Recaps

Lu Mingfei entered Douluo Continent as Star Luo City was displaced into the past, where its ruler founded the Divine Realm Empire and sent a delegation overseas. As the delegation reached Longxing City, Long Yue manipulated Spirit Hall into attacking the Defense Clan and joined Tong Yu in confronting Chrysanthemum Douluo.

• Lu Mingfei crossed into Douluo Continent, awakened Word Spirit: Emperor, and befriended Tang Wulin, while Gu Yuena sensed his Dragon King aura.
• Star Luo City was hurled into the wilderness of an earlier era, and Emperor Dai Tianling renamed his empire and continent the Divine Realm Empire while declaring a new calendar.
• Long Yue evolved his Mountain Sprite into a thousand-year soul spirit, then prepared to travel to Douluo Continent with the empire’s delegation.
• The Divine Realm Empire’s fleet reached Skyfrost Bay, where Long Yue and the delegation negotiated with local officials and secured permission to come ashore.
• Long Yue accompanied Grandmaster Liu on village martial soul awakenings, while the delegation weighed Spirit Hall’s influence and received invitations from Bibi Dong and Emperor Xue Ye.
• In Longxing City, Long Yue and Tong Yu confronted Yue Guan, and Long Yue persuaded Spirit Hall to attack the Defense Clan by portraying it as a threat to revive the Clear Sky Sect.
• Yue Guan’s forces attacked the Defense Clan as Niu Gao and Niu Ben led its people in an escape, while Sima Lanxiao withdrew the delegation and Long Yue and Tong Yu attacked Yue Guan.

Long Yue accompanied the Divine Realm Empire’s delegation to Heaven Dou City, where he promoted its Soul Tools and clashed with the political interests surrounding the exchange match. He defeated the assembled young Soul Masters, then faced Dugu Bo after the elder demanded that Long Yue marry into the Dugu Family.

• Long Yue killed Niu Ben and blamed Spirit Hall for the Defense Clan massacre, while Tong Yu killed Yue Guan and Sima Lanxiao and Joander admitted they had killed fleeing survivors.
• Sima Lanxiao led the delegation to Heaven Dou City, where Xue Qinghe welcomed them and Xue Ye hosted a banquet featuring Joander’s Soul Tool demonstrations.
• Long Yue proposed a Cross-Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament as a way to spread the Divine Realm Empire’s influence, then met Qian Renxue, who was disguised as Xue Qinghe.
• Long Yue visited Tang Yuehua at the Moonlight Pavilion and accepted Ning Fengzhi’s invitation to the Seven Treasure Ball, where he learned that rival academies had changed the sparring rules against him.
• Long Yue defeated Feng Xiaotian in a duel without soul skills, then entered the exchange match and challenged all seven selected opponents at once.
• Long Yue defeated Gu Tianming and Huyan Li, then faced Yu Tianheng, Yu Tianxin, Dugu Yan, Huo Wushuang, and Xue Wu together and won the match undefeated.
• Long Yue challenged Meng Shenji and then Dugu Bo, who demanded that Long Yue stay and become his grandson-in-law, and Xue Ye refused to detain the envoy, and Dugu Bo unleashed his Titled Douluo pressure.

Long Yue strengthened the Divine Realm Empire’s position through the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, diplomacy, and Spirit Hall’s interest in soul spirits and Soul Tools. The arc ended with Tang Hao exposing himself while rescuing Xiao Wu, then sending Tang San and Yu Xiaogang toward Skyfrost City as he prepared to leave.

• Long Yue endured Dugu Bo’s Titled Douluo-level pressure, won public acclaim, and declared himself a genius from Monster Academy.
• Long Yue recruited Dugu Bo by promising to solve the Dugu Family’s poison problem, and Dugu Bo poisoned the Strength Clan’s well after Long Yue revealed Spirit Hall had massacred the Defense Clan.
• Long Yue and Joander negotiated over the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Long Yue consumed the octagonal mysterious ice grass and infernal delicate apricot and emerged with a strengthened Mountain Dragon King and level fifty Soul Power.
• Tai Tan confronted Dugu Bo over the Strength Clan’s deaths, but Long Yue and Joander helped defeat him, and Long Yue later claimed Spirit Hall had killed Niu Gao and the Defense Clan.
• In Spirit City, Long Yue demonstrated Thousand Refinement to Lou Gao, then told Bibi Dong about soul spirits and their benefits, prompting Spirit Hall to buy testing equipment and host public assessments.
• Tang Hao agreed to let Yu Xiaogang take Tang San to Spirit City for free assessments, but Ghost Douluo discovered Xiao Wu’s identity and tried to seize her.
• Tang Hao rescued Xiao Wu, drove Ghost Douluo away, and destroyed the Nuoding City Branch Hall and the city lord’s residence.
• Tang Hao rejected Yu Xiaogang’s plan to stow away to the Spirit Ice Continent, then sent Yu Xiaogang and Tang San to Skyfrost City while ordering Xiao Wu back to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Long Yue brought Tang San and Yu Xiaogang to the Divine Realm Empire, where Tang San encountered its modern cities, Spirit Pagoda, and imperial family. The arc left Tang San at the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, facing a powerful Titled Douluo as he sought a soul spirit.

• Dugu Bo poisoned Xiao Wu and took her soul bone, leaving Tang San to follow the delegation toward the Divine Realm Empire.
• The delegation reached Star Luo City, where Long Yue challenged Dai Weisi and Dai Mubai over their violent succession struggle, and Dai Mubai was sent to the Spirit Ice Continent as a student.
• Zhu Zhuqing fled her arranged future, and Long Yue rescued her from wolf bandits and agreed to take her to the Divine Realm Empire.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang joined the delegation after Tang San received Ah Yin’s soul bone from Tang Hao, and Long Yue helped Dugu Yan absorb Xiao Wu’s soul bone.
• In Xinluo City, Tang San and Dai Mubai were taken to the Spirit Pagoda after a street confrontation, but Long Yue intervened and secured their release.
• The group traveled by Soul Guidance Train to the Imperial Capital, where Long Yue reunited with Cha Weiwei and learned that the Emperor opposed Tang San and Dai Mubai’s arrival.
• Dai Yun’er had Tang San and Dai Mubai beaten after they confronted her at a lakeside bar, while Dugu Bo secured an agreement with Emperor Dai Tianling for the Dugu Family’s share of immortal herbs.
• After Emperor Dai Tianling arranged free soul spirits for the visitors, Tang San went to the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters to choose one and recognized a man surnamed Xu as a powerful Titled Douluo.