Recaps

After winning the tournament, Jiang Hai exposed himself as an Evil Soul Master and left East Cang Academy, then crossed the Far North with Xue Linglong to gain a powerful new soul ring. In Mingdu, he pursued a place at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy through a teacher assessment, where his ideas impressed the senior Soul Engineers.

• Jiang Hai defeated Ma Xiaotao to win the championship, but after the awards ceremony Nalan Ruo accused him of murder and Jiang Hai admitted killing the people named.
• Long Xiaoyao rescued Jiang Hai from the assembled Douluos, and Shi Youming offered him a place in the Holy Spirit Cult, which Jiang Hai secretly intended to infiltrate and destroy.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong traveled north, where they killed the Extreme Ice Miasma Bug King and Jiang Hai used its cicada slough to strengthen his body before absorbing its fifty-thousand-year soul ring.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong crossed into the Sun Moon Empire and reached Mingdu, where Jiang Hai decided to study advanced Soul Tools rather than immediately approach the Holy Spirit Cult.
• With Fang Baichi's help, Jiang Hai adopted the name Jiang Chuan and arranged to qualify as a teacher at Mingdu Second Soul Engineer Academy, while Xue Linglong prepared for its selection tournament.
• Jiang Hai discussed the purpose and future of Soul Tools with six senior Soul Engineers, and Wang Changwen guided him through advanced questions as their assessment became an exchange of ideas.

Jiang Hai became a Level 7 Soul Engineer, taught Xue Linglong and led an exchange delegation to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where he gained access to the Demon Body research project. After a year of study, he began mentoring Shrek students and took Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Keke toward the Jingyang Mountain Range.

• Jiang Hai crafted the Vermilion Bird Wings, earned Level 7 Soul Engineer status, and accepted a teaching position at Mingdu Second Soul Engineer Academy.
• Jiang Hai taught Class 9 while Xue Linglong transformed her Ice Mirror soul skill into the Ice Soul Divine Light, which Jiang Hai named a Lifebound Soul Tool.
• Jiang Hai led Xue Linglong and four other students to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, where Lin Jiayi arranged his assessment for Illustrious Virtue Hall access.
• Jiang Hai built a soul-guidance automobile, passed the Level 7 assessment, and accepted a special consultant position and Research Institute No. 13 from Jing Hongchen.
• Jiang Hai studied the Demon Body records, used Divine Finger Douluo’s corpse to strengthen himself, and developed plans for a Level 9 Lifebound Soul Tool.
• Jiang Hai agreed to mentor a Shrek student, drew He Caitou, and let him study in Laboratory Forty-First before leaving to guide Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and Keke.
• Jiang Hai punished Huo Yuhao for probing the Vermilion Bird Wings’ arrays, carried the group toward the Jingyang Mountain Range, and explained Lifebound Soul Engineering during a rest stop.

Huo Yuhao gained his fourth soul ring while Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong hunted a hundred-thousand-year beast in Jingyang Mountain, where Jiang Hai claimed the Magnetism Mother Tree’s power. Back at the academy, Jiang Hai rescued Nana’s parents’ souls and joined her in drawing out the Holy Spirit Cult, ending with their escape after killing Soul Nine.

• Jiang Hai led Huo Yuhao and the others into the Jingyang Mountain Range, where Huo Yuhao killed a weakened Silver Wolf King and gained his fourth soul ring.
• Jiang Hai and Xue Linglong fought through the Red Rock Pangolins and discovered the hundred-thousand-year Magnetism Mother Tree beneath Jingyang Mountain.
• Jiang Hai killed the Magnetism Mother Tree, absorbed its soul ring, and gained a lightning-based domain while Xue Linglong refined its Tree Heart liquid.
• Jiang Hai returned to the academy, repaired his soul tools, and revealed his identity to Nana before offering to recover her parents’ souls in exchange for her help against the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Jiang Hai attacked a Holy Spirit Cult branch with Nana, killed its elders, and recovered the soul-summoning banner containing her parents’ souls.
• Nana’s parents regained their minds and became guardian spirits connected to her Martial Soul, while Jiang Hai purified the other wraiths and completed a Level 8 Flying Sword Case.
• Jiang Hai and Nana lured Holy Spirit Cult pursuers into Mogha Forest, where they killed Seventeen, Thirty-One, Twenty-Four, and Soul Nine.
• Jiang Hai and Nana escaped the forest as Thirteen’s group concluded that Soul Nine and his companions had likely died and chose to wait for an elder.

Jiang Hai helped establish the Civilization Research Institute, then infiltrated the Holy Spirit Cult and used its blood pool to advance his soul power. At the concealed headquarters, he learned that winning a top position in the Blood Trial could earn him a hundred-thousand-year soul ring.

• Jiang Hai killed Nether Thunder Douluo with help from Xue Linglong and Xuan Ziwen, then helped seal the revived Demon Body.
• Jiang Hai revealed his identity and goals to Xuan Ziwen, and they began developing his Lifebound Soul Tool and planning a Civilization Research Institute.
• Jiang Hai and Xuan Ziwen recruited researchers, studied Soul Tool blueprints, and gained Shi Jingcheng’s help after Shi broke through to become a Titled Douluo and Level 9 Soul Engineer.
• Jiang Hai spent three months transcribing blueprints and advancing his Soul Tool expertise, then visited the Holy Spirit Cult through White Cat’s hidden hall.
• Jiang Hai swore loyalty to the Holy Spirit Cult and cultivated in its blood pool, advancing to level 60 before the Blood-Clothed Elder took him toward the concealed headquarters.
• Jiang Hai reached the underground headquarters, where the Fourth Elder offered him a hundred-thousand-year soul ring if he finished in the Blood Trial’s top two.
• Jiang Hai fought the Blood-Clothed Elder, demonstrated his Iceflame Diamond Transformation, and received a starlight sapphire containing a Soul Douluo’s corpse as a potential reward for securing an elder position.
• Jiang Hai settled into the branch disciples’ dormitory and used the corpse in his Purple Lightning Coffin to replenish his Soul Power and strengthen his body.