao confronted Ning Chengyi for returning late, then fled in embarrassment after realizing her nightdress had exposed her.
• Porcupinefish Douluo Ci Xue told Xue Qinghe that Her Eminence had approved his request to nurture Ning Chengyi, and Xue Qinghe ordered resources, testing, and a second soul ring within the month.
• Su Yao told Ning Chengyi his training would intensify with medicinal baths and Evil Soul Master hunts to prepare him for a major assessment.
• Zhu Zhuqing stood at Shrek's entrance, watched a blond man with disgust, and remembered her encounters with Ning Chengyi until someone called to her.

Zhu Zhuqing passed Shrek Academy’s entrance test but rejected Dai Mubai’s advances and was disgusted by the academy’s sausage seller, Oscar. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong disguised herself and set out for Heaven Dou City, while Yu Shuo and Yu Tianheng headed to Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

• Zhu Zhuqing met Xiao Wu and Tang San, then passed Shrek Academy’s test with two Soul Rings.
• Dai Mubai offered to escort Zhu Zhuqing inside, but she rebuffed him and walked away; he remained determined to pursue her.
• Dai Mubai stopped Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong from eating Oscar’s sausages by revealing how Oscar summoned them.
• Bibi Dong received a report, announced she was entering seclusion, disguised herself, and left for Heaven Dou City.
• Yu Shuo learned Yu Tianheng had not found or avenged the person who injured him, then persuaded him to visit Heaven Dou Imperial Academy.

Ning Chengyi trained with a medicinal bath and went with Su Yao to watch the Imperial Fighting Team face the Heavenly Apex Class. When the rival teams gathered, the Heavenly Apex Class appeared to have only six members, until a familiar voice challenged the claim that they were short a fighter.

• Ning Chengyi absorbed the medicinal bath’s properties, bringing his Soul Power close to level eighteen, and asked Su Yao about Ye Heng’s training.
• Su Yao took Ning Chengyi to the academy’s crowded sparring hall, where she introduced him to Qin Ming and showed him profiles of the Imperial Fighting Team.
• The seven members of the Imperial Fighting Team and the six members of the Heavenly Apex Class entered as their supporters traded cheers and insults.
• Yu Tianheng questioned why the Heavenly Apex Class had only six fighters, and Ye Heng insisted that his team did not need anyone else.
• As the Heavenly Apex Class fell silent under questions about its missing members, an unexpected voice declared, “Who says our class is short a fighter?!”

Ning Chengyi entered the arena and provoked Yu Tianheng’s team before the match began. As both teams fought, Dugu Yan targeted Ning Chengyi, who had lured her toward him, while Yu Tianheng unleashed his full power.

• Ning Chengyi introduced himself to Yu Tianheng and mocked Yu Feng, then Yu Shuo identified him as the person who had beaten him.
• Ning Chengyi taunted Yu Shuo and Yu Tianheng, arranged to handle Dugu Yan while Ye Heng fought the others, and the teams prepared for the match.
• Meng Shenji announced the start, and both teams summoned their martial souls and attacked.
• Ye Heng and Yu Tianheng clashed, while Dugu Yan spotted Ning Chengyi in a corner and threatened him with her poison.
• Ye Heng called for the others to protect Ning Chengyi, but Yu Tianheng unleashed his full Soul Elder aura and urged Dugu Yan to attack.

Ning Chengyi pretended Dugu Yan's poison had left him helpless, drawing her close before revealing he had secretly neutralized it. The chapter ended as he unleashed his first Soul Skill and struck back with his spear.

• Dugu Yan engulfed Ning Chengyi in Jade Phosphor Purple Poison and taunted him, while the spectators feared the poison would kill him.
• Ning Chengyi secretly used Phantom Butterfly to absorb the poison, then released poisonous butterfly dust and faked severe symptoms.
• Dugu Yan approached the apparently weakened Ning Chengyi to finish him as Ye Heng and the others struggled to reach him.
• Ning Chengyi suddenly shed his feigned weakness, activated his first Soul Skill, and charged at Dugu Yan with his spear, scattering the poison mist.

Ning Chengyi turned Dugu Yan’s poison against the Imperial Fighting Team, striking her from the arena and clashing with Yu Tianheng. As Ye Lingling healed her teammates, Ning Chengyi revealed that he had poisoned Yu Tianheng and began counting as the poison took effect.

• Ning Chengyi used his hidden strength to knock Dugu Yan out of the arena with a spear strike.
• Yu Tianheng attacked Ning Chengyi in a rage, but Ning Chengyi countered with his first Soul Skill and sent him flying back.
• Ye Lingling healed Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan while Ning Chengyi arranged for Golden Bell Flower to restore his Soul Power.
• Ning Chengyi revealed that he had poisoned Yu Tianheng using the Poison Butterfly Powder and counted down as the poison began to affect him.

Ning Chengyi’s concealed poison crippled Yu Tianheng and Ye Lingling, allowing the Heavenly Apex Class to defeat the Imperial Fighting Team. After the Three Education Committee Members declared the result, Ning Chengyi refused Yu Feng’s demand to cure them and kicked him.

• Ning Chengyi’s poison left Yu Tianheng writhing in agony, while the stunned crowd realized a rank-seventeen Soul Master had defeated him.
• The Shi Brothers advanced toward Yu Tianheng as Ye Lingling tried to heal him, but she coughed blood and lost her ability to fight.
• Ning Chengyi revealed that he had planned the poisoning and used Dugu Yan’s poisonous fog to conceal his Second Martial Soul.
• Ye Lingling surrendered as the Heavenly Apex Class overwhelmed the Imperial Fighting Team, and the Three Education Committee Members declared the Heavenly Apex Class the winner.
• Yu Feng demanded that Ning Chengyi cure the poisoned teammates, but Ning Chengyi kicked him and refused; Ye Lingling pleaded for help.

Ning Chengyi cured Ye Lingling and Yu Tianheng with his blood after the Education Committee Members intervened, then left the sparring room while Su Yao chased him. Meanwhile, Bibi Dong entered the Star Dou Great Forest to find the Twin Spider Brightflower, but she staggered back to Star Dou Town days later in a badly weakened state.

• Ning Chengyi restored Ye Lingling's complexion with his blood and then cured Yu Tianheng after the Education Committee Members ordered him to do so.
• Meng Shenji silenced the spectators and ordered them not to reveal what had happened, while Qin Ming threatened Ning Chengyi before leaving.
• Ning Chengyi refused to tell Su Yao how he had learned to use poison and ran from her.
• Bibi Dong disguised herself and traveled to Star Dou Town before entering the Star Dou Great Forest to seek the Twin Spider Brightflower.
• Several days later, Bibi Dong staggered out of the forest covered in grime, pale and badly weakened.

Bibi Dong was poisoned by a Twin Spider Nether Flower and lost most of her cultivation as two elderly strangers came to her aid. Meanwhile, Ning Chengyi prepared to leave for wilderness training in the Star Dou Great Forest, leaving Ye Heng in charge of the Heavenly Apex Class.

• Bibi Dong realized she had mistaken the poisonous Twin Spider Nether Flower for a Twin Spider Brightflower, and her cultivation fell to Soul Saint level as the toxins spread.
• An elderly man and woman found Bibi Dong unconscious and helped carry her away.
• Xue Qinghe approved Ning Chengyi's training trip to the Star Dou Great Forest and instructed She Long to keep him at the academy until he reached level twenty.
• Su Yao failed to get permission to accompany Ning Chengyi and warned him repeatedly before he left.
• Ning Chengyi told the Heavenly Apex Class that Ye Heng would lead them while he was away, and the students promised to follow his instructions.
• Ning Chengyi departed with She Long as the class settled into cultivation and Ye Heng praised the change in its discipline.

Bibi Dong recovered from the poison under the care of an elderly couple and found purpose in helping them heal others. She then asked to become their daughter, and introduced herself as Zhu Qianxun.

• Ning Chengyi's reports pleased Emperor Xue Ye, who trusted Xue Qinghe more and gave him greater authority.
• The elderly couple cared for Bibi Dong through seven days of unconsciousness, and she woke with her Soul Power reduced to level forty.
• Bibi Dong learned to identify herbs and prepare antidotes, then treated a young Soul Master who had been poisoned by a spider.
• The old woman told Bibi Dong that the couple had lost their child in a Soul Beast forest and had spent nearly forty years healing others.
• Bibi Dong told the couple she wanted them to be her parents, and she gave them the name Zhu Qianxun.

Bibi Dong settled into life as the old couple’s adopted daughter, taking their advice about love to heart while recovering her strength. Meanwhile, Ning Chengyi reached Star Dou Town, met the local Nightglow Tower manager, and set out to visit its intelligence organization.

• The old woman advised Bibi Dong to pursue mutual love and let go of someone who refused to understand her, prompting Bibi Dong to think of a young man.
• Bibi Dong accompanied the old couple into the Star Dou Great Forest to gather antidote herbs and showed off her knowledge of plants.
• Bibi Dong decided to remain hidden from Spirit Hall until the poison was purged and her strength returned, while helping the old couple treat people in town.
• Snake Lance Douluo escorted Ning Chengyi to Star Dou Town, where Ning Chengyi entered Nightglow Tower and met manager Cao Deshuang.
• Ning Chengyi heard townspeople praise Old Zhu and his wife, then asked Cao Deshuang for directions and headed to the intelligence organization.

Ning Chengyi met Meng Yiran while gathering information in Small Town, beat her in a fishing contest, and learned about Old Zhu and the local mercenaries. He commissioned hidden weapons from the blacksmith and went to find Old Zhu, only to learn that Zhu had gone to pick up his daughter.

• Ning Chengyi caught fish easily, challenged Meng Yiran to a contest, and won after she caught only two tiny fish.
• Ning Chengyi shared his cooked fish with Meng Yiran, learned useful information from her, and gave her the rest of his catch.
• Ning Chengyi visited the blacksmith, commissioned a set of hidden weapons, and heard that Old Zhu led a reliable mercenary group.
• Ning Chengyi went to Old Zhu's home and learned from the people there that Old Zhu had gone to pick up his daughter.

Ning Chengyi joined Bibi Dong and a large group of Soul Masters heading into the Star Dou Great Forest, while Bibi Dong struggled with whether to reveal herself to him. Their journey was interrupted by the arrival of the Fierce Wolf Soul Hunting Group, whose members were known for robbing independent Soul Masters.

• Ning Chengyi asked Old Zhu's wife if he could join her family's trip into the Star Dou Great Forest, and she agreed.
• Old Zhu's wife told the injured Soul Masters that Bibi Dong would gather herbs, and many volunteered to escort her.
• Ning Chengyi arrived the next morning to find at least seventy Soul Masters gathered to protect Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong recognized Ning Chengyi in the crowd and wrestled with whether to reveal herself as the group set off.
• The Fierce Wolf Soul Hunting Group caught up with them, prompting the Soul Masters to warn Bibi Dong that the group robbed them for resources.

Ning Chengyi uncovered the Fierce Wolf Group’s sinister intentions and persuaded Bibi Dong and the escort party to split from them at the Star Dou Great Forest. The group’s young master planned to gather his forces, unleash a Soul Beast Tide, and abduct the girl from the Zhu Family.

• The Fierce Wolf Group joined Bibi Dong’s escort party, and Ning Chengyi learned they were led by a rank twenty-three Soul Grandmaster notorious for exploiting Small Town’s residents.
• The party reached the Star Dou Great Forest, where Ning Chengyi questioned the young master’s mission and suspected he was scheming.
• Ning Chengyi proposed that the party separate from the Fierce Wolf Group, and Bibi Dong supported him, so the escort party continued into the forest without them.
• The Fierce Wolf Group’s young master ordered his men to regroup and follow the party’s marks, then revealed his plan to cause a Soul Beast Tide and seize the Zhu Family girl.

Bibi Dong gathered Hundred-Repelling Grass and other herbs while Ning Chengyi kept watch with their party in the Star Dou Great Forest. Li Qiuping arrived with reinforcements from the Fierce Wolf Group and surrounded them, then lit Beast-luring incense as the party prepared to defend itself.

• Bibi Dong treated injured Soul Masters as the party traveled deeper into the forest, and Ning Chengyi grew convinced she was not the woman he had once known.
• Bibi Dong found the red-cord-marked Hundred-Repelling Grass beneath a massive tree and carefully harvested it.
• Li Qiuping and five Soul Elders ambushed the resting party, with Li Qiuping revealing his interest in Miss Zhu.
• Old Zhao arranged the party into a defensive formation and ordered Old Xu to escort the children away.
• Li Qiuping lit Beast-luring incense as the five Soul Elders advanced.

Li Qiuping used Beast-Luring Incense to trap Old Zhao and the others in a coming beast tide, then tried to abduct Bibi Dong. Bibi Dong killed Third Uncle with one strike, and the group prepared to flee as the beast tide approached.

• Li Qiuping revealed the Beast-Luring Incense, prompting Old Zhao and the others to fight the Fierce Wolf Group and clear a path for the children.
• Old Xu and Old Zhao urged the children to escape while the beast tide’s roars drew closer.
• Li Qiuping confronted Bibi Dong and ordered Third Uncle to seize her.
• Bibi Dong revealed four Soul Rings and killed Third Uncle with a palm strike, terrifying Li Qiuping.
• The Fierce Wolf Group withdrew as the beast tide neared, and Old Zhao told Old Xu to lead the others toward a cliff.
• Bibi Dong returned unharmed and told Old Zhao to lead the way.

As a beast tide threatened the group at a cliff, Old Zhao and the others tried to get the children down to a cave while Bibi Dong and Ning Chengyi stayed behind to hold off the soul beasts. The chapter ended as a terrifying roar came from the forest with seven people still at the cliff's edge.

• Li Qiuping, crippled and abandoned, was found by a Pleasure Ape as soul beasts closed in on him.
• Old Zhao led the group toward a cliffside cave, where Old Xu began lowering the children one at a time.
• Old Zhao and the other adults chose to guard the rear while the children descended, and Ning Chengyi shared wine with them before they fought.
• Bibi Dong revealed her Soul Ancestor power and cut down a soul beast with her machete, astonishing Old Xu and the others.
• Ning Chengyi revealed a purple soul ring and stayed beside Bibi Dong to hold off the beasts as the remaining people descended.
• Bibi Dong sensed a great threat in the forest and urged everyone down, but seven people remained when an earth-shaking roar sounded.

Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong escaped a thirty-thousand-year Blazing Demon Ape by plunging from a cliff into a river, but Bibi Dong was badly injured and began suffering violent swings between heat and cold. Ning Chengyi carried her to shelter and tried to find a way to treat her, ending by feeding her his blood.

• A Blazing Demon Ape attacked the group, and Bibi Dong ordered Old Zhao to lead the others down while she and Ning Chengyi remained behind.
• Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong fought to survive the ape's attack, and Bibi Dong's martial soul manifestation made Ning Chengyi mistake her for Qian Xun.
• Bibi Dong grabbed Ning Chengyi and used the force of the ape's blow to fling them both off the cliff, while the others believed they had died.
• Ning Chengyi carried the unconscious Bibi Dong from the river to a sheltered cave, where her body alternated between burning hot and shivering cold.
• Ning Chengyi found no answer in his secret notes and gave Bibi Dong his blood in an attempt to help her.

Ning Chengyi endured Bibi Dong’s poison flare through the night, and she woke feeling guilty after realizing he had repeatedly used his blood to help her. After Fierce Wolf Group members searched nearby for a soul bone, Bibi Dong identified the Gold-Growing Vines as a clue, and Ning Chengyi discovered a concealed stone doorway.

• Ning Chengyi hid the cave and used his blood and Phantom Butterfly Spirit Tide to suppress Bibi Dong’s alternating bouts of heat and cold through the night.
• Bibi Dong woke in Ning Chengyi’s arms, explained that the Twin Spider Nether Flower had poisoned her for over a month, and felt guilty when she saw his wounded arm.
• Ning Chengyi overheard Fierce Wolf Group members searching for a soul bone and the missing young master, Li Qiuping.
• After the group left, Bibi Dong explained that the Gold-Growing Vines thrived near valuable treasures and could wither when a treasure exceeded what they could absorb.
• Ning Chengyi searched away from the group’s routes and found an ancient stone doorway hidden behind dried vines, then returned to wait for Bibi Dong.

Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong entered a hidden chamber, where they found the Twin Spider Brightflower and used it to suppress Bibi Dong’s poison. As Bibi Dong struggled with the medicine’s effects, they discovered a rare mental-type Soul Bone, but the Fierce Wolf Group arrived outside the chamber.

• Ning Chengyi led Bibi Dong through a secret passage to a stone chamber containing the Twin Spider Brightflower.
• Bibi Dong could not approach the flower, so Ning Chengyi picked it, crushed it, and passed its medicinal liquid to her with his Soul Power.
• Bibi Dong’s poisons clashed violently, and Ning Chengyi used his Phantom Butterfly Spirit Tide to help stabilize her.
• Bibi Dong noticed a golden glow behind the stone platform and identified a roughly thirty- to forty-thousand-year-old Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull.
• Bibi Dong sensed footsteps and shouts outside the stone chamber and warned Ning Chengyi that the Fierce Wolf Group had arrived.

Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong fought off the Fierce Wolf Group as Ning Chengyi broke the rock around the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull. He freed the hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year Soul Bone, but the Beast-Luring Incense drew a new tide of Soul Beasts toward the chamber.

• Ning Chengyi spotted Li Huo and dozens of Fierce Wolf Group members approaching the concealed chamber, while Bibi Dong warned that her poison left her unable to endure a prolonged fight.
• Bibi Dong killed the first attackers when the stone door broke, then was badly injured by Li Huo as he led the group into the chamber.
• Ning Chengyi used his spear to crack open the rock around the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull while Bibi Dong held off the attackers.
• Ning Chengyi enveloped the Fierce Wolf Group in an illusion of attacking beasts and corpses, disrupting their formation long enough to shatter the last of the rocky shell.
• Ning Chengyi freed the hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, and the remaining Beast-Luring Incense drew a roaring tide of Soul Beasts toward them.

Ning Chengyi risked his life to reclaim the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull from Li Huo, and Bibi Dong burned her divine power and poison to save him and escape. They reached a secluded cave, where both collapsed as the beast tide swept through the valley and Bibi Dong’s poison began its backlash.

• Li Huo attacked Ning Chengyi and tried to seize the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, but Ning Chengyi used Phantom Butterfly Spirit Tide to pull the soul bone into his possession.
• As Li Huo moved to kill Ning Chengyi, Bibi Dong burned her Rakshasa divine power and unleashed the Death Spider Emperor’s strength to stop him.
• Bibi Dong drove back the Fierce Wolf Group and carried Ning Chengyi out of the chamber, while the beast tide forced Li Huo and his men to flee.
• Bibi Dong carried the injured Ning Chengyi through the forest and found a secluded cave as her borrowed power faded.
• Bibi Dong collapsed inside the cave, and the poison began its full backlash while Ning Chengyi remained unconscious with the golden soul bone against his chest.

Ning Chengyi absorbed the hundred-and-fifty-thousand-year Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, broke through to rank twenty, and recovered from his injuries while Bibi Dong drank his blood to suppress her poison. They remained trapped in the cave as the beast tide raged outside, and the Hehuan Ape King screamed in the battle between two Soul Kings.

• Bibi Dong lost control to the warring toxins and bit Ning Chengyi, whose blood briefly suppressed the poison.
• Ning Chengyi absorbed the Spirit Condensation Wisdom Skull, strengthened his Phantom Butterfly Spirit Tide, and broke through to rank-twenty Soul Grandmaster.
• The Hehuan Ape King and the Blazing Demon Ape clashed, while Li Huo led the wounded Fierce Wolf Group away from the fight.
• Bibi Dong regained consciousness as the Twin Spider Brightflower and Ning Chengyi's blood neutralized the toxins, then apologized for biting him.
• Ning Chengyi warned Bibi Dong that the beast tide and Li Huo still prevented their escape, and she asked whether he had absorbed the Wisdom Skull.
• The battle outside intensified, and the Hehuan Ape King let out a scream of agony.

Ning Chengyi rejected the injured thirty-thousand-year Blazing Demon Ape and instead absorbed a nine-thousand-year Black-Armored Spiral Rhino’s Soul Ring, gaining a second Soul Skill and reaching level twenty-three. Elsewhere, Li Huo vowed to take Zhu Qianxun and his wife hostage to lure Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong out.

• A thirty-thousand-year Blazing Demon Ape killed the Hehuan Ape King, and Ning Chengyi gave up the chance to claim its Soul Ring after Bibi Dong warned that the strain could kill him.
• Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong left their cave under cover of the Phantom Butterfly Spirit Tide and used Spiritual Detection to avoid the rampaging Soul Beasts.
• Bibi Dong weakened a wounded nine-thousand-year Black-Armored Spiral Rhino, and Ning Chengyi killed it with his first Soul Skill.
• Ning Chengyi absorbed the Rhino’s Soul Ring, gained the second Soul Skill Phantom Spear Strangulation, and advanced to level twenty-three.
• Li Huo found his ruined son Li Qiuping and planned to abduct Zhu Qianxun and his wife to draw out Ning Chengyi and Bibi Dong.
• Ning Chengyi suggested returning to Small Town, and Bibi Dong agreed with unease.