Recaps

Dai Youheng and Nana crossed the Sunset Forest’s poisonous barrier and reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where they waited in hiding for Huo Yuhao. Huo Yuhao arrived alone, and Dai Youheng prepared to confront him.

• Dai Youheng and Nana entered the Sunset Forest and used Snow Soul Condensing Ice Pills and ultimate ice to withstand the poison.
• Dai Youheng and Nana froze their way past a Jade-Scaled Nine-Extinction Flower and reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dai Youheng spotted the Aromatic Silk Beauty and searched the basin for Huo Yuhao, then chose a concealed place to wait.
• After about half a day, Huo Yuhao crossed the poisonous miasma with soul tools and ultimate ice and entered the basin alone.

Huo Yuhao passed the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s trials and picked the Lovesick Heartbreak Red to save Wang Dong'er, but the effort left him near death. Nana appeared on Dai Youheng’s orders and offered to restore him in exchange for his right to claim seven immortal herbs.

• Dai Youheng and Nana watched Huo Yuhao enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and planned to wait until he passed the trials before acting.
• Youyou tested Huo Yuhao with the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and the infernal delicate apricot, and he passed with Electrolux’s help.
• Youyou gave Huo Yuhao Tang San’s book and the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, which he picked after using the Scorching Yang Spring to overcome the freezing effect of his blood.
• Huo Yuhao’s organs were ravaged by the clash of heat and cold, and his life began to fade as he struggled to save Wang Dong'er.
• Nana appeared before Huo Yuhao and offered to restore him to peak condition if he gave her the right to all seven immortal herbs he could claim.

Huo Yuhao agreed to give Dai Youheng the right to choose seven immortal herbs in exchange for Nana saving him, so he could hurry to save Wang Dong'er. After Huo Yuhao left, Dai Youheng revealed his divine aura and began selecting the herbs.

• Urged by the soul spirits in his Sea of Consciousness, Huo Yuhao agreed to transfer his entitlement to seven immortal herbs to Dai Youheng in exchange for his life.
• Nana gave Huo Yuhao the Snow Woman Sacred Heart Pill, which healed his injuries, restored his soul power, and purified his body.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Nana, took the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and hurried away to save Wang Dong'er.
• Dai Youheng emerged from hiding, and Nana knelt and acknowledged him as her master.
• Dai Youheng used the Sin God Seal's divine aura to reassure Youyou that the trade followed the rules, then carefully chose seven immortal herbs.

Dai Youheng selected and harvested seven immortal herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, including a Lovesick Heartbreak Red at the Snow Empress's request. Before leaving with Nana, he revealed that the lake concealed the remains and lingering souls of two divine dragons, a secret he planned to investigate once he was strong enough.

• Dai Youheng and Nana entered the central region of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he sensed five intelligent hundred-thousand-year immortal herbs.
• Dai Youheng selected six herbs suited to his cultivation, including the Star Luo Spirit Pearl, primordial immortal herb, and ten-thousand-year nine-grade ginseng king.
• The Snow Empress asked Dai Youheng to take the second Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and he chose it as his seventh herb.
• Dai Youheng carefully harvested the seven immortal herbs and left with Nana after Youyou warned him not to squander their worth.
• At the lake's edge, Dai Youheng told Nana that the remains and lingering souls of the Fire Dragon and Ice Dragon lay beneath the springs, but he would wait until he was powerful enough to investigate.

Dai Youheng gave Nana the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Grade Ginseng King, which rebuilt her damaged foundations and let her cultivate again. After choosing the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum for himself, he prepared to begin taking an immortal herb.

• Dai Youheng brought Nana to a secluded valley and explained that the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Grade Ginseng King could repair her damaged foundations.
• Dai Youheng told Nana that Ling Ya would receive the Star Luo Spirit Pearl to support his future development of dual soul cores and soul-engineering skills.
• Nana absorbed the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Grade Ginseng King while Dai Youheng guarded her and considered which herb to take.
• Dai Youheng chose the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum for its all-round improvement to his physique.
• After more than two hours, Nana regained the ability to cultivate and thanked Dai Youheng, who then prepared to take an immortal herb himself.

After absorbing the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, Dai Youheng completed the God of Sloth’s trial and received an Ice God Fragment from the gods. The God of Envy revealed that the fragment was connected to an ancient Far North deity whom the Seven Deadly Sins Gods had fought and defeated.

• Dai Youheng absorbed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, strengthening his body and raising his soul power to the peak of level seventy-five.
• Dai Youheng entered the Hall of Sin, where the God of Sloth declared that he had passed the trial and gave him a palm-sized ice crystal fragment.
• The God of Envy identified the reward as an Ice God Fragment, and the Snow Empress recognized its connection to the legendary Ice God of the Far North.
• The God of Envy explained that the Ice God had been an innate spirit who cultivated for a million years and rose to become a First-Level Main God.
• The God of Envy and the God of Sloth recalled how the Seven Deadly Sins Gods fought the Ice God for three days using the Sin Descent Divine Punishment Formation before defeating him.

The God of Envy recounted how the Ice God destroyed his Divine Seat and sent a fragment to the Far North, then gave Dai Youheng the trial called “Why Should They?” Dai Youheng accepted the challenge to destroy the advantages of two people who surpassed him.

• The God of Envy explained that the dying Ice God split his Divine Seat Divinity into three fragments, sending the smallest toward the Far North with a prophecy that a destined one would reforge his Divine Seat.
• The God of Sloth gave Dai Youheng his Ice God Fragment, which resonated with the Snow Empress and awakened her desire to restore the Ice God Divine Seat.
• The God of Envy began her trial and urged Dai Youheng to resent people blessed with greater fortune, talent, wealth, beauty, fame, or love.
• The God of Envy required Dai Youheng to choose two areas in which others surpassed him and destroy their advantages, with greater rewards for more outstanding targets.
• Dai Youheng accepted the trial, resolving to write his own answer to “Why Should They?”

Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress assessed possible targets for the God of Envy’s examination and settled on reputation, appearance, and family background as the most promising areas. After spending half a month with Bai Wanning and Dai Luoli, Dai Youheng returned his attention to the approaching Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament and wondered how Xu Jiujiu would involve him.

• The Snow Empress helped Dai Youheng rule out cultivation talent, martial souls, opportunities, and partners as targets for the Divine Examination of Envy.
• Dai Youheng identified Shrek Academy and its dean, Yan Shaozhe, as potential targets for damaging reputation, while considering other candidates for appearance and family background.
• Dai Youheng discovered the Ice God Fragment in his hand and told Nana they would visit Bai Wanning and Dai Luoli before returning to Star Luo City.
• Dai Youheng reunited with Bai Wanning and Dai Luoli, spent half a month with them, and guided his younger brother's cultivation.
• Dai Youheng prepared to return for the approaching tournament and wondered how Xu Jiujiu would arrange his participation despite his graduation from Shrek.

Dai Youheng returned to Star Luo City, gave Nana the Star Luo Spirit Pearl for Ling Ya, and reunited with Xu Jiujiu. They agreed that he would compete in the upcoming tournament as a representative of the Star Crown Sect, and the court summoned the other competitors.

• Dai Youheng gave Nana the Star Luo Spirit Pearl and asked her to deliver it to Ling Ya.
• Dai Youheng returned to the Princess's Mansion, where Xu Jiujiu welcomed him and embraced him.
• Xu Jiujiu explained that Dai Youheng could represent the Star Crown Sect in the tournament, and he approved her plan.
• At morning court, the officials accepted Dai Youheng and Xu Jiujiu as core competitors, and Xu Jiawei chose five additional team members.
• An attendant summoned the Star Crown Sect and Star Luo National Academy competitors, and five young figures entered the hall to greet the emperor and Xu Jiujiu.

Xu Jiawei assembled the Star Crown Sect team around Dai Youheng and Xu Jiujiu, assigning five Titled Douluos to guard them on their journey to Mingdu. As rival factions prepared their teams, the tournament approached amid Xiao Hongchen’s vow of revenge, the Holy Spirit Cult’s ambitions, and Shrek Academy’s weakened prospects.

• Xu Aojun, Mo Yang, Dong Hui, Tang Yuning, and Ying Wei introduced themselves as members of the Star Crown Sect team, and Xu Jiawei appointed Xu Jiujiu captain and Dai Youheng vice-captain.
• Xu Jiawei assigned Sky Kun Douluo, Giant Strength Douluo, and Purple Spirit Douluo to guard the team, then approved Nebula Douluo Manyi and Ice Sky Douluo Ling Ya joining them.
• Xu Jiawei ordered the team to prepare for half a month before departing for Mingdu.
• Xiao Hongchen reached Soul Saint after using forbidden pills and vowed to defeat Huo Yuhao and Dai Youheng in the tournament.
• Zhongli Wu ordered Yan Feng and six other young Evil Soul Masters to display the Holy Spirit Cult’s power at the tournament.
• Vina named Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo to the Body Sect team, while Shrek Academy faced the tournament with a weakened roster led by Ning Tian and Wu Feng.

After leaving court, Dai Youheng returned to his hotel and helped Ling Ya begin condensing a second soul core through Isotopic Resonance. Ling Ya successfully established an initial resonance between the new core in his middle dantian and his ice soul core.

• Dai Youheng left Xu Jiujiu at the Princess's Mansion, saying he needed to focus on cultivation before the tournament.
• Dai Youheng asked Ling Ya whether he had refined the Star Luo Spirit Pearl, and Ling Ya reported that its power had gathered beside his ice soul core without breaking through.
• Dai Youheng taught Ling Ya the Spirit Pivot Qi-Guiding Formula and directed him to move the pearl's core to the Shanzhong acupoint.
• Ling Ya spent about two hours guiding the starlight into his middle dantian while Dai Youheng watched and Nana guarded the room.
• Ling Ya completed the initial condensation of a second soul core and felt it resonate with his ice soul core.

Dai Youheng studied Ling Ya’s account of condensing a soul core, then used that knowledge to form a powerful Abyss Demon Core while still a Soul Saint. With the tournament approaching, he gained a major new source of power and recovery.

• Dai Youheng questioned Ling Ya about the details of condensing his soul core and carefully absorbed his experience.
• Dai Youheng summoned the Abyssal Demon Tiger phantom and began compressing his soul power into a spinning black vortex.
• Dai Youheng formed a nascent soul core and fed it both his abyss soul power and energy drawn from heaven and earth.
• Dai Youheng expanded the core to fist size and completed the dark gold Abyss Demon Core despite the strain of precise control.
• Dai Youheng absorbed the core into his abdomen, while Ling Ya recognized its potential to accelerate cultivation and replenish soul power in battle.

After completing his soul core and reaching rank seventy-six, Dai Youheng revealed his plan to give Dai Luoli the White Tiger Dukedom while pursuing control of the entire continent. Half a month later, the Star Crown Sect team prepared to leave Star Luo City for the Continental Elite Tournament.

• Dai Youheng completed his soul core, reached rank seventy-six, and told Ling Ya and Nana that he intended to make Dai Luoli the future White Tiger Duke.
• Dai Youheng planned to give Dai Luoli the next Yin-Yang Fate-Reversing Lotus Seed Pill and use him to govern the family while Dai Youheng pursued the entire continent.
• Dai Youheng ordered Nana to eliminate the remaining supporters of Dai Yueheng and help Dai Luoli awaken his martial soul’s latent mental attribute through mutation.
• Dai Youheng sent Nana to complete her tasks before joining him and Xu Jiujiu in the Sun Moon Empire, where he expected the tournament’s turmoil to aid his plans and divine examination.
• Half a month later, the Star Crown Sect team gathered at Star Luo City’s soul guidance plaza to depart after completing intensive joint training.

Xu Jiujiu led the Star Crown Sect team to Mingdu for the tournament, where the city’s scale and the promise of powerful soul-tool prizes stirred anticipation. At registration, the team’s decision to compete under the Star Crown Sect name drew attention from rival powers, including Shrek Academy and the Tang Sect.

• Xu Jiujiu presented the team with matching uniforms and led them, guarded by five Titled Douluos, out of the Star Luo Empire.
• During the journey, Xu Jiujiu reviewed travel precautions while Dai Youheng cultivated and the other team members discussed tactics and skills.
• The team arrived in Mingdu and saw the city crowded with tournament teams, including disciples from the Heavenly Armor Sect and the Heavenly Gate.
• Xu Jiujiu led the seven members to register as the Star Crown Sect, surprising the official and drawing the attention of Shrek Academy, the Tang Sect, and others.

Huo Yuhao watched Dai Youheng arrive with the Star Crown Sect and reflected on how much his former senior had changed. At the tournament registration desk, a black-robed Evil Soul Master attacked Bei Bei, and Dai Youheng confidently judged he could defeat her within five moves.

• Huo Yuhao recognized Dai Youheng among the Star Crown Sect's delegation, and Cai Mei'er explained how the empire used the sect's name to avoid criticism over his transfer.
• Lan Susu and Lan Luoluo greeted Dai Youheng, but Xu Jiujiu introduced herself as his fiancée and positioned herself between them.
• A black-robed female Evil Soul Master attacked Bei Bei with sinister Blue Silver Grass, leaving him wounded.
• Xu Jiujiu identified the attacker as an Evil Soul Master and asked Dai Youheng to assess her strength.
• Dai Youheng estimated that the woman was around rank seventy-five and said he could subdue her within five moves, reassuring Xu Jiujiu.

Xu Tianran and Ju Zi discussed the emperor’s declining health, the military’s loyalties, and preparations for the tournament as Xu Tianran planned his rise to the throne. Ju Zi concealed her distrust while reaffirming her desire to destroy the Star Luo Empire, and Xu Tianran dismissed Dai Youheng as a rival.

• Ju Zi told Xu Tianran that the emperor was likely to die within days and described the military’s divided loyalties.
• Xu Tianran said he would deal with generals who resisted him after he became emperor, and promised Ju Zi the position of empress and commander-in-chief against the Star Luo Empire.
• Ju Zi reflected on Xu Tianran’s paranoia and ruthlessness while hiding her true feelings and maintaining her loyal-consort role.
• Ju Zi reported that tournament preparations were nearly complete and that Shrek, the Star Luo Empire, the Heaven Dou Empire, and other powers had gathered in Mingdu.
• Ju Zi identified Dai Youheng as the tournament’s strongest individual combatant, while Xu Tianran dismissed him and asserted his own superiority.

Huo Yuhao tried to persuade Dai Youheng to leave the Star Luo Empire and return to Shrek Academy, but Dai Youheng refused. Meanwhile, Nana killed Duchess Zhu Man and purged the forces on a list tied to Dai Yueheng, leaving Star Luo City's power structure changed.

• Huo Yuhao visited Dai Youheng and insisted the Star Luo Imperial Family had framed him over the Soul Tool Data incident.
• Dai Youheng refused Huo Yuhao's plea to abandon Xu Jiujiu and return to Shrek Academy, and Huo Yuhao warned that he might have to set aside their brotherly bond.
• Nana used her soul bone abilities to silently kill the core forces listed in the records recovered from Zhu Shu.
• Nana confronted Duchess Zhu Man in her bedroom and killed her with the Pan Yue Sword.
• Zhu Man begged Nana to spare Yueheng, but Nana left her body behind and vanished into the darkness.

After assassinations killed many allies of Dai Yueheng in Star Luo City, Xu Jiawei suspected a frame-up and ordered a cautious investigation, unaware that Dai Youheng had orchestrated it. At the Small Mountain Village, Nana began harsh training to awaken Dai Luoli’s potential while Bai Wanning supported her son.

• Servants discovered that powerful Soul Masters across Star Luo City had been killed overnight, spreading panic among the nobles and great families.
• Huang Jinxu told Xu Jiawei that the victims had been killed by a highly skilled Titled Douluo using a slender weapon, and that all but Zhu Man were connected to the Dai and Zhu families and aligned with Dai Yueheng.
• Xu Jiawei ruled out Dai Youheng as the killer and suspected someone was framing him to destabilize the empire’s succession; he ordered tighter security and an investigation into suspicious outsiders.
• Nana returned to the Small Mountain Village and put Dai Luoli through punishing training intended to awaken his special mental attribute and transform his martial soul.
• Bai Wanning watched Dai Luoli endure Nana’s attacks and chose to support the training, while her Black Fruit martial soul helped restore his stamina and heal his bruises.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er warned Xu Jiujiu that the Holy Spirit Cult was a powerful organization of Evil Soul Masters backed by the Sun Moon Empire. Xu Jiujiu agreed to buy Tang Sect city-defense soul tools as the Star Luo Empire prepared for the threat.

• Xu Jiujiu reviewed intelligence on tournament rivals and worried that the unknown Evil Soul Masters might use underhanded attacks.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er arrived to share intelligence, and Huo Yuhao revealed that the Holy Spirit Cult was backed by the Sun Moon Empire and included a Limit Douluo.
• Dai Youheng supported Huo Yuhao's warning by connecting the cult to the suspicious appearance of Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng and Dragon Emperor Douluo Long Xiaoyao.
• Xu Jiujiu realized the threat could endanger the Star Luo Empire and thanked Huo Yuhao for the warning.
• Wang Dong'er offered the Tang Sect's Godly Zhuge Crossbow Cannon, and Xu Jiujiu ordered the Star Luo Empire to purchase a batch.

The All-Continent Advanced Soul Master Soul Fighting Tournament opened as the Sun Moon Empire displayed its military power and the support of the Limit Douluo Long Xiaoyao. Ju Zi declared the tournament underway, leaving the gathered teams facing the Sun Moon Empire’s overwhelming show of force.

• Dai Youheng assessed the Tang Sect and Holy Spirit Sect teams, noting that Yan Feng and Tang Ya led a lineup of two Soul Saints and five Soul Emperors.
• Dai Youheng reassured Xu Jiujiu that he could defeat the Holy Spirit Sect’s seven members by himself.
• The Sun Moon Empire’s five great soul engineer legions entered the arena and escorted Xu Tianran and Ju Zi to the dais.
• Xu Tianran bristled when officials from the Sun Moon Empire knelt before him but the spectators and Soul Masters from the three original nations did not.
• Long Xiaoyao silenced the arena with his immense pressure, and Huo Yuhao and Xu Jiujiu recognized the threat of a Limit Douluo supporting the Sun Moon Empire.
• Ju Zi welcomed the crowd on Xu Tianran’s behalf and declared the tournament open.

Dai Youheng planned to fulfill the God of Envy’s trial by targeting Xu Tianran’s status and Shrek Academy’s reputation through the tournament. The opening match began under new rules, with Meng Hongchen facing the Dragon Slaying Sect’s first contestant.

• Dai Youheng told the Snow Empress he intended to undermine Xu Tianran’s royal standing and tarnish Shrek Academy’s legacy to complete his trial.
• Xu Tianran announced the tournament’s first match, and the narrator explained the new format of individual battles followed, when needed, by a team battle.
• Xu Jiujiu and the Star Crown Sect members considered whether the rules favored teams with powerful individual fighters, while Dai Youheng watched the Sun Moon team’s first contestant.
• Meng Hongchen entered the stage to face a Five-Ring Soul King from the Dragon Slaying Sect and calmly invited him to attack first.

Meng Hongchen swept the Dragon Slaying Sect seven to zero, and the tournament revealed its brutal rules as a Mingyu Sect contestant killed a Dou Ling Empire academy student by draining her blood. Dai Youheng identified the vampirelike A De and a woman in the Mingyu Sect as Evil Soul Masters, leaving the arena in uproar.

• Meng Hongchen defeated all seven Dragon Slaying Sect contestants with her Vermilion Clear Ice Toad poison, securing a flawless victory for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.
• Dai Youheng and Xu Jiujiu watched the tournament matches as sect teams began overwhelming academy teams, and Xu Jiujiu noted that this tournament allowed contestants to kill.
• A young man from the Mingyu Sect killed a female contestant from the Dou Ling Empire's imperial academy by draining her blood, provoking terrified and angry reactions from the crowd.
• Dai Youheng sensed concentrated evil auras around A De and a woman in the Mingyu Sect's waiting area and identified them as Evil Soul Masters.

After the first day’s brutal matches, Xu Jiujiu leaned on Dai Youheng for reassurance as the Star Crown Sect prepared to compete. Xu Tianran continued his plan to trap the tournament’s visiting forces in Mingdu, and the second day opened with Holy Spirit Cult leader Zhongli Wu openly appearing in the main stand.

• Xu Tianran privately regarded Evil Soul Masters as temporary allies and planned to eradicate the Holy Spirit Cult after unifying the continent.
• Xu Jiujiu gathered the Star Crown Sect, urged everyone to rest before their matches, then confided her fears about Long Xiaoyao and the Evil Soul Masters to Dai Youheng.
• Dai Youheng promised Xu Jiujiu he would compete first and win decisively, and she asked him to stay with her through the night.
• Xu Tianran heard Ju Zi’s preparations to seal Mingdu so the tournament’s visiting forces could not leave, then vowed to rule the continent.
• On the second day, Long Xiaoyao was absent from the main stand, where Zhongli Wu appeared openly as leader of the Holy Spirit Cult.

The Tang Sect defeated the Earth Dragon Sect, while Zhongli Wu secretly coveted Nan Qiuqiu’s annihilation-attribute martial soul. The Star Crown Sect then faced the Brute Force Sect, and Dai Youheng entered the arena first; the chapter ended as a Brute Force Sect contestant charged him and Dai Youheng stood motionless.

• Huo Yuhao used his ultimate ice and Tang Sect Secret Arts to defeat all seven members of the Earth Dragon Sect.
• Zhongli Wu watched Nan Qiuqiu and schemed to turn her into another Saintess for the Holy Church.
• The Star Crown Sect was matched against the brutal Brute Force Sect, whose members carried a fierce aura of resentment and baleful energy.
• Dai Youheng reassured Xu Jiujiu and stepped forward as the Star Crown Sect’s first contestant, surprising observers who expected him to be saved as a trump card.
• A Brute Force Sect Soul King activated his Mighty Savage Bull martial soul and charged Dai Youheng, who remained still without releasing his martial soul.

Dai Youheng overwhelmed the Brute Force Sect by enduring attacks with his body and turning A-Li’s Shattering Light back against him. Zhongli Wu became intent on making Dai Youheng his holy son, while the match ended with A-Li flung out of the arena.

• Dai Youheng shattered a Brute Force Sect fighter’s arm by taking his punch without defending, then called for the next opponent.
• Zhongli Wu recognized Dai Youheng’s body as an ideal vessel and coveted him as a holy son.
• Captain Man Jiang sent vice-captain A-Li to fight Dai Youheng and warned him to avoid close combat.
• A-Li fired his Shattering Light at Dai Youheng, who absorbed the blast without being harmed.
• Dai Youheng compressed and reflected the energy back, destroying A-Li’s arms and hurling him beyond the arena.