Recaps

Qian Chongling cooked and ate a hundred-thousand-year-old rabbit’s leg in the Star Dou Great Forest to fulfill his Chaos Second Trial. He concluded that the trial’s second source of evil was one of the two rabbits whose descendants gave Tang Third Brother confidence.

• Qian Chongling prepared a rabbit leg with spices, lotus leaves, clay, and fruitwood charcoal in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Qian Chongling broke open the clay shell, ate the roasted rabbit leg, and drank Green Plum Wine.
• Qian Chongling recalled that his Chaos Second Trial required him to cook and eat part of the second source of evil.
• Qian Chongling reasoned that the second source was one of the two rabbits, whose descendants and family connections gave Tang Third Brother confidence.

Qian Chongling received a trial to take Bibi Dong as his disciple and reasoned that doing so would not prevent the Angel God from appearing. After speculating that powerful gods were manipulating events around the Angel God and Third Brother, he decided to head to Skywater Academy to unwind.

• Qian Chongling activated the chaos third trial and learned that he had to take Bibi Dong as his disciple for a 10% increase in chaos divine power fusion.
• Qian Chongling and the system concluded that the Angel God did not have to be Qian Renxue and that the Qian Family would produce a destined descendant regardless of Bibi Dong.
• Qian Chongling questioned Qian Renxue's sudden love for Third Brother and suspected that the Angel God's divine trials had been corrupted by the Sea God or another deity.
• Qian Chongling worried about the Rakshasa God, the Sea God, and the Asura God interfering with Spirit Hall and Third Brother.
• Qian Chongling decided to seek a gatekeeper position at Skywater Academy so he could enjoy the scenery while protecting its students.

Qian Chongling discovered Wang Liao, an Evil Soul Master, draining a child’s parents and moved to punish him. After saving the girl from witnessing more, Qian Chongling revealed his overwhelming power and began to confront Wang Liao.

• Qian Chongling crossed Tiger Leap Mountain and sensed an Evil Soul Master in the village below.
• Wang Liao drained the blood from a couple and prepared to attack their six-year-old daughter.
• Qian Chongling entered the house and provoked Wang Liao, who launched his sixth soul skill, Blood Feast the World.
• Qian Chongling erased Wang Liao’s attack with his pressure and revealed nine soul rings, including five red ones.
• Qian Chongling knocked the girl unconscious and told Wang Liao he would torture him for his crimes.

Qian Chongling tortured Wang Liao while protecting an unconscious little girl, but his interrogation was interrupted when Shui Rou and two Soul Saints tracked the blood scent to the house. They found Wang Liao dead, and Qian Chongling became interested when Shui Rou introduced herself as Skywater Academy’s vice dean.

• Qian Chongling twisted Wang Liao’s limbs and used icy slivers to cut away his flesh, while covering the unconscious girl with a warm garment.
• Shui Rou, Huo Xu, and Feng Jinghong searched Tiger Leap Mountain for Blood Shadow King Wang Liao, whom they had pursued for killing members of Four Elements Academy.
• Feng Jinghong detected a faint smell of blood despite the strong wind, and Shui Rou concluded that a nearby village had likely suffered heavy casualties.
• The three Soul Masters followed the scent to a house in Tiger Leap Village, where Huo Xu kicked open the door and they found Qian Chongling, the girl, and Wang Liao’s mutilated remains.
• Shui Rou identified herself and her companions to Qian Chongling, who showed interest when he heard she was Skywater Academy’s vice dean.

Qian Chongling killed Wang Liao, then persuaded Shui Rou to take in the orphaned girl and hire him at Skywater Academy. Three days later, he received an invitation to serve as a specially appointed teacher, despite having wanted a gatekeeper or dormitory supervisor post.

• Qian Chongling introduced himself to Shui Rou and explained that he had killed Wang Liao after finding him tormenting the little girl.
• Huo Xu criticized Qian Chongling's brutal killing, and Qian Chongling explained that Evil Soul Masters had murdered his loved ones.
• Qian Chongling asked Shui Rou to admit the orphaned girl to Skywater Academy and find him a position there, and Shui Rou agreed to both requests.
• Shui Rou sent Huo Xu and Feng Jinghong to clean up and report the Evil Soul Master incident while she took Qian Chongling inside to rest.
• Three days later, Shui Rou delivered Qian Chongling an invitation to become a specially appointed teacher at Skywater Academy, leaving him disappointed that he had not become a gatekeeper or dormitory supervisor.

Qian Chongling praised Skywater Academy’s resources and criticized Shrek Academy while lazily serving as a teacher and librarian. Two years later, Shui Yuewu summoned him to the dean’s office, and he arrived grumpy after she dragged him from his nap.

• Qian Chongling compared Skywater Academy’s faculty, facilities, students, and graduation standards favorably against Shrek Academy.
• Qian Chongling selected promising students for guidance and helped Shui Yuewu raise her Soul Power to level thirty-two and gain a two-thousand-one-hundred-year purple Soul Ring.
• Qian Chongling took on the role of Skywater Academy’s librarian and spent his days lounging in the library.
• Shui Yuewu told Qian Chongling that the dean wanted to see him, but he refused to leave until he had slept.
• Shui Yuewu dragged Qian Chongling from his nap, and he went to the dean’s office in a foul mood.

Qian Chongling agreed to take Skywater Academy students to the Far North to obtain soul rings suited to their limits, while Qian Daoliu mistakenly presumed him dead and arranged a cenotaph in Douluo Hall. Years later, Qian Chongling found the gravestone and was furious at his unfilial descendant.

• Shui Ning asked Qian Chongling to help five Skywater Academy students obtain soul rings at their true limits, and he agreed despite being unable to guarantee they would exceed conventional limits.
• Qian Chongling chose the Far North because it suited the students’ water and ice martial souls and offered him a chance to meet its powerful soul beasts.
• Shui Ning notified the students that they would leave for the Far North in a few days.
• Qian Daoliu told the Worship Hall Titled Douluos that Qian Chongling had been gone for eight years and proposed a cenotaph; Golden Crocodile Douluo Tian E, Holy Dragon Douluo, Demon Bear Douluo, and the others supported him.
• Three days later, Qian Daoliu had a gravestone erected for Qian Chongling in Douluo Hall, listing him as Spirit Hall’s eighth-generation ancestor and ninth Pope.
• Years later, Qian Chongling saw the gravestone and wished he could beat Qian Daoliu for declaring him dead.

Qian Chongling led Skywater Academy’s students to the Far North and helped Qin Yan acquire a Soul Ring from an Ice-Congealing Sparrow. Qin Yan survived absorbing the purple Soul Ring beyond the usual limit, but gained no external soul bone.

• Qian Chongling escorted the Skywater Academy group on their long journey to the Far North.
• Qian Chongling stopped the Ice-Congealing Sparrow’s Extreme Cold Erosion and shattered its limbs to prevent it from escaping.
• Qin Yan killed the wounded Ice-Congealing Sparrow with her second Soul Skill, and its purple Soul Ring appeared.
• Qian Chongling and the two Soul Saint teachers guarded Qin Yan as she endured the Soul Ring’s icy energy.
• Qin Yan completed the absorption safely, changed her soaked clothes, and told Qian Chongling she had succeeded.
• Qian Chongling asked whether Qin Yan had gained an external soul bone, and she said she had not.

Qian Chongling brought the Skywater Academy group to Snowfield Town and told them he would handle other business in the Far North while they waited. That night, he secretly surveyed the hotel with his spiritual power, while Chen Xiaoxue and the others discussed his Starry Sky Body-Tempering Art in the hot spring.

• Qian Chongling booked rooms and drinks at the Snowfield Hotel, then assigned Chen Xiaoxue and Qin Yun to lead the students to their rooms.
• Qian Chongling told Chen Xiaoxue and the others to wait ten days to half a month while he took care of other business in the Far North.
• After nightfall, Qian Chongling used his spiritual power to survey the surroundings and accidentally glimpsed the women bathing before withdrawing it.
• In the hot spring, Qin Yun asked Chen Xiaoxue about Qian Chongling's business and the effectiveness of his body-tempering training method.
• Chen Xiaoxue explained that the method had helped the children obtain Soul Rings beyond their usual age limits, while the girls complained that its poses were difficult and awkward.

Qian Chongling reached the Far North’s core region just as the Ice Empress faced her Heavenly Tribulation. The Ice Empress survived the first bolts but was battered by scarlet lightning as the Snow Empress watched, and her counterattack against the next strike began.

• Qian Chongling flew into the Far North and, after several days, spotted a Heavenly Tribulation gathering over the core region.
• The Snow Empress watched as the Ice Empress endured the first purplish-black lightning bolt using walls of Ultimate Ice.
• The Ice Empress raised her carapace as a shield against scarlet lightning, but the impact damaged it and shattered a distant mountain peak.
• The Heavenly Tribulation sent down two more scarlet bolts, and the Ice Empress froze one with an icy beam fired from her tail.

The Ice Empress survived a brutal heavenly tribulation and was comforted by the Snow Empress, while Qian Chongling reflected on the perilous fate of Soul Beasts. He interrupted the sisters and revealed himself to the startled Snow Empress.

• The Ice Empress awakened after the Snow Empress healed her, then sobbed that the heavenly tribulation had nearly killed her.
• The Snow Empress comforted the Ice Empress and considered the dangers Soul Beasts faced from repeated tribulations and the choice to become human.
• Qian Chongling wondered whether his transmigration had changed the sisters’ fate, since he believed the Ice Empress could survive only a few more tribulations.
• Qian Chongling interrupted the sisters by saying that the Snow Girl and Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion had no future together.
• The Snow Empress turned toward Qian Chongling, surprised that he had approached without her noticing, and saw a young man in a black robe with gold patterns.

Qian Chongling defeated the Snow Empress and Ice Empress, then offered them a deal to become Soul Rings for a future god and be revived afterward. The two Soul Beasts heard his proposal, but had not yet agreed to it.

• The Snow Empress attacked Qian Chongling with her Emperor Sword techniques, but he deflected her strikes and knocked her unconscious.
• The Ice Empress charged Qian Chongling, who wore her down without killing her until she demanded to know what he wanted.
• Qian Chongling said he wanted to reserve the Snow Empress's and Ice Empress's Soul Rings, and showed he knew about Di Tian and the Silver Dragon King.
• The Snow Empress stood up, and Qian Chongling warned both Soul Beasts that they would eventually die beneath a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Qian Chongling proposed that, within fifty to one hundred years, the Snow Empress and Ice Empress sacrifice themselves to a future god and become her Soul Rings, then be revived after she ascended.

Qian Chongling secured the Snow Empress and Ice Empress’s cooperation, then encountered the Skywater Academy team hunting a giant lobster for a meal. The chapter left the young women asking whether Chen Xiaoxue knew how to cook it, after Qian Chongling had turned himself into their camp chef.

• Qian Chongling persuaded the Snow Empress and Ice Empress to accept his offer and gave each a black feather that would alert him if crushed.
• Qian Chongling flew from the Far North and spotted five Skywater Academy students hunting beside Round Mirror Lake.
• Zhao Ziyi opened the Boston lobster’s defenses, and Qin Yan killed it with her third soul skill, Extreme Cold Erosion.
• Chen Xiaoxue explained that freezing the lobster at the moment of death preserved its meat, but Qin Yun challenged her to cook it.
• Qian Chongling’s fish hot pot had previously made the students abandon their black-bread rations and led him to become their chef.

Qian Chongling cooked lobster and mushroom hot pots for the women from Skywater Academy, then prepared to travel with them to the academy. Later, beneath the moon in the Far North, he reflected on his failure to become a god and remembered Qingyue.

• Qian Chongling returned and had Chen Xiaoxue and Qin Yun help him prepare lobster and mushroom hot pots.
• The five Skywater Academy students ate Qian Chongling’s food and experienced vivid, embarrassing fantasies caused by its effect on women.
• After the effects faded, Qian Chongling told the seven young women to rest before their journey to Skywater Academy the next day.
• In the Far North, Qian Chongling drank Green Plum Wine, lamented that he still had not become a god after nearly fifteen hundred years, and saw an apparition of Qingyue vanish.

Qian Chongling received a Genius Character Summoning Card, then resumed his journey with the seven young women. When Qin Yun and Chen Xiaoxue learned that bandits had terrorized Three Zhang Village and its neighbors, they climbed Black Tiger Mountain and killed two men guarding the path.

• Qian Chongling checked in and received a Genius Character Summoning Card, bringing his total to four.
• Three years earlier, Zhang Bailang and his accomplices had occupied Black Tiger Mountain and raided the nearby villages, taking grain and young women.
• After hearing the Village Chief of Two Zhang Village describe the bandits, Qin Yun and Chen Xiaoxue headed for Black Tiger Mountain.
• Old Qin and Old Lu blocked the women on the mountain path and admitted they were nobles posing as bandits.
• Qin Yun killed Old Qin, and Chen Xiaoxue killed Old Lu after he confirmed they had robbed the villages.

Chen Xiaoxue and Qin Yun killed Zhang Bailang and every bandit at Black Tiger Stronghold after discovering their brutal abuse of captives. Qian Chongling then made the five Skywater Academy students clean up the battlefield, leaving them shaken and resentful.

• Chen Xiaoxue and Qin Yun reached Black Tiger Stronghold and found captives being whipped while the bandits joked about abusing their victims.
• Chen Xiaoxue and Qin Yun revealed their Martial Souls and used their sixth Soul Skills to kill Zhang Bailang and the surrounding bandits.
• After clearing the summit, Chen Xiaoxue and Qin Yun dispelled their Martial Soul Avatars and became weakened.
• Qian Chongling brought the five Skywater Academy students to the summit, where they saw the bloody aftermath and felt sick.
• Qian Chongling ordered the five students to gather the bodies so he could burn them, and they spent the next few days gloomy and resentful.

Five years later, Chen Xiaoxue trained Shui Yuewu, Feng Aotian, and Huo Baoshou in the Three Talents Formation as they prepared for the Continental Elite Soul Master Tournament. Skywater Academy reached the finals, where Qian Daoliu welcomed the competitors and announced the prize of three Soul Bones.

• Chen Xiaoxue tested the Three Talents Formation in a sparring match and found that Shui Yuewu, Feng Aotian, and Huo Baoshou could challenge her Soul Saint strength.
• Shui Rou explained that the three academies had entrusted their talented students with the formation, which Qian Chongling had provided along with a Seven-Star Sword Formation for Skywater Academy.
• Shui Rou told Chen Xiaoxue and the students that Qian Chongling was waiting for them in Spirit City, where the tournament would begin.
• Skywater Academy and Blazing Fire Academy advanced to the finals, while Qian Chongling resigned from Skywater Academy and prepared to leave after the tournament.
• Spirit Hall Academy and the Tianshui Girl Group entered the finals, and Pope Qian Daoliu declared the tournament fair and announced three Soul Bones as the prize.

Skywater Academy and Spirit Hall Academy began the championship match, with both teams targeting their opponents’ supports as their Soul Kings fought. Shui Yuewu’s fifth soul skill created an opening for Skywater Academy to eliminate four Spirit Hall members, leaving Spirit Hall at a severe disadvantage.

• Qian Daoliu announced the finals, and Skywater Academy faced Spirit Hall Academy after Blazing Fire Academy forfeited.
• The teams introduced their captains, Shui Yuewu and Jingang, then began the seven-on-seven battle.
• Jingang attacked Shui Yuewu while Ao Ying and Ao Ye restrained her with vines, but Qin Yan raised an ice wall that blocked his punch.
• Both teams sent their agility attackers after the opposing supports while their remaining fighters engaged the enemy Soul Kings.
• Shui Yuewu unleashed her fifth soul skill, Phoenix Cry Across the Nine Heavens, disrupting Spirit Hall’s team.
• Liu Yuting and Liu Yufen used Frost Slash to eliminate Spirit Hall’s two supports and two agility attackers.

Shui Yuewu’s final attack failed to defeat Jingang, and the Spirit Hall Team won the tournament. After receiving their Soul Bone rewards, the teams departed Spirit City, while Skywater Academy returned home one person short.

• Qin Yan and Zhao Ziyi were eliminated after helping Shui Yuewu complete her fifth Soul Skill, Phoenix Cry Across the Nine Heavens.
• Shui Yuewu’s attack knocked out the two exhausted Spirit Hall Soul Ancestors, but Jingang survived with his Earth Guard skill, leaving her unable to continue.
• The host declared the Spirit Hall Team the tournament champions, and Qian Daoliu presented them with three thirty-thousand-year Soul Bones.
• The teams left the Papal Palace, and Shui Ning’s Skywater Academy group returned home after spending a few days in Spirit City, one person short.

Luo Tian and his pregnant wife, Lin Yan, were cornered by Jin Zhuan and other Spirit Hall members while fleeing through the rain. Sun Yan attacked Lin Yan, and Luo Tian took the blow, leaving the couple injured and surrounded.

• Jin Zhuan confronted Luo Tian and condemned him for fleeing with the Evil Soul Master Lin Yan.
• Zhao Changge, Qian Buduo, Sun Yan, and Li arrived and helped surround the couple.
• Lin Yan offered to die if the others would spare Luo Tian, but Sun Yan attacked her in anger.
• Luo Tian shoved Lin Yan aside and took Sun Yan's palm strike, which shattered his collarbone.
• Lin Yan cradled the wounded Luo Tian as they exchanged declarations of love, while Sun Yan denounced Lin Yan and Zhao Changge and Qian Buduo were moved by the couple's affection.

Lin Yan went into difficult labor, and Luo Tian sacrificed his life so she could use her soul-eating demon spider to regain vitality and deliver their child. The baby was born safely, but Luo Tian died, leaving the family’s future uncertain.

• Li Xuemei discovered that Lin Yan's water had broken and hurried the others to find shelter for the birth.
• Li Xuemei realized the baby was coming feet-first and warned that Lin Yan and the child were losing vitality.
• Luo Tian recognized a way to save them and rushed into the cave, urging Lin Yan to drain his vitality with her Martial Soul.
• Lin Yan summoned the soul-eating demon spider and drained Luo Tian, restoring her strength as he died.
• Li Xuemei helped Lin Yan deliver the baby, whose cry filled the cave.

After Lin Yan gave birth to Luo Tian’s daughter, she died, and Jin Zhuan and the others uncovered evidence of an organization creating Evil Soul Masters. Jin Zhuan and Li Xuemei left the baby with a kind elderly couple, then reported the matter to Pope Qian Xunji, who launched a broad investigation.

• Lin Yan told Jin Zhuan and the others that Evil Soul Masters had captured her ten years earlier and forcibly turned her into one of them.
• Jin Zhuan realized Lin Yan had transferred her life force to her newborn daughter, and Lin Yan asked that the child be raised as an ordinary person before she died.
• Jin Zhuan and the others buried Lin Yan and Luo Tian together, and Jin Zhuan and Li Xuemei left their daughter on the doorstep of an elderly couple in Phoenixsong Village, who adopted her.
• Jin Zhuan reported the artificial Evil Soul Masters to Pope Qian Xunji, who ordered Titled Douluo, the two great empires, and the sects to investigate and eliminate them.

Six years after Bibi Dong was left in Phoenixsong Village, she worked alongside the village children and learned that a Soul Master could change their lives. After the children returned from gathering Blue Silver Grass, they hurried to the village Spirit Hall for their martial soul awakening.

• Bibi Nan offered to help Bibi Dong harvest Blue Silver Grass, and the other children teased him about trying to win her over.
• Bibi Qian reminded the children that a Lord Soul Master would awaken their martial souls that day, and Bibi Dong asked what a Soul Master was.
• Bibi Dong and Bibi Nan helped the others finish gathering Blue Silver Grass, and Bibi Nan weighed the harvest before leading the children back.
• The children played along the way and arrived late, where the village elders reminded them of the awakening and sent them to the village Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Nan led the six other children away to the Spirit Hall before the old woman could stop them.

During the martial soul awakening in Phoenixsong Village, Bibi Dong revealed two powerful spider martial souls and innate full soul power. Gu Xuewei confirmed that Bibi Dong had a gentle temperament and invited her to join the Spirit Hall, but Bibi Dong remained unsure.

• Gu Xuewei awakened the village children’s martial souls, and the first six had no soul power.
• Bibi Dong awakened the death spider emperor and the soul-eating demon spider, revealing that she had twin martial souls.
• Bibi Dong’s Blue Crystal Ball test showed she had innate full soul power.
• Gu Xuewei asked the village chief about Bibi Dong and learned she was obedient, kind, and had been adopted as a baby.
• Gu Xuewei invited Bibi Dong to join the Spirit Hall, and the village chief encouraged her to accept.

Bibi Dong agreed to join Spirit Hall and left Phoenixsong Village with Gu Xuewei, while her report brought Qian Xunji’s attention to her exceptional talents. In Spirit City, Qian Chongling arrived and overheard people gossiping that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan heir had awakened a pig.

• Gu Xuewei promised Bibi Dong tuition, food, lodging, and a monthly allowance, and Bibi Dong asked that the money instead help Phoenixsong Village.
• Bibi Dong said goodbye to the village elders and traveled with Gu Xuewei to Spirit City.
• Zhao Rui read Gu Xuewei’s report, took it to Qian Xunji, and received orders to send Ghost Elder and Elder Ju to fetch Bibi Dong.
• Qian Xunji arranged rewards for Gu Xuewei and the Spirit City branch, and planned for Gu Xuewei to become a Soul Douluo’s disciple.
• Qian Chongling entered the Martial Soul Grand Hotel and heard diners discuss the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan heir awakening a pig.