Recaps

Ji Hongchen strengthened Jinghong, advanced through the soul master ranks, and secured powerful allies by helping the Dugu Family and Ning Rongrong. The arc left him poised to face Yu Tianheng in the Heaven Dou Soul Fighting Arena.

• Ji Hongchen rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to claim his martial soul research, forged Jinghong, and gained his first soul ring from a Ghostblade Mantis.
• Ji Hongchen defeated Tang San and Xiao Wu, collected their debts, and spent years cultivating and earning money through Soul Fighting.
• Ji Hongchen reached rank thirty, accepted Ning Rongrong’s offer to guard her, and helped her strengthen her physique with whale rubber.
• Ji Hongchen warned Dugu Bo that Dugu Yan’s poison threatened her life and taught Dugu Bo to form a Poison Soul Core in exchange for protection.
• Ji Hongchen joined Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, Dugu Bo, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong in the Star Dou Great Forest, where he killed a Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff and condensed his Sword Dao Soul Core.
• Ji Hongchen gained his third soul skill, Momentum, and a Peerless Domain from his third sword, Golden Rainbow, while Ning Rongrong obtained her second soul skill.
• At his engagement banquet with Ning Rongrong, Ji Hongchen met Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, who chose to recruit him rather than have him eliminated.
• Ji Hongchen encountered Dugu Yan at the arena and was announced as Yu Tianheng’s opponent, then declared that one strike would defeat him.

Ji Hongchen strengthened his cultivation, helped the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect evolve its martial souls, and gathered allies while clashing with Shrek Academy. The arc ended with him transforming Ah Yin into a semi-mechanical life-form and testing the Life Battle Armor.

• Ji Hongchen defeated Yu Tianheng, refined pills that advanced his cultivation, and gave Ning Rongrong a pill that evolved her martial soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ji Hongchen visited Nuoding Academy, struck Yu Xiaogang, defeated Tang San, and took Ah Yin from the cave behind the waterfall.
• Ji Hongchen protected Xiao Wu’s identity, fought Shrek Academy’s teachers, and killed Lu Qibin before Dugu Bo drove Flender and the others away.
• Ji Hongchen gained a ten-thousand-year soul ring and the Sun-Piercer sword, then brought Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Ji Hongchen defeated Qin Ming and helped Qian Renxue break through to level seventy, while Dugu Yan and Ning Rongrong gained new soul rings and abilities.
• Dugu Yan defeated Shrek Academy’s team in the Soul Fighting Arena, and Qin Ming proposed bringing Shrek Academy into Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Ji Hongchen deceived Ah Yin into seeking revenge against Tang Hao and Tang San, then brought her to the Blue Silver Forest to restore her strength.
• After Qian Renxue supplied quasi-divine materials, Ji Hongchen modified Ah Yin into a semi-mechanical life-form and tested the Life Battle Armor she enabled.

Ji Hongchen strengthens his position in Heaven Dou while Qian Renxue and the nobles maneuver around the throne, and Shrek Academy’s conflicts with the empire and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect intensify. The arc ends with the Strength Clan destroyed, Tang San targeted for arrest, and Yu Luomian confronting Yu Xiaogang at Shrek Academy.

• Ji Hongchen joined Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s first team after its committee clashed with Shrek Academy, and Qin Ming resigned to leave with Shrek.
• Qian Renxue renewed her relationship with Ji Hongchen, learned Bibi Dong planned to assassinate him, and arranged for Snake Lance to protect him while Xue Ye’s schemes trapped Dai Mubai.
• Ji Hongchen refined his swordsmanship and soul power, killed Tai Nuo and Tai Long after they threatened Ning Rongrong, and helped Dugu Bo evolve into a Radiant Sacred Dragon.
• Yu Xiaogang’s family conflict escalated when Yu Luomian injured him, while Liu Erlong was compelled to accept marriage to Xue Qinghe to protect Yu Xiaogang.
• Zhu Zhuqing sought a place on Ji Hongchen’s team but was rejected, while Ji Hongchen agreed to Qian Renxue’s request to consummate her marriage with Liu Erlong and asked her to obtain the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud.
• Tang San attacked Xue Beng, and Ji Hongchen warned Ning Fengzhi that the Tang Sect’s hidden weapons could implicate the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Fengzhi’s information led Xue Ye to send the army against the Strength Clan, and Ge Long’s Golden Starfall devastated its grounds after Tai Tan was accused of treason.
• Ge Long moved to arrest Tang San at Shrek Academy, but Yu Tianheng invoked his clan status and marriage alliance to stop him, before Yu Luomian arrived to confront Yu Xiaogang.