Recaps

Tang San and Xiao Wu learned about Nuoding Academy’s factions and became the work-study students’ new leaders. Meanwhile, City Lord Xiao Yu and his father planned to start late-night square dancing at a nearby park after the opening ceremony.

• Wang Sheng explained that Xiao Wu and Tang San’s fighting techniques were not soul skills, then accepted Xiao Wu as the work-study students’ new boss.
• Wang Sheng showed Tang San and Xiao Wu his bruises and described how academy-faction leader Nuo Ya bullied the work-study students, while city lord faction leader Xiao Chenyu challenged them to monthly training.
• Wang Sheng outlined the academy’s factions, classes, and work-study duties, and teacher Mo Hen assigned Tang San and Xiao Wu to clean the garden south of the sports field.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu shared dinner with Wang Sheng and returned to Dorm Seven after nightfall.
• At the city lord’s residence, Xiao Yu and his father agreed to begin square dancing at Nuoding Park the day after the academy’s opening ceremony, despite the park’s proximity to the dormitory.

Ning Rongrong woke from a new nightmare and described visions of a future in which Tang San fell in battle and Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo died retrieving his body. She left her father and guardians alarmed, with the meaning of her prophetic dreams still uncertain.

• Ning Rongrong screamed herself awake, and Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi hurried to her room.
• Ning Fengzhi reported that Ning Rongrong was physically healthy and showed no signs of mental Soul Skills.
• Ning Rongrong recalled dreams of a group of seven students, including a girl who shared her name, winning a championship after she left their village school.
• Ning Rongrong described a battlefield vision in which Tang San fought Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue at Jialing Pass, then fell after being struck by purplish-black light.
• Chen Xin and Gu Rong died using their lives to bring back Tang San's body, and Ning Rongrong told them her latest nightmare was new.

Ning Rongrong recalled a nightmare in which Tang San killed Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue before two mysterious men appeared and announced that Douluo Affiliated World One had strayed from its course. The men’s arrival shattered more than half the world, and they demanded that its inhabitants submit to a return to its original starting point.

• Ning Rongrong’s nightmare showed Tang San defeating Bibi Dong, who begged him to spare Qian Renxue and Nana before dying in Qian Renxue’s arms.
• Tang San handed Qian Renxue over to Xue Beng, then killed her when she tried to self-destruct, claiming he had not broken his promise.
• A mocking voice challenged Tang San as purple-black lightning and blood-red rain appeared across Douluo World.
• Two men descended in black and white pillars of light, and their power erased more than half of Douluo World.
• The man in black invoked the Myriad Worlds Pact, said Douluo Dimension had strayed from its course, and asked whether Douluo Affiliated World One would submit.

Tang San and the others were erased when the man in black destroyed Douluo World and rewound it to one hundred million years ago. Ning Rongrong’s dream ended with a fragment of her other self escaping into the Douluo Origin World, leaving her future choice uncertain.

• Old Wang revealed that he knew Tang San’s next words, while the man in black announced that they would begin the cleanup.
• Tang San attacked the man in black with the Asura Demon Sword, but a single finger shattered the sword and Tang San’s body.
• Tang Hao and Ah Yin charged at the man in black, who erased Douluo World and rewound its world origin to one hundred million years ago.
• Old Wang told the man in black that a sliver of the tower-wielding girl’s soul had slipped into the Douluo Origin World, and the man in black chose not to erase it.
• The man in black and Old Wang argued over their bet and nicknames before disappearing from the scene.
• In Ning Rongrong’s dream, an almost transparent figure dissipated after urging her other self to make the right choice.

Ning Fengzhi discussed Ning Rongrong’s strange dream with Chen Xin and Gu Rong, concluding that parts of it could reveal the future and might lead to the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. He decided to investigate the dream’s promising clues while avoiding risks, and Gu Rong agreed to look into several named geniuses.

• Ning Fengzhi asked Chen Xin and Gu Rong whether Ning Rongrong’s dream was real, but they initially dismissed it as childish imagination.
• Ning Fengzhi argued that Rongrong could not have invented the Hell White Tiger detail, since it involved the inherited martial souls of the Dai and Zhu families.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin noted that Rongrong’s dream mixed accurate details with an apparent contradiction: Clear Sky Sect members appeared at Jialing Pass despite the sect having been destroyed six years earlier.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that Rongrong had dreamed of the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and three gifted youths named Oscar, Ma Hongjun, and Xiao Wu.
• Ning Fengzhi said the sect should pursue useful opportunities while avoiding danger, and asked Gu Rong to investigate the three youths and help collect ancient texts about evolving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.

Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong returned to the Lake of Life, where Bibi Dong absorbed the Sky Azure Bull Python’s sacrifice and reached level ninety-two. Di Tian then escorted them into the Subspace to meet the Silver Dragon King, Gu Yuena, and the other Ferocious Beasts.

• Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong arrived at the Lake of Life, and Bibi Dong called the Sky Azure Bull Python out of hiding.
• Qian Chongling stopped the Sky Azure Bull Python from summoning the Ferocious Beasts and made it sacrifice itself to Bibi Dong, who advanced to level ninety-two.
• Di Tian emerged after the sacrifice and invited Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong to meet the Silver Dragon King.
• Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong entered the Subspace beneath the lake and met Gu Yuena and several of the Ten Great Ferocious Beasts.
• Qian Chongling released part of his aura, quieting the Ferocious Beasts as he looked over those gathered.

Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong confronted the Ferocious Beasts before meeting the Silver Dragon King, who took human form and introduced herself as Gu Yuena. After discussing the Dragon God War and the Angel God, Gu Yuena offered to reveal how Qian Chongling’s ancestor died in exchange for one condition.

• Qian Chongling unleashed his killing intent, frightening Xiong Jun, the Scarlet King, and the other Ferocious Beasts away from Bibi Dong.
• The Silver Dragon King calmed the atmosphere, praised Qian Chongling’s strength, and changed into human form at his request.
• Qian Chongling asked the Silver Dragon King to use his name, and she introduced herself as Gu Yuena.
• Qian Chongling described what he knew of the Dragon God War and asked whether the Angel God had died in it; Gu Yuena said she had already been recovering at the Lake of Life before the Angel God attained godhood.
• Gu Yuena revealed that she had noticed Qian Chongling at the Lake of Life and offered to explain how his Angel God ancestor died if he agreed to one condition.

Qian Chongling confirmed that the Sea God had dealt the Angel God’s fatal blow and negotiated an alliance with Gu Yuena, who sought Bibi Dong’s blood essence to heal her injuries. Gu Yuena accepted most of Qian Chongling’s conditions, including helping Spirit Hall and eventually killing the Asura God, and four ferocious beasts left the Lake of Life.

• Qian Chongling inferred from Gu Yuena’s reaction that the Sea God had struck the Angel God’s fatal blow, possibly with the Asura God’s help.
• Gu Yuena asked Bibi Dong to grant her a drop of blood essence, explaining that she hoped its Torch Dragon bloodline would help her overcome her injuries.
• Qian Chongling asked what Gu Yuena would do if she encountered a human with the Golden Dragon King bloodline, and she admitted she would swallow that person to become the Dragon God.
• Qian Chongling proposed conditions for a deal, including sending Di Tian and Xiong Jun to the Rouge Pavilion, Zi JI and the Myriad Demon King to Spirit Hall, and having Gu Yuena support Spirit Hall’s offensives and eventually help kill the Asura God.
• Gu Yuena accepted the first three conditions and questioned whether Qian Chongling could fight alongside her; he revealed that he had inherited a God King-level divine position.
• A Three-Headed Scarlet Demon Mastiff appeared above the Lake of Life, while Di Tian, Xiong Jun, Zi JI, and the Myriad Demon King left.

Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong traveled toward Spirit Hall as Di Tian and Xiong Jun headed for the Star Luo Empire, while Tang San and Xiao Wu endured Nuoding Academy’s punishing opening ceremony. Tang San made it back to Dorm Seven and fed the starving Xiao Wu, who was hovering near unconsciousness.

• Di Tian warned Zi JI and Myriad Demon King to obey Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong before leaving with Xiong Jun for the Star Luo Empire.
• Qian Chongling and Bibi Dong set off toward Spirit Hall with Zi JI and Myriad Demon King.
• Dean Noxus made the academy students stand in the sun for five hours without breakfast while delivering his opening speech, leaving Xiao Wu and Tang San exhausted.
• Tang San dragged Xiao Wu back to Dorm Seven and ate the black bread and Rice Porridge Wang Sheng had saved for them.
• Tang San realized Xiao Wu was nearly unconscious from hunger and used Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to get Rice Porridge into her mouth.

Tang San fed the starving Xiao Wu and later visited Yu Dashi, where he read his teacher’s theories on martial souls. Yu Dashi recalled Spirit Hall’s threat over his research and basked in Tang San’s admiration as he gave him another book.

• Tang San gave Xiao Wu rice porridge and black bread, and she ate eagerly before falling asleep.
• Tang San went to Yu Dashi’s study and read the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul.
• Yu Dashi returned, and Tang San praised his theory as Yu Dashi explained that Spirit Hall had refused to publish it.
• Yu Dashi remembered a Spirit Hall soul master threatening him with death if he revealed materials he had copied.
• Yu Dashi struck a proud pose, enjoyed Tang San’s admiration, and handed him another book.

Tang San read Yu Dashi’s martial soul rankings and revealed his twin martial souls, including the Clear Sky Hammer, to his new teacher. After Yu Dashi warned him not to add soul rings to the hammer, Tang San slept through the day, then went with Xiao Wu to investigate equipment being set up across the river for a party planned for the next night.

• Tang San read Yu Dashi’s martial soul rankings and became even more impressed with his teacher.
• Yu Dashi saw Tang San’s Clear Sky Hammer and told him to keep it secret and never attach soul rings to it without permission.
• Yu Dashi promised to help Tang San find a suitable soul ring the next morning and sent him back to the dormitory.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu woke after sleeping through much of the day and spotted equipment being set up across the river.
• Yuan Xiaoli supervised the setup of the soul tools and looked forward to starting the party the following night.

Yu Dashi took Tang San to Nuoding City's Spirit Hall to buy a Soul Hunting Writ and ran into Su Yuntao, who had awakened Tang San's martial soul. After Yu Dashi challenged Su Yuntao's expertise and claimed to be the Soul Master World's top theoretical Grandmaster, Su Yuntao named Hongdou as the Spirit Hall's recognized authority, leaving Yu Dashi shaken by how far she had surpassed him.

• Yu Dashi and Tang San left Nuoding Academy for the Soul Hunting Forest and entered Nuoding City's Spirit Hall to purchase a writ.
• Tang San recognized Su Yuntao, and Yu Dashi approached him with Tang San and mocked his appraisal of Tang San's martial soul.
• Su Yuntao defended his assessment, while Yu Dashi insisted he was the universally acknowledged number-one Theory Grandmaster.
• Su Yuntao said Dean Hongdou of the Martial Soul Research Institute held that title and was known as Cooing Dove.
• Yu Dashi remembered Hongdou as a former junior student who had become a Titled Douluo and institute dean while he remained a rank-twenty-nine Soul Grandmaster.

Yu Dashi challenged Su Yuntao to a theoretical duel at Spirit Hall, while Tang San learned that his teacher’s affiliation meant he would have to pay for Soul Hunting Tokens. The debate began in a soundproof room as spectators gathered outside, and Sisi told Tang San that Su Yuntao was certain to win.

• Yu Dashi dismissed Hongdou’s standing and accepted Su Yuntao’s challenge to a theoretical duel.
• Su Yuntao said two Soul Hunting Tokens cost one hundred Gold Soul Coins and argued that Tang San no longer counted as a commoner because he had taken Yu Dashi as his master.
• Yu Dashi reacted angrily when Su Yuntao mentioned the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, then followed him into a soundproof meeting room for the debate.
• Tang San waited outside and declared that he believed his teacher would win.
• Sisi approached Tang San and insisted that Su Yuntao would win because no one could match his skill with words.

Su Yuntao exposed Yu Dashi’s claims about Martial Soul Fusion Skills and soul-ring age limits as copied and flawed. Yu Dashi left the debate defeated, but bought two Soul Hunting Tokens for two hundred Gold Soul Coins each and headed for the Soul Hunting Forest with Tang San.

• Yu Dashi claimed that martial souls with different attributes could fuse, and Su Yuntao pointed out that Ghost Douluo and Chrysanthemum Douluo had already demonstrated this before Yu Dashi was born.
• Yu Dashi listed precise soul-ring age limits, but Su Yuntao explained that soul-beast strength and individual physiques made those limits ranges and that the theory was already known in Spirit Hall.
• Su Yuntao declared Yu Dashi’s theories plagiarized and said his soul-ring figures were wrong, leaving Yu Dashi unable to respond.
• Yu Dashi bought two Soul Hunting Tokens for two hundred Gold Soul Coins apiece and traveled with Tang San toward the Soul Hunting Forest outside Nuoding City.
• Tang San praised Yu Dashi for beating the deacon, and Yu Dashi pretended he had won while privately lamenting the money he had spent.

Tang San and Yu Dashi traveled toward the Soul Hunting Forest, while Xiao Wu watched Yuan Xiaoli lead a group of elders in late-night square dancing. Just as Xiao Wu settled down to sleep, the music across the river blared louder than before.

• Tang San received a storage belt from Yu Dashi and named it Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night.
• Tang San and Yu Dashi camped for the night, still a hundred and twenty li from the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Xiao Wu watched Yuan Xiaoli lead the elders in a dance beside the river and hummed along to the music.
• Yuan Xiaoli and the elders resumed dancing after discussing their assigned park time slot.
• Xiao Wu went to bed after the dancers appeared to leave, but louder music suddenly sounded from across the river.

Xiao Wu tried to stop the square-dancing elders from keeping her awake, but Grandpa Zhou overpowered her and had her tied to a tree. She was left shivering and crying beneath the moon, calling for Little San to rescue her.

• Xiao Wu jumped from her dormitory window toward the riverbank, but a gust of wind sent her into the water.
• After swimming ashore, Xiao Wu confronted the dancing elders and crushed their sound system under her foot.
• Grandpa Zhou revealed four Soul Rings, threw Xiao Wu to the ground, and checked that the sound system was still working.
• Grandpa Zhou ordered Old Chen and Old Liu to tie Xiao Wu to a tree as punishment.
• As the elders resumed dancing, Xiao Wu shivered beneath the tree and called for Little San to save her.

Teacher Su punished Xiao Wu for sleeping through class while Tang San entered the Soul Hunting Forest with Yu Dashi to hunt a soul beast. After Yu Dashi summoned his mutated martial soul, Tang San blamed it for holding his teacher back.

• Teacher Su caught Xiao Wu sleeping in class, sent her outside as punishment, and lectured the students about soul master development paths.
• Yu Dashi told Tang San that his Blue Silver Grass would follow the control system and explained the Soul Hunting Forest's entry rules and fees.
• Tang San criticized the state and Spirit Hall's arrangement, and Yu Dashi covered his mouth before presenting their writs at the entrance.
• Yu Dashi led Tang San into the forest and summoned Luo Sanpao, explaining that his mutated martial soul had limited his cultivation.
• Tang San privately blamed Luo Sanpao for holding Yu Dashi back, frightening the creature.

Tang San and Yu Dashi searched the Soul Hunting Forest for a suitable Soul Beast, then encountered a nearly four-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake. After Luo Sanpao was injured, Tang San blinded the snake with his Sleeve Arrow and attacked its blind spot with Yu Dashi’s dagger.

• Yu Dashi led Tang San through the forest, where Luo Sanpao killed a pack of Wind Wolves with his fart.
• As night fell, Yu Dashi reviewed the Soul Beasts they had seen and gave Tang San a dagger while advising him to flee stronger opponents.
• Luo Sanpao alerted Yu Dashi and Tang San to a Mandala Snake, and Yu Dashi attacked it with both of Luo Sanpao’s Soul Skills before fleeing with Tang San.
• The Mandala Snake evaded the gas attacks, struck Luo Sanpao, and injured Yu Dashi as it pursued them.
• Tang San fired his Sleeve Arrow into the Mandala Snake’s eye, then dodged its charge and drove Yu Dashi’s dagger into its mouth through its blind spot.

Tang San killed the Mandala Snake and began absorbing its Soul Ring, while his trust in Yu Dashi fell after he realized his teacher was using him to test a theory. The chapter ended with Yu Dashi summoning Luo Sanpao behind the vulnerable Tang San.

• Tang San struck the Mandala Snake’s vital point and escaped its death throes, while Tang Hao watched from hiding and threatened the snake.
• Yu Dashi checked Tang San for injuries, unaware that Tang San twice considered attacking him with a Sleeve Arrow before deciding to keep him for his theories.
• Yu Dashi proposed that Tang San absorb the Mandala Snake’s nearly four-hundred-year Soul Ring to test his Martial Soul Mimicry Theory.
• Tang San chose to absorb the Soul Ring because he wanted to grow stronger quickly and protect himself from future threats.
• Tang San summoned his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul and began absorbing the yellow Soul Ring as Yu Dashi called Luo Sanpao to his side.

Tang San absorbed the Mandala Snake's Soul Ring and gained his first Blue Silver Grass Soul Skill before leaving the Soul Hunting Forest with Yu Dashi. At Nuoding Academy, an exhausted Xiao Wu learned she could not escape the nightly Square Dance by changing rooms.

• Yu Dashi sensed Tang San's brief killing intent but ordered Luo Sanpao to guard him while he absorbed the Soul Ring.
• Tang San completed the absorption, broke through with his Mysterious Heaven Skill, and demonstrated his Blue Silver Grass Soul Ring and Entanglement skill to Yu Dashi.
• Yu Dashi led Tang San out of the Soul Hunting Forest and began the journey back to Nuoding Academy.
• Xiao Wu, exhausted from two nights of Square Dance, accepted Wang Sheng's help with sweeping and lay down to rest.
• Xiao Wu complained that the Dormitory Administrator refused to let her change rooms because the academy could not interfere with the city families' park.

Wang Sheng was beaten by Nuo Ya after she returned from hunting Soul Beasts with Xiao Chenyu as a level-eleven Soul Master. When Nuo Ya challenged Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu attacked her, and Nuo Ya summoned her Black Cleaver and used her first Soul Skill.

• Wang Sheng caught Nuo Ya’s ball to protect the pile of leaves, and Nuo Ya revealed that she and Xiao Chenyu had become level-eleven Soul Masters.
• Nuo Ya beat Wang Sheng until he gave up, then kicked him onto the lounge chair where Xiao Wu had been sleeping.
• Xiao Wu woke and became angry when Nuo Ya admitted that bullying work-study students was normal to her.
• Nuo Ya challenged Xiao Wu, who activated Martial Soul Possession and leapt at her.
• Nuo Ya summoned the Black Cleaver and swung it at Xiao Wu with her first Soul Skill, Slaughter All Directions.

Nuo Ya defeated Xiao Wu and left her injured in the park, while Xiao Wu vowed to return for revenge after recovering and getting her first soul ring. Wang Sheng helped Xiao Wu back to Dorm Seven, where she explained that Tang San had gone with Grandmaster to obtain a soul ring and revealed that they both had innate full soul power.

• Nuo Ya struck Xiao Wu with the flat of her axe, sending her flying, then teased her before leaving the park.
• Xiao Wu promised to take revenge on Nuo Ya once she recovered and gained her first soul ring.
• Wang Sheng found the injured Xiao Wu and helped her toward the dormitory while she refused to admit how badly she was hurt.
• Xiao Wu told Wang Sheng that Tang San had gone with Grandmaster to get a soul ring and said that she and Tang San had innate full soul power.
• Wang Sheng helped Xiao Wu into Dorm Seven, settled her on her bed, and brought her a clean towel.

Qian Chongling visited Nuoding Junior Soul Master Academy, where he noticed Xiao Wu’s rabbit-like scent and followed Xiao Chenyu toward a confrontation with the work-study students. At the academy’s back hill, Xiao Chenyu and Nuo Ya’s factions prepared to face Xiao Wu and Tang San’s larger group.

• Qian Chongling checked that Tang Hao was in Nuoding City and watched Tang San and Xiao Wu pass, noticing their exhaustion and Xiao Wu’s gamey odor.
• Xiao Chenyu and his lackeys headed to the academy after discussing Nuo Ya’s defeat by two work-study students.
• Qian Chongling recognized Xiao Chenyu as resembling his Old Ancestor, Xiao Yan, paid for breakfast, and followed the students.
• Nuo Ya gathered Xiao Chenyu’s support to challenge the work-study faction after Tang San and Xiao Wu had beaten her three days earlier.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San assembled forty or fifty work-study students at the back hill, while Xiao Chenyu and Nuo Ya brought fewer than thirty students from their two factions.

Xiao Wu, Tang San, and the work-study students faced Xiao Chenyu’s group in a dispute that grew from their dormitory feud with Nuo Ya. The two sides agreed to a five-person Arena Match, and Liu Long quickly gained the upper hand against Wang Sheng in the opening bout.

• Xiao Wu and Nuo Ya traded threats over their fight three days earlier, while Tang San and Xiao Wu’s feud with Nuo Ya was tied to their sleepless nights at the academy.
• Xiao Chenyu rejected a free-for-all because too many students could be injured, and Tang San proposed an Arena Match with three fighters per side.
• Xiao Chenyu insisted on five fighters per side and threatened to start a free-for-all otherwise, so Xiao Wu accepted the terms.
• Wang Sheng volunteered to fight first against Liu Long, who struck him with his staff and sent him flying before continuing his attack.

Wang Sheng defeated Liu Long after Tang San covertly interfered, and Xiao Wu quickly defeated Ling Feng, giving the work-study students two straight victories. Nuo Ya then faced Xiao Wu, and their fight began with Nuo Ya's axe blow missing.

• Tang San noticed Wang Sheng needed to close the distance and secretly used a hidden weapon to weaken Liu Long's attacks, allowing Wang Sheng to knock Liu Long unconscious.
• Xiao Chenyu conceded Liu Long's match, and Wang Sheng won the first fight for the work-study students.
• Xiao Wu defeated Ling Feng after Tang San secretly made his wings go numb, prompting Xiao Chenyu to warn Nuo Ya about the interference.
• Nuo Ya and Xiao Wu announced their ranks and martial souls before Nuo Ya attacked with her Black Cleaver.
• Xiao Wu dodged Nuo Ya's axe, which struck the ground and left a deep gash.