Recaps

Xiao Wu convinced Li Shaobai that she had no ties to the Sea Soul Masters, and the two parted on uneasy but friendly terms. They soon met again while seeking carriages to Star Dou Great Forest, where Li Shaobai decided to use their shared destination to investigate Xiao Wu's mysterious background and the hidden Alliance Leader.

• Xiao Wu claimed the Sea Soul Masters had kidnapped her and insisted she was an orphan from near Nuoding City with no connection to them.
• Li Shaobai let Xiao Wu go, then remembered his search for Dugu Feng and set out for Star Dou Great Forest to learn from the sword-controlling Soul Elder.
• Xiao Wu and Li Shaobai unexpectedly met at a nearby carriage service, where both sought transport to Star Dou Great Forest.
• Li Shaobai offered Xiao Wu a signed novel to encourage her to share what she knew about the Alliance Leader, while privately recalling the failed investigation into the hostile overseas faction.

Li Shaobai heard Xiao Wu recount the horrors of the plague that had devastated Nuoding City six years earlier. As the Celestial Screen showed Ye Wuhen near Star Dou Great Forest, Tang San feared divine retribution while the hidden Tang Hao realized he had caused another disaster.

• Li Shaobai asked Xiao Wu about the plague, and she described the rotting patients she had seen outside Nuoding City.
• Xiao Wu rejected Li Shaobai’s honey water because the plague’s sickeningly sweet smells had left her unable to eat sweet pastries.
• Li Shaobai recalled how Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall had failed to cure the plague and sealed off Nuoding City and part of West Sea City.
• Ye Wuhen appeared near Star Dou Great Forest, examining a portrait of an Emerald Swan Soul Beast.
• Tang San recognized Ye Wuhen on the Celestial Screen and feared the plague might be divine punishment, while Tang Hao turned pale in the shadows.

Tang Hao fled Nuoding City with Tang San and Yu Xiaogang as the Celestial Screen's plague warning sent the city into chaos. The screen then followed Li Shaobai and Xiao Wu to Suotuo City, where a golden-haired youth confronted them outside a bookstore.

• Tang Hao feared divine punishment over the seeds he had taken and decided to take Tang San somewhere safe before returning to Ah Yin.
• Tang San accidentally fired a Sleeve Arrow that nearly struck Yu Xiaogang, and Tang Hao grabbed both men and flew through the roof with them.
• Nuoding City fell into disorder as Soul Masters, nobles, and wealthy residents prepared to flee the coming plague.
• The Celestial Screen showed Li Shaobai traveling to Suotuo City to search for a sword-controlling Soul Master, while Xiao Wu followed him into the city.
• Xiao Wu asked Li Shaobai to buy her books in exchange for helping him find the Soul Master, but a golden-haired youth interrupted and offered her books if she would accompany him.

Xiao Wu attacked Dai Mubai after he harassed her, but Li Shaobai intervened and challenged him before Dai Mubai chose to leave peacefully. The Celestial Screen exposed Dai Mubai’s future behavior to the Star Luo Empire, while the scene then shifted to a mysterious girl watching him with a man in a teahouse.

• Xiao Wu kicked at Dai Mubai after he provoked her, but Li Shaobai struck him while his guard was down.
• Li Shaobai defended Xiao Wu and invited Dai Mubai to settle the dispute in the Great Soul Arena; Dai Mubai dispelled his Martial Soul Possession, laughed, and left him books as an apology.
• Xiao Wu thanked Li Shaobai, who cautioned her against rushing into danger before entering the Great Soul Arena; Xiao Wu followed him.
• Nine-year-old Dai Mubai celebrated appearing on the Celestial Screen, while his political allies worried that the display would damage his standing and Dai Weisi watched with a complicated expression.
• A man and a veiled girl watched the scene from a teahouse, and the man asked whether she would go speak to Dai Mubai.

Li Shaobai and Xiao Wu searched the Soto Great Soul Arena for Tie Jian Zhao, the sword-wielding Soul Master Li Shaobai wanted to challenge. As Xiao Wu questioned Li Shaobai’s modest view of himself, he remembered a powerful enemy who had dismissed his sword and heard the Blood God’s whisper.

• Xiao Wu followed Li Shaobai through the Soto Great Soul Arena and offered to help him find a skilled sword Soul Master.
• Li Shaobai bribed a staff member, who identified Tie Jian Zhao as an eighteen-year-old rank thirty-nine Battle Soul Elder with fifteen consecutive victories, but said he had left Suotuo City after reaching rank forty.
• Li Shaobai gave the staff member a letter and asked him to pass it to Tie Jian Zhao if he returned to the arena.
• Xiao Wu teased Li Shaobai for being practiced at bribery and challenged his belief that he was merely an ordinary person.
• Li Shaobai recalled a gold-and-red-clad enemy who said his sword was unsteady, then heard the whisper, “Blood for the Blood God...”

Li Shaobai’s memories revealed that eerie whispers and a fleeting vision of a blood-colored figure had left him afraid to summon his Martial Soul, while the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect elders worried about the threats gathering around them. Meanwhile, Tang Zhao reunited with Dai Tianxuan in Suotuo City and received the heavenly meteoric iron he had requested, as the woman accompanying Dai Tianxuan followed them.

• Li Shaobai recalled losing to Dugu Feng after the whispers and the figure on the Brass Throne had unsettled him.
• Chen Xin, Gu Rong, and Ning Fengzhi discussed Li Shaobai’s fear of the whispers and the dangers facing the continent and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Li Shaobai walked on without answering Xiao Wu, but she decided to forgive him and follow him.
• Dai Tianxuan visited Tang Zhao at a blacksmith’s shop in Suotuo City and gave him a box of heavenly meteoric iron.
• Tang Zhao invited Dai Tianxuan to a restaurant, while the woman in the bamboo hat followed them and heard Dai Tianxuan dismiss her as a noblewoman fleeing trouble.

Dai Tianxuan and Tang Zhao parted ways after agreeing to meet again when Dai Tianxuan and his sworn brothers became Soul Saints, while Li Shaobai took Xiao Wu toward the Star Dou Great Forest. At Shrek Academy, Dai Mubai discovered that the expected newcomers had not arrived, and an argument erupted over Tang San’s survival of the Nuoding City plague.

• Dai Tianxuan told Tang Zhao that he had helped the noble girl find her fiancé but that they should part because nobles were their enemies, then asked Tang Zhao to join his plan when his sworn brothers reached Soul Saint.
• Li Shaobai treated Xiao Wu to a private room in Suotuo City and planned to escort her toward the Star Dou Great Forest while searching for Tie Jian Zhao.
• Several carriages left Suotuo City the next day, while Dai Mubai found that only three newcomers had passed Shrek Academy’s tests and none were the people he expected.
• Tang San asked whether Shrek Academy had any healing-type Soul Masters and left when Dai Mubai could not provide one.
• Ximen Yun challenged Shrek Academy for harboring Tang San, a survivor of the Nuoding City plague, and Dai Mubai angrily demanded to know whether Ximen Yun intended to make trouble.

Ximen Yun provoked Shrek Academy over its infected students, then defended himself when Tang San attacked and Dai Mubai threatened him. As the confrontation neared a fight, Tang San backed down after Dai Mubai warned him that Spirit Hall’s Bi Shuo might investigate; nearby, Yu Xiaogang remained gravely ill while a hook-nosed man watched over him.

• Ximen Yun criticized Shrek Academy and implied Tang San’s masked appearance came from the plague, prompting Tang San to attack with Hidden Weapons.
• Ximen Yun blocked the Hidden Weapons with his Sword Martial Soul, and Dai Mubai and Tang San threatened him for insulting Shrek Academy.
• Dai Mubai warned Tang San that killing Ximen Yun could draw Bi Shuo’s attention and expose the plague survivors, so Tang San agreed not to go that far.
• Ximen Yun revealed that he was a Rank 42 Soul Ancestor and challenged the two men as a fight seemed imminent.
• In a nearby room, a hook-nosed middle-aged man watched Yu Xiaogang’s rotting, bandaged body and lamented his condition.

Yu Xiaogang, Tang San, and Tang Hao were horrified by the Celestial Screen’s vision of their grotesque futures, while Flender rushed to find Yu Xiaogang. On the screen, Ximen Yun defeated Dai Mubai and Tang San with one sword strike, then revealed that he and a black-robed man planned to use Ning Rongrong to destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• Yu Xiaogang and Tang San broke down after seeing their future appearances, while Tang Hao feared what would happen to Ah Yin if he returned to her.
• Flender decided to fetch Yu Xiaogang himself and flew toward Nuoding City.
• At Shrek Academy, Ximen Yun revealed himself as a Soul Ancestor and knocked Dai Mubai and Tang San unconscious with Heavenly Flying Immortal.
• Ning Rongrong followed Ximen Yun after he left, but he escaped; Zhao Wuji later found Dai Mubai and Tang San alone on the training grounds.
• Ximen Yun discussed Ning Rongrong with a black-robed man, who revealed a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and said they would use her to destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Ning Fengzhi was shaken by the sight of a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda wielder threatening the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while the Celestial Screen revealed Li Ji’s plan to leave the Alliance after a mission at Shrek Academy. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian and the Ferocious Beasts demanded action against the humans, but Bi Ji warned that Li Ji’s words hinted at a larger change.

• Ning Fengzhi struggled to understand why a youth with the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda wanted to destroy the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Gu Rong reminded him the events were six years away.
• Li Ji told Ximen Yun that they would use the mission to control a plan to reenact the events in Notting, then leave the Alliance once the job was done.
• Li Ji and Ximen Yun prepared to enter Shrek Academy that night and take two people to the Star Dou Great Forest to carry out the mission away from human cities.
• Di Tian grew furious at the humans’ plans to hunt rare Soul Beasts and bring a plague into the Star Dou Great Forest, while Xiong Jun urged him to unleash a beast tide.
• Bi Ji cautioned Di Tian that Li Ji had opposed helping Soul Beasts overturn human society and had said the Alliance would eventually be called the Dragon Palace.

Di Tian decided to investigate the Dragon Palace and postpone any decision about a beast tide, while Li Shaobai parted from Xiao Wu at the Star Dou Great Forest. Moments later, a black dragon appeared and a beast tide erupted, leaving Li Shaobai facing a charging Titan Giant Ape.

• Di Tian speculated that a powerful Dragon Clan member had unified the sea soul beasts and planned to visit the sea before deciding whether to launch a beast tide.
• Li Shaobai gave Xiao Wu a complete set of Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng's books and encouraged her to stay in the forest before leaving.
• A dragon's roar struck Li Shaobai and he saw a colossal black dragon pursuing a streak of green light above the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Li Shaobai witnessed the forest shake as countless trees fell and realized that a beast tide had begun.
• Li Shaobai turned toward where he had left Xiao Wu, then saw a Titan Giant Ape hurtling toward the ground.

Ye Wuhen killed an Emerald Swan in the Star Dou Great Forest, drawing Di Tian’s attack, but Aunt Yin protected him and then charged Di Tian in a self-detonating strike. Watching the Celestial Screen, Tang Hao and Tang San recognized Aunt Yin as Ah Yin, and Tang San resolved to pursue the Sea God’s legacy so he could defeat Ye Wuhen and the Deity behind him.

• Di Tian attacked Ye Wuhen after finding him beside an Emerald Swan’s corpse, but Aunt Yin shielded him with a cocoon of Blue Silver Grass.
• Di Tian questioned Aunt Yin’s bizarre appearance and prepared to attack, while Ye Wuhen told her to self-detonate and said he would wait in the Garden of Nurgle.
• Ye Wuhen revealed his green Soul Rings and taunted Di Tian before Aunt Yin surged toward him in a self-detonating strike.
• Watching the Celestial Screen, Tang Hao recognized Ah Yin and broke down, while Tang San realized Aunt Yin was his mother and vowed to kill Ye Wuhen and the Deity behind him.
• Tang San resolved to seek the Sea God’s legacy, believing its power could help him defeat Ye Wuhen.

Di Tian unleashed a coordinated beast tide across the Star Dou Great Forest and ordered the soul beasts to kill humans and search for a mysterious man. As human soul masters suffered heavy losses, Bi Shuo called on them to gather beneath Spirit Hall’s flag.

• Di Tian recovered from the Blue Silver Emperor’s self-detonation and ordered the soul beasts to kill every human in the forest and find the man responsible.
• Tang Zhao and Dai Tianxuan witnessed the beast tide sweep through the forest and fled as soul beasts attacked human soul masters.
• A blood-red-lit mercenary commander and his fighters charged into the herds, but the beast tide overwhelmed and killed them.
• Dragon Duke Meng Shu and Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang fought a pack of powerful soul beasts, but a dark gold terrorclaw bear’s attack shattered their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and carried them away.
• Bi Shuo announced that the human soul masters should gather beneath Spirit Hall’s flag and unite against the crisis.

Qian Daoliu reflected on the threats revealed in Star Dou Great Forest and considered visiting Sea God Island and searching for Bi Shuo. On the Celestial Screen, Bi Shuo organized the Sons of Glory to defend against a massive beast tide, while Xue Ye grew suspicious of Spirit Hall’s growing military strength.

• Qian Daoliu worried about the powerful soul beasts in Star Dou Great Forest, praised Dugu Feng’s potential, and considered visiting Sea God Island to look for Bi Shuo.
• Bi Shuo called the scattered soul masters beneath the Angel banner and told Yue Guan that they needed to establish defenses, investigate the beast tide, and wait for reinforcements.
• Bi Shuo ordered the Sons of Glory to form defensive lines in groups of six and gather fleeing soul masters into organized teams.
• Bi Shuo and Yue Guan attacked the approaching soul beasts, using their soul skills to strike at the beast packs.
• Xue Ye watched Bi Shuo’s forces on the Celestial Screen and questioned what Spirit Hall intended with a military force trained to wage war.

Xue Ye feared Spirit Hall’s growing power as Bi Shuo’s forces faced a demand from the Star Dou Great Forest for a green-haired youth. Di Tian tried to limit the beasts’ involvement, but Xiong Jun threatened the humans and displayed a portrait of Ye Wuhen, whom Bi Shuo believed was dead.

• Xue Ye raged at Spirit Hall’s strength while Qian Renxue considered Bi Shuo a capable military leader.
• Bi Shuo and Chrysanthemum Douluo saw the Soul Beasts withdraw, then learned that powerful beasts had arrived to demand an unidentified human.
• Xiong Jun confronted the human Soul Masters and, under Di Tian’s instructions, demanded they surrender a green-haired youth.
• Xiong Jun’s beasts showed the humans a portrait of Ye Wuhen holding Blue Silver Grass, and Bi Shuo recalled that Ye Wuhen had been reported dead.

The Celestial Screen revealed how Ye Wuhen became the leading suspect in the plague that destroyed Nuoding City, while the major powers feared his return. Hidden near the battlefield, Ye Wuhen plotted to make a dramatic rescue and spread his grandfather's name.

• Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall scholars compared plague records and identified Tang San and Ye Wuhen as suspects, though Ye Wuhen's disappearance and return made him seem the likeliest source.
• The scholars concluded that Ye Wuhen had probably been the plague's first infected person and spreader.
• Bi Shuo urged the Forest King to help hunt Ye Wuhen, but Xiong Jun dismissed the humans and demanded that they hand Ye Wuhen over.
• Ye Wuhen watched the confrontation from the Star Dou Great Forest, hidden among Blue Silver Grass and beside the remains of the Ten-Thousand-Year Emerald Swan.
• Ye Wuhen decided he might rescue the humans at a crucial moment and spread his grandfather's name across the continent.

Qian Daoliu mistook Ye Wuhen for an evil god's inheritor and resolved to eliminate him, while Bi Shuo endured mysterious whispers amid the doomed expedition. As Ye Wuhen prepared to unleash Grandfather's Nurgle Daemon Army, two Blue Bird-masked figures and a golden baby dragon appeared behind him.

• Qian Daoliu concluded that Grandfather and Khorne were evil gods and decided Ye Wuhen must be killed before he could become a god.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo told Bi Shuo that their expedition would likely die after a hundred-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear ruined their retreat plan.
• Bi Shuo heard whispers condemning him as imperfect, then came back to himself, confused by his momentary lapse.
• The Sons of Glory searched for Ye Wuhen while fear and disorder grew among the survivors in the trenches.
• Ye Wuhen prepared to summon Grandfather's Nurgle Daemon Army, but two Blue Bird-masked people and a wary golden baby dragon appeared behind him.

Ye Wuhen rejected the masked pair’s attempt to bargain for his absence from the Far North, then provoked the battlefield’s Soul Beasts with the Emerald Swan’s remains. As Xiong Jun struck at him, Ye Wuhen announced Grandfather’s blessing over the battlefield.

• Ye Wuhen demanded the golden dragon, but its masked owner refused, saying it was his Martial Soul and family.
• The shorter Blue Bird offered Ye Wuhen three figurines in exchange for staying away from the Far North, but Ye Wuhen accepted the dolls while insisting he still wanted the dragon, the Far North, and to sacrifice humans and Soul Beasts.
• The two Blue Birds fled as Ye Wuhen’s Blue Silver Grass attacked, and Ye Wuhen decided he would visit the Far North after the battle.
• Ye Wuhen threw the Emerald Swan’s remains into the battlefield, enraging Xiong Jun, who attacked him with a dark-golden claw strike.
• As dust rose from Xiong Jun’s blow, Ye Wuhen declared the Sevenfold blessings and called the assembled humans and Soul Beasts ignorant children.

Ye Wuhen summoned his Nurgle Daemon Army to battle the Soul Beast tide, turning the battlefield into a plague-ridden clash while Bi Shuo prepared to attack the survivors. Elsewhere, Yu Tiansheng revealed he had manipulated events to direct Ye Wuhen toward the Soul Beasts, and the Clear Sky Sect’s reinforcements arrived demanding to know who had disturbed their ancestors’ graves.

• Ye Wuhen summoned the Great Unclean One and unleashed his infected army through six Soul Ring portals against Xiong Jun, the Titan Giant Ape, and the Sky Azure Bull Python.
• The plague spread through the beast tide, quickly killing weaker Soul Beasts as the Great Unclean One fought the three powerful beasts.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo worried that the Infected might spread the plague, while Bi Shuo drew his purple sword and prepared to attack the survivors.
• Yu Tiansheng and Yu Tianming removed their masks, and Yu Tiansheng explained that he had steered Ye Wuhen toward the Soul Beasts to make them the conflict’s biggest losers.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s reinforcements arrived and demanded to know who had disturbed their ancestral graves.

Ning Fengzhi and the other factions reacted to the Four Gods and the chaos shown on the Celestial Screen, weighing alliances and the dangers posed by Ye Wuhen. The screen then showed a host of forces reaching the battlefield, where Yu Tianming realized his younger brother had dug up their own clan’s ancestral graves.

• Ning Fengzhi concluded that Nurgle and Khorne were likely evil gods and proposed coordinating with the Upper Three Sects, the Heaven Dou emperor, and Spirit Hall.
• Ning Fengzhi considered using Yu Tiansheng’s and Dugu Feng’s connections to the Four Gods to benefit their factions.
• Yu Yuanzhen celebrated Yu Tiansheng’s connection to Tzeentch but worried about how disrespectfully the boy spoke of his god.
• Qian Daoliu worried that Dugu Feng might be chosen by an evil god, while Bibi Dong regretted not rescuing Bi Shuo sooner.
• The Celestial Screen showed forces from several sects and kingdoms arriving at the battlefield, and Yu Tianming confronted his younger brother about digging up their own ancestral graves.

The factions gathered in the Star Dou Great Forest to confront the grave robbers, only to find a beast tide and a chaotic battle already underway. Yu Tianming discovered that his younger brother Yu Tiansheng had robbed the graves to prevent Ye Wuhen from using the corpses, then beat him for the future trouble he would bring the clan before their elders intervened.

• Nine days earlier, mysterious grave robbers desecrated ancestral tombs across the continent and left a challenge directing the factions to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The angry factions entered the forest, where they encountered fleeing Soul Masters and a beast tide; Yu Luomian and the others charged toward the fighting.
• Yu Tianming confronted Yu Tiansheng about robbing their clan's graves and the Dugu Family's graves, and Yu Tiansheng claimed he had acted to stop Ye Wuhen from sacrificing Soul Beasts and using the corpses.
• Yu Tianming struck Yu Tiansheng with a black lightning whip for his future misdeeds until Yu Yuanzhen stopped him and reminded him that the boy had not done them yet.
• Yu Luomian carried the crying Yu Tiansheng away for treatment, while the brothers silently acknowledged that Yu Tiansheng had asked for the beating but Yu Tianming had intended to hit him regardless.

Lü Fengxian led the Heaven Dou Empire’s Trapped Formation Camp into the battle against infected fighters and soul beasts, inspiring several factions to join the fray. Watching from the imperial palace, Xue Ye recognized Lü as his adopted son and ordered a search for him, while Qian Renxue concealed her surprise.

• Yang Wudi urged the gathered factions to attack the infected, while Gui Mei led Spirit Hall reinforcements toward Chrysanthemum Douluo and Bi Shuo.
• Lü Fengxian charged into battle with the Trapped Formation Camp, and Yang Wudi, the Ye patriarch, Dugu Bo, and Meng Shenji followed with their people.
• Lü fought through the melee with his Fang Tian Painted Halberd, killing infected and ten-thousand-year soul beasts.
• Xue Ye watched Lü’s actions on the Celestial Screen, declared him his adopted son, and ordered people to find him.
• Qian Renxue congratulated Xue Ye, who imagined Lü returning to him and hoped Lü and the crown prince could preserve the empire.

On the Celestial Screen, Xiong Jun charged the Great Unclean One alone and began tearing into and eating its flesh, while his body shifted between green and blood-red. As the Ferocious Beasts mocked and watched, the Sky Azure Bull Python tried to pull the Titan Giant Ape away from the humans, but a threatening voice stopped them.

• Prince Xue Xing celebrated the appearance of Lü Fengxian and Tian Qingyue as two geniuses, but still feared the Heaven Dou Empire was doomed.
• The human army pushed back the beasts and Infected while the Titan Giant Ape, Sky Azure Bull Python, and Xiong Jun battled the Great Unclean One.
• Xiong Jun grew furious at the humans' greed and the Great Unclean One's resilience, then knocked the other two Soul Beasts aside and challenged the monster to fight him alone.
• Xiong Jun pinned the Great Unclean One and tore into its flesh as his fur and body alternated between green and blood-red; Yu Tiansheng panicked that the scene disrupted his plan.
• The Scarlet King mocked Xiong Jun for eating the Great Unclean One, and the Ferocious Beasts laughed while Di Tian silently watched the Celestial Screen.
• The Sky Azure Bull Python tried to lead the Titan Giant Ape toward the human crowd, but a voice warned them that they were toys it had chosen.

Ye Wuhen subdued the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python with the Blue Silver Emperor’s help, then left to confront Tang San and other old acquaintances. As the battle turned against the Soul Beasts, Yu Tiansheng sought reinforcements while Yu Tianming wondered how often this kind of conflict would repeat in the millennia to come.

• Ye Wuhen used the Blue Silver Emperor’s Blue Silver Grass to bind and drain the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python, then sent them to the Garden of Nurgle.
• Ye Wuhen sensed Tang San and other old friends, left to meet them, and human Soul Masters rushed to claim the weakened Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts’ Soul Rings and Soul Bones.
• Yu Tiansheng urged Khorne to take Xiong Jun from Nurgle, then summoned Golden Tangerine and demanded that Tzeentch send him to the heart of the Lake of Life.
• Yu Tiansheng entered the vortex gate, leaving Yu Tianming to watch the humans and daemon army push back the Soul Beasts as two deities fought over Xiong Jun.
• Yu Tianming wondered how far Yu Tiansheng’s eyes had seen and reflected that similar battles would recur countless times in the millennia ahead.

Qian Daoliu resolved to keep Dugu Feng safe and prepare Qian Renxue to become the Angel God. At the Star Dou Great Forest, Yu Tiansheng convinced Di Tian to strike down the transformed Xiong Jun, whose soul ring then shattered.

• Qian Daoliu decided that Qian Renxue should pursue her divine trial immediately and that Dugu Feng should avoid Slaughter City and stay under his protection.
• Di Tian failed to reach Xiong Jun through soul power transmissions as Xiong Jun and two other powerful soul beasts remained beyond his control.
• Yu Tiansheng arrived at the Lake of Life and urged Di Tian to kill Xiong Jun, invoking secrets about the Dragon God and the Divine Realm.
• A weak voice addressed Di Tian as its lord and ordered him to kill Xiong Jun and bring Yu Tiansheng before it.
• Di Tian struck Xiong Jun with the Dragon God Claw, shattering his body and leaving behind a soul ring and soul bone.
• Xiong Jun's soul ring shifted through several colors before it shattered.