Recaps

Oscar absorbed a three-thousand-year Nightglow Butterfly Soul Ring, which Tian Meng had found and subdued for him. His extreme physical training and tolerance for pain let him complete the over-limit absorption without help.

• Tian Meng led Oscar and Leng Xiyue to the unconscious Nightglow Butterfly and identified her as Oscar's Soul Ring.
• Oscar stabbed the Nightglow Butterfly's vital spots, causing her Soul Ring to emerge.
• Oscar began absorbing the three-thousand-year Soul Ring while Leng Xiyue prepared to intervene if it overwhelmed him.
• Tian Meng explained that Oscar's trained physique could withstand much of the Soul Power and that his pain tolerance would help him endure the rest.
• Oscar's breathing steadied, and a purple Soul Ring rose behind him as he successfully completed the absorption.

After Oscar absorbed a Nightglow Butterfly, Tian Meng discovered that his Crystal Sausage could greatly boost cultivation and learning, then sent him back to Star Dou Town. On the way to find Leng Xiyue a third soul ring, she told Tian Meng about a Blue Silver Emperor trapped behind a waterfall, and they decided to search for her despite the risk of Tang Hao being nearby.

• Oscar finished absorbing the Nightglow Butterfly and demonstrated his Crystal Sausage, which Tian Meng found could boost cultivation speed, spiritual cultivation, studying, and combat performance.
• Tian Meng warned Oscar to keep the soul skill secret and sent him back to Star Dou Town with two Legionnaires while he and Leng Xiyue continued into the forest.
• Leng Xiyue told Tian Meng that a Blue Silver Emperor seed had been planted in darkness behind a waterfall after its owner sacrificed herself.
• Tian Meng became angry at the Blue Silver Emperor's mistreatment and agreed to help rescue her, despite learning that Tang Hao, the Clear Sky Douluo, might be guarding her.
• Tian Meng and Leng Xiyue decided to search the waterfalls in the forest's outer region and retreat if their spiritual scanning detected Tang Hao.

Leng Xiyue found Ah Yin’s hidden cave and discovered the Blue Silver Emperor had been left in a cramped, neglected chamber. Xiao Bai extracted Ah Yin’s remaining soul fragments so she could restore her consciousness, while Leng Xiyue left the Blue Silver Emperor’s body behind and prepared to search for a soul ring.

• Tian Meng sensed Ah Yin’s aura, and Kaldalis broke open the concealed entrance behind the waterfall.
• Leng Xiyue and Tian Meng found the Blue Silver Emperor in a small cave, and Tian Meng condemned Tang Hao for leaving her in such poor conditions.
• Leng Xiyue admitted she had planned to use Ah Yin as leverage against Tang Hao and Tang San, but agreed to provide her with a more comfortable environment.
• Xiao Bai offered to recover Ah Yin’s soul fragments and gradually persuade her to join their side, with the option of controlling her through the Spirit Network if she refused.
• Leng Xiyue asked whether Xiao Wu’s mother could also be restored, and Xiao Bai said they could extract her remaining soul fragments from Bibi Dong’s soul ring without damaging Bibi Dong.
• Xiao Bai extracted Ah Yin’s soul fragments into Leng Xiyue’s soul space, and Leng Xiyue carved “Tang Hao’s grave” into a stone marker before leaving with Tian Meng.

Leng Xiyue and Tian Meng found a Hundred-Thousand-Year Black Tortoise hidden beneath Xuanwu stone in the Star Dou Great Forest. Tian Meng planned to persuade it to sacrifice itself by promising a long life and protection after transformation, while Leng Xiyue agreed they would seek another target if it refused.

• Leng Xiyue and Tian Meng entered the forest’s core region to find a suitable Soul Beast for her Soul Ring.
• Tian Meng detected something beneath a marsh, and the Purifier Squad dug down until they uncovered a vast slab of Xuanwu stone.
• Tian Meng recognized the stone as the Black Tortoise’s coffin and inferred that a Black Tortoise over a hundred thousand years old slept below it.
• Kaldalis cut an opening through the Xuanwu stone, and Tian Meng, Leng Xiyue, and Kaldalis descended into the hidden chamber.
• Tian Meng explained that transformed Soul Beasts could retain thousands of years of life and promised protection as an enticement for the Black Tortoise to sacrifice itself.

Leng Xiyue learned that Xiao Bai could transform Soul Beasts and help them grow, then met the Black Tortoise with Tian Meng and Kaldalis. Tian Meng persuaded the Black Tortoise to sacrifice himself for transformation and protection, and the Black Tortoise agreed.

• Leng Xiyue asked Xiao Bai whether she could recreate transformed Soul Beast bodies, and Xiao Bai confirmed she could.
• Leng Xiyue and Tian Meng found a motionless, mountain-sized Black Tortoise, who startled Leng Xiyue when he suddenly roared.
• Tian Meng revealed his million-year cultivation and claimed he could become a god, prompting the Black Tortoise to flatter him.
• Tian Meng praised Xiao Bai and offered the Black Tortoise bodily reconstruction, growth support, protection, and a path to Titled Douluo.
• Kaldalis demonstrated his Green Energy Blades by slicing Xuanwu stone, and the Black Tortoise agreed to Tian Meng's offer.

Leng Xiyue absorbed the Black Tortoise’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring and Soul Bone, broke through to level thirty-one, and gained a powerful defensive armor skill. Xiao Bai began transforming the Black Tortoise’s corpse into a new body, leaving Tian Meng to finish the process after her brief possession of Leng Xiyue ended.

• The Black Tortoise agreed to sacrifice himself in exchange for a soul contract requiring him to serve Leng Xiyue for a hundred years after taking human form.
• Leng Xiyue absorbed the Black Tortoise’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone while Xiao Bai brought his soul into the Soul Space.
• The system rewarded Leng Xiyue with a Forge upgrade, ten times her production capacity, a new mission, and the Absolute Defense skill; she broke through to level thirty-one.
• Xiao Bai explained that she could possess Leng Xiyue briefly to start modifying the Black Tortoise’s body, with Tian Meng handling the rest.
• Xiao Bai possessed Leng Xiyue, enveloped the Black Tortoise’s corpse in white flame, repaired Leng Xiyue’s withering arm, and then withdrew.

Leng Xiyue oversaw Tian Meng transforming the Black Tortoise into a human body and named him Xuanwu. After Xuanwu joined their group, Leng Xiyue collected the valuable xuanwu stone, and the four companions set off for home.

• Tian Meng used Xiao Bai's remaining power to condense a human body for the Black Tortoise while Leng Xiyue learned that Xiao Bai would recover with time and Psionic Energy.
• Leng Xiyue named the Black Tortoise Xuanwu and spent the night teaching him about human society and her plans.
• Tian Meng finished Xuanwu's body, and Xiao Bai placed his soul inside it; Xuanwu struggled to stand and walk until Tian Meng helped him.
• Leng Xiyue asked to take the xuanwu stone formed around Xuanwu, and Kaldalis dug up nearly all of it.
• Leng Xiyue, Xiao Bai, Tian Meng, and Xuanwu departed for home with the collected materials.

Leng Xiyue arrived in Star Dou Town as residents argued over the Heaven Dou Crown Prince’s plan to expand the Star Dou Wall and privatize forest land. The dispute erupted into a street brawl, which Xuanwu helped redirect toward the merchants, before the returning imperial party sent the crowd fleeing.

• Leng Xiyue saw residents split over whether the Star Dou Wall expansion would provide jobs or destroy hunters’, information brokers’, and merchants’ livelihoods.
• Leng Xiyue examined the notice and realized Qian Renxue’s plan could strengthen her authority if conflict between residents and nobles grew.
• Leng Xiyue decided to stay in Star Dou Town and look for Oscar while waiting for a chance to meet Qian Renxue.
• An angry hunter attacked an imperial supporter, triggering a brawl between the two camps.
• At Leng Xiyue’s prompting, Xuanwu shouted against the merchants, and the crowd joined in beating them.
• Someone spotted the returning imperial party, and the brawlers scattered.

Leng Xiyue reunited with Qian Renxue, who was disguised as Xue Qinghe, after a royal guard stopped her in town. Qian Renxue seized the chance to discipline the guard and planned to meet Leng Xiyue privately that night.

• Xue Qinghe sent William and the knights to investigate the disturbance, and William stopped Leng Xiyue and her companions as suspicious.
• Tian Meng summoned his seven Soul Rings, making William hesitate to fight until Xue Qinghe arrived.
• Qian Renxue recognized Leng Xiyue but concealed their relationship, while Leng Xiyue greeted Ning Rongrong and introduced herself to Xue Qinghe.
• Ning Rongrong identified Leng Xiyue as her father's business partner, and Qian Renxue rebuked William for offending her.
• William knelt and apologized, and Qian Renxue decided she could use his misconduct to replace him with a Spirit Hall agent.
• Qian Renxue suspected Leng Xiyue's secret dealings with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and resolved to meet her after nightfall.

Leng Xiyue attended Qian Renxue’s banquet and met Duke Lin Sen, who told her how he had loved a Peach Blossom Demon that died before he could protect her. The banquet bell rang, and Lin Sen invited Leng Xiyue to return with him.

• Qian Renxue invited Leng Xiyue and her companions to a banquet at Duke Lin Sen’s castle, and Leng Xiyue brought Tian Meng, Xuanwu, and Oscar.
• At the castle, Leng Xiyue left Tian Meng to show Oscar and Xuanwu around while she wandered through the garden.
• Leng Xiyue found Lin Sen sleeping beneath a peach tree and learned that he was the castle’s duke and a Soul Douluo.
• Lin Sen recounted falling in love with a Peach Blossom Demon, who died after being caught in a fight between powerful Soul Beasts.
• Leng Xiyue asked Xiao Bai whether the Peach Blossom Demon could be revived, but Xiao Bai explained that her consciousness had long since vanished.
• When the banquet bell rang, Lin Sen picked up his cane and invited Leng Xiyue to return to the castle with him.

At a banquet to divide land around Star Dou Town, Leng Xiyue challenged Yu Tianheng to fight Oscar and questioned what would happen to the town’s residents after the forest was developed. When Xue Qinghe began the land sale, Leng Xiyue asked Duke Lin Sen and Xue Qinghe whether they would sell her Star Dou Town itself.

• Tian Meng challenged Yu Tianheng to fight Oscar, but Yu Tianheng hesitated until Leng Xiyue taunted him and Ning Rongrong defended her.
• Ning Rongrong explained that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect wanted forest for medicinal resources and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect planned a training ground, while nobles would claim the remaining land.
• Leng Xiyue worried that Star Dou Town’s residents would lose their livelihoods and considered how they might resist the landowners with their firearms and hunting experience.
• Xue Qinghe arrived with Duke Lin Sen and announced that Lin Sen had donated his land for the Star Dou Wall project, with rules intended to prevent nobles from cutting down ancient trees.
• Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng claimed large shares of the land, while Dugu Yan declined to take any.
• Leng Xiyue asked Xue Qinghe and Duke Lin Sen if they would sell her Star Dou Town.

Leng Xiyue proposed taking control of Star Dou Town and protecting the forest, and Lin Sen agreed to relinquish his title after Xue Qinghe approved. After the nobles divided the land and shared a meal, Leng Xiyue began planning how to govern the town and asked Xiao Bai how to extend Lin Sen’s life.

• Leng Xiyue offered to take over Star Dou Town, recruit unemployed hunters to protect the forest, and punish nobles who logged recklessly.
• Xue Qinghe saw advantages for the imperial family in Leng Xiyue’s proposal, and Lin Sen agreed to hand over the town and his ducal title.
• Ning Rongrong and Yu Tianheng selected land plots, negotiated prices with Xue Qinghe, and joined the others for dinner.
• Ning Rongrong spoke with Oscar about Shrek Academy and later agreed to cultivate Spiritual Power with Oscar and Xuanwu under Tian Meng.
• Leng Xiyue planned to discuss rules with Qian Renxue and town affairs with Lin Sen, then asked Xiao Bai how to extend Lin Sen’s life so he could work for her.

Leng Xiyue planned to save Duke Lin Sen and develop Star Dou Town, then reunited with Qian Renxue and shared her plans while keeping the book about the future secret. The next morning, Qian Renxue led the party back to the Star Dou Wall construction site.

• Xiao Bai told Leng Xiyue that blood from a living Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast could extend Duke Lin Sen’s life, and Leng Xiyue planned to use Star Dou Town to shelter orphans and train them.
• Leng Xiyue wrote detailed plans for Star Dou Town, then sneaked into Qian Renxue’s room and reunited with her over milk tea.
• Leng Xiyue warned Qian Renxue that learning the truth in her book required secrecy and cooperation; Qian Renxue declined to hear it until she could better guarantee she would keep the secret.
• Leng Xiyue told Qian Renxue about Tian Meng, Xuanwu, and her plans for Star Dou Town, which Qian Renxue supported.
• Qian Renxue left early with Snake Lance Douluo and the party to continue building the Star Dou Wall while Porcupinefish Douluo guarded Leng Xiyue’s room.

Leng Xiyue presented Lin Sen with plans to reform Star Dou Town and described her goal of giving ordinary people power and equal rights through modern weapons. After Lin Sen revealed his veteran hunters and shared his distrust of the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall, Leng Xiyue offered him Xuanwu's blood so he could live long enough to help build the town into a model city.

• Leng Xiyue woke in Qian Renxue's room, read her note about Elder Pufferfish guarding the door, and went to meet Tian Meng and Xuanwu.
• Leng Xiyue asked Xuanwu for his blood and told Tian Meng she trusted Lin Sen to help lead reforms in Star Dou Town.
• Leng Xiyue gave Lin Sen her proposal to restructure local trade, protect workers, and fund schools, while Lin Sen revealed that he commanded five hundred experienced hunters.
• Lin Sen criticized the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall for neglecting ordinary people, and Leng Xiyue explained her goal of making Soul Masters and commoners equal.
• Leng Xiyue showed Lin Sen a G43 and explained that ordinary people could use firearms to resist Soul Masters.
• Leng Xiyue offered Lin Sen Xuanwu's blood to extend his life and asked him to join her in building a haven for ordinary people.

Leng Xiyue secured Lin Sen’s support for governing Star Dou Town, planned its transformation into an autonomous province, and began establishing new laws and institutions. As the town settled into its new order, Xiao Bai reported that Ah Yin had awakened.

• Leng Xiyue offered Lin Sen Xuanwu Blood in exchange for his help, and he drank it and agreed to serve her.
• Leng Xiyue planned a school, trade guild, intelligence network, and military reforms for Star Dou Town, while Lin Sen handed his ducal title to her.
• Leng Xiyue told Qian Renxue she wanted to turn the duchy into Star Dou Province, and Qian Renxue agreed to write to the emperor in support.
• A week later, Lin Sen announced new laws and projects, and Leng Xiyue bought back land from nobles who could not afford to wait for returns.
• Leng Xiyue trained Qin Menglan and Oscar while Ning Rongrong stayed to learn firearms, then Xiao Bai told her that Ah Yin had awakened.

Leng Xiyue and Xiao Bai challenged Ah Yin’s devotion to Tang Hao and questioned whether he had truly considered her interests. Ah Yin still chose to return to him, but Leng Xiyue detained her and pressured her to use her healing powers for others, leaving Ah Yin agreeing to help.

• Xiao Bai confronted Ah Yin for refusing to abandon Tang Hao and questioned the sacrifices she had made for him.
• Leng Xiyue argued that Tang Hao had never considered letting Ah Yin return to the forest and suggested he had wanted her to sacrifice herself.
• Ah Yin insisted on seeing Tang Hao, but Leng Xiyue had Xiao Bai restrain her and revealed her ties to Spirit Hall.
• Leng Xiyue confined Ah Yin by the lake and told her that Tang San and his descendants had harmed the world.
• After Leng Xiyue challenged Ah Yin’s refusal to heal people connected to Spirit Hall, Ah Yin agreed to help.

After seven months of building Star Dou Province, Qian Renxue prepared to return to Heaven Dou City, and Leng Xiyue showed her the research laboratory and garden before they parted. The chapter ended with Xiaotao revealing that she was upset about Qian Renxue and Leng Xiyue leaving.

• Leng Xiyue left Ah Yin in Xiao Bai's care, and Xiao Bai eagerly anticipated experimenting on her.
• Qian Renxue told Leng Xiyue that the Star Dou Wall and local administration were complete and that she had to return to Heaven Dou City.
• Leng Xiyue and Qian Renxue reviewed the province's development, including its officials, Guard, trade, and Qian Renxue's rapid progress with the Nebula Art.
• Leng Xiyue and Qian Renxue visited the garden laboratory, where two old guards argued with Royal Guard soldiers about Leng Xiyue's ambitions for ordinary people.
• Xiaotao jumped down from the peach tree and told Leng Xiyue that she had lost focus because Leng Xiyue and Qian Renxue were leaving.

Leng Xiyue showed Qian Renxue the Soul Power Engine, armored vehicles, weapons, and other inventions developed with Qin Menglan, then prepared to leave Star Dou Town. She entrusted the town to Lin Sen and departed with her companions and a growing puppet army for Suotuo City.

• Leng Xiyue, Qin Menglan, and Xiaotao took Qian Renxue to the laboratory and showed her the Soul Power Engine and vehicles powered by stored Soul Power.
• Qin Menglan revealed a heavily armored tank and other military vehicles, while Qian Renxue considered their potential impact on the continent.
• Leng Xiyue showed Qian Renxue modern weapons and equipment, then Qian Renxue returned to Heaven Dou City with her guards and craftsmen.
• Leng Xiyue left Lin Sen in charge of Star Dou Town and gave Xiaotao several barrels of Blue Silver Emperor life energy.
• Leng Xiyue departed for Suotuo City with Tian Meng, Xuanwu, Oscar, Qin Menglan, and over a hundred criminals turned into puppets.

Leng Xiyue returned to Shrek Academy and met the newly arrived Dai Mubai, who challenged her to prove he deserved admission. She overwhelmed him without using her martial soul, leaving him exhausted and unable to land a hit.

• Leng Xiyue, Qin Menglan, and Oscar returned to Shrek Academy, where Li Yusong asked Leng Xiyue to take Dai Mubai through the final admission test.
• Dai Mubai introduced himself as a rank-thirty-one Battle Soul Elder, and Leng Xiyue revealed that she had the same rank.
• After Dai Mubai overheard Leng Xiyue say she might cripple him, he demanded a fight and agreed that he would withdraw if he lost.
• Leng Xiyue promised to fight without her martial soul, and Oscar brought Zhao Wuji to witness the match.
• Dai Mubai attacked with his White Tiger abilities, but Leng Xiyue endured his blows, cut him with a branch, and evaded every attack he made.
• Exhausted and unable to touch Leng Xiyue, Dai Mubai demanded that she fight him head-on, and she taunted him for failing to deliver.

Leng Xiyue defeated Dai Mubai but let him join Shrek Academy, where his pride soon brought him into conflict with the others. Qin Menglan proved her worth by shooting him with her self-made Soul Tool, and Dai Mubai stormed out as Flender refused to chase after him.

• Leng Xiyue defeated Dai Mubai in a match, then told him he had passed Shrek Academy’s test; Zhao Wuji encouraged him to join, and Dai Mubai accepted.
• Oscar told Leng Xiyue about Dai Mubai’s arrogance, and she planned to let Flender handle him while Qin Menglan and Tian Meng joined Shrek Academy.
• At a celebratory banquet, Flender announced Qin Menglan’s admission as a student and praised her as the continent’s only Soul Engineer.
• Dai Mubai challenged Qin Menglan’s admission, so she shot his cheek with her self-made Soul Tool and warned that she could have killed him.
• Dai Mubai stormed out, but Flender forbade Ma Hongjun from following him and said Shrek Academy did not need students who could not handle meeting stronger people.

Dai Mubai returned to Shrek Academy, accepted Leng Xiyue’s demanding training advice, and began training under Zhao Wuji. Five days later, he went with Ma Hongjun to the Red Romance club, where he selected a destitute Star Luo girl sold there as a slave.

• Flender told Dai Mubai to follow Shrek’s rules and advised him to treat Leng Xiyue as someone to learn from rather than an enemy.
• Leng Xiyue described the academy’s intense training routine and warned Dai Mubai that Ma Hongjun’s habits were holding him back.
• Dai Mubai joined Oscar for gravity training under Zhao Wuji while Leng Xiyue left to pursue her plans in Suotuo City.
• Five days later, Ma Hongjun took Dai Mubai to the Red Romance club, where they discussed the women trafficked there from the Star Luo Empire.
• Dai Mubai paid for the club’s services and chose a beautiful, impoverished girl whom Huang Ge said he would have cleaned and sent to Dai Mubai’s room.

After hearing a serf girl recount the exploitation and violence that drove her from the Star Luo Empire to Heaven Dou, Dai Mubai abandoned his plans with her and promised to free her. As he tried to process her story, Leng Xiyue arrived at the club with armed followers and began an attack.

• Dai Mubai listened as the girl described generations of serfdom, a rebellion crushed by rival rulers, and her family’s eventual flight to Heaven Dou, where she was sold into slavery.
• Dai Mubai’s desire faded as he reflected on the suffering behind the girl’s life, and he promised to buy her freedom and help her gain an identity.
• Dai Mubai noticed Leng Xiyue approaching the club with more than a hundred people and unusual weapons and devices.
• Leng Xiyue’s steel vehicle fired at the club’s rooftop sign, blasting it down.

Leng Xiyue led a gun-equipped force in a raid on the Red Romance club, defeating its guards and taking control of the premises. She freed the enslaved women, recruited many into the Star Dream Trade Guild, and left Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun in her custody.

• Leng Xiyue's troops attacked the club, killing Brother Huang with a cannon blast and overpowering the remaining guards.
• Soldiers brought Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, the patrons, and the women downstairs while Tian Meng withdrew most of the puppet troops to raid other locations.
• Leng Xiyue demanded compensation from the patrons, let students repay in installments, and confiscated their student IDs.
• Puppet soldiers brought out the club's debt and indenture Contracts, and Leng Xiyue told the women they were free.
• Ma Hongjun burned the Contracts, and Leng Xiyue offered the freed women jobs at the Star Dream Trade Guild while allowing those who wished to go home to leave.
• Many women signed up to join the guild, while Leng Xiyue left Dai Mubai and Ma Hongjun behind as registration began.

Leng Xiyue confronted Dai Mubai about abandoning his fiancée and persuaded him to return to cultivation and give their relationship a chance. After he left, she considered how his compassion might make him useful in her plans for the Star Luo Empire, then went to join Tian Meng in clearing out the remaining thieves' dens.

• Leng Xiyue deduced that Dai Mubai was an imperial prince with a fiancée from the Hell Spirit Cat Family, and he explained why he had fled the Star Luo Empire.
• Leng Xiyue slapped Dai Mubai and warned that his fiancée could face a miserable confinement if he refused to struggle alongside her.
• Leng Xiyue explained that a strong bond with his fiancée could make their Martial Soul Fusion Skill powerful enough to overcome his elder brother.
• Dai Mubai resolved to cultivate earnestly and send his fiancée a letter if his family contacted him.
• Leng Xiyue sent her Puppet Soldiers to settle the young ladies, then went to find Tian Meng and attack the remaining thieves' dens.

Tian Meng and Leng Xiyue crushed the Olaike Family after its leaders tried to flee Suotuo City. The family’s patriarch, Jason, became Tian Meng’s puppet, leaving the Trade Guild with new high-level fighters.

• Olaike Jason and his brothers decided to abandon their estate and flee to the Northern Province as the Star Dream Trade Guild attacked.
• Tian Meng captured the fleeing enforcers and bound Jason, the family’s Soul Saints, and their Soul Emperor companions with mental threads.
• Tian Meng used illusions to make Jason waste his Soul Power while Leng Xiyue led the Puppet Legion through the estate and secured its prisoners.
• After hours of fighting, Jason collapsed from exhaustion and became Tian Meng’s puppet.