Recaps

Tang San worked at Tie Niu’s smithy while preparing to enter Shrek Academy, but learned that Spirit Hall no longer existed and that awakening a martial soul cost a fortune. He went to find the Tang Sect for help and found its Heaven Dou City entrance sealed and abandoned.

• Tang San proposed making Godly Zhuge Crossbows, but Tie Niu showed him an old blueprint that surpassed his own designs.
• Over a month, Tang San trained to the second level of the Mysterious Heaven Skill and made weakened hidden weapons using iron from Tie Niu’s smithy.
• Tang San asked Tie Niu where he could awaken his martial soul, and Tie Niu explained that Spirit Hall had been destroyed and awakenings now cost a hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Tang San asked about the Tang Sect in Heaven Dou City, and Tie Niu directed him to its sealed, dilapidated entrance.

Tang San headed for the Sun Moon Empire to awaken his martial soul, while Fan Yu confronted Yan Shaozhe over Shrek Academy’s soul tool exchange students. Yan Shaozhe reluctantly agreed to reconsider the delegation after Fan Yu threatened to call another Sea God Pavilion Meeting.

• Tang San left Tie Niu’s home after eating there for a month and traveled by caravan toward the Sun Moon Empire, believing he could awaken his martial soul there.
• Tie Niu and his wife grieved over Tang San’s departure and his ungrateful note.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Yan Shaozhe to let her study soul tools in the Sun Moon Empire, but he warned that the empire was a dangerous place for her.
• Fan Yu challenged Yan Shaozhe’s exchange-student list, arguing that it excluded talented Inner Court students and undermined the Soul Tool Department.
• Fan Yu demanded that Zhang Lexuan, Chu Qingtian, and Mo Xuan be included; Yan Shaozhe refused to send Zhang Lexuan or Mo Xuan.
• Fan Yu threatened to ask Dean Qian to convene another Sea God Pavilion Meeting, and Yan Shaozhe reluctantly agreed.

The Heaven Dou Emperor learned that the Holy Spirit Cult was recruiting followers in his capital and ordered an investigation and border closures, while Vina suspected the Holy Son was behind the scheme. At Shrek, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Ma Xiaotao mistook Wang Yan’s newfound cheerfulness for evidence that he had been controlled, though Wang Yan had simply forgotten his earlier suspicions of Xuan Zi.

• The Heaven Dou Emperor read a report about the Holy Spirit Cult’s preaching in the capital and ordered its footholds rooted out and the borders sealed.
• Vina suspected the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Son had devised the recruitment scheme and told her father that her second martial soul awakening had brought her cultivation to rank forty.
• Ma Xiaotao told Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao that she had no news about Wang Yan beyond his month of access to the Sea God Pavilion’s books.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao feared Xuan Zi had killed or controlled Wang Yan, and Ma Xiaotao explained that the Holy Spirit Cult used illusions and drugs to control people.
• Wang Yan greeted the three students cheerfully, reinforcing their suspicions, then admitted to himself that he had forgotten to explain what happened and no longer believed Xuan Zi was a traitor.

Zhongli Wu and his subordinates watched Ma Xiaotao before fleeing when Xuan Zi arrived, while Xuan Zi asked Xiao Xiao to become his disciple and left her terrified. Ma Xiaotao then questioned Zhang Lexuan about a disastrous expedition ten years earlier, but Zhang Lexuan begged her to stop.

• Zhongli Wu watched Ma Xiaotao with the Zhongli brothers, then ordered them to withdraw when he sensed Xuan Zi approaching.
• Xuan Zi offered to take Xiao Xiao as his disciple, but Wang Dong and Ma Xiaotao asked him to let her think it over.
• After Xuan Zi left, Xiao Xiao panicked, and Wang Dong promised to contact her fathers and take her to the Clear Sky Sect for summer vacation.
• Ma Xiaotao asked Zhang Lexuan what had happened during the Star Dou Great Forest expedition ten years earlier, when most of the group died.
• Zhang Lexuan recalled the deaths of her junior brothers and sisters and begged Ma Xiaotao not to ask any more.

Ma Xiaotao was abducted by Evil Soul Masters as Shrek Academy debated whether Zhang Lexuan should join the exchange to the Sun Moon Empire. Zhang Lexuan was left shocked by the alarm and wondered whether the abduction was connected to Ma Xiaotao's questions about the Star Dou Great Forest tragedy.

• Ma Xiaotao was surrounded by black-robed figures who called her their Saintess and ordered her to return with them.
• Jing Hongchen gave Xu Cheng the proposed exchange list, and Xu Cheng added Zhang Wen, Ma Rulong, and Bai Wennian while doubting Zhang Lexuan would come.
• Xiao Hongchen won a match at the Sun Moon Imperial Academy and sneezed as he wondered who was talking about him.
• Fan Yu argued with Yan Shaozhe over Shrek Academy's exchange list, and Mu En asked Zhang Lexuan whether she wanted to go.
• An academy level-one alarm reported that Evil Soul Masters had abducted Ma Xiaotao and gravely injured Du Weilun, prompting the Pavilion Elders to rush to the scene.
• Zhang Lexuan stayed behind, recalling that Ma Xiaotao had asked her the previous day about the Star Dou Great Forest tragedy.

Tang San was imprisoned after border guards discovered he had no identification while screening travelers for Holy Spirit Cult spies. When Princess Vina questioned him, his claim that he had lived homeless and begged in the capital was challenged by his well-fed appearance, exposing his deception and threatening to spread his reputation as an ungrateful wretch.

• Border guards detained Tang San because he lacked identification, while the rest of the caravan passed through after bribing the captain.
• The captain struck Tang San and warned him to stay quiet before the caravan left him behind.
• Vina and Mu Xue questioned the prisoners, and Vina warned them that the Holy Spirit Cult was luring people away.
• Tang San told Vina he was homeless and had survived by begging, while hiding that Tie Niu and his wife had taken him in.
• Nana gave Tang San a mirror, and his sturdy, healthy appearance undermined his story and exposed his ingratitude toward Tie Niu's family.

Vina uncovered Tang San’s ingratitude and ordered him punished before releasing him. At the Sun Moon Imperial Academy, Xu Cheng received a Martial Soul Fusion Skill reward and began plotting to use it to substantiate a theory about Zhang Lexuan’s origins.

• An attendant told Vina that Tang San had drained Tie Niu’s savings after being taken in, and Mu Xue condemned him for disgracing his namesake.
• Vina initially ordered Tang San released, but Mu Xue urged her to seek justice for Tie Niu and His Wife, so Vina ordered thirty strokes of the cane and had him thrown outside.
• Xu Cheng examined his tournament reward: he and someone with complementary martial soul attributes could gain a Martial Soul Fusion Skill by circulating soul power together.
• Xu Cheng considered using his sun martial soul and Zhang Lexuan’s moon martial soul to support his theory that she was connected to the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xu Cheng decided to ask his father whether any infants had gone missing from the Imperial Palace, intending to prepare evidence about Zhang Lexuan’s background.

Xu Cheng asked Xu Zhen and the Xu family elder whether a baby girl from their bloodline had disappeared around thirty years earlier. They uncovered a likely match connected to Xu Baili’s family, but the chapter ended before they learned what became of her.

• Xu Cheng asked Xu Zhen whether a baby girl from the Xu family had been left outside the palace during the coup, and Xu Zhen recalled his first love and explained that Xu He was the last surviving descendant of his eldest brother.
• Xu Zhen asked Xu Changnian to bring the Xu family genealogy into the palace so they could investigate the missing girl.
• Xu Changnian recalled that Xu Baili’s newborn daughter had disappeared around thirty years earlier, and Xu Cheng reacted with surprise.
• Xu Zhen remembered holding the baby at a banquet and said her eldest brother, Xu Jiangnian, now commanded the Sun Moon Empire’s Royal Soul Engineer Corps.

Xu Cheng considered his next Soul Ring while Tang Ya struggled with the addictive urge to devour life and the weakness of the Tang Sect techniques. A mysterious woman entered Tang Ya’s consciousness and claimed that the Tang Sect techniques came from her world, where Tang San had stolen them.

• Xu Cheng recalled Xu Zhen’s suggestion to win Zhang Lexuan’s heart and decided he should visit the Star Dou Great Forest to obtain his sixth Soul Ring.
• Tang Ya suffered pain in her Sea of Consciousness, and Meng Hongchen comforted her as Tang Ya confessed that devouring life was becoming addictive.
• Tang Ya practiced the Mysterious Heaven Skill to suppress her urge, and a woman’s voice suddenly spoke to her from the room.
• The woman told Tang Ya that she was a former inner sect senior sister whose soul had entered Tang Ya’s consciousness after death.
• The woman claimed Tang San had secretly learned the Tang Sect’s inner sect techniques and was punished for stealing them, leaving Tang Ya stunned.

Tang Wen revealed that Tang San had passed down incomplete Tang Sect techniques, then took Tang Ya as her disciple and named her the true Tang Sect Master. Xu Cheng noticed Tang Ya’s improved condition and planned a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Tang San struggled as a beggar in Heaven Dou City and plotted to awaken his Martial Soul.

• Tang Wen told Tang Ya that Tang San had stolen the Tang Sect’s arts and passed down incomplete versions, then offered to train her as the true Tang Sect Master.
• Tang Ya accepted Tang Wen as her master and pledged to revive the real Tang Sect.
• At the Sun Moon Imperial Academy, Xu Cheng examined Tang Ya and found that her devouring aftereffects had vanished and her meridians had improved.
• Xu Cheng invited the others to visit the Star Dou Great Forest next month so he could obtain a Soul Ring, and Tang Ya asked to visit her parents along the way.
• Tian Meng told Xu Cheng that a soul was hidden inside Tang Ya’s mind, and Xu Cheng decided to keep watch.
• In Heaven Dou City, Tang San recovered from his injuries and brooded over his failure to awaken a Martial Soul.

Xu Cheng asked Electrolux to save Elder Cheng, and Electrolux began the treatment. At Shrek, Mu En questioned Xuan Zi’s absence during Ma Xiaotao’s abduction, then assigned Zhang Lexuan to travel to the Sun Moon Empire as an exchange student to investigate.

• Xu Cheng let Electrolux take control of his body and entrusted him with saving Elder Cheng.
• Electrolux used emerald light to encase Elder Cheng in a cocoon and began treating him.
• Mu En questioned Xuan Zi about why he had not joined the pursuit of Ma Xiaotao, and Xuan Zi said a powerful fallen-angel soul master had detained him.
• Mu En ordered Qian Duoduo to strengthen Shrek’s defenses with soul cannons and admitted he doubted Xuan Zi’s ability to lead the Sea God Pavilion.
• Mu En asked Zhang Lexuan to go to the Sun Moon Empire as an exchange student, and she agreed so she could search for Ma Xiaotao and investigate the incident.

Zhang Lexuan decided to travel to the Sun Moon Empire to study Soul Tools despite Yan Shaozhe’s objections, while Mu En approved her choice. Xu Cheng healed Elder Cheng, who began discussing research with Electrolux, and the Snow Empress came to find Xu Cheng but revealed she could not use her abilities.

• Zhang Lexuan chose to go to the Sun Moon Empire, and Mu En overruled Yan Shaozhe’s objections and allowed her to leave.
• Xu Cheng restored Elder Cheng’s vitality, and Elder Cheng and Electrolux went to the laboratory to discuss their research.
• The Snow Empress waited outside Mingde Hall until Xu Cheng came and took her with him.
• The Snow Empress told Xu Cheng that she could not use her abilities, and Xu Cheng discovered that she did not know what awakening a Martial Soul meant.

Xu Cheng learned that the Snow Empress had become a child with a dormant original soul and a trace of divinity after assuming human form. He also reviewed the finalized exchange roster and planned to visit the Holy Spirit Cult headquarters to retrieve Ma Xiaotao before Zhongli Wu could interfere.

• Xu Cheng, the Ice Empress, and Tian Meng found the Snow Empress acting like a young child and asked Electrolux to examine her.
• Electrolux determined that the Snow Empress's soul was intact, but a trace of divinity had caused her original soul to fall dormant while a new soul matured.
• Xu Cheng decided to awaken the Snow Empress's martial soul.
• Jing Hongchen showed Xu Cheng the finalized exchange roster, which was led by Zhang Lexuan.
• Jing Hongchen told Xu Cheng that the Holy Spirit Cult had taken Ma Xiaotao from Shrek Academy, and Xu Cheng planned to visit headquarters the next day to retrieve her.

Xu Cheng found Ma Xiaotao imprisoned by the Holy Spirit Cult and offered her a choice between becoming mindless or working for him. Ma Xiaotao agreed to work for him, and Xu Cheng prepared to mark her mind before the Cult injected her with its drug.

• Ma Xiaotao refused to join the Holy Spirit Cult until Nangong Wan approached with a syringe of the cult’s brainwashing liquid.
• Xu Cheng appeared and froze Nangong Wan and the needle in place before Ma Xiaotao could be injected.
• Xu Cheng offered Ma Xiaotao a choice between becoming a walking corpse and working for him while keeping her mind.
• Ma Xiaotao accepted Xu Cheng’s offer, and he told her to pretend the injection had left her numb and without memories.
• Xu Cheng said he would brand Ma Xiaotao’s mind to prevent her from escaping between assignments, and she agreed.

Xu Cheng marked Ma Xiaotao with a spiritual imprint and sent her toward the Star Dou Great Forest while the Holy Spirit Cult believed its brainwashing had made her a Saintess. In Heaven Dou City, Tang San secretly followed Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao into a forest, where Wang Dong caught him and pinned him to the ground.

• Xu Cheng placed a dark-red pattern on Ma Xiaotao’s lower abdomen, then left as she pretended to accept her new identity as the Holy Spirit Cult’s Saintess.
• Nangong Wan told Zhongli Wu that Ma Xiaotao had forgotten Shrek, and Zhongli Wu ordered him to keep Xu Cheng away from her.
• Xu Cheng explained the spiritual imprint to Ma Xiaotao, sent her to wait near the Star Dou Great Forest, and demonstrated that he could control her movements.
• Wang Dong reassured Xiao Xiao that Clear Sky Sect experts were protecting them as they walked through Heaven Dou City.
• Tang San followed Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao into a forest, where Wang Dong accused him of being Xuan Zi’s spy and a powerful aura slammed him into the dirt.

Tang San tried to join the Clear Sky Sect, but Tang Chao bound him with the sect’s Caged Bird curse and made him Wang Dong’s servant. Wang Dong renamed him Tang Que, and the chapter left Tang San humiliated and forced to follow her.

• Tang San claimed his father was Tang Hao, and Tang Chao awakened his twin Martial Souls, confirming he belonged to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang Chao made Tang San Wang Dong’s household slave and trapped his Sea of Consciousness with the Caged Bird curse.
• Wang Dong learned how to control Tang San and asked why he was lame and named Tang San.
• Wang Dong ordered Tang San to change his name to Tang Que, and Tang Chao warned that the sect punished anyone who used the forebear’s name.
• Wang Dong and Tang Chao left with Tang San still kneeling.

Xu Cheng encountered Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao in the Star Dou Great Forest, where he controlled Tang Chao and asked Wang Dong about her inability to use soul tools. The chapter ended with Tang San silently furious that Wang Dong remained interested in soul tools and planned to visit the Sun Moon Empire.

• Ma Xiaotao waited for Xu Cheng in the forest, complained about the brand he had placed in her Sea of Consciousness, and reflected on how thoroughly he had defeated her.
• Xu Cheng and Tang Ya spotted Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Tang Chao from Crow's giant black crow, then went down to meet them.
• Xu Cheng restrained Tang Ya and greeted Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao, while Wang Dong feared he might attack them in the isolated forest.
• Xu Cheng explained that he had frozen Tang Chao to keep him from interfering and asked Wang Dong whether she wanted him to examine her aversion to soul tools.
• Tang San glared at Wang Dong and privately resented her interest in soul tools and her plans to visit the Sun Moon Empire.

Xu Cheng examined Wang Dong and claimed that a divine seal and altered memories tied to Tang San explained her inability to touch Soul Tools. Wang Dong believed him and agreed to accompany him into the Star Dou Great Forest while he sought a way to remove the seal.

• Wang Dong told Xu Cheng that touching Soul Tools made her feel sick, and she agreed to let him examine her.
• Xu Cheng was struck by a divine force while investigating Wang Dong and said he had found a seal on her.
• Xu Cheng attributed the seal and Wang Dong’s altered memories to Tang San, leaving Tang San shocked by his deductions.
• Wang Dong accepted Xu Cheng’s explanation and apologized for his injury.
• Xu Cheng offered to find a way to remove the seal, and Wang Dong agreed to go with him to the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xu Cheng absorbed a seventy-thousand-year soul ring while Tang San secretly approached Tang Ya and claimed to be the Tang Sect’s founder. Tang Ya acknowledged his secrets but asserted that she was now the sect master.

• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao discussed Xu Cheng’s uncertain character as Xu Cheng questioned Wang Dong about Tang San.
• Xu Cheng killed a seventy-thousand-year Flame Velvet and absorbed its soul ring while Tang Chao watched in awe.
• Tang San used hidden weapons to attract Tang Ya’s attention, then followed her away from the others.
• Tang San introduced himself to Tang Ya as the Tang Sect’s founder and proved his identity by revealing Tang Sect secrets.
• Tang Ya bowed to Tang San for bringing the sect’s secret arts, then told him she was now the Tang Sect’s sect master.

Tang Ya confronted Tang San over his theft of the Tang Sect’s secret arts, with Tang Wen appearing to expose his past and strip him of his claim to be the sect’s ancestor. After the confrontation, Xu Cheng finished absorbing a seventy-thousand-year soul beast and revealed that he possessed three martial souls.

• Tang Ya accused Tang San of stealing another world’s cultivation techniques and weakening the Tang Sect’s arts, shocking Xu Cheng and alarming Tang San.
• Tang Wen emerged from Tang Ya’s body and reminded Tang San that he had sworn not to spread the Tang Sect’s secret arts beyond the sect.
• Tang Ya rejected Tang San’s claim to be the Tang Sect’s ancestor, declared herself the true Tang Sect Leader, and promised not to reveal what happened if he left the sect alone.
• Xu Cheng finished absorbing the soul beast with no apparent difficulty, and Wang Dong asked whether he had advanced to Soul Emperor.
• Xu Cheng told Tang Chao that he had three martial souls: Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, sun, and blood eyes.
• Wang Dong told Tang Chao that Xu Cheng was from the Sun Moon Empire and was also an Evil Soul Master.

Xu Cheng gathered his new Soul Rings and skills, then met the Three-Eyed Golden Lion in the Star Dou Great Forest. He used his Liar Soul Skill to persuade the Auspicious Beast to exchange memories with him.

• Xu Cheng gained two Soul Rings, becoming a Soul Emperor in Blood Eyes and Sun, and learned the effects of his new Soul Skills.
• Wang Dong told Xu Cheng that she and Xiao Xiao had come to hide from Xuan Zi, and Xu Cheng promised to help remove Wang Dong's seal.
• Xu Cheng summoned Ma Xiaotao, who reassured Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao that she had not been brainwashed by the Holy Spirit Cult.
• A Three-Eyed Golden Lion appeared, and Xu Cheng recognized her as the Auspicious Beast despite Tang Chao's alarm.
• Xu Cheng claimed that he and the Auspicious Beast could exchange memories through their third eyes, and she eagerly agreed as his Liar Soul Skill activated.

Xu Cheng exchanged memories with the Auspicious Beast, evolving his Eye of Life into the Eye of Destiny and uncovering a hidden soul fragment linked to Tang San. After Xu Cheng warned Di Tian that a god had planted the fragment, Di Tian went to investigate, leaving Tang San afraid his plan to fuse souls would fail.

• Xu Cheng exchanged memories with the Auspicious Beast, and his Eye of Life evolved into the Eye of Destiny.
• Electrolux explained that the Auspicious Beast had reached a destiny bottleneck tied to emotional bonds, which could be overcome in different ways.
• Xu Cheng found a hidden soul fragment in the Auspicious Beast that he identified as the last piece needed to assemble Tang Wutong.
• Di Tian broke through Wu Yun's barrier and called the Auspicious Beast back after seeing that Xu Cheng had not harmed her.
• Xu Cheng told Di Tian that the soul fragment carried the auras of the Sea God and the Asura God, and Di Tian left to investigate.
• Tang San realized that Di Tian might uncover his scheme and feared that his daughter would no longer be able to fuse.

Xu Cheng revealed that Wang Dong could be erased if the soul fragment hidden in the Auspicious Beast reunited with her, and he arranged for the fragment to be destroyed. Tang San could only watch, then planned to seek help from Da Ming and Er Ming; in the Star Dou Great Forest, Lake Bottom confirmed that a God King had placed a soul fragment inside the Auspicious Beast.

• Xu Cheng explained that the Auspicious Beast held a fragment stripped from Wang Dong's soul and that its reunion with her would create a new personality and erase her.
• Xu Cheng said the soul beasts could find and destroy the fragment, ensuring Wang Dong would remain herself, and Wang Dong cried in his arms.
• Tang San objected to destroying the fragment, but Xiao Xiao challenged him, and he resolved to seek Da Ming and Er Ming's help.
• Di Tian failed to detect anything unusual in the Auspicious Beast, so Lake Bottom examined it with golden light.
• Lake Bottom confirmed that a God King had targeted the Soul Beast Clan, shocking the beast kings.

The Silver Dragon King destroyed the soul fragment intended to take the Auspicious Beast’s fortune and sent Di Tian to thank Xu Cheng. Xu Cheng proposed cooperating to develop Mechanical Soul Rings, and Di Tian gave him a protective scale and agreed to help.

• The Silver Dragon King recognized that a God King had tried to transfer the Auspicious Beast’s fortune to a girl, destroyed the soul fragment, and told Di Tian to fulfill his promise to Xu Cheng.
• Xu Cheng received a Memory-Erasing Card for saving Wang Dong’er and headed toward Sunset Forest, where Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya encountered Di Tian.
• Xu Cheng warned Di Tian that human hunting could wipe out soul beasts within ten thousand years and proposed Mechanical Soul Rings as a way to ease the conflict.
• Xu Cheng revealed the Ice Empress and Tian Meng, and the Ice Empress vouched for the potential of the Mechanical Soul Ring Project.
• Di Tian gave Xu Cheng a scale that could block one fatal attack and offered his help, and Xu Cheng agreed to their partnership.

Xu Cheng and the others reached the poisoned heart of the Sunset Forest, where he revealed his powerful abilities and found a deadly miasma. Tang Ya absorbed the poison from him and asked him to restore the Tang Sect before she died.

• Xu Cheng took Ma Xiaotao and Tang Ya to the Sunset Forest and suspected that a formation around the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well was draining the forest's vitality.
• As they traveled deeper, Xu Cheng cleared the pink miasma with a Level 7 Soul Tool and used his spiritual power to survey the area.
• Xu Cheng and the women entered a thriving inner region filled with seven-colored miasma poison and the remains of its victims.
• Tang Wen warned Tang Ya that the ancient poison was difficult to cure, and Tang Ya used the Mysterious Heaven Skill to draw it out of Xu Cheng and into herself.
• Tang Ya told Xu Cheng that his plans could benefit the continent and begged him to restore the Tang Sect before she died.