Recaps

Li Mingzhu confirmed that Li Mu had awakened rank-two soul power and helped him begin cultivating before returning to the academy. There, Li Mingzhu broke through to rank fifteen and considered how he might obtain a stronger cultivation method for the future.

• Li Mingzhu observed Li Mu cultivating and concluded that whale rubber had stimulated previously undetectable soul power, which had reached around rank two.
• Li Mingzhu promised to strengthen Li Mu's Black Iron Bar martial soul and helped him cultivate in the village, warning him to keep his soul power secret.
• After confirming Li Mu's cultivation was stable, Li Mingzhu returned to the academy and briefly updated Dean Lin Nuo.
• Li Mingzhu meditated in his quarters and broke through to rank fifteen, having gained five ranks in less than a month.
• Li Mingzhu reflected on the limits of meditation and wished he could obtain Tang San's Mysterious Heaven Skill, but decided against trying to invent a cultivation method himself.

Yu Xiaogang injured his face when he fell onto a cup, then struggled to treat the wounds because he was too proud to let anyone see him. He wrapped himself in gauze and a black robe and went out to find treatment.

• Yu Xiaogang angrily tried to think of a way to make Li Mingzhu submit, then kicked at a cup and fell face-first onto it, shattering it with his teeth.
• The broken shards cut Yu Xiaogang's face, and his screams disturbed the neighbors, who cursed him for ruining their night.
• Yu Xiaogang woke the next morning, saw his bloodied face in a mirror, and reopened his wounds by rubbing them.
• Yu Xiaogang removed the shards with tweezers, stopped the bleeding with gauze, and covered himself in a black robe before going to seek treatment.

Yu Xiaogang went to Lin Nuo for help after his face was covered in scars, claiming Blackback Wolves had injured him. Ms. Su treated his wounds but could not remove the scars, leaving Yu Xiaogang to endure painful healing with his disfigurement unresolved.

• Yu Xiaogang left his room in a black robe and endured students’ mockery as he went to Lin Nuo’s office.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed a pack of hundred-year Blackback Wolves had injured his face, but Lin Nuo doubted his story and found the cuts looked deliberate.
• Lin Nuo brought Ms. Su, a rank-thirty-six healing Soul Elder, to examine Yu Xiaogang’s wounds.
• Ms. Su told Yu Xiaogang she could heal his injuries but could not remove the scars that had already formed.
• Yu Xiaogang panicked and grabbed Ms. Su’s calf, but Lin Nuo calmed him and persuaded him to accept treatment.
• Ms. Su used her Blood-Stopping Light and Healing Light skills to close Yu Xiaogang’s wounds, causing him intense pain.

After Su Ya healed Yu Xiaogang’s injuries, his scars remained, but she suggested that a Nine Heart Begonia might still restore his face. Lin Nuo then pressured Yu Xiaogang into paying Su Ya, and Yu Xiaogang removed four space-storing gemstones from the Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night to give her.

• Su Ya finished treating Yu Xiaogang, but his facial scars remained and he was horrified by his appearance.
• Su Ya mentioned that a Nine Heart Begonia might heal Yu Xiaogang’s scars, giving him hope of recovery.
• Su Ya left Nuoding Academy, and Lin Nuo decided to extract a substantial payment from Yu Xiaogang.
• Lin Nuo warned Yu Xiaogang that refusing to pay would damage his reputation and urged him to match the city lord’s generous gift to Su Ya.
• Yu Xiaogang removed four gemstones from the Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night and handed them to Lin Nuo.

After Lin Nuo took the four storage gems from Yu Xiaogang, Yu Xiaogang found a scheme to make Li Mingzhu obey and secured Lin Nuo’s agreement not to interfere. Yu Xiaogang approached Li Mingzhu in the Library and began trying to lure him with an offer to recommend a top academy.

• Lin Nuo took the four gems from Yu Xiaogang, who left to seek help removing his scars.
• Yu Xiaogang found Li Mingzhu’s information sheet and became excited after it gave him an idea for dealing with him.
• Yu Xiaogang persuaded Lin Nuo not to interfere with his plan to make Li Mingzhu obey, offering help with Lin Nuo’s fifth Soul Ring in return.
• Yu Xiaogang went to the Library and intercepted Li Mingzhu, who dismissed him and tried to leave.
• Yu Xiaogang followed Li Mingzhu and offered to recommend him to a top academy.

Li Mingzhu rejected Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to lure him into Shrek Academy and confronted him about the academy’s reputation. After Yu Xiaogang threatened Li Mingzhu’s family, Li Mingzhu restrained himself from killing him and pretended he did not care about his grandfather, hoping to keep Li Mu safe.

• Yu Xiaogang praised Shrek Academy and tried to persuade Li Mingzhu to attend, but Li Mingzhu challenged his claims and accused him of deception.
• Li Mingzhu intimidated Yu Xiaogang until he collapsed in fear, then mocked him for wetting his pants.
• Yu Xiaogang threatened Li Mingzhu by reminding him that he had family, provoking Li Mingzhu’s murderous anger.
• Li Mingzhu considered killing Yu Xiaogang but held back because doing so could endanger Li Mu and bring the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Spirit Hall after him.
• Li Mingzhu claimed he was an orphan who felt no attachment to Li Mu, hoping Yu Xiaogang would not investigate their relationship.

Li Mingzhu secretly confirmed that Yu Xiaogang still posed a threat to Grandpa Mu, then returned to a shop to buy old whale rubber. The shopkeeper opened his supposed crown jewel, releasing a toxic stench that drove customers out and left one unconscious.

• Li Mingzhu pretended to leave Yu Xiaogang, then secretly returned with his domain ability and concluded that Grandpa Mu was safe for now.
• Li Mingzhu decided to disrupt Yu Xiaogang's plans and went back to the shop that sold whale rubber.
• Li Mingzhu asked the shopkeeper for the strongest whale rubber from a very old whale, and the shopkeeper fetched a dusty wooden box.
• The shopkeeper opened the box, unleashing a foul, irritating odor that forced the customers to flee and caused one person to pass out.
• Li Mingzhu formed a soul-power barrier against the odor while the panicked shopkeeper looked at him apologetically.

Li Mingzhu bargained for a strange piece of whale rubber and a valuable piece of thousand-year whale rubber, intending to use them against Yu Xiaogang. He left the shop with one of the two things he needed and still had to find livestock aphrodisiacs.

• The shopkeeper claimed the bizarre, foul-smelling whale rubber was an ancestral treasure from an Evil Spirit Orca over seven thousand years old and offered to compensate Li Mingzhu if it failed.
• Li Mingzhu proposed paying eight hundred Gold Soul Coins for the strange whale rubber and a piece of thousand-year whale rubber, then pretended to leave when the shopkeeper hesitated.
• The shopkeeper stopped Li Mingzhu and accepted his offer after being intimidated by Li Mingzhu's aura.
• The shopkeeper gave Li Mingzhu both pieces of whale rubber, and Li Mingzhu recognized that the thousand-year piece alone was worth the price.
• Li Mingzhu decided he still needed livestock aphrodisiac injections for his plan against Yu Xiaogang.

Li Mingzhu followed the shopkeeper’s address to buy three doses of the strongest Soul Beast aphrodisiac, intending to use them against Yu Xiaogang. Back at his lodgings, he processed the Evil Spirit Orca whale rubber and confirmed that it could help with his plan to push Yu Xiaogang past his Soul Power bottleneck.

• Li Mingzhu told the first shopkeeper he needed a large amount of animal aphrodisiac, and the shopkeeper gave him an address in Nuoding City’s Back Street.
• Li Mingzhu visited a livestock shop, where its shopkeeper explained that he sold aphrodisiacs for Soul Beasts as well as ordinary animals.
• Li Mingzhu bought three doses of the shop’s strongest Soul Beast aphrodisiac and headed back to the academy, planning to give it to Yu Xiaogang that night.
• Li Mingzhu decided to test the Evil Spirit Orca whale rubber because it was essential to his plan to help Yu Xiaogang break through level thirty.
• Li Mingzhu used Domain Space and Dragon Flame to separate the whale rubber into two masses, confirming that it was usable and as potent as ordinary ten-thousand-year whale glue.

Li Mingzhu prepared purified whale rubber essence and planned to manipulate Yu Xiaogang into believing he had discovered a way to break through his bottleneck. After sneaking into Yu Xiaogang’s quarters and knocking him unconscious, Li Mingzhu uncovered Yu Xiaogang’s altered appearance and two Space Soul Tools.

• Li Mingzhu separated the whale rubber essence from its impurities, bottled both masses, and collapsed from exhaustion.
• After resting, Li Mingzhu decided to steer Yu Xiaogang toward a false understanding of how to break through his bottleneck.
• Li Mingzhu used the Great Void Domain to reach Yu Xiaogang’s quarters and knocked him unconscious while he was writing.
• Li Mingzhu read Yu Xiaogang’s discarded letters to his father, then removed his mask and discovered his scarred face.
• Li Mingzhu searched Yu Xiaogang and found the Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night and a seal-shaped Space Soul Tool with a larger storage space.

Li Mingzhu looted Yu Xiaogang’s Space Soul Tools and discovered a trove of Spirit Hall secrets among his books. He took Yu Xiaogang to a pig farm and used whale rubber to push him through his bottleneck, finally bringing him to level thirty.

• Li Mingzhu opened Yu Xiaogang’s Space Soul Tools, took tens of thousands of Gold Soul Coins, and stored them in the Domain Space.
• Li Mingzhu found that many of Yu Xiaogang’s handwritten books contained Spirit Hall’s confidential knowledge, including information on Angel Inheritance Soul Bones and a Titled Douluo’s abilities, and packed the books away.
• Li Mingzhu carried Yu Xiaogang, whom he called Ganzi, to a Sow Farm in Nuoding City and fed him thousand-year whale rubber while he was unconscious.
• When Yu Xiaogang began to wake, Li Mingzhu struck him with a brick, knocking him unconscious again and cracking his skull.
• Li Mingzhu saw that the first dose had not quite broken Yu Xiaogang’s bottleneck, so he fed him a portion of refined Evil Spirit Orca whale rubber, which raised him to level thirty.

Li Mingzhu drugged Yu Xiaogang and left him naked in a pigpen, where the drugged man spent the night in a frenzied state. At dawn, Yu Xiaogang woke to the aftermath, horrified, while Li Mingzhu escaped as someone approached.

• Li Mingzhu gave unconscious Yu Xiaogang whale rubber impurities and aphrodisiac, then stripped him and threw him into a pigpen dusted with more aphrodisiac powder.
• Yu Xiaogang woke only half-conscious under the drugs and attacked the pigs in the pen while Li Mingzhu watched from concealment.
• After the pigs collapsed, Yu Xiaogang continued thrashing at the ground until the drugs wore off and he lay exhausted.
• Li Mingzhu struck Yu Xiaogang with a stone, waking him to find himself naked and covered in filth among the unconscious pigs.
• Yu Xiaogang panicked and retched after realizing what he had done, while Li Mingzhu fled when he saw someone approaching.

Yu Xiaogang escaped the pig farm and returned to Nuoding Academy, where he discovered his Space Soul Tool and its contents were gone. Li Mingzhu used the whale rubber he had taken from him and reached soul power level seventeen.

• Yu Xiaogang fled the pig farm after its owner discovered the exhausted pigs and ran through Nuoding City toward Nuoding Academy.
• Yu Xiaogang climbed over the academy gate, returned to his residence, and fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Yu Xiaogang woke, washed for hours, and realized that his Space Soul Tool, theories, and knowledge were missing.
• Li Mingzhu inspected his spoils and swallowed the larger portion of refined Evil Spirit Orca whale rubber.
• Li Mingzhu refined the whale rubber, greatly improved his physical strength, and raised his soul power to level seventeen.

Yu Xiaogang mistook his ordeal for a breakthrough caused by his martial soul and decided to keep the supposed method from his clan while searching for his lost Soul Tool. Li Mingzhu read Yu Xiaogang’s books, destroyed his first copy of the Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls, and returned to stabilizing his Soul Power.

• Yu Xiaogang discovered he had broken through his bottleneck to level thirty and convinced himself his martial soul had caused it.
• Yu Xiaogang concluded that Luo Sanpao needed to release pent-up urges and decided not to tell the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan about his breakthrough.
• Yu Xiaogang planned to prepare for soul hunting and search for his missing Soul Tool, but stayed inside when he saw it was growing dark.
• Li Mingzhu finished reading a book on high-grade bloodline soul beasts, then opened Yu Xiaogang’s handwritten Ten Core Theories of Martial Souls.
• Li Mingzhu burned Yu Xiaogang’s book with Dragon Flame and began stabilizing his Soul Power.

Yu Xiaogang learned that Nuoding Academy was warning students about the person who abused pigs at a local farm, but he remained unidentified. After failing to recover his lost belongings, he worried that the incident would reach Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong and destroy the image he had carefully built with them.

• Yu Xiaogang read the academy notice about the pig farm abuse and angrily blamed the people of Nuoding City for spreading it.
• Li Mingzhu saw the notice and chose not to reveal any further clues about Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang passed Li Mingzhu at the dining hall and acted contemptuously after remembering he had reached level 30.
• Yu Xiaogang searched near the pig farm and around the city for his lost belongings, while residents joked about the suspected abuse.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to his residence empty-handed and considered offering a reward, but feared exposing himself to Bibi Dong and Liu Erlong.

Li Mingzhu secretly observed Yu Xiaogang, then discussed his rapid cultivation and future schooling with Lin Nuo. After Lin Nuo explained Winchester Intermediate Academy’s advantages, Li Mingzhu agreed to attend, leaving Lin Nuo watching him depart.

• Li Mingzhu overheard Yu Xiaogang resolve to keep his secret and abandon plans involving him, then relaxed when Yu Xiaogang showed no suspicion.
• A week later, Yu Xiaogang chose a Soul Beast for his Soul Ring and decided to ask Lin Nuo for help rather than trust Flender.
• Lin Nuo learned that Li Mingzhu was nearly level thirteen and praised his cultivation progress.
• Lin Nuo openly explained that Li Mingzhu’s talent had changed how he treated him, then described Winchester Intermediate Academy and its access to the Sunset Forest.
• Li Mingzhu accepted the idea of attending Winchester Intermediate Academy, and Lin Nuo dismissed him before watching him leave.

Li Mingzhu learned that Yu Xiaogang had broken through to level thirty and planned to interfere with his soul hunt. As Yu Xiaogang and Lin Nuo traveled to the Soul Hunting Forest, Yu Xiaogang announced that he intended to hunt a poison-attribute soul beast.

• Lin Nuo was shocked by Li Mingzhu's exceptional rate of soul-power growth and decided not to betray him.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Lin Nuo to help him hunt for a soul ring after reaching level thirty, and Lin Nuo agreed to assist.
• Li Mingzhu followed Yu Xiaogang, learned the details of the hunt, and resolved to create obstacles for him.
• Yu Xiaogang and Lin Nuo set out by carriage for the Soul Hunting Forest while Li Mingzhu went ahead to wait along the road.
• Yu Xiaogang told Lin Nuo that he planned to hunt a poison-attribute soul beast, prompting Lin Nuo to spray water in surprise.

Yu Xiaogang explained his plan to hunt a poison-attribute soul beast so his third Soul Ring might make his fart-based soul skills poisonous, then Lin Nuo guided him into the Soul Hunting Forest. Li Mingzhu followed in secret and hurried ahead, while Lin Nuo and Yu Xiaogang spent the night in a tree before reaching their destination.

• Yu Xiaogang told Lin Nuo that a poison-attribute Soul Ring might transform his first two soul skills into poisonous farts, and Lin Nuo praised the idea to humor him.
• Li Mingzhu waited near the Soul Hunting Forest, then concealed himself and followed Lin Nuo and Yu Xiaogang after they entered.
• Yu Xiaogang chose a Mandala Snake as his target, and Lin Nuo led him toward the part of the forest where thousand-year snakes appeared.
• Li Mingzhu overheard their destination and took a detour to reach it ahead of them, while Lin Nuo carefully handled the soul beasts they encountered.
• As night fell, Lin Nuo found a tree for them to rest in and kept watch while Yu Xiaogang slept; he caught Yu Xiaogang when nearby soul beast roars nearly startled him out of the tree.

Lin Nuo and Yu Xiaogang cautiously crossed a thicket of royal bamboo grass Soul Beasts, while Li Mingzhu scouted the area around a thousand-year Mandala Snake. Lin Nuo and Yu Xiaogang stopped to recover after reaching the thicket’s edge, with Luo Sanpao left to keep watch.

• Lin Nuo gave Yu Xiaogang ointment for his mosquito bites and waited for the morning mist to clear before they set out.
• Lin Nuo and Yu Xiaogang cautiously pushed through the royal bamboo grass, which had become plant Soul Beasts, and Luo Sanpao detected a grass mouse ahead.
• Lin Nuo and Yu Xiaogang reached the thicket’s edge with their clothes torn and bodies scratched.
• Li Mingzhu found a lone thousand-year Mandala Snake among the mandala flowers and searched nearby for potential helpers.
• After traveling farther, Lin Nuo stopped to restore his Soul Power, and Yu Xiaogang had Luo Sanpao stand guard.

Lin Nuo and Yu Xiaogang fought two Swiftshadow Leopards, with Yu Xiaogang using Luo Sanpao’s foul-smelling attacks to keep the younger beast at bay while Lin Nuo wounded the thousand-year beast. The thousand-year Swiftshadow Leopard drew the other leopard toward Yu Xiaogang and then launched a desperate attack on Lin Nuo, leaving the two battles dangerously entangled.

• Luo Sanpao warned Lin Nuo and Yu Xiaogang that danger was approaching, and two Swiftshadow Leopards emerged from the bushes.
• Lin Nuo took on the thousand-year Swiftshadow Leopard while Yu Xiaogang faced the two-hundred-year one.
• Yu Xiaogang used Luo Sanpao’s Earth-Shattering Luo Sanpao skill to blast foul gas at the younger leopard, driving it back.
• Lin Nuo wounded the thousand-year Swiftshadow Leopard with Rock Bear Claw and pressed his attack.
• Yu Xiaogang grew impatient and pursued the younger leopard until he neared Lin Nuo’s fight.
• The wounded thousand-year Swiftshadow Leopard maneuvered toward the younger one, then charged Lin Nuo in a desperate attack as Yu Xiaogang entered its range.

Lin Nuo fought and killed a thousand-year Swiftshadow Leopard while Yu Xiaogang was attacked by her young, losing flesh from both sides of his backside. After the young leopard also died, Lin Nuo and Yu Xiaogang cleaned themselves up and prepared to leave before other soul beasts arrived.

• The thousand-year Swiftshadow Leopard turned away from Lin Nuo and pounced on Yu Xiaogang, but Lin Nuo blocked her with a fallen tree and tore off one of her hind legs.
• The young Swiftshadow Leopard bit Yu Xiaogang's backside, and Luo Sanpao knocked it away before Yu Xiaogang retaliated with his soul skill.
• Lin Nuo killed the thousand-year Swiftshadow Leopard, and a purple soul ring rose from her body.
• The young Swiftshadow Leopard tried to flee, but Lin Nuo tore it in half; while Yu Xiaogang hacked at it, it bit the other side of his backside before dying.
• Lin Nuo recovered his soul power, found no soul bone, and urged Yu Xiaogang to leave because the blood might attract other soul beasts.

Lin Nuo and Yu Xiaogang reached the Thousand-Year Mandala Snake’s territory, where Lin Nuo wounded and wore down the snake so Yu Xiaogang could claim its Soul Ring. Just as Yu Xiaogang prepared to kill it, a rumbling sounded from the woods.

• Lin Nuo treated Yu Xiaogang’s wounds and led him toward the Mandala Snake’s territory.
• Li Mingzhu chose nearby Wind Wolf and Fire-Scaled Horse habitats for his plan and returned to the area around the snake.
• Lin Nuo and Yu Xiaogang found the Thousand-Year Mandala Snake among the Mandala Flowers, and Lin Nuo struck its vital spot with his Rock Bear Claw.
• Lin Nuo evaded the snake’s poisonous mist and repeatedly attacked until it collapsed, then crushed it with rocks to ensure it was near death.
• Lin Nuo let Yu Xiaogang finish off the snake, but a rumbling from deep in the woods interrupted him as he raised his saber.

Li Mingzhu manipulated events so Yu Xiaogang would absorb a Soul Ring from the Mandala Snake and a concealed ten-year Fire-Spitting Chicken. Yu Xiaogang began absorbing the purple ring, while an unexplained transformation started in his body.

• A Fire-Scaled Horse and fleeing Wind Wolves charged past Yu Xiaogang, while Lin Nuo abandoned him and Li Mingzhu knocked him unconscious.
• Li Mingzhu killed the half-dead Mandala Snake with Dragon Flame, then forced Yu Xiaogang to kill a ten-year Fire-Spitting Chicken and concealed its white Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang woke, mistakenly believed Lin Nuo had lured the beasts away, and decided to absorb the Mandala Snake's purple Soul Ring.
• Li Mingzhu revealed the concealed white Soul Ring as Yu Xiaogang began absorbing the purple one, then left the forest.
• Golden light and visions of the Golden Sacred Dragon and Luo Sanpao appeared as Yu Xiaogang's body turned red and began to sweat.

Lin Nuo returned to find Yu Xiaogang alive and absorbing the Mandala Snake's Soul Ring, but Yu Xiaogang emerged with a white third ring and a tiny flame-producing Soul Skill. Lin Nuo devised a way to turn Ignite into an attack, ending with Yu Xiaogang blasting a stream of fire from behind.

• Lin Nuo returned to the clearing and found Yu Xiaogang alive, then realized he was absorbing the Mandala Snake's Soul Ring.
• Yu Xiaogang's Martial Soul changed, granting him Martial Soul Possession, and Lin Nuo pretended he had never abandoned him.
• Yu Xiaogang discovered that his third Soul Ring was white and that his Soul Skill, Ignite, produced only a tiny flame.
• Lin Nuo convinced Yu Xiaogang that his Martial Soul mutation explained the change and urged him to pursue a Battle Soul Master path.
• Lin Nuo taught Yu Xiaogang to combine farting with Ignite, and Yu Xiaogang blasted a stream of fire from behind.

After three years of cultivation, Li Mingzhu reached level 29 and prepared to leave Nuoding Academy for Winchester Academy. Lin Nuo gave him a recommendation letter and graduation certificate, while Li Mingzhu reflected on his time at the academy and Yu Xiaogang’s strange transformation.

• Lin Nuo and Yu Xiaogang tested a combination of Yu Xiaogang’s soul skills that turned his fart into flaming gas, then finished their soul hunting and left the forest.
• Three years later, Li Mingzhu reached level 29 and decided to show Lin Nuo his progress before leaving for Winchester Academy.
• Li Mingzhu demonstrated his level 19 soul power, and Lin Nuo gave him a recommendation letter for Winchester Academy and a graduation certificate from Nuoding Academy.
• Li Mingzhu wandered around Nuoding Academy before his departure and recalled that Yu Xiaogang had failed to find a soul tool and had become gluttonous, sleepy, and dramatically changed in appearance.