Recaps

Lu Yuan arrived late at Spirit Hall Academy and used Yue Guan’s letter to gain admission. At the opening ceremony, Bibi Dong recognized him and ordered Yue Guan to bring him over, curious about his remarkable cultivation.

• Lu Yuan showed the academy gatekeeper Yue Guan’s letter, and the academic affairs director escorted him inside to register.
• The director took Lu Yuan to the ongoing opening ceremony, where Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and Gui Mei were present.
• Lu Yuan stared at Bibi Dong, who noticed him and recalled his unusual martial soul and rapid progress.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to bring Lu Yuan to her, and Yue Guan recognized the boy he had invited a year earlier.
• Bibi Dong decided to examine how Lu Yuan had become a Soul Grandmaster at eight despite having only rank 0.5 innate soul power.

Chrysanthemum Douluo brought Lu Yuan to meet Bibi Dong, who discovered that he had become a Soul Grandmaster and possessed two genuine Thousand-Year Soul Rings. Bibi Dong demanded to know how he had advanced so quickly, leaving Lu Yuan under pressure to reveal his secrets.

• Chrysanthemum Douluo removed his soul power from Lu Yuan and took him to see Bibi Dong, accompanied by Ghost Douluo.
• Bibi Dong ordered Lu Yuan to release his martial soul and soul rings, and Meowmeow appeared beside him.
• Bibi Dong and the two Douluo were astonished to see Lu Yuan's two yellow-appearing rings and learn he was already a Soul Grandmaster at eight.
• Bibi Dong used her Slaughter Domain to weaken Lu Yuan's domain, revealing that both of his soul rings were genuine Thousand-Year Soul Rings.
• Lu Yuan said Meowmeow was an external martial soul that doubled his cultivation speed, but Bibi Dong demanded to know what else he was hiding and threatened his life.

Lu Yuan invented a story about a fairy giving him divine trials to explain his rapid cultivation and unusual soul rings, and Bibi Dong believed him. After Lu Yuan left, Bibi Dong consulted the Rakshasa God, who suspected the God of Life had chosen him.

• Lu Yuan told Bibi Dong that a fairy had appeared in his dream and promised to make him powerful through nine games.
• Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan and Gui Mei to guard the meeting room while she questioned Lu Yuan about the fairy and her rewards.
• Lu Yuan claimed he had completed two games, gaining cultivation talent and thousand-year first and second soul rings, and Bibi Dong concluded a deity had chosen him for divine trials.
• Bibi Dong dismissed Lu Yuan, who told Yue Guan and Gui Mei to keep guarding the door before leaving for Spirit Hall Academy.
• Bibi Dong contacted the Rakshasa God and asked who had chosen Lu Yuan, and the god suspected it was the God of Life.

After learning that the God of Life had chosen Lu Yuan, Bibi Dong decided to place him in Hu Liena’s class rather than make him her disciple. Lu Yuan joined Spirit Hall Academy’s senior class, where his age and rank amazed the students and Yan resolved to challenge him in combat class.

• Bibi Dong questioned the Rakshasa God, who confirmed that Lu Yuan’s divine patron was far stronger than herself and advised Bibi Dong to build a good relationship with him.
• Bibi Dong considered making Lu Yuan her disciple but chose instead to place him in Hu Liena’s class, hoping to pair him with Hu Liena.
• A teacher brought Lu Yuan, an eight-year-old rank twenty-eight Soul Grandmaster, into a senior class at Spirit Hall Academy.
• The teacher explained that Lu Yuan’s Meowmeow martial soul could cultivate independently and gave him more than three times the cultivation speed of ordinary Soul Masters.
• Hu Liena welcomed Lu Yuan, while Yan grew jealous and planned to embarrass him during afternoon combat class.

Yan challenged Lu Yuan to a sparring match after seeing him talk with Hu Liena, and Lu Yuan provoked him by mocking his unrequited affection. As they summoned their martial souls, Lu Yuan noticed that Meowmeow had evolved.

• Xie Yue guessed that Yan was jealous of Lu Yuan and expected the two to clash during practical combat class.
• Yan challenged Lu Yuan, while Hu Liena worried about the fight and asked Xie Yue to intervene.
• Lu Yuan accepted the challenge and insulted Yan, prompting Yan to declare a duel.
• Yan revealed his rank thirty-two Flame Lord martial soul, and Lu Yuan summoned his rank twenty-eight Meowmeow.
• Lu Yuan noticed Meowmeow had changed shape and grown a second tail leaf, and realized it had evolved.

Lu Yuan and Meowmeow faced Yan in their first sparring match, where Meowmeow’s Vine Strangle proved stronger than Yan expected. Yan broke free with his soul skills and charged at Lu Yuan and Meowmeow, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Meowmeow appeared in his evolved Meowth form, and Lu Yuan learned that he had evolved after reaching Soul Grandmaster.
• Lu Yuan ordered Meowmeow to use Photosynthesis, leading Yan to mistake him for a support-type Soul Master and taunt him.
• Lu Yuan ordered Meowmeow to use Vine Strangle, and the thorny vines injured Yan despite his Flame Lord’s flames.
• Yan used Granite Rock to smash the vines, then activated Hellish Magma Charge and rushed at Lu Yuan and Meowmeow.

Lu Yuan fought Yan in the sparring arena, using Meowmeow’s Vine Strangle and Stamina Burst to evade Yan’s attacks and keep fighting while his soul power recovered. As Yan appeared to recover, he secretly charged his third soul skill, leaving the battle poised for a sudden strike.

• Lu Yuan used a defensive Vine Strangle barrier and carried Meowmeow past Yan with Stamina Burst when Yan’s Hell Magma Charge shattered the vines.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue recognized Lu Yuan’s unexplained technique as a possible self-created soul skill, though neither knew how an eight-year-old could have developed one.
• Yan realized Lu Yuan’s Vine Strangle restored his soul power, allowing him to outlast Yan through repeated exchanges.
• Xie Yue warned Hu Liena that Yan’s third soul skill could overwhelm Lu Yuan, while Hu Liena continued to believe Lu Yuan might win.
• Yan sat as though recovering while his flames scorched away Lu Yuan’s vines, secretly gathering power in his third soul ring for an attack.

During his duel with Yan, Lu Yuan used Star Magic against Yan’s charged Hellfire, but vanished after the flames swept across the arena. Yan feared he had burned Lu Yuan to ashes until he noticed a shadow on the ground.

• Lu Yuan used Star Magic while Yan recovered from his Vine Strangle attack, and Yan charged his thousand-year Hellfire skill.
• Xie Yue explained Hellfire to Hu Liena as Yan warned Lu Yuan to concede.
• Yan blasted Lu Yuan with a huge wave of fire while Hu Liena urged him to run.
• After the flames cleared, Lu Yuan was nowhere to be seen, and Yan wondered if he had burned him to ashes.
• Yan spotted a pitch-black shape on the ground and realized it was a shadow.

Lu Yuan defeated Yan in their sparring match by using his stamina-based grappling skill and Star Magic, leaving Yan unconscious but unharmed. Afterward, Hu Liena invited Lu Yuan to tour Spirit Hall Academy, while Xie Yue challenged him to a duel at the midyear assessment.

• Lu Yuan used a soul-power grappling hook to launch himself into the air, surprising the watching Soul Masters, who mistook it for another self-created soul skill.
• Lu Yuan dropped Star Magic onto the exhausted Yan, knocking him unconscious after deliberately reducing the attack's damage.
• Meowmeow carried Lu Yuan back to the arena, then changed from its second-stage form to its first-stage form and told Lu Yuan it could change forms freely.
• Hu Liena doted on Meowmeow as Xie Yue admitted Lu Yuan was exceptionally strong and challenged him to a duel at the midyear assessment in six months.
• Hu Liena took Lu Yuan to tour Spirit Hall Academy, leaving Xie Yue to watch them walk away together.

Lu Yuan planned to obtain a ten-thousand-year third soul ring by seeking the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and decided to visit Dugu Bo after the midyear assessment. His plans paused when Meowmeow returned from exploring Spirit City with dessert on its mouth and claimed a beautiful older sister had treated it.

• Lu Yuan reflected on reaching level 30 and decided not to tell the academy because he hoped to absorb a ten-thousand-year third soul ring.
• Lu Yuan considered strengthening his spiritual power with the Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew and resolved to seek out Dugu Bo after the midyear assessment.
• Lu Yuan reasoned that helping Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan with their poison could earn him access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Meowmeow returned to Lu Yuan while he relaxed by the river, and he noticed dessert on its mouth.
• Lu Yuan accused Meowmeow of stealing food, but Meowmeow insisted that a very pretty older sister had treated it.

After Meowmeow led Lu Yuan through Spirit City to meet the beautiful girl who had fed it, She Long escorted them into her private room. The girl greeted them, leaving Lu Yuan face to face with his mysterious host.

• Lu Yuan apologized to Meowmeow for misunderstanding it, and Meowmeow explained that a pretty big sister wanted to meet him.
• Meowmeow led Lu Yuan to an extravagant restaurant, where he wondered about the girl's wealth and influence.
• She Long came out and said his young mistress had invited Lu Yuan and Meowmeow inside.
• Lu Yuan followed She Long to a private room and learned that the Soul Master was named She Long, though the name seemed familiar.
• Lu Yuan and Meowmeow entered the room, where a golden-haired girl in a white feathered dress turned to greet them.

Lu Yuan realized that the blonde girl who had befriended Meowmeow was Qian Renxue, Spirit Hall’s heir. The chapter recounted how Qian Renxue met Meowmeow in Spirit City and ended with her asking the kitten to come home with her.

• Qian Renxue visited Spirit City in secret, leaving another Spirit Hall expert to impersonate Xue Qinghe while Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo accompanied her.
• Meowmeow followed the scent of Qian Renxue’s cake to her window, where Qian Renxue mistook it for a stray soul beast and offered it food.
• After eating, Meowmeow jumped into Qian Renxue’s lap and let her pet it, delighting her by showing that it understood human speech.
• Qian Renxue invited Meowmeow to come home with her.
• When Qian Renxue later learned Meowmeow was Lu Yuan’s martial soul, Lu Yuan recognized her as Qian Renxue.

Qian Renxue met Lu Yuan after discovering that Meowmeow was his martial soul, and decided to bring him along on her undercover mission to the Heaven Dou Empire. Qian Daoliu objected after learning Lu Yuan had an external martial soul and low innate soul power, but Qian Renxue insisted that he was different.

• Meowmeow showed Qian Renxue that it already had a master, and she asked the cat to bring Lu Yuan to meet her.
• Qian Renxue learned that Lu Yuan attended Spirit Hall Academy and decided to have him accompany her on her mission to Heaven Dou City.
• Qian Renxue asked Qian Daoliu to arrange for Lu Yuan to join her, and he summoned a subordinate to retrieve the boy's information.
• Qian Daoliu saw that Lu Yuan had an external martial soul and level 0.5 innate soul power, and feared Qian Renxue was repeating Bibi Dong's choices.
• Qian Renxue confronted Qian Daoliu and declared that Lu Yuan was different.

Qian Daoliu agreed to let Qian Renxue take Lu Yuan after Spirit Hall Academy’s midterm assessments, then asked Bibi Dong whether she had arranged for Lu Yuan to approach Qian Renxue. Bibi Dong opposed sending him to Heaven Dou, making Qian Daoliu suspect she knew something unusual about the boy.

• Qian Renxue persuaded Qian Daoliu to let her take Lu Yuan after the midterm assessments, and he agreed so he could keep her in Spirit City longer.
• Qian Daoliu visited Bibi Dong at the Pope Palace, where they maintained a wary balance despite their conflicting ambitions and concerns for Spirit Hall.
• Qian Daoliu asked Bibi Dong whether she had sent Lu Yuan to get close to Qian Renxue, and Bibi Dong reacted with surprise at their relationship.
• Qian Daoliu told Bibi Dong to send Lu Yuan to Heaven Dou after the assessments, but Bibi Dong refused because she feared he would ally with Qian Renxue.
• Qian Daoliu noticed Bibi Dong’s unusual objection and asked whether something was special about Lu Yuan.

At the Spirit Hall Academy mid-term examinations, Lu Yuan faced Hu Liena in the final four after revealing that he had reached level 30 at only eight and a half years old. The duel began with Hu Liena using her Demon Fox Transformation and catching Lu Yuan off guard with Fox Charm.

• Qian Daoliu proposed sending Lu Yuan to Heaven Dou City with Xiao Xue, and Bibi Dong agreed while concealing Lu Yuan's deity inheritance.
• A few days later, the Spirit Hall Academy held its mid-term examinations, and Lu Yuan and Hu Liena reached the final four.
• Hu Liena challenged Lu Yuan, saying her Demon Fox martial soul and control skills could overcome his earlier victory against Yan.
• Lu Yuan announced that he was a level-30 control-system soul master, astonishing the audience and the Golden Generation because he was only eight and a half.
• At the start of their duel, Lu Yuan used Photosynthesis while Hu Liena activated Demon Fox Transformation and then caught him with Fox Charm before he could command Meowth.

Hu Liena's charm initially left Lu Yuan and Meowmeow vulnerable, but Lu Yuan found a way to break its hold and turn the duel around. The chapter ended with the spectators noticing Lu Yuan's wound healing rapidly.

• Hu Liena used Fox Charm to daze Lu Yuan and Meowmeow, but Lu Yuan told Meowmeow to return to his martial soul space and emerge again, dispelling the charm on Meowmeow.
• Xie Yue recognized that resummoning Meowmeow had removed its abnormal condition, while spectators debated whether Hu Liena could still defeat Lu Yuan by attacking him directly.
• Hu Liena launched her Foxfire Token, but Meowmeow struck Lu Yuan instead, inflicting a deep wound that made Hu Liena's concern disrupt her charm.
• Hu Liena realized Lu Yuan had used Meowmeow's attack to break the charm through pain, and Xie Yue reminded Yan that Lu Yuan would not take such a risk without confidence.
• Yan noticed Lu Yuan's wound healing before their eyes and wondered whether he was a soul beast in human form.

Lu Yuan defeated Hu Liena after she surrendered, then learned from Chrysanthemum Douluo that Bibi Dong had assigned him to an undercover mission in Heaven Dou City. He obtained a copy of Chrysanthemum Douluo’s Immortal Herb Compendium and learned that a mysterious distinguished guest would attend his upcoming final against Xie Yue.

• Hu Liena surrendered to Lu Yuan, making him the winner and advancing him to the final.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Lu Yuan that Bibi Dong had ordered him to go on an undercover mission in Heaven Dou City after the tournament.
• Lu Yuan asked Chrysanthemum Douluo for his Immortal Herb Compendium, and Chrysanthemum Douluo gave him a transcribed copy.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Lu Yuan that Bibi Dong would bring a mysterious distinguished guest to watch his final against Xie Yue.

Lu Yuan faced Xie Yue in the Spirit Hall Academy midterm tournament final, where Xie Yue revealed his powerful self-created soul skill, Full Moon. Lu Yuan dodged the attack with his Grappling Hook, leaving the duel unresolved as the spectators watched.

• Lu Yuan and Xie Yue began the final, and both activated their first soul skills as Meowmeow appeared in its evolved Meowth form.
• Xie Yue used Thrust to attack, but Lu Yuan repeatedly avoided his strikes by dashing in unpredictable directions.
• Xie Yue tricked Lu Yuan into dashing, then unleashed his self-created soul skill Full Moon.
• Lu Yuan used his Grappling Hook to pull himself into the sky and escape the spinning blades.
• Hu Liena, Yan, Bibi Dong, Qian Daoliu, and Qian Renxue watched the battle from the stands and a concealed viewing enclosure.

Lu Yuan used Grappling Hook and Meowmeow’s Vine Strangle to keep Xie Yue at a distance and wear him down. Xie Yue appeared to concede, but he suddenly turned back and unleashed his third Soul Skill, Tremor, leaving the duel unresolved.

• Qian Daoliu worried that Lu Yuan’s soul power would not keep pace with Qian Renxue’s future growth.
• Lu Yuan stayed airborne with repeated Grappling Hook uses while Xie Yue deduced that the technique could exhaust him.
• Lu Yuan sent Meowmeow to bind Xie Yue with Vine Strangle, then used the opening to recover and escape Xie Yue’s Full Moon attack.
• Lu Yuan taunted Xie Yue for having to choose between tracking his landing and defending against Vine Strangle, while Xie Yue grew furious.
• Xie Yue said he had lost and began walking away, prompting Qian Renxue to ask whether Lu Yuan had won.
• Xie Yue abruptly declared that he had not admitted defeat and activated his third Soul Skill, Tremor.

Xie Yue ambushed Lu Yuan with his third soul skill and left him seemingly gravely wounded, but Lu Yuan recovered with his Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone. The spectators realized he possessed a powerful soul bone as Lu Yuan charged at Xie Yue with Star Magic.

• Xie Yue secretly unleashed his third soul skill and slashed Lu Yuan, who collapsed amid the spectators’ alarm.
• Qian Renxue demanded that Qian Daoliu call a healing soul master, while Qian Daoliu and Bibi Dong noticed Lu Yuan’s soul-bone power.
• Lu Yuan stood up, revealed that his wounds had healed, and shocked Xie Yue and the crowd.
• Lu Yuan charged at Xie Yue and prepared to retaliate with Star Magic.

Lu Yuan won Spirit Hall Academy’s midterm assessment by outsmarting Xie Yue, then left Spirit City with Qian Renxue for Heaven Dou City. On the journey, Qian Renxue asked where he wanted to hunt for his third Soul Ring, and Lu Yuan chose Sunset Forest.

• Lu Yuan feigned an injury and blasted Xie Yue out of the ring, winning the midterm assessment as the crowd cheered.
• Qian Renxue celebrated Lu Yuan’s victory with Qian Daoliu, while Bibi Dong considered speaking with Hu Liena about Lu Yuan.
• Several days later, Lu Yuan and Qian Renxue left Spirit City by carriage for Heaven Dou City as part of Spirit Hall’s secret plan.
• Qian Renxue asked Lu Yuan to summon Meowmeow, then picked up the spirit beast and happily played with it.
• Qian Renxue asked whether Lu Yuan wanted to hunt for his third Soul Ring in Star Dou Great Forest or Sunset Forest, and Lu Yuan eagerly chose Sunset Forest.

Lu Yuan told Qian Renxue that a treasure trove of immortal herbs lay hidden in Sunset Forest and persuaded her to bring Titled Douluos to help claim it. After several days of searching, Lu Yuan and Snake Lance Douluo found the poisonous mist surrounding the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, leaving Qian Renxue and Porcupinefish Douluo astonished.

• Lu Yuan revealed that his ancestor had discovered an immortal-herb spring in Sunset Forest and offered Qian Renxue more than half its herbs in exchange for Spirit Hall's help.
• Qian Renxue agreed to search immediately and told Lu Yuan that She Long was Snake Lance Douluo and that Porcupinefish Douluo was also guarding her.
• Qian Renxue, Porcupinefish Douluo, Lu Yuan, and Snake Lance Douluo searched Sunset Forest's core for several days without finding the well.
• Lu Yuan and Snake Lance Douluo returned with news that they had found a poisonous mist ring released by jade phosphorus seven-absolute flowers, which likely surrounded the treasure trove.
• Qian Renxue and Porcupinefish Douluo were stunned when they learned Lu Yuan and Snake Lance Douluo had located the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

Qian Renxue, Lu Yuan, Snake Lance Douluo, and Porcupinefish Douluo reached the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and found Dugu Bo guarding it. Their encounter escalated into a standoff between three Titled Douluos, leaving Qian Renxue and Lu Yuan caught between them.

• Lu Yuan warned Qian Renxue that approaching the treasure land could expose her identity, so Qian Renxue used her Angel Soul Bone to disguise herself and Lu Yuan.
• Qian Renxue, Lu Yuan, Snake Lance Douluo, and Porcupinefish Douluo entered Dugu Bo's poisonous mist formation and headed toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Dugu Bo emerged from the mist and recognized She Long and Ci Xue as Titled Douluos, while he wondered who the disguised young pair were.
• Qian Renxue recognized Dugu Bo and recalled his ties to the Heaven Dou Empire and his conflict with Spirit Hall.
• Snake Lance Douluo, Porcupinefish Douluo, and Dugu Bo released their Soul Power and Soul Rings, forming a tense standoff as Qian Renxue and Lu Yuan struggled under their pressure.

Lu Yuan convinced Dugu Bo that his ancestors had discovered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well first, giving him a reason to surrender the treasure without a fight. Dugu Bo retreated, and Lu Yuan, Qian Renxue, and the two Titled Douluos headed toward the hidden spring.

• Dugu Bo realized that Porcupinefish Douluo's martial soul countered his poison and that he was outmatched by the two Titled Douluos.
• Lu Yuan claimed his ancestors had discovered the medicinal land and described its red and blue spring, convincing Dugu Bo that he knew the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Qian Renxue declared that Spirit Hall would take over the land, and Dugu Bo chose to leave rather than fight.
• Snake Lance Douluo led Qian Renxue and Lu Yuan forward while Porcupinefish Douluo inhaled the poisonous mist to clear their path.

Lu Yuan found the earth dragon golden melon at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and gave it to Snake Lance Douluo, whose martial soul evolved and whose soul power rose. Porcupinefish Douluo, impressed by the result, began asking Lu Yuan for help.

• Lu Yuan and Qian Renxue entered the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Snake Lance Douluo and Porcupinefish Douluo, and Lu Yuan identified several immortal herbs.
• Lu Yuan dug up an earth dragon golden melon and told Snake Lance Douluo it could evolve his snake lance martial soul.
• Snake Lance Douluo ate the melon and refined its power while the others watched.
• Snake Lance Douluo's martial soul evolved into a dragon lance, and his soul power rose from rank 92 to rank 93.
• Snake Lance Douluo demonstrated his Golden Two-Headed Dragon martial soul avatar, and Porcupinefish Douluo asked Lu Yuan for help.