Recaps

Dai Youheng used his apparent grief to win Xu Jiujiu’s support while secretly planning to kill Dai Huabin and manipulate the Dai and Xu families against each other. Nana set out for the Duke’s Mansion as Dai Huabin languished in isolation, weakened by his ruined cultivation.

• Xu Jiujiu promised to help Dai Youheng reclaim what was rightfully his, and he vowed to prove himself worthy of marrying her.
• Dai Youheng left the Princess’s Mansion and told Xu Jiujiu he would not return to the Duke’s Mansion and would make the Zhu Family repay the blood debt.
• After returning to his hotel room, Dai Youheng dropped his grieving act and ordered Nana to kill Dai Huabin.
• Dai Youheng gave Nana the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade and instructed her to kill Dai Huabin with Tyrant Tiger Annihilation Slash.
• Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu tried to meditate in the Duke’s Mansion while Dai Huabin struggled with lasting soul-power damage and a bleak cultivation future.

After another failed attempt at Deep Meditation, Dai Huabin blamed Dai Youheng for his downfall and drove Zhu Lu away. Nana infiltrated the Duke's Mansion and killed Dai Huabin with the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, leaving evidence that pointed to Dai Youheng.

• Dai Huabin failed at Deep Meditation and angrily rejected Zhu Lu's comfort, so she left the room.
• Dai Huabin blamed Dai Youheng for his misfortunes and vowed revenge.
• Nana used Shadow Assimilation to infiltrate Dai Huabin's room and restrain him with spectral resentment.
• Nana killed Dai Huabin with the Tyrant Tiger Annihilation Slash and slipped away, leaving the blade's traces to identify Dai Youheng.

Zhu Man discovered Dai Huabin murdered and blamed Dai Youheng after Dai Hao recognized his signature blade technique. Dai Youheng admitted to Xu Jiujiu that he had killed Dai Huabin, just as Zhu Man stormed the Princess's Mansion seeking him.

• Zhu Lu found Dai Huabin decapitated in his room and alerted the Duke's household.
• Dai Hao identified the Tyrant Tiger Annihilation Slash, and Zhu Man accused Dai Youheng of killing her son.
• Zhu Man burned through her remaining life force and rushed to the Princess's Mansion while Zhu Shu and Dai Hao pursued her.
• Dai Youheng met Xu Jiujiu for breakfast, claiming he had come for comfort, when Zhu Man broke into the mansion demanding to see him.
• Dai Youheng calmly admitted to Xu Jiujiu that he had sneaked into the Duke's Mansion and killed Dai Huabin.

Dai Youheng denied killing Dai Huabin and used Dai Hao and Zhu Shu’s earlier arguments to block their accusations. After Xu Jiujiu ordered them out of the Princess’s Mansion, Dai Youheng warned them to protect Dai Yueheng and watched them leave before turning his attention toward the Duke’s Mansion.

• Dai Youheng met Zhu Man’s attack, but Nebula Douluo Manyi stopped and blasted her back.
• Dai Hao and Zhu Shu accused Dai Youheng of killing Dai Huabin with the Tyrant Tiger Annihilation Slash, while he denied it and called it a frame-up.
• Dai Youheng turned Dai Hao’s earlier defense of Zhu Man against him, leaving Dai Hao and Zhu Shu unable to answer.
• Xu Jiujiu ordered Dai Hao, Zhu Shu, and Zhu Man to leave, citing the lack of conclusive evidence and their earlier reliance on evidence against Zhu Man.
• Dai Youheng warned Dai Hao and Zhu Man to protect Dai Yueheng, and Zhu Man collapsed after spitting blood.
• Dai Hao carried Zhu Man away with Zhu Shu, and Xu Jiujiu took Dai Youheng’s hand as he looked toward the Duke’s Mansion.

Dai Hao visited Dai Youheng to ask him to end his revenge, and Dai Youheng promised to preserve the Dai Family in exchange for what he wanted. The next day, Dai Hao’s decree elevated Bai Wanning’s status and gave Dai Youheng equal succession rights, with the dukedom and Western Army command going to whichever brother first became a Soul Douluo.

• Xu Jiujiu arranged for two Soul Saints to secretly protect Dai Youheng, while Ling Ya and Nana followed unseen.
• Dai Hao came to Dai Youheng’s hotel and asked to speak with him before returning to the Mingdou Mountain Range.
• Dai Hao said he would stop pursuing Dai Youheng over Dai Huabin’s fate and begged him to end his revenge against Zhu Man and Dai Yueheng.
• Dai Youheng agreed that the Dai Family would endure, and Dai Hao promised to grant his request in return for an end to the matter involving Bai Wanning and Dai Luoli.
• Dai Hao issued a decree elevating Bai Wanning to equal-wife status, granting Dai Youheng full succession rights, and making the first brother to reach Soul Douluo the next White Tiger Duke and Western Army Group Commander.

After Dai Hao’s statement secured Dai Youheng’s place in the succession contest, Dai Youheng planned to strengthen his position against the Zhu Family and the imperial family. He ordered Ling Ya to appear publicly as his guard, while Nana remained hidden, and rewarded Ling Ya with an Ice Jade Scorpion soul bone.

• Dai Hao left for the Mingdou Mountain Range with Dai Yueheng and Zhu Lu, while Zhu Lu resolved to help Dai Yueheng and avenge Dai Huabin.
• Dai Youheng kept to his routine with Xu Jiujiu and cultivation, but recognized that Zhu Shu would continue to scheme against him.
• Dai Youheng instructed Ling Ya to appear openly by requesting to examine his Level 8 Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, and to accept Xu Jiujiu’s likely invitation to join the Star Luo Empire’s Soul Engineer Corps.
• Dai Youheng gave Ling Ya a Snow Soul Condensing Ice Pill and a seventy-thousand-year Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone to increase Ling Ya’s strength and establish him as a credible guard.
• Ling Ya took the pill and prepared to absorb the soul bone, allowing Dai Youheng to rely on him during his planned sixth-soul-ring hunt without imperial attendants.

Dai Youheng feigned overtraining so Xu Jiujiu would invite him on an outing, where he charmed her with memories of their past and performed a blade dance on the lake. The chapter left him finishing the display as Xu Jiujiu watched from the boat.

• Dai Youheng deliberately trained to exhaustion until Xu Jiujiu worried about him and invited him to take a day off together.
• Xu Jiujiu and Dai Youheng traveled to a lake outside Star Luo City while Manyi stayed hidden nearby to protect them.
• Dai Youheng flattered Xu Jiujiu as they recalled his past courtship, and she urged him to stop training recklessly.
• Dai Youheng asked to perform a blade dance, and Xu Jiujiu agreed after he explained it was not combat practice.
• Dai Youheng danced across the lake with the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade, splitting the water before landing as Xu Jiujiu protected their boat with Star's Protection.

Dai Youheng performed his blade dance, which Xu Jiujiu mistook as a romantic declaration to her, while the Snow Empress recognized it as a gift meant for her. Ling Ya arrived to study Dai Youheng’s Level 8 soul tool, and Dai Youheng offered to let him examine it if he would return with him to the Princess’s Mansion to ensure his safety.

• Ling Ya appeared at the lakeshore after sensing Dai Youheng’s blade intent and asked the name of his blade dance.
• Dai Youheng named the technique Snow-Tie Everlasting Song, leading Xu Jiujiu to believe it expressed his love for her while the Snow Empress understood it was created for her.
• Ling Ya recognized Dai Youheng’s weapon as the Level 8 Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade and asked to examine its Core Array.
• Xu Jiujiu agreed to Ling Ya’s request but pointed out that Dai Youheng needed the blade for protection amid the danger surrounding him.
• Dai Youheng described his family’s danger and offered to let Ling Ya study the blade if he would accompany him to the Princess’s Mansion and help ensure his safety.

Xu Jiujiu persuaded Ling Ya to become a guest retainer at the Princess's Mansion, where he studied soul tools and rapidly advanced. His presence protected Dai Youheng and strengthened the Xu Family's position, while the Zhu Family postponed its plans for revenge.

• Xu Jiujiu offered Ling Ya access to Star Luo's leading soul tool masters, and he agreed to serve as a guest retainer without other obligations.
• Xu Jiujiu publicized Ling Ya's arrival to deter the Zhu Family and other rivals from targeting Dai Youheng.
• Zhu Man raged at the news, while Zhu Shu urged her to wait for a chance to act after Ling Ya left.
• Xu Jiujiu introduced Ling Ya to Purple Spirit Douluo, and the two began exchanging knowledge about soul tools.
• With Purple Spirit Douluo's guidance and materials from Dai Youheng, Ling Ya reached the peak of Level 6 Soul Engineer in less than half a year.

Ling Ya demonstrated the overwhelming power of Ultimate Ice by defeating Giant Hammer Douluo in a sparring match, impressing the Star Luo Empire’s emperor and Titled Douluos. Xu Jiujiu revealed that Dai Youheng had entered seclusion to break through to level 60, and expected him to emerge soon.

• After half a year staying in Star Luo, Ling Ya accepted Giant Hammer Douluo’s repeated challenge at Dai Youheng’s urging and took a Snow Soul Condensing Ice Pill to enhance his power.
• Ling Ya blocked Giant Hammer Douluo’s hammer attacks with Extreme Ice Barriers, then used his Ice Jade Scorpion Left Arm Bone’s Ice Explosion while restraining it before it could kill his opponent.
• Giant Hammer Douluo conceded defeat, acknowledging the might of Ling Ya’s Ultimate Ice and Ice Explosion.
• Xu Jiawei praised Xu Jiujiu for recruiting Ling Ya, while she credited Dai Youheng with helping persuade him to stay.
• Xu Jiujiu told Xu Jiawei that Dai Youheng had reached level 59, touched the level 60 bottleneck, and entered seclusion to break through to the Soul Emperor realm.

Dai Youheng reached level sixty and prepared to hunt for his sixth Soul Ring. He chose the Far North and a hundred-thousand-year Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger as his target, leaving with Ling Ya and Nana while expecting another powerful ally to join them.

• Dai Youheng broke through to level sixty in the Princess's Mansion's Simulated Cultivation Ground.
• Xu Jiujiu congratulated Dai Youheng, and Ling Ya offered to protect him on his Soul Ring hunt.
• Dai Youheng and Ling Ya left Star Luo City the next morning, where Nana joined them.
• Dai Youheng rejected the Star Dou Great Forest and chose the Far North, postponing his plans for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dai Youheng revealed his plan to hunt a hundred-thousand-year Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger, and Ling Ya and Nana pledged their loyalty.

Dai Youheng, Nana, and Ling Ya reached the Far North’s core and waited at the Ice Crystal Castle for the Snow Empress’s reinforcements. After scolding Xiao Bai for neglecting the castle, the Snow Empress summoned A-Tai and revealed that she and the Ice Empress had sacrificed themselves to humans, then asked him to help with her plans.

• Dai Youheng, Nana, and Ling Ya stayed at the Ice Crystal Castle while avoiding a reckless search for the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger.
• The Snow Empress grew furious when Xiao Bai returned after more than half a year away and lectured her for an hour.
• The Snow Empress sent Xiao Bai to fetch A-Tai, who arrived at the castle as the Titan Snow Demon King.
• The Snow Empress told A-Tai that she and the Ice Empress had sacrificed themselves to humans and that she had a plan to return to life.
• A-Tai accepted the Snow Empress’s request for help without hesitation.

The Snow Empress made A-Tai acting King of the Far North and enlisted him and Xiaobai to help Dai Youheng hunt an Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger. During a month of preparation, Dai Youheng created a new saber art, leaving the group ready to face the hidden tiger race.

• The Snow Empress appointed A-Tai acting King of the Far North and asked him and Xiaobai to help hold off the Abyssal Ice Prison Tigers' possible chief while Dai Youheng hunted a hundred-thousand-year tiger.
• A-Tai agreed, and the Snow Empress offered him and Xiaobai pills that temporarily granted Ultimate Ice and doubled their physical attributes before teaching them Emperor Palm: Great Cold Without Snow.
• The Snow Empress theorized that a treasure in the icy abyss concealed the tigers from heavenly tribulations, but that the current chief could not have surpassed five hundred thousand years.
• A-Tai, Xiaobai, and Ling Ya trained in Emperor Palm: Great Cold Without Snow for a month while Dai Youheng studied the Emperor Sword's intent.
• Dai Youheng fused the Emperor Sword's core intent with his saber techniques and created Emperor Saber: Frost Severing the World, which the Snow Empress praised as a formidable art.

Dai Youheng lured the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger to the old glacier battlefield, where it emerged with its far more powerful father, the Second-Generation Ice Prison Tiger King. The Ice Prison Tiger King’s Darkness Zone suppressed the battlefield as Dai Youheng and his allies prepared to fight.

• Dai Youheng led Xiaobai, A-Tai, Ling Ya, and Nana back to the old battlefield and had them conceal themselves while he used the Golden Vajra Evil-Repelling Body to lure the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger.
• The Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger recognized Dai Youheng’s aura and prepared to attack, but its father stopped it and chose to lead the assault himself.
• Dai Youheng sensed the two tigers approaching and warned his allies as the glacier burst apart.
• The Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger emerged with the enormous Second-Generation Ice Prison Tiger King, who unleashed a Darkness Zone that suppressed the surrounding energy and light.
• Dai Youheng gripped the Tyrant Tiger Soul Refining Blade and ordered everyone to prepare for battle.

The Snow Empress’s allies fought two Ice Prison Tiger Kings, with A-Tai and Xiaobai holding off the stronger Tiger King while Ling Ya and Nana attacked the hundred-thousand-year tiger. Nana’s Netherworld End targeted the cracks in its armor, leaving the fight unresolved.

• The Snow Empress assessed the stronger Tiger King and assigned A-Tai and Xiaobai to hold it back while Ling Ya and Nana fought the other tiger and Dai Youheng waited for an opening.
• A-Tai and Xiaobai used their pills to gain ultimate ice and battled the Tiger King, blocking its attacks and preventing it from breaking through their defense.
• Nana used Soul Threads to hinder the hundred-thousand-year tiger while Ling Ya transformed into his Ice Feather Eagle King avatar and attacked it with ice skills.
• Nana’s Ghost Scream dazed the tiger, allowing Ling Ya to trap it in Thousand-Feather Ice Prison and crack its armor with Frost Giant Strength.
• Nana disrupted the tiger with her Illusory Domain and fired Netherworld End at the cracks in its shoulder armor.

Ling Ya, Nana, and Dai Youheng killed the hundred-thousand-year Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger, and Dai Youheng began absorbing its soul ring and right arm bone. As he endured the soul ring’s deadly power, Xiao Bai and A-Tai struggled to hold off the enraged Tiger King.

• Ling Ya wounded the Ice Prison Tiger with Netherworld End, then deepened its injuries with Permafrost Claw and Ice Explosion while Nana disrupted its soul.
• Nana and Ling Ya interrupted the Ice Prison Tiger’s Extreme Abyss Roar, giving Dai Youheng the opening to destroy it with Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and Emperor Saber: Frost Severing the World.
• The Ice Prison Tiger died and left a hundred-thousand-year soul ring and right arm bone, while the Tiger King went berserk after sensing its son’s death.
• Dai Youheng began absorbing the soul ring as Ling Ya and Nana guarded him, and the Snow Empress helped him withstand its physical and spiritual assault.
• Xiao Bai and A-Tai fought to keep the wounded Tiger King away from Dai Youheng while he endured the painful absorption.

Dai Youheng completed the absorption of the Ice Prison Tiger King's hundred-thousand-year soul ring and the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger Right Arm Bone, then helped drive the wounded Tiger King into the Glacial Abyss. Back at Snow Empress Castle, he began using the Golden Vajra Evil-Repelling Body method to pursue a second awakening of his evil shadow demon tiger martial soul.

• Ling Ya rejoined the fight while Nana guarded Dai Youheng as he absorbed the soul ring and soul bone.
• Dai Youheng reached rank sixty-four, became a six-ring Battle Soul Emperor, and gained the Abyssal Ice Prison Claw.
• Dai Youheng and Nana joined Xiao Bai, A-Tai, and Ling Ya in attacking the Ice Prison Tiger King, whose defenses Dai Youheng's claw could ignore.
• The Ice Prison Tiger King used Extreme Abyss Roar to force the group back, then escaped into the Glacial Abyss with Abyssal Stealth.
• The exhausted group returned to Snow Empress Castle, where Dai Youheng began circulating the Golden Vajra Evil-Repelling Body method to awaken his martial soul further.

Dai Youheng completed his second awakening, evolving his evil shadow demon tiger into the Abyssal Demon Tiger, a martial soul of ultimate evil. The Snow Empress sensed that it might awaken a third time when he reached the Titled Douluo realm, and Dai Youheng promised they would reach that future together and bring her back to life.

• Dai Youheng used the Snow Empress's guidance to break through his martial soul's limits with the power of the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger.
• Dai Youheng's evil shadow demon tiger evolved into the Abyssal Demon Tiger, and his soul power consumption and physique improved.
• Dai Youheng discovered that his second awakening had strengthened his martial soul's evil attribute but left its soul skills unchanged.
• The Snow Empress sensed that the Abyssal Demon Tiger could undergo a third awakening once Dai Youheng reached level 90 and became a Titled Douluo.
• Dai Youheng promised the Snow Empress that they would climb to the peak together and that he would bring her fully back to life; she agreed to stay by his side.

After Dai Youheng’s Abyssal Demon Tiger gained new soul skills, the Fate-Reversing Heavenly Demon Pill awakened its innate Heavenly Demon Domain. A mysterious voice then pulled Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress’s souls into a hellish void and called Dai Youheng forward.

• Dai Youheng sensed the Abyssal Demon Tiger’s two soul ring skills and its right arm bone skill, gaining new control and defense-breaking abilities.
• The Fate-Reversing Heavenly Demon Pill awakened the Heavenly Demon Domain, which boosted pill effects for allies and suppressed enemies.
• Dai Youheng wondered whether taking multiple pills of the same type could magnify their effects.
• A mighty voice praised Dai Youheng’s idea and pulled his and the Snow Empress’s souls into a terrifying void.
• Dai Youheng took the Snow Empress’s hand and asked their unseen captor to reveal itself, but a chorus of voices called him forward.

Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress followed a path of visions representing the Seven Original Sins, and Dai Youheng recognized the beings who had summoned them as the seven Sin Gods. The Sin Gods revealed themselves in a magnificent palace, where they sat upon seven thrones with law-filled halos behind them.

• Dai Youheng led the Snow Empress along a path that showed them visions of pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust.
• The Snow Empress blushed and recoiled from the vision of lust, while Dai Youheng shielded her with the Abyssal Demon Tiger's aura and hurried them onward.
• Dai Youheng realized the visions represented the Seven Original Sins and respectfully greeted the seven Sin Gods.
• The seven Sin Gods laughed, praised Dai Youheng for identifying them, and promised to reveal themselves.
• The void transformed into a magnificent palace, where Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress saw five men and two women seated on seven thrones, each with seven law-filled halos.

Dai Youheng and Snow Empress learned that the Seven Deadly Sins Gods had awakened through a prophetic dream in which Dai Youheng became the Master of Sin. The gods offered him trials to inherit their laws, but warned that failure could bring torment to both him and Snow Empress; Dai Youheng had yet to answer.

• Snow Empress and Dai Youheng recognized the seven First-Level Gods, and Dai Youheng asked why they had summoned the pair.
• The God of Pride explained that Dai Youheng's Demon Pill and Demon Tiger Martial Souls carried the power of original sin.
• The God of Wrath revealed that a Heavenly Rift had appeared two years earlier and that an unknown force had hypnotized the Divine Realm, leaving the God Kings asleep.
• The God of Desire said a shared prophetic dream showed Dai Youheng fusing all seven Original Sin Laws and becoming the Master of Sin.
• The God of Gluttony offered his law as a way for Dai Youheng to consume and benefit from far more medicinal pills.
• The God of Desire warned that the trials would be perilous and could bring Snow Empress into the punishment, then asked Dai Youheng whether he would accept.

Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress confessed their commitment to face the sin dominion god trial together. The Seven Deadly Sins Gods branded a divine seal onto Dai Youheng, officially beginning his trial.

• Dai Youheng told the Snow Empress that he would refuse the trial if she did not want to risk facing it with him.
• The Snow Empress chose to share his path, saying she would face the trial and its dangers at his side.
• Dai Youheng and the Snow Empress accepted the sin dominion god trial together.
• The Seven Deadly Sins Gods combined their powers to create a dark gold seven-pointed divine seal.
• The divine seal branded itself onto Dai Youheng's forehead and resonated with his Fate-Reversing Heavenly Demon Pill Martial Soul, beginning the trial.

Dai Youheng received the God of Sloth’s trials and secured the Seven Deadly Sins Gods’ promise to protect him from divine enemies. After returning to Snow Empress Castle, he teased the Snow Empress about the God of Desire’s suggestive trial, leaving her embarrassed but secretly pleased.

• The God of Sloth assigned Dai Youheng two trials: cultivate past level seventy in a relaxed, dreamlike state over two years, then profit by watching events and acting at the right moment.
• The God of Desire explained the trials, and the God of Wrath and God of Pride promised that all seven Gods of Sin would protect Dai Youheng from anyone who attacked their inheritor.
• The God of Desire hinted that her own trial would involve intense pleasure and warned Dai Youheng to control his aura before the gods vanished.
• Dai Youheng returned to the secret chamber in Snow Empress Castle, where the Snow Empress questioned him jealously about the God of Desire’s trial.
• Dai Youheng suggested the Snow Empress might accompany him through his trials, and she denied wanting to satisfy his desires while secretly appearing pleased.

After completing his seclusion in the Far North, Dai Youheng set out for the human world and planned to deal with the threat of the Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger King later. Back in Star Luo City, Xu Jiujiu’s fear for his safety led her to send powerful imperial retainers to search for him.

• Dai Youheng decided that marrying into the Xu Family would not suit his pursuit of pride and worried that the family might try to control him if his strength grew too quickly.
• Dai Youheng emerged from seclusion at rank sixty-four and told Ling Ya and Nana that he was leaving the Far North.
• Dai Youheng asked Xiaobai and A-Tai to guard the Far North and watch the wounded Abyssal Ice Prison Tiger King, which he intended to kill himself in a few years.
• Dai Youheng left with Ling Ya and Nana after more than a hundred days away, anticipating that Xu Jiujiu would be anxious about his absence.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Xu Jiawei to send searchers after Dai Youheng and Ling Ya, and Xu Jiawei agreed to dispatch elite guards and the imperial retainers Manyi and Giant Hammer.
• Xu Jiujiu asked Manyi to search for Dai Youheng and realized that his safety mattered deeply to her.

Dai Youheng sensed Mu En’s death through his power of destiny and learned that Mu En had merged his soul with Shrek Academy’s Golden Tree, while another vision hinted at events involving Long Xiaoyao. After visiting Maple Leaf City, Dai Youheng watched the Shrek and Sun Moon academies’ exchange ceremony begin, with Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen facing off.

• Dai Youheng received visions of Mu En and Long Xiaoyao, then realized that Mu En had died and merged his soul with Shrek’s Golden Tree.
• Ling Ya considered whether Mu En’s soul bones could be recovered, but Dai Youheng rejected acting against Shrek and said the time was not right.
• Dai Youheng decided to visit his mother and Luo Li, return to Star Luo City, and consider how to benefit from events surrounding Long Xiaoyao.
• Three days later, Dai Youheng, Nana, and Ling Ya arrived in Maple Leaf City and saw the Shrek–Sun Moon Academy exchange ceremony from their hotel window.
• Yan Shaozhe and Jing Hongchen greeted each other at the ceremony with insincere smiles and pointed remarks.