Recaps

Dai Youheng’s obsession with currying favor instead of cultivating left him badly injured and rejected by Xu Jiujiu. As he lost consciousness, a blood-red rift opened above the continent, and a meteor carrying someone identical to him fell toward the Far North.

• Xu Jiujiu tested Dai Youheng’s strength and defeated him in three moves, then told him to leave and never appear before her again.
• Dai Youheng’s memories revealed that he was a transmigrator with a powerful evil shadow demon tiger martial soul who had neglected cultivation to ingratiate himself with Huo Yuhao, the Tang Sect, and Xu Jiujiu.
• Dai Youheng passed out in his courtyard, overcome by pain and resentment over his failed schemes and Xu Jiujiu’s rejection.
• A vast dark-red rift tore open the night sky, alarming powerful figures across the Douluo Continent.
• A dark meteor emerged from the rift with a sleeping figure identical to Dai Youheng inside and plunged toward the Far North.

A mysterious being put the Divine Realm to sleep and sent a boy crashing into the Far North, where the Snow Empress was on the verge of being captured. As the Snow Empress sacrificed herself to save her life, she discovered that her fourteen-year-old host had not even awakened a martial soul.

• A sinister being used nightmare-like power to put the gods of the Divine Realm to sleep and left a cultivation method in a boy's mind.
• The Snow Empress, having transformed into an embryo to evade her approaching tribulation, was ambushed by a Level 9 Soul Engineer who tried to seal her with the God-Sealing Platform.
• A transparent meteor fell from the Heavenly Rift and killed the Soul Engineer, then revealed a sleeping boy whose face matched Dai Youheng's.
• With her embryo form destabilizing, the Snow Empress began a sacrifice to the boy and used the snow lotus's power to preserve her consciousness.
• The Snow Empress discovered that the boy was fourteen and had not awakened his martial soul.

The Snow Empress sacrificed herself to awaken Dai Youheng’s food-type martial soul, a mysterious black pill, and gave him a seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring. After he woke in the Far North, Dai Youheng explained his arrival from another world and salvaged valuable equipment from the corpse he had crushed.

• The Snow Empress used her remaining power to awaken Dai Youheng’s martial soul and sealed most of her cultivation within him, leaving him a seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Dai Youheng woke two days later in the Far North, unharmed despite the freezing cold and unnoticed by passing Soul Beasts.
• Dai Youheng identified the Snow Empress and told her that a giant hand had brought him from another world, accidentally crushing a man beneath him.
• Dai Youheng sensed that his soul power had risen to around level fifteen and searched the corpse of a Level 9 Soul Engineer from the Sun Moon Empire.
• Dai Youheng found a Storage Soul Tool ring containing rare metals, high-level Soul Tools, research materials, supplies, and a Left Arm Soul Bone.

Dai Youheng recovered the damaged God-Sealing Platform and traveled south through the Far North with the weakened Snow Empress guiding him. Soul Beasts repeatedly failed to notice him, and he learned that his Martial Soul was called the Fate-Reversing Heavenly Demon Pill, whose full abilities remained to be explored.

• Dai Youheng retrieved the damaged God-Sealing Platform and stored it in his ring.
• The Snow Empress told Dai Youheng that the hundred-thousand-year snow lotus had preserved her soul origin, but she had less than a hundredth of her strength and could perceive only about eight hundred meters.
• Dai Youheng followed the Snow Empress's directions south and found that Icefield Yaks and a Snow-Soul Demon Bear ignored him completely.
• Dai Youheng encountered more Soul Beasts, including a powerful ice scorpion, and none registered him as a target.
• The Snow Empress speculated that Dai Youheng's presence fell below Soul Beasts' perception or repelled them, then asked about his pill Martial Soul.
• Dai Youheng identified his Martial Soul as the Demon Pill, whose full name was the Fate-Reversing Heavenly Demon Pill, and sensed that its main effect was enhancement.

Dai Youheng discovered that his Fate-Reversing Heavenly Demon Pill could produce a powerful resurrection pill, then reached Northwind Town and realized that people barely noticed his existence unless he deliberately drew their attention. The Snow Empress concluded that his presence was almost nonexistent, as if the world itself excluded him.

• Dai Youheng explained that his seven-hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring granted an enhancement pill that temporarily gave its user an ultimate ice attribute and a special-effect pill that could preserve and restore someone on the brink of death.
• Dai Youheng revealed that the Snow Woman Sacred Heart Pill could only affect beings at his own level and could be refined once every two years, while the Snow Empress recognized its immense potential.
• Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress crossed the Far North and arrived near Northwind Town without being bothered by Soul Beasts.
• Dai Youheng found that guards and townspeople ignored him, unconsciously avoiding him as though he were not there.
• Dai Youheng shouted at a passing merchant, who saw and heard him, and realized that people noticed him only when he forcefully drew their attention.
• The Snow Empress concluded that Dai Youheng's presence was nearly nonexistent and seemed to be excluded by the world's rules.

Dai Youheng realized that his faint presence might be shared with a counterpart in the Star Luo Empire and began using his invisibility to steal wealth and aid poor families while traveling south. After amassing a fortune, he resolved to pursue resources and opportunities—including the chance to devour his counterpart and become whole.

• Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress theorized that another version of him in this world shared his existence, and he sensed that counterpart far to the south.
• Dai Youheng secretly stole money and valuables from the wealthy and local thugs in Northwind Town, leaving funds and food for struggling residents.
• Dai Youheng left town and continued stealing as he traveled toward the Star Luo Empire, accumulating nearly a million Gold Soul Coins.
• Dai Youheng verified a Level 9 Soul Engineer's Gold Soul Coin card and discovered it held nine million Gold Soul Coins.
• Dai Youheng explained that he wanted money to buy resources and grow stronger, then resolved to seek opportunities and eventually devour his counterpart.

Dai Youheng continued pursuing Xu Jiujiu and dreaming of relying on Huo Yuhao, while Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin rebuked him for neglecting his cultivation. Watching from a restaurant, the other Dai Youheng considered killing his counterpart and absorbing his power, but had not yet acted.

• Dai Youheng recovered from his injuries, tried to visit Xu Jiujiu with gifts, and was turned away by a servant.
• Dai Yueheng scolded Dai Youheng for relying on flattery instead of cultivating, and Dai Huabin mocked him.
• Dai Youheng accepted their rebukes outwardly but privately believed Huo Yuhao would one day give him power and status.
• The other Dai Youheng watched the White Tiger Duke's Mansion from a restaurant and listened as the Snow Empress urged him to kill his counterpart and absorb his cultivation.

Dai Youheng agreed to train in the Snow Empress’s Emperor Palm technique and wait for a chance to eliminate his other self, whose predictable behavior offered no safe opening. After reaching rank seventeen, he reflected on his unusual cultivation and the dangers of using his low presence in Star Luo City, leaving him watching the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion cautiously.

• Dai Youheng accepted the Snow Empress’s offer to teach him Emperor’s Palm: Great Cold Without Snow, while deciding to wait for his other self to make a mistake or create an opening.
• Dai Youheng drained his tea and resolved to be patient as he watched the White Tiger Duke’s Mansion.
• Dai Youheng reached rank seventeen after cultivating for just over three months with the strange art implanted in his soul.
• The Snow Empress praised his progress but warned him that the art’s domineering, beastlike nature could taint his mind.
• Dai Youheng recalled that his other self mostly pined for Xu Jiujiu and visited the imperial palace, while the mansion and palace were too heavily guarded for a safe attack.
• Dai Youheng considered the Titled Douluo in Star Luo City’s Worship Hall and feared they might detect the shared origins of the two Dai Youhengs.

Dai Youheng struggled to find a safe chance to kill and devour his double, who stayed protected in Star Luo City while obsessing over Princess Jiujiu. When his double chose to remain behind instead of traveling with his brothers to Shrek Academy, Dai Youheng saw the opening he had been waiting for.

• Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress discussed how difficult it was to attack his poison-resistant double without attracting attention from powerful experts.
• The Snow Empress watched the other Youheng repeatedly fail to gain entry to the White Tiger Duke's Mansion and criticized his devotion to Princess Jiujiu.
• Dai Yueheng and Dai Huabin prepared to leave for Shrek Academy without Youheng, who had chosen to stay in Star Luo City for Princess Jiujiu.
• Dai Youheng realized that his double would be isolated and declared that the opportunity to deal with him had arrived.

Dai Youheng sought a strong accomplice to help him kill the White Tiger Duke’s illegitimate son and chose Huang Heyun, a rival suitor of Xu Jiujiu who already resented him. He ambushed Huang Heyun in the Star Luo National Academy’s Dark Forest and left him immobilized, then revealed his identity.

• Dai Youheng reasoned that his target likely had a powerful guard and decided to use Huang Heyun as a borrowed blade.
• Dai Youheng waited until the simp Youheng was preparing to return to Shrek Academy, then slipped into the Star Luo National Academy’s Dark Forest at night.
• Dai Youheng used the Snow Soul Ice Condensation Pill to strengthen himself and silently approached Huang Heyun while he cultivated.
• Dai Youheng struck Huang Heyun in the back with an icy palm, freezing his soul power and temporarily immobilizing him.
• Dai Youheng hauled Huang Heyun around and revealed himself as the man Huang Heyun loathed.

Dai Youheng humiliated Huang Heyun while disguising himself as the simp, then left him furious and eager for revenge against the wrong man. The next morning, the real simp prepared to leave for Shrek Academy as his mother placed her hopes for their family on him.

• Dai Youheng ambushed Huang Heyun and stomped on his face while warning him to stay away from Princess Jiujiu.
• Huang Heyun blamed Dai Youheng for the attack and vowed to make him pay after he left Star Luo City.
• Dai Youheng returned to the inn, and the Snow Empress approved his plan to use Huang Heyun's anger against the unsuspecting simp.
• The next morning, the simp finished packing at the White Tiger Duke's Mansion while his mother urged him to cultivate diligently at Shrek Academy.
• The simp felt guilty as his mother explained that she depended on him to improve their family's standing, while Dai Luoli watched nearby.

Dai Youheng left Star Luo City for Shrek Academy, unaware that another Dai Youheng was following him and that Huang Heyun was waiting to ambush him. Huang Heyun attacked the carriage over the previous night’s humiliation, and the chapter ended as the guards prepared to fight.

• Dai Youheng reassured his mother and younger brother before departing for Shrek Academy with a Soul King guard.
• A second Dai Youheng watched the carriage leave Star Luo City and secretly followed it.
• More than fifty li outside the city, Huang Heyun and Huang Yan ambushed Dai Youheng’s carriage.
• Dai Youheng denied humiliating Huang Heyun, but Huang Heyun ordered Huang Yan to engage the guard and confronted Dai Youheng himself.
• The Wind Wolf Soul King urged Dai Youheng to flee while he drew Huang Yan away.

Dai Youheng confronted his heteromorphic counterpart after Huang Heyun left the wounded simp Youheng in the wilderness. He killed him with ultimate ice and promised to take his identity and look after his mother and younger brother, Luo Li.

• Huang Yan chased the Wind Wolf Soul King into the forest, leaving Huang Heyun alone with Dai Youheng.
• Huang Heyun beat Dai Youheng, broke his right arm, and warned him to stop pestering Princess Jiujiu before leaving him alive.
• Dai Youheng revealed that he was another version of Dai Youheng and explained that heteromorphic counterparts could not coexist.
• The wounded simp Youheng asked Dai Youheng to help him win Jiujiu's heart, but Dai Youheng refused and struck him with ultimate ice.
• Before dying, the simp Youheng asked Dai Youheng to take his identity and look after his mother and younger brother, Luo Li, and Dai Youheng agreed.

After killing his counterpart, Dai Youheng absorbed the Evil Shadow Demon Tiger martial soul and its power, becoming a level-thirty-eight twin martial soul Soul Elder. He stayed behind to study his new abilities and preserve the corpse before the Wind Wolf Soul King guard returned.

• The Evil Shadow Demon Tiger left the dead counterpart and merged with Dai Youheng, giving him its martial soul, soul power, and knowledge.
• Dai Youheng froze the corpse, stored it in his soul tool, and decided to assume his counterpart’s identity and connections.
• Dai Youheng examined the Evil Shadow Demon Tiger’s three soul rings and learned the effects of its soul skills.
• Dai Youheng’s soul power rose from level seventeen to level thirty-eight after merging with his counterpart’s level-thirty-one power.
• The Wind Wolf Soul King guard returned to Dai Youheng without serious injuries.

After devouring the sycophant, Dai Youheng adopted his identity and traveled with his Wind Wolf Soul King guard to Shrek City. He headed to Shrek Academy’s outer court to register, while planning to leave once he could graduate.

• Dai Youheng convinced his guard to carry him directly toward Shrek rather than look for another carriage.
• Dai Youheng arrived in Shrek City and surveyed the city and its history.
• Dai Youheng considered Shrek Academy’s distinction between the outer and inner courts and decided he did not want to enter the inner court.
• Dai Youheng told the guard to take him to the outer court registration office and strode toward the academy.

Dai Youheng arrived at Shrek Academy after taking over the original Dai Youheng’s identity, but he had not absorbed the man’s memories and had to ask Wang Dong about his dorm. He settled into Room 107 with Zhou Sichen and kept his unfamiliar behavior hidden.

• Dai Youheng realized he had forgotten to absorb the original Dai Youheng’s memories after reaching Shrek Academy.
• Wang Dong anxiously asked Dai Youheng whether he had seen Huo Yuhao, and Dai Youheng assured her Huo Yuhao would return soon.
• Dai Youheng asked Wang Dong about changing dorm rooms, and she told him he was assigned to Room 107 beside her and Huo Yuhao’s Room 108.
• Wang Dong continued searching for Huo Yuhao while Dai Youheng went to Room 107 and met his roommate Zhou Sichen.
• Zhou Sichen described his tome martial soul and asked whether to focus his future soul skills on power attacks or diversify, and Dai Youheng replied, “Whatever.”

Dai Youheng advised Zhou Sichen to build a support-focused foundation for his Tome Martial Soul, then tried to keep a low profile at Shrek Academy. His new approach collided with Wang Dong’s expectation that he would keep bringing her breakfast, and he abruptly ended the arrangement.

• Dai Youheng told Zhou Sichen to use his third and fourth Soul Rings for support abilities before choosing stronger combat-oriented summoned beasts with later Soul Rings.
• Zhou Sichen embraced Dai Youheng’s advice and began treating him as a trusted friend and cultivation adviser.
• Dai Youheng followed Zhou Sichen to class, hoping to avoid attracting suspicion while adjusting to his identity at Shrek.
• Zhou Sichen reminded Dai Youheng that he had spent the previous term bringing breakfast to Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao.
• Wang Dong demanded to know where her breakfast was, and Dai Youheng said he would keep forgetting to bring it from then on.

Dai Youheng ignored Wang Dong’s anger and planned how to gain power and protection while keeping his strongest abilities secret. Snow Empress proposed a rare hundred-thousand-year soul beast whose soul ring might grant him a guardian, sending him toward a plan to reach rank forty and leave the academy.

• Dai Youheng refused to bring Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao breakfast, and Wang Dong angrily accepted Xiao Xiao’s advice to let the matter go.
• Zhou Yi entered the classroom and silenced the students with a stern reprimand, while Dai Youheng remained absorbed in his own plans.
• Dai Youheng decided to conceal the Fate-Reversing Heavenly Demon Pill and Snow Empress’s soul ring, and sought both a fortuitous encounter and a reliable guardian.
• Snow Empress suggested using Ice Bear King Xiaobai to help Dai Youheng hunt a rare hundred-thousand-year soul beast whose soul skill could provide a guardian.
• Snow Empress urged Dai Youheng to reach rank forty, obtain leave from the academy, and let her help him absorb the beast’s soul ring beyond his level.

Dai Youheng learned that Snow Empress could help him absorb a special Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring once he reached level forty, while Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy. Dai Youheng resolved to use his core disciple status and hasten his growth before pursuing power beyond the academy.

• Snow Empress promised to seal part of a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring's power for Dai Youheng and told him to reach level forty as soon as possible.
• Dai Youheng missed Zhou Yi's entire class while discussing his plans with Snow Empress, and Zhou Sichen thanked him for his earlier advice about developing his martial soul.
• Huo Yuhao returned to Shrek Academy, where Wang Dong rushed to greet him and Dai Youheng sensed the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion's presence within him.
• Zhou Yi and Fan Yu argued against Huo Yuhao's expulsion, while Mu Jin challenged their appeal in the academic affairs office.
• Dai Youheng recognized that his core disciple status could help him secure resources and leave the academy, then resolved to reach level forty and claim Snow Empress's promised soul beast.

Dai Youheng intervened when Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao to a wager over the freshman tournament’s soul-bone prize, claiming the prize and offering a different soul bone as the stake. He challenged Dai Huabin to wager another soul bone if Huo Yuhao won the upcoming advancement assessment.

• Lan Luoluo and Lan Susu joined Dai Youheng at lunch and reminded him that they had missed him.
• Dai Huabin and his companions met Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao in the cafeteria, and Dai Huabin began mocking Huo Yuhao.
• Dai Huabin challenged Huo Yuhao to settle their conflict in the advancement assessment, wagering the soul bone Huo Yuhao had won in the freshman tournament.
• Dai Youheng stopped Huo Yuhao from revealing that Xiao Xiao had absorbed that soul bone, then claimed it had been given to him.
• Dai Youheng offered his own thirty-thousand-year-old Ice Arrow Pig left arm bone as the wager and demanded another soul bone from Dai Huabin if Huo Yuhao won.

Dai Youheng arranged a wager between Huo Yuhao and Dai Huabin, with an Ice Arrow Pig Soul Bone at stake, while Huo Yuhao added a public kowtow penalty. At the assessment grounds, Dai Youheng saw Shrek’s deans presiding and heard Gong Changlong announce the rules.

• Dai Huabin accepted Dai Youheng’s wager, staking a Soul Bone against Huo Yuhao’s side.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Dai Youheng, while Wang Dong complained that Dai Youheng had stopped bringing breakfast and Xiao Xiao thanked him for preventing her leg bone from being wagered.
• Dai Youheng revealed through his thoughts that he had intervened to profit from the Soul Bone, and Zhou Yi watched without stopping the wager.
• On assessment day, Huo Yuhao challenged Dai Huabin to add three public kowtows to the wager, and Dai Huabin agreed.
• Dai Youheng spotted Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo presiding at the Beast Arena as Gong Changlong began announcing the assessment rules.

Huo Yuhao used the Ice Empress's ultimate ice aura to incapacitate every soul beast in the assessment arena, forcing the test to be postponed. In Dai Youheng's Sea of Consciousness, the Snow Empress learned about the Ice Empress's bond with Huo Yuhao and accepted Dai Youheng's promise not to attack him unless he became a threat.

• Huo Yuhao chose to challenge a hundred-year soul beast, and Dai Huabin mocked his choice.
• Huo Yuhao released the Ice Empress's aura, making the Wind Wolf and every other soul beast in the arena collapse in terror.
• The Snow Empress recognized the Ice Empress's aura, and Dai Youheng explained how the Ice Empress and Sky Dream Ice Silkworm had joined Huo Yuhao's path to godhood.
• The Snow Empress asked whether Dai Youheng would attack Huo Yuhao as a future rival, and Dai Youheng said he would kill him if he became a threat.
• The Snow Empress accepted Dai Youheng's position, while Yan Shaozhe suspended the assessment until the soul beasts recovered.

After Huo Yuhao won the suspended assessment, Dai Huabin paid his wager and proposed a new contest with higher stakes, which Dai Youheng agreed to support. Yan Shaozhe summoned Huo Yuhao to the dean’s office after suspecting he had twin martial souls and an ultimate attribute.

• Huo Yuhao demanded that Dai Huabin honor their wager, and Dai Huabin handed over a Thousand-Year left arm soul bone to Dai Youheng.
• Dai Huabin knelt before Huo Yuhao and kowtowed three times, then challenged him to a new wager involving the soul bones, three million Gold Soul Coins, more kowtows, and an apology.
• Huo Yuhao said he could not wager the soul bones without Dai Youheng’s consent, and Dai Youheng agreed to put them at stake in support of him.
• Dai Huabin insulted and threatened Dai Youheng, who remained composed as the confrontation ended.
• Yan Shaozhe summoned Huo Yuhao to the dean’s office, intending to bring him back to the Martial Soul Department after discovering his possible twin martial souls and ultimate attribute.

Dai Youheng's support for Huo Yuhao sparked rumors and a public betting frenzy, drawing Dai Yueheng's anger over the family's reputation. Dai Youheng defied his eldest brother and refused to return Dai Huabin's soul bone.

• The academy postponed the advancement assessment for three days while the Beast Arena's soul beasts recovered.
• Rumors spread that Yan Shaozhe and Qian Duoduo had fought over Huo Yuhao, and Dai Youheng bet one million gold soul coins on Huo Yuhao to win his wager with Dai Huabin.
• Dai Yueheng confronted Dai Youheng in his dormitory over the wager, the soul bone, and the shame he believed the dispute brought on the Dai Family.
• Dai Youheng challenged Dai Yueheng's concern for family harmony, cited Dai Huabin's past bullying, and refused to return the soul bone.

Dai Youheng rejected Dai Yueheng’s threats, then watched the second assessment decide the wager between Dai Huabin’s team and Huo Yuhao’s team. Huo Yuhao’s perfect score won the match by one point, leaving Dai Youheng anticipating his prize money and soul bone.

• Dai Youheng dismissed Dai Yueheng’s threat to report him to Duke Dai Hao, and Dai Yueheng left in anger.
• Dai Huabin changed the wager to compare the teams’ combined assessment scores, and Huo Yuhao agreed to the new terms.
• Wang Dong scored 110 and Xiao Xiao scored 96, while Zhu Lu scored 100 and Cui Yajie scored 110.
• Dai Huabin killed a Thousand-Year Wind Tiger and received 145 points, putting his team ahead by 149 points before Huo Yuhao’s turn.
• Huo Yuhao defeated a Thousand-Year Flame Lion with his Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion martial soul and earned 150 points, giving his team a one-point victory.
• Dai Youheng looked forward to collecting the soul bone and three million Gold Soul Coins and spending them at Shrek City’s Treasure Appraisal Fair.