Recaps

Jiang Che taught Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing tactics for team battles and their two-person matches, then left to focus on developing a cultivation technique. On his way home, he passed an alley where three thugs were beating someone and stealing his money.

• Jiang Che explained how Ning Rongrong could bait an opposing Agility Attack System Soul Master into a trap set by her teammates, and Ning Rongrong understood the tactic.
• Jiang Che told Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong to use Rongrong as bait to expose an opponent to Zhu Zhuqing’s speed and create a two-on-one advantage.
• Jiang Che asked the two girls to follow his training plan at Shrek while he organized his theories and worked on an original cultivation technique.
• Jiang Che bought herbs for the next few days, having spent ten thousand Gold Soul Coins on them over the past several days.
• Jiang Che passed an alley where three thugs beat a person and took several Copper Soul Coins from his clothes.

Jiang Che killed four thugs who had attacked Galian, a young boy whose parents were killed by a mysterious blood-red hammer at a Spirit Hall Branch. Realizing Tang Hao’s actions had likely caused the boy’s loss, Jiang Che gave Galian a cultivation technique, pills, money, and an invitation to find him if he reached Soul Power level ten before Jiang Che left Suotuo City.

• Jiang Che killed the thug who tried to grab him, then killed the other three after they begged him for mercy.
• Galian followed Jiang Che and asked him to teach him how to use a saber; he revealed that his parents had died protecting him from a blood-red hammer that destroyed a Spirit Hall Branch.
• Jiang Che suspected Tang Hao had killed Galian’s parents and realized his own actions may have set those events in motion.
• Jiang Che gave Galian the Symbiosis Method, three Soul-Enhancing Pills, and ten Gold Soul Coins, and explained that Soul Ring limits depended on a Soul Master’s abilities.
• Jiang Che told Galian to find him if he reached Soul Power level ten before Jiang Che left Suotuo City.

Yu Xiaogang questioned Tang San about absorbing a two-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring and explained his theory that compatibility and physical strength affected absorption limits. He identified Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances as a rare, potentially growing External Soul Bone, leaving Tang San to explore its abilities.

• Yu Xiaogang praised Tang San for reaching rank thirty, then worried over his risky Soul Ring choice and asked about his condition.
• Tang San showed how the Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Ring had changed his Blue Silver Grass, and Yu Xiaogang concluded that compatibility affected Soul Ring absorption.
• Tang San questioned whether poison was the right path because his vines could not reach Jiang Che, but Yu Xiaogang urged him to trust his poison affinity and remember his Twin Martial Souls.
• Tang San admitted that he had lost to Jiang Che even with the Clear Sky Hammer, and Yu Xiaogang encouraged him to recover from the defeat.
• Yu Xiaogang asked Tang San to show his spider legs and identified the Eight Spider Lances as a rare External Soul Bone that could grow stronger with him.

Yu Xiaogang put the Shrek students through one-on-one matches and criticized their tactics, but Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing dismissed his instruction as muddled. He ordered the students to run weighted laps to Suotuo City without using Soul Power, and Ning Rongrong objected that she and Zhu Zhuqing had to follow Jiang Che’s training rules.

• Yu Xiaogang held one-on-one matches among the Shrek students, with Dai Mubai losing to Tang San, Tang San losing to Xiao Wu, and Ning Rongrong drawing with Oscar.
• Yu Xiaogang reprimanded the students for holding back and criticized Zhu Zhuqing and Ning Rongrong for their fighting styles.
• Zhu Zhuqing privately concluded that her draw with Tang San was a good result without using Dark Night, and that Ning Rongrong had effectively beaten Oscar by outlasting him.
• Yu Xiaogang ordered all seven students to carry rocks and run ten round trips between the academy and Suotuo City without Soul Power before noon.
• Ning Rongrong told Yu Xiaogang that she and Zhu Zhuqing had to use Soul Power because Jiang Che had set that rule, and Yu Xiaogang angrily rejected her objection.

Jiang Che tested his newly refined pills on a death-row prisoner and confirmed they caused explosive diarrhea. As he planned to improve the pill into an undetectable powder, two faint streams of power entered his body after a bone-breaking sound rang in his mind.

• Yu Xiaogang questioned Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing about their training, but learned nothing about Jiang Che's method.
• Jiang Che celebrated after refining three pills and went to Suotuo City's dungeon to test one on a prisoner.
• Jiang Che selected Wang Dalei, a murderous rank-nineteen Evil Soul Master, and forced him to swallow a pill.
• Three minutes later, Wang Dalei suffered explosive diarrhea, confirming that Jiang Che's pill worked.
• Jiang Che planned to refine an undetectable powdered laxative, then heard a bone-breaking sound in his mind as two faint streams of power entered his body.

Jiang Che helped Galian hunt a 556-year-old Blade Mantis so Galian could obtain his first Soul Ring. Galian absorbed it and gained the Moonlight Blade skill, while Jiang Che noticed that he had received Skill Points despite not killing the Soul Beast himself.

• Jiang Che realized Galian had reached level ten and agreed to help him hunt for a Soul Ring.
• After studying suitable Soul Beasts, Jiang Che took Galian to the Soul Hunting Forest and chose a 556-year-old Blade Mantis.
• Jiang Che wounded the female Blade Mantis after it killed its mate, and Galian finished it off with a knife.
• Galian absorbed the Blade Mantis's Soul Ring and gained the first Soul Skill Moonlight Blade.
• Galian demonstrated Moonlight Blade by slicing cleanly through a massive tree.

Jiang Che confirmed that people who practiced the Symbiosis Method earned skill points when they killed soul beasts, then used a soul bone lesson to deliberately let Tang San overhear misleading information. Tang San left to recruit Zhao Wuji to help him seize the soul bones, while Jiang Che knew he had been followed.

• Jiang Che had Galian cut down solitary bamboo and confirmed that Galian’s kills earned him skill points.
• Jiang Che tested Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing and confirmed that Symbiosis Method practitioners also generated skill points for him.
• Jiang Che showed Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing a hundred-year soul bone and explained how soul bones strengthened physical constitution.
• Tang San secretly followed the three, heard Jiang Che discuss soul rings and soul bones, and concluded that the soul bones could help him obtain a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring.
• Jiang Che revealed that he had sensed Tang San and had deliberately let him hear only part of the explanation.
• Tang San visited Zhao Wuji at night, claimed to know where two soul bones were, and offered to split them if Zhao Wuji helped him obtain them.

Tang San persuaded Zhao Wuji to help seize Jiang Che’s Soul Bones, and the two attacked Jiang Che at his residence before daybreak. Jiang Che dodged Zhao Wuji twice, while hidden Soul Masters watched and waited to intervene.

• Tang San told Zhao Wuji that Jiang Che likely possessed two Soul Bones and demanded first pick, and Zhao Wuji agreed to help take them.
• Tang San and Zhao Wuji disguised themselves and went to Jiang Che’s residence before daybreak.
• Jiang Che sensed the intruders, recognized Tang San and Zhao Wuji, and asked what they wanted.
• Zhao Wuji revealed that he wanted Jiang Che’s Soul Bones and attacked without using Martial Soul Possession.
• Jiang Che used Starry Eyes and Flight to evade Zhao Wuji’s attacks, while Tang San grew jealous and hidden watchers continued observing.

Jiang Che lured Zhao Wuji into taking the Spatial Ring containing the Soul Bones, intending for Tang San to obtain them, but Zhao Wuji then tried to kill him. Three Soul Saints intervened, and Zhao Wuji fled before one of them struck him.

• Jiang Che used Flying Flowers Soar to the Clouds against Zhao Wuji, forcing him back but exhausting most of his True Qi.
• Zhao Wuji overpowered Jiang Che, who fell against a tree and let the Spatial Ring drop; Zhao Wuji took it, believing it held the two Soul Bones.
• Zhao Wuji tried to kill Jiang Che, but an arrow forced him to dodge, and he realized Tang San had disappeared.
• Zhao Wuji fled toward the mountain as three Soul Saints revealed themselves, including two subordinates of Qian Renxue and one from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• One of Qian Renxue's subordinates transformed into a Fire Wolf and struck Zhao Wuji, who used his Soul Skills to brace for the blow.

Jiang Che survived Zhao Wuji’s attack with help from three Soul Saints, while Zhao Wuji escaped with two Soul Bones. Tang San began absorbing the Head Soul Bone, and Tang Hao discovered Zhao Wuji’s actions and beat him before forcing Flender and Yu Xiaogang to the ground with his Soul Power.

• Zhao Wuji used his Soul Skill to blunt Jiang Che’s Crimson Meteor, then fled into the forest as Jiang Che healed his injuries and vowed revenge.
• A Soul Saint thanked Jiang Che for surviving and resolved to report his talent to the Saintess, while Jiang Che hoped Tang San would absorb the prepared hundred-year Soul Bone.
• Zhao Wuji met Tang San behind Shrek Academy and gave him two Soul Bones; Tang San chose the 455-year Head Soul Bone and began absorbing it.
• Tang Hao found Tang San absorbing the Soul Bone, blasted apart nearby trees, and threw Zhao Wuji aside when he learned what had happened.
• Tang Hao beat Zhao Wuji and cursed Yu Xiaogang for failing to explain Soul Bones to Tang San.
• Flender arrived with Yu Xiaogang, and Tang Hao’s Soul Power pressed both men to the ground.

Tang Hao punished Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Zhao Wuji after Tang San absorbed a hundred-year Head Soul Bone, then warned Yu Xiaogang to guide his son better. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect discussed recruiting Jiang Che, while Tang San realized too late that his soul bone choice had been foolish.

• Tang Hao beat Yu Xiaogang, Flender, and Zhao Wuji, took Zhao Wuji's Storage Ring, and warned Yu Xiaogang not to let Tang San make the same mistake again.
• Chen Xin told Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong that Jiang Che had endured a Soul Saint's pressure for two minutes, prompting Ning Fengzhi to decide the sect should build a relationship with him.
• Ning Fengzhi rejected Gu Rong and Chen Xin's suggestion to abduct Jiang Che, saying they should let him choose for himself and preserve the relationship through Ning Rongrong.
• Tang San awoke after absorbing the Head Soul Bone and accidentally punched Yu Xiaogang, mistaking him for an attacker.
• Yu Xiaogang scolded Tang San for absorbing a hundred-year soul bone in haste, and Tang San regretted his decision but realized the Head Soul Bone could not be removed.

Tang San learned that his forty-thousand-year Left Leg Soul Bone came from Tang Hao and agreed to keep it secret. Meanwhile, Jiang Che brought Soul Recovery Pills and Burst Soul Pills to the Soto Auction House to sell, where the chief appraiser began checking them.

• Yu Xiaogang warned Tang San about absorbing a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring and gave him Tang Hao’s forty-thousand-year Left Leg Soul Bone.
• Tang San stored the Soul Bone in Twenty-Four Bridges Bright Moon Night and promised not to reveal that he possessed it.
• Jiang Che left his damaged house, paid the landlord one hundred Gold Soul Coins, and stayed at a hotel.
• Jiang Che went to the Soto Auction House to auction pills because refining them had left him short of money.
• Jiang Che presented Soul Recovery Pills and Burst Soul Pills to Appraiser Li, who asked to verify their effects.

Jiang Che sold his Soul Recovery Pills and Burst Soul Pills at the Soto Auction House for far more than expected, while concealing his identity and presenting the pills as scarce and difficult to refine. He left through the back door knowing major powers had likely learned about his pill-making, and the chapter ended with a black-robed man entering a basement where a blonde girl was applying makeup.

• Appraiser Li tested Jiang Che’s pills on a herb-tasting slave, confirmed their effects, and agreed to auction them the following evening with a starting price of five hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• Jiang Che supplied additional bottles of Soul Recovery Pills and Burst Soul Pills, and the Soto Auction House filled with Soul Masters eager to bid.
• The Soul Recovery Pills sold for five thousand three hundred Gold Soul Coins, and the Burst Soul Pills sold for seven thousand six hundred Gold Soul Coins.
• When the auction house proposed a long-term partnership, Jiang Che claimed the pills took decades of difficult work to refine and withheld his permanent-effect Soul-Enhancing Pills.
• Jiang Che disguised himself and left through the auction house’s back door, reasoning that Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had likely learned he was selling pills.
• A black-robed man entered a basement beneath the crown prince’s residence and waited in the shadows while a blonde girl applied makeup.

Qian Renxue studied new intelligence on Jiang Che and realized he had concealed far more than she knew, while Jiang Che received unexplained Skill Point notifications. After half a month of training, Jiang Che prepared to leave for Heaven Dou City and shared a farewell meal with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing.

• Qian Renxue read Snake Lance Douluo’s report on Jiang Che’s growth and abilities and regretted recruiting him while disguised as Xue Qinghe.
• Jiang Che received two notifications for Soul Beasts killed and wondered whether someone using the Symbiosis Method was hunting them.
• Half a month later, Jiang Che gathered with Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing for grilled food and fruit wine before leaving Suotuo City for Heaven Dou City.
• Zhu Zhuqing drank with Jiang Che because she felt sad about his departure, while he praised the girls’ progress in training.
• Ning Rongrong proudly served her grilled skewers, and Jiang Che discovered that her cooking tasted intensely bitter and salty.

Ye Lan, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing shared grilled meat and drinks, and Zhu Zhuqing nearly confessed her feelings to her teacher before holding back because she was still Dai Mubai’s fiancée. After Zhu Zhuqing passed out, Jiang Che drank a large bottle of liquor while Ning Rongrong remained unaffected.

• Zhu Zhuqing praised Ning Rongrong’s grilled meat, and Ye Lan ate the remaining skewers to indulge her pride.
• Ning Rongrong declined the fruit wine, while Zhu Zhuqing drank with Ye Lan and grew tipsy as Jiang Che took over grilling.
• Zhu Zhuqing nearly confessed her love to Ye Lan but instead wished him well in Heaven Dou, keeping her feelings secret because she was Dai Mubai’s fiancée.
• Ye Lan encouraged Zhu Zhuqing to defeat the Hell White Tiger, and Ning Rongrong promised to support her friend.
• Zhu Zhuqing passed out, and Jiang Che finished a jug of fruit wine before drinking a large bottle of liquor; Ning Rongrong still showed no effect.

After Ning Rongrong moved the drunken Jiang Che and Zhu Zhuqing into the same bed, Jiang Che woke beside Zhu Zhuqing and left before she could ask what happened. Having reached level 30, he headed into Sunset Forest to hunt an Echoing Illusion Flower for his third Soul Ring.

• Ning Rongrong watched Jiang Che sleep, then carried Zhu Zhuqing and dragged Jiang Che into the master bedroom, where they fell asleep in each other's arms.
• Jiang Che woke beside Zhu Zhuqing, realized he had touched her while waking, and checked that their clothes were intact.
• Jiang Che left before Zhu Zhuqing woke, relieved that nothing had happened between them while they were drunk.
• After reaching level 30, Jiang Che went to Sunset Forest to seek a three-thousand-year-old Echoing Illusion Flower for his third Soul Ring.
• Jiang Che followed his map into a gray-green swamp where he expected to find the flower.

Jiang Che used blue silver grass to locate a colony of Echoing Illusion Flowers in the swamp and fought through them to reach a mutated 4,000-year-old specimen. He discovered that it carried a bloodline related to blue silver grass, and his Blue Silver Emperor martial soul formed a gentle spiritual connection with it.

• Jiang Che connected with nearby blue silver grass to find the concealed Echoing Illusion Flowers.
• Jiang Che attacked the colony with his saber, killing several flowers as he moved toward the 4,000-year-old specimen at its center.
• Jiang Che recognized the central Echoing Illusion Flower as a mutation with unusual vitality and a bloodline purer than ordinary blue silver grass.
• Jiang Che released his Blue Silver Emperor martial soul, and the mutated flower responded by opening its petals.
• Jiang Che guided his spiritual power toward the flower and received a gentle, welcoming connection from its spiritual core.

Jiang Che discovered that the mutated Echoing Illusion Flower had gained Blue Silver King bloodline essence and used bells and bloodline suppression to weaken it before attacking. The flower feigned weakness and remained dangerous, and Jiang Che escaped its sudden vine attack by taking flight.

• Through his mental link, Jiang Che saw a bee carry pollen from the Blue Silver King to an Echoing Illusion Flower, causing it to mutate.
• Jiang Che recognized the flower as a distant offshoot of the Blue Silver lineage and prepared to absorb its Soul Ring.
• He surrounded the flower with bronze bells and used their noise and Blue Silver Emperor bloodline suppression to restrain it.
• Jiang Che struck at the flower, but an identical saber wound appeared on his arm, so he trapped it beneath a larger bell and battered it with sound.
• The flower pretended to be near death to lure Jiang Che closer, and he held back while searching for an opening to use Flying Flowers Soar to the Clouds.
• Ten vines attacked Jiang Che from below, but he activated Flight and escaped into the air.

Jiang Che defeated the mutated 4,076-year Echoing Illusion Flower by exploiting its damage reflection and absorbing its Soul Ring. He completed the absorption safely, reaching Soul Power rank thirty-three and gaining a remarkable yellow-purple-purple Soul Ring configuration.

• Jiang Che endured the Echoing Illusion Flower's mental attack and discovered that its damage reflection returned attacks containing his Soul Power.
• Jiang Che used the bronze bells, King's Bloodline Suppression, and true qi blade force to defeat the Echoing Illusion Flower.
• Jiang Che restored his Soul Power, healed his wounds, and began absorbing the flower's Soul Ring.
• Jiang Che used his Blue Silver Emperor bloodline and true qi to withstand the violent Soul Power during absorption.
• Jiang Che completed the absorption, advanced to rank thirty-three, and formed a yellow-purple-purple Soul Ring configuration.

Jiang Che absorbed a four-thousand-year soul ring, gained an external soul bone and learned his third soul skill. He rushed to rescue a girl from Skywater Academy who was being attacked by a thousand-year snake soul beast.

• Jiang Che endured a painful transformation and discovered that blue-gold armor had formed around his upper body as an external soul bone.
• Jiang Che learned that his third soul skill was Superwave Sound Waves and that consuming a Blue Silver Emperor leaf granted temporary resistance to mental attacks.
• Jiang Che spotted a girl in a Skywater Academy uniform fleeing a snake soul beast and flew toward them using his right-leg soul bone.
• The girl used her Freeze skill to trap the snake, but it broke free and lunged at her when her soul power was exhausted.
• Jiang Che arrived in a flash and bound the snake soul beast with blue silver vines.

Jiang Che rescued Shui Yue'er from a thousand-year Soul Beast in Sunset Forest and brought her safely to town. In Heaven Dou City, Qian Renxue took him to meet Xue Ye, who heard how Jiang Che had joined the crown prince but remained doubtful about the empire's ability to offer him a future.

• Jiang Che killed a Phoenix-tail Crested Serpent that had cornered Shui Yue'er and escorted her to the town outside Sunset Forest.
• Shui Yue'er learned Jiang Che's name before he disappeared, and Jiang Che realized she was Shui Bing'er's younger sister.
• Qian Renxue took Jiang Che to the imperial palace after he arrived in Heaven Dou City, deciding to introduce him to Xue Ye rather than hide his recruitment.
• Qian Renxue told Xue Ye about Jiang Che, and Xue Ye privately questioned whether the Heaven Dou Empire could compete with Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for talented Soul Masters.

Xue Ye met Jiang Che and, eager to secure his loyalty to the Heaven Dou Empire, promised him the nation’s support and raised his promised rank from Viscount to Earl. Jiang Che accepted the honor and left with Xue Qinghe, with a formal investiture set for the next day.

• Xue Ye summoned Jiang Che to the Imperial Garden after Qian Renxue said he was waiting outside.
• Jiang Che met Xue Ye and the Empress, then grew uncomfortable when Xue Ye stared at him intensely and clasped his hand.
• Xue Ye praised Jiang Che for choosing the Heaven Dou Empire over Spirit Hall and promised him the empire’s finest training.
• Jiang Che pledged his service to Xue Ye, who raised his promised title from Viscount to Earl.
• Xue Ye sent Xue Qinghe to arrange Jiang Che’s accommodation and told him to attend court for his investiture the next day.

Xue Ye and Qian Renxue weighed how to win Jiang Che’s loyalty while keeping him under surveillance. Jiang Che suspected their plans and focused on finding a safe way to reach the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its immortal herbs.

• After Jiang Che left, Xue Ye and the Empress discussed the limits of their offer and considered a future marriage alliance.
• Qian Renxue arranged for Jiang Che to stay in the palace and receive Imperial Robes, while he privately complained about being watched.
• Yu Long and Ci Xue told Qian Renxue that Jiang Che seemed calculating but showed no hostility toward Spirit Hall, and she planned to recruit him after taking control of the empire.
• Qian Renxue considered how to make Jiang Che accept Spirit Hall, while Jiang Che anticipated her moves and decided he needed to plan carefully before approaching Dugu Bo for access to the immortal herbs.

Jiang Che attended a lavish banquet in Qian Renxue’s sleeping quarters, where she offered him protection and a token granting him free access to the palace. Their meeting ended when Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo arrived, and the Emperor summoned Qian Renxue to bring Jiang Che to meet them.

• Jiang Che used Blue Silver Grass to discover that more people were watching him in the Heaven Dou Imperial Palace.
• Qian Renxue invited Jiang Che to a banquet in her sleeping quarters and welcomed him as a brother.
• Qian Renxue offered to help Jiang Che and gave him a token that let him enter the palace without an announcement.
• A guard reported that Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo had arrived, and the Emperor summoned Qian Renxue to bring Jiang Che to meet them.

Jiang Che joined Qian Renxue at court, where Xue Ye introduced him to Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin while they all concealed their true knowledge of one another. He was formally invested as the Blue Silver Earl and received a Soul Bone, guards, a residence, and an annual allowance.

• Qian Renxue brought Jiang Che to meet Xue Ye, Ning Fengzhi, and Chen Xin, who pretended not to know him.
• Xue Ye introduced Ning Fengzhi and Chen Xin to Jiang Che, and the two visitors soon departed.
• Qian Renxue suggested that Jiang Che marry Ning Rongrong, and Jiang Che said he was focused on cultivation despite having taught Ning Rongrong self-defense.
• Jiang Che waited outside the hall in ceremonial robes before entering the investiture ceremony.
• Xue Ye invested Jiang Che as the Blue Silver Earl and awarded him a Soul Bone, guards, a residence, living expenses, and twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins each year.