Recaps

Lu Ning challenged Yu Xiaogang’s training methods and agreed to teach Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing for a three-year contest against Tang San and Xiao Wu. After raising his strength with whale rubber and a new soul ring, he left the forest with Zhu Zhuqing newly strengthened and Ning Rongrong suffering the rubber’s side effects.

• Lu Ning accepted Yu Xiaogang’s challenge and defeated Tang San, then agreed to a three-year teaching contest with Yu Xiaogang under a humiliating wager.
• Zhao Wuji selected Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing as Lu Ning’s students, and Lu Ning began training them with wine and whale rubber.
• Zhu Zhuqing took thousand-year whale rubber improperly, and Lu Ning helped her endure its effects and absorb its power.
• Lu Ning reached level 40 and traveled with Flender, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt a soul beast.
• Lu Ning defeated an eighteen-thousand-year Profound Sword Demon Turtle, gained a forty-eight-thousand-year soul ring and his fourth soul skill, then tested it against Flender.
• Lu Ning gave Ning Rongrong whale rubber and presented Zhu Zhuqing with a fifty-thousand-year Thunder Shadow Leopard left leg bone.
• Ning Rongrong struggled with the whale rubber’s effects and asked Lu Ning to help her, while Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the soul bone, broke through to level 30, and gained a new soul skill.

Lu Ning helped Zhu Zhuqing defeat Tang San, then defended himself when Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin confronted him over Ning Rongrong. After Shrek defeated the Imperial Fighting Team, the academy relocated to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Lu Ning arrived as a twelve-year-old Soul King and Ma Hongjun pressed him to challenge Blue Tyrant Academy.

• Lu Ning returned to Shrek with Zhu Zhuqing, who had reached level thirty, and Yu Xiaogang claimed he would fund the academy while Flender revealed its money had run out.
• Lu Ning gave Flender a million Gold Soul Coins, absorbed a sword Soul Bone that raised him to rank forty-six, and agreed to take Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing to the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Ning Rongrong shopped with Lu Ning while Zhu Zhuqing arranged a costly match against Tang San, then defeated him with her new strength and made Yu Xiaogang order Tang San to concede.
• Yu Xiaogang accused Zhu Zhuqing of using fallen methods, but Lu Ning defended her and revealed that a Soul Bone had raised her power, and Flender warned Lu Ning that the secret could put her at risk.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin confronted Lu Ning over Ning Rongrong, but Lu Ning demonstrated his sword domain and froze Chen Xin with a powerful attack before the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect agreed to watch him for five years.
• Flender absorbed Lu Ning’s eighty-thousand-year Soul Bone and broke through, while Lu Ning gained a Life Soul Bone reward and chose to challenge the Imperial Fighting Team at the Soto Great Soul Arena.
• Lu Ning led Shrek to defeat the Imperial Fighting Team, using his Wine Gourd barrier to stop their attacks while Zhu Zhuqing targeted Ye Lingling, and Yu Xiaogang conceded the match.
• Tang Hao took Tang San away to train him and sent Xiao Wu back to the Star Dou Great Forest, while Xue Qinghe began seeking Shrek’s relocation to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Xue Qinghe offered Shrek noble titles and support, and Lu Ning explained how Dugu Yan and Dugu Bo could contain their poison in Soul Bones before Shrek agreed to relocate.
• Lu Ning absorbed a God-bestowed Soul Ring and became a twelve-year-old Five-Ring Soul King as Shrek moved to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Ma Hongjun urged him to challenge Blue Tyrant Academy over its dean’s past with Flender.

Lu Ning returned to Shrek Academy after strengthening himself at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where his clashes and growing power drew the attention of allies and rivals. The arc ended with Lu Ning fleeing Tang Hao in disguise while Dugu Bo entered the cave where Tang San was treating the poison.

• Ma Hongjun challenged Blue Tyrant Academy, and Lu Ning revealed his five Soul Rings when Liu Erlong attacked him.
• Lu Ning helped Dugu Yan manage her poison, and Dugu Bo became his guardian after Lu Ning’s wine helped him break through to Level 92.
• Lu Ning endured the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well’s extreme conditions, then spent six months cultivating there until he reached the level-seventy bottleneck.
• Lu Ning returned to Shrek Academy, reunited with Zhu Zhuqing, and met Ning Fengzhi, who agreed to set aside their earlier conflict.
• Lu Ning defended Zhu Zhuqing from Tai Long, then fought Liu Erlong at Blue Tyrant Academy after Tai Long’s harassment led him back there.
• Lu Ning defeated Tai Tan at the academy gates with his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Sixth Soul Skills, leaving Tai Tan injured and shaken.
• Lu Ning went searching for a fortuitous encounter near Sunset Forest while Tang San practiced his hammer technique under Tang Hao’s watch.
• Lu Ning, disguised as a gourd-shaped Soul Beast, poisoned Tang San and fled from Tang Hao, while Dugu Bo entered the cave after their auras vanished.

Lu Ning escaped Tang Hao by reaching the Star Dou Great Forest, where he took Xiao Wu hostage and brought her back to Shrek Academy. As the tournament began, Lu Ning revealed his strength, survived an assassination attempt, and distributed Soul Bones to his friends while preparing Zhu Zhuqing for the Finals.

• Dugu Bo’s diversion failed to draw Tang Hao away from Lu Ning, who fled into the Star Dou Great Forest and was captured by Xiao Wu, Da Ming, and Er Ming.
• Lu Ning defeated Da Ming and Er Ming, forced Xiao Wu to leave the forest with him, and learned that Dugu Bo had recovered a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and a Blue Silver Grass plant.
• Lu Ning returned to Shrek Academy, gave Ning Rongrong the Aromatic Silk Beauty, and learned that Yu Xiaogang would lead Spirit Hall’s tournament team as an elder.
• Ning Rongrong’s Martial Soul evolved into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and Lu Ning spent three months preparing with Shrek before the tournament began.
• Shrek’s First Team defeated the Second Team in the opening match, while Lu Ning kept his own Martial Soul and strength concealed.
• Salas arranged with Huyan Zhen and Shi Nian to assassinate Lu Ning, but Lu Ning resisted Shi Nian’s illusion and revealed seven Soul Rings, including two hundred-thousand-year rings.
• Lu Ning killed Huyan Zhen and Shi Nian, and Dugu Bo and the Heaven Dou Royal Academy instructors weakened the Elephant Armor Sect while sparing its younger members and legacy.
• Lu Ning gave Ning Rongrong a Soul Bone and then gave Zhu Zhuqing another, before offering Zhao Wuji a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear left arm bone that Zhao Wuji refused.
• Ning Rongrong reported reaching level forty-four and Zhu Zhuqing reached level fifty, so Lu Ning proposed spending two months helping Zhu Zhuqing obtain a Soul Ring before the Finals.