Recaps

Lin Chen cultivated rapidly, advanced through the Spirit Hall academies, and reached level thirty while preparing to join the story’s unfolding events. On the way to hunt for his third soul ring, he found an Immortal Herb that strengthened Liuli’s Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline.

• Lin Chen refused Yu Xiaogang’s offer to become his disciple and focused on cultivating, reaching level ten before hunting his first soul ring with his parents.
• Lin Chen absorbed a five-hundred-year Azure Water Fox soul ring, transformed White Fox into Liuli, and gained two soul skills before joining the Spirit Hall.
• Lin Chen reached level twenty, absorbed a Greenwood Fox soul ring that transformed Liuli into a Two-Tailed White Fox, and advanced to level twenty-three.
• Lin Chen graduated early from Notting Academy and trained under Mo Yuan at Suotuo Spirit Hall Intermediate Academy, reaching the peak of level twenty-eight.
• Lin Chen won every Soul Grandmaster Arena match and defeated a level-thirty-one Soul Elder before reaching level twenty-nine.
• After learning that Flender had begun recruiting Dai Mubai, Lin Chen cultivated in seclusion and broke through to level thirty.
• Mo Yuan agreed to accompany Lin Chen to the Star Dou Great Forest, and they stopped in Star Dou Town to rest.
• Lin Chen bought an unusual flower that Liuli recognized as an Immortal Herb, then absorbed its energy and strengthened its Nine-Tailed Fox bloodline.

Lin Chen absorbed an over-limit Flame Spirit Fox Soul Ring, then helped Zhu Zhuqing escape Lu Jia and join Mo Yuan’s academy. After a year of fighting alongside Zhu Zhuqing, Lin Chen learned Tang San and Xiao Wu had arrived in Suotuo City and bought the Millennium Hair Crystal before they could claim it.

• Lin Chen and Mo Yuan entered Star Dou Forest, where Mo Yuan defeated the territorial Soul Beasts blocking their way and led Lin Chen to a Flame Spirit Fox clan.
• Mo Yuan drew the two-thousand-year Flame Spirit Fox leader away from its pack, and Lin Chen killed it after narrowly avoiding its attack.
• The Soul Ring encircled Liuli, and Lin Chen endured its dangerous energy as Liuli grew a third tail and helped him complete the absorption.
• Lin Chen tested his transformed Martial Soul and new Soul Skills, then returned with Mo Yuan to Border Town, where he intervened when Lu Jia and the Iron Tiger Mercenary Group cornered Zhu Zhuqing.
• Mo Yuan drove off the mercenaries, destroyed Lu Jia’s Martial Soul, and recruited Zhu Zhuqing, who agreed to join his academy instead of seeking Dai Mubai.
• Lin Chen brought Zhu Zhuqing to Suotuo City and helped her settle into the academy, and during a shopping trip, she saw Dai Mubai enter the Rose Hotel with another woman.
• Over the following year, Lin Chen and Zhu Zhuqing formed the Cat-Fox Duo, won Soul Fighting Arena matches, and grew closer before Lin Chen learned Tang San and Xiao Wu had arrived in the city.
• Lin Chen went to the shopping street, watched Dai Mubai confront Tang San and Xiao Wu, then bought the Millennium Hair Crystal from Flender for fifteen Gold Soul Coins.

Lin Chen and Zhu Zhuqing formed a new academy team, then trained with their teammates and instructors before traveling to the Star Dou Great Forest for soul rings and combat practice. The team defeated a powerful Thousand Jun Ant swarm, awarded its recovered soul bone to Li Jiaojiao, and continued training in the forest.

• Lin Chen and Zhu Zhuqing defeated Tang San and Xiao Wu as the Cat-Fox Duo at the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Mo Yuan and the Dean approved a new team built around Lin Chen and Zhu Zhuqing, and five students joined them.
• Lin Chen revealed that his soul rings unlocked both offensive and supportive skills, and the instructors rebuilt the team's tactics around his abilities.
• The seven members trained together under Bai Qingqing, Mo Yuan, and Yun Yan, strengthening their teamwork and coordination.
• After Zhu Zhuqing reached level thirty and Mo Yu awakened a Golden Kite martial soul, the team traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to seek soul rings.
• Mo Yu absorbed a four-hundred-year Golden Kite Eagle soul ring, and Zhu Zhuqing absorbed a thousand-year Shadow Leopard soul ring.
• Lin Chen directed the team in defeating a Thousand Jun Ant swarm and its nearly ten-thousand-year ant king, while Yang Ke shielded the team and Zhu Zhuqing struck the decisive blows.
• The team gave the ant king's Right Arm Soul Bone to Li Jiaojiao, who reached level thirty-six after absorbing it, then trained and hunted in the forest for another week.

The Sun Never Sets Team rose through the Great Soul Arena, suffered a humiliating defeat, and rebuilt its strength with whale rubber and focused training. Lin Chen and Zhu Zhuqing grew closer, and the team prepared to move to Heaven Dou City to enter a stronger academy.

• Mo Yuan sent the team to compete under masked aliases, and Lin Chen chose a white fox mask as Sun Never Sets began climbing the Arena ranks.
• Lin Chen challenged the Shrek Seven Devils, and Sun Never Sets defeated them in a team battle after Li Jiaojiao knocked Tang San off the platform.
• The team won most of its battles over the next month but grew complacent, and the Imperial Fighting Team defeated it through superior teamwork and tactics.
• Bai Qingqing criticized the team’s arrogance, and the members spent a day studying battles before watching Shrek defeat the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Lin Chen revealed whale rubber’s cultivation benefits to the Shrek Academy dean, and a test enabled the dean’s assistant to break through to rank thirty.
• Mo Yuan gave each team member a piece of whale rubber, and the team strengthened its cultivation before taking a ten-day vacation.
• Lin Chen and Zhu Zhuqing confronted Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing ended their Marriage Pact before growing closer to Lin Chen during the vacation.
• After intensive training helped the team break through several level barriers, Mo Yuan and Bai Qingqing arranged for Sun Never Sets to enter the Spirit Hall Advanced Soul Master Academy in Heaven Dou City.