Recaps

At the Four Single-Attribute Clans’ meeting, Niu Gao urged the patriarchs to consider following the Defense Clan’s new lord, who promised to improve their clans’ circumstances. Tai Tan resisted out of loyalty to the Clear Sky Sect, but Niu Gao’s accusations about the sect and Tang Hao left him unable to answer.

• Niu Gao told Tai Tan, Bai He, and Yang Wudi that the Defense Clan had accepted a new lord and asked them to keep cooperating while considering the lord’s intentions.
• Tai Tan rejected the proposal and declared that he and the Strength Clan would remain loyal to the Clear Sky Sect.
• Niu Gao argued that the Clear Sky Sect had abandoned its affiliated clans and criticized Tang Xiao for retreating from Spirit Hall.
• Niu Gao condemned Tang Hao for his conduct involving a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast and for contributing to the old sect master’s death.
• Tai Tan tried to defend Tang Hao but could not refute Niu Gao’s accusations, while Bai He and Yang Wudi silently considered them.
• Niu Gao urged Tai Tan to put the clansmen’s survival ahead of personal attachment to the Clear Sky Sect.

Niu Gao explained why he had pledged the Defense Clan to Tang Yuehua, revealing that she had begun cultivating and was involved with Spirit Hall’s Saint Son. As Tai Tan and the other clan leaders reconsidered their opposition, Niu Gao urged them to join her as well.

• Bai He calmed Niu Gao and Tai Tan, then asked Niu Gao to identify the Defense Clan’s new master.
• Niu Gao revealed that he had submitted to Tang Yuehua, praising her courage and years of support for the Four Single-Attribute Clans.
• Niu Gao announced that Tang Yuehua had reached rank twenty-three as a Soul Grandmaster, despite her former inability to cultivate.
• Niu Gao disclosed that Tang Yuehua’s lover was an eighteen-year-old Soul Douluo and Spirit Hall’s Saint Son, who had defeated Niu Gao.
• Niu Gao argued that the Defense Clan had benefited from joining Tang Yuehua and urged Tai Tan to work for her, hinting that she might be pregnant with a descendant of Tang Zhen.
• Tai Tan, Bai He, and Yang Wudi began weighing Niu Gao’s proposal, with Yang Wudi’s hands gradually relaxing.

Tai Tan challenged Su Yu to prove he could lead the Four Single-Attribute Clans under Tang Yuehua, while Bai He and Yang Wudi came to judge his strength. Su Yu accepted Tai Tan's challenge and invited all the clan leaders to fight him together, but Tai Tan insisted on facing him first.

• Tai Tan said he would submit to Tang Yuehua if Su Yu defeated him, while Bai He and Yang Wudi agreed to assess Su Yu's ability.
• Niu Gao led the clan leaders to the Defense Clan's Training Ground, where they found Su Yu talking with Yang Hu, Tai Long, Niu Bai, and Bai Chenxiang.
• Bai He learned that Bai Chenxiang had lost a bet and had to serve as Su Yu's little maid for a month, and he told her to honor the agreement.
• Tai Tan challenged Su Yu to a spar, promising the Strength Clan would submit to Tang Yuehua if Su Yu won.
• Su Yu accepted and invited Bai He, Yang Wudi, and Niu Gao to join the fight, but Tai Tan insisted on facing Su Yu alone first.

Su Yu faced Tai Tan in a demonstration match and revealed his half-body Susanoo and the spatial ocular technique Takami Musubi. The battle left Tai Tan astonished when Susanoo withstood his fifth Soul Skill without damage.

• Bai He and Yang Wudi agreed to watch while Tai Tan exchanged moves with Su Yu.
• Su Yu manifested his half-body Susanoo-Crow Tengu Form, shocking Tai Tan, Bai He, and Yang Wudi.
• Tai Tan's first punch collided with Susanoo's fist and sent Tai Tan skidding across the Training Ground.
• Tai Tan used Great Strength Amplification and Furious Strike, but Takami Musubi distorted space and diverted his attack before Susanoo struck him into a courtyard wall.
• Tai Tan charged with Qian Jun Armor Breaker, and Su Yu met the attack directly with Susanoo.
• Susanoo's fist remained unscathed, leaving Tai Tan astonished by its durability.

Su Yu defeated Tai Tan, securing the submission of the Strength Clan, while Bai He and Yang Wudi also pledged their clans to Tang Yuehua. At a four-clan assembly, Tang Yuehua was welcomed as their common leader as the four clans swore loyalty and unity.

• Susanoo battered Tai Tan and wounded him with its blood-red tomoe, prompting Tai Tan to admit defeat and pledge the Strength Clan to Tang Yuehua.
• Bai He and Yang Wudi pledged the Speed Clan and Breaking Clan to Tang Yuehua, and Niu Gao welcomed the clans' renewed unity.
• Niu Gao announced a four-clan assembly, and Su Yu escorted Tang Yuehua onto the platform.
• Tang Yuehua told the gathered clanspeople they were one family, and Tai Tan, Niu Gao, Bai He, and Yang Wudi each swore their clan's service to her.
• Members of all four clans knelt and pledged their loyalty, moving Tang Yuehua with their declarations.

Tang Yuehua secured the Four Single-Attribute Clans’ unity, and Su Yu received a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan as his reward. After spending a tender night with Tang Yuehua, Su Yu began seeking a healing Soul Master to help him fuse the eyes into an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, heading for the Nine Heart Begonia Sect when Ye Lingling was unavailable.

• Tang Yuehua promised the Four Single-Attribute Clans that she would protect their unity, and the clans pledged to follow her.
• Su Yu received a pair of Mangekyō Sharingan and celebrated the reunion with the clan leaders at a banquet.
• Tang Yuehua cared for the drunken Su Yu, who asked her to hug him and fell asleep beside her; the next morning, they awoke in an awkward embrace.
• Su Yu decided to fuse his Mangekyō Sharingan into an Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and sought a healing Soul Master to assist with the transplant.
• Su Yu visited Heaven Dou Royal Academy, learned from Qin Ming that Ye Lingling had returned to the Nine Heart Begonia Sect, and flew there himself.

Su Yu visited the Nine Heart Begonia Sect to see Ye Lingling, who feared she would be kept from attending Blue Tyrant Academy after her mother objected when she mentioned him. He promised to speak with her mother, Ye Linglong, and went with her into the house to talk.

• Su Yu reached the Nine Heart Begonia Sect and told the gate disciples he had come to see Ye Lingling.
• Ye Lingling hurried out to greet Su Yu and told him her mother had forbidden her from leaving to attend Blue Tyrant Academy after she mentioned him.
• Su Yu promised to speak with Ye Lingling's mother, and Ye Lingling led him to her courtyard.
• Ye Linglong welcomed Su Yu into the house and asked Ye Lingling to brew tea.

Su Yu persuaded Ye Linglong to let Ye Lingling leave with him by arguing that the Nine Heart Begonia Sect would eventually have to choose a side and promising that Lingling would be his wife, not his concubine. Ye Linglong agreed, leaving Ye Lingling stunned when she learned her mother had consented.

• Ye Linglong explained that the Nine Heart Begonia Sect's survival depended on staying independent and that Lingling was expected to marry into the family and preserve its lineage.
• Su Yu warned Ye Linglong that Spirit Hall's rise would eventually force the sect to submit or face destruction, and he urged her to let Lingling go with him.
• Ye Linglong objected that Lingling must not become a concubine because Su Yu was already engaged to Rongrong, but Su Yu vowed that both women would be his wives and dared anyone to challenge him.
• Ye Linglong accepted Su Yu's promise and agreed to entrust Lingling to him.
• Ye Lingling entered with tea, and Ye Linglong told her she had agreed to let her follow Su Yu, leaving Lingling shocked.

Su Yu asked Ye Linglong to perform an eye transplant to prevent his Mangekyo vision from deteriorating, and she agreed despite the risks. They traveled to the Defense Clan, where Ye Linglong prepared to begin the operation while Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling waited outside.

• Ye Linglong teased Ye Lingling about her feelings for Su Yu, then told Su Yu she would judge his intentions by his actions.
• Su Yu revealed his Mangekyo eyes were causing his vision to deteriorate and showed Ye Linglong a matching pair of eyes for a transplant.
• Ye Linglong warned that she had never performed such a procedure and that a mistake could leave Su Yu permanently blind, but agreed to try after he accepted the risks.
• Su Yu transported Ye Linglong and Ye Lingling from the Nine Heart Begonia Sect to the Defense Clan, where he had prepared a clean treatment room.
• Tang Yuehua entrusted Su Yu's eyes to Ye Linglong, who asked her and Ye Lingling to leave so she could operate in silence.

Su Yu underwent a transplant of the Mangekyō Sharingan, with Ye Linglong using her medical skills and Soul Power to connect the new eyes to his nerves. The operation succeeded, and Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling stayed to care for him while his eyes healed.

• Su Yu removed his own eyes, and Ye Linglong implanted the Mangekyō Sharingan while carefully guiding his nerves with Soul Power.
• Ye Lingling and Tang Yuehua waited anxiously outside as the operation continued for two hours.
• Ye Linglong came out and told them the transplant had succeeded.
• Ye Lingling and Tang Yuehua entered the room and found Su Yu with his eyes bandaged and bloodied gauze nearby.
• Su Yu reassured them that his new eyes were settling in, but Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling insisted he rest and began caring for him.

Su Yu recovered from his eye transplant under the care of Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling, while his vision and ocular power steadily improved. After a week, he removed the gauze, confirmed he could see clearly, and embraced them both.

• Ye Linglong returned to the sect after instructing Ye Lingling on how to care for Su Yu.
• Ye Lingling helped Su Yu walk outside, then brought him back and changed his dressing when she decided he had spent long enough in the sunlight.
• Su Yu felt the quickening in his eyes fade as his ocular power increased over the following week.
• Ye Lingling removed Su Yu's gauze with Tang Yuehua beside her, and Su Yu opened his eyes.
• Su Yu told Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling that he could see clearly, then embraced them both.

After Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling welcomed Su Yu’s recovery, he brought them to Sunset Forest to demonstrate the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and its ultimate power, Perfect Susanoo. He left them awed after Susanoo split a dozen mountain peaks with one sword strike.

• Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling thanked Su Yu for recovering and asked whether his eyes had truly healed.
• Su Yu used Flying Thunder God to take Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling from the Defense Clan’s courtyard to Sunset Forest.
• Su Yu awakened the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and formed Susanoo’s skeletal torso around the three of them.
• Su Yu expanded Susanoo into its towering, fully armored Perfect Susanoo form while Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling watched from its head.
• Su Yu had Perfect Susanoo draw its sword and cleave through a dozen distant mountain peaks, then explained that this power was why he had risked replacing his eyes.

Su Yu demonstrated the power and versatility of his Wood Release Martial Soul to Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling in Sunset Forest, then returned with them to the Defense Clan and gave them enchanted necklaces. The chapter left the three together in the courtyard after the women accepted his gifts.

• Su Yu summoned a towering wooden giant with his Wood Release Martial Soul, carrying Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling in its palm.
• Su Yu formed a Wood Dragon that coiled around the giant and explained that his Wood Release could shape durable wood into many forms.
• Su Yu dismissed the constructs and used the Flying Thunder God Technique to take Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling back to the Defense Clan.
• Su Yu gave Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling necklaces modeled after their martial souls and explained that the pendants could summon him if they needed him.

Su Yu returned to Heaven Dou City with Tang Yuehua, Ye Lingling, and Bai Chenxiang, then helped Ye Lingling and Bai Chenxiang enroll at Blue Tyrant Academy. After Ning Rongrong sulked over his refusal to visit the Beast Arena, Su Yu agreed to take her as long as she watched safely from the VIP seats.

• Su Yu gave Tang Yuehua and Ye Lingling necklaces, and the three stayed with the Defense Clan for three days before returning to Heaven Dou City with Bai Chenxiang.
• Su Yu accompanied Ye Lingling as she withdrew from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then helped her and Bai Chenxiang enroll at Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Ye Lingling's departure left the Heaven Dou Royal Academy First Team without a Support System Soul Master, so Oscar was promoted from the Second Team to fill the position.
• Su Yu spent the following week traveling between Blue Tyrant Academy, Moonlight Pavilion, and the Crown Prince's Residence using Flying Thunder God.
• Ning Rongrong sulked after Su Yu repeatedly refused to take her to the Beast Arena, but he eventually agreed to bring her and insisted she remain in the VIP seats.

Su Yu took Ning Rongrong and the others to Heaven Dou Beast Arena for a day out, where they arrived and were escorted to a private room overlooking the fighting grounds. The group settled in to watch the preparations as the arena’s fights were about to begin.

• Ning Rongrong persuaded Su Yu to take her to the beast arena, and he agreed on the condition that she follow his instructions.
• Su Yu obtained seven VIP tickets and arranged a day off for Ning Rongrong, Ye Lingling, Bai Chenxiang, Xiao Wu, Zhu Zhuqing, and Xue Na.
• Su Yu and the others traveled by carriage to Heaven Dou Beast Arena and were impressed by its enormous structure.
• An arena employee greeted Su Yu and escorted the group to a private room reserved for them.
• Su Yu looked down at the fighting grounds as preparations began, then dismissed the employee.

Ning Rongrong and the others visited the Heaven Dou Beast Arena, where Chuntao explained its brutal human-versus-beast contests. Disturbed by the cruelty, Ning Rongrong found comfort in Su Yu’s words and chose to stay and watch.

• Ning Rongrong and the others looked down from their private box at the crowded Beast Arena.
• Chuntao described the day’s exhibitions, including a match between five Soul Ancestors and a thirteen-thousand-year-old Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu questioned the fairness and danger of the human-versus-beast contest.
• Chuntao explained that the human participants were condemned criminals who could earn freedom by surviving or be bought out by spectators.
• Ning Rongrong told Su Yu that the world was unlike what she had imagined, and Su Yu encouraged her to help others when she could.
• Ning Rongrong decided to stay and watch the matches to the end.

Miss Qingyuan presented two starving Soul Beasts in the Beast Arena and fed each a Horned Ox to excite the crowd. After the Sky-Splitting Mad Lion killed its prey, the Ghost Tiger pounced on the second ox, beginning another slaughter.

• Miss Qingyuan introduced a fifteen-thousand-year Sky-Splitting Mad Lion that had been kept hungry for three days.
• Qingyuan ordered an attendant to throw a fifty-year Horned Ox into the lion's enclosure, and the lion killed and devoured it as the audience cheered.
• Ning Rongrong recoiled from the slaughter, so Su Yu drew her close and blocked her view while Zhu Zhuqing and Ye Lingling turned away.
• Qingyuan introduced a fifteen-thousand-year Ghost Tiger, also starved for three days, and had attendants throw another Horned Ox into its enclosure.
• The Ghost Tiger pounced on the Horned Ox and tore into its body with its claws.

At the Beast Arena, the Ghost Tiger devoured the Horned Ox before facing the Sky-Splitting Mad Lion in a battle to the death. The Ghost Tiger killed its opponent and was declared the winner.

• The Ghost Tiger devoured the Horned Ox as the audience cheered.
• Qingyuan announced a showdown between the Sky-Splitting Mad Lion and the Ghost Tiger as the barrier separating them rose.
• The Sky-Splitting Mad Lion attacked first, but the Ghost Tiger dodged and countered while the lion used dust to conceal its movements.
• The Ghost Tiger exploited the lion’s misstep, injured its foreleg, and dragged it to the ground.
• The Ghost Tiger bit the Sky-Splitting Mad Lion’s neck until it stopped moving, then roared beside its corpse.
• Qingyuan congratulated the Ghost Tiger as the audience erupted in cheers.

After the Ghost Tiger attacked the spectators, a seven-ring Soul Saint knocked it away, and it returned to feeding on the Sky-Splitting Mad Lion before staff removed both beasts. Lingyuan introduced the next human-versus-beast contest, leaving five shackled prisoners facing a thirteen-thousand-year-old Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros.

• Ning Rongrong asked Su Yu if the match was over, and he confirmed it while saying the human-versus-beast fight was next.
• The Ghost Tiger charged at the stands, but a Soul Saint with a Violent Ape Martial Soul struck it with his fifth Soul Skill and blasted it back.
• The Ghost Tiger judged the Soul Saint too strong to attack and resumed eating the Sky-Splitting Mad Lion before staff took them away.
• Lingyuan announced a human-versus-beast showdown and brought five shackled prisoners into the arena, promising freedom if they survived.
• A stone gate rose to reveal a thirteen-thousand-year-old Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros, and the prisoners stared at it in fear.

Qingyuan staged a spectacle in which five shackled people were exposed to a raging Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros, and the beast charged them after attendants drenched them in a scent that provoked its fury. As the rhinoceros cornered a fleeing man, a young woman leaped onto its back and revealed a powerful dragon-type Martial Soul.

• Qingyuan announced that the five sinners would face the Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros, and a Soul Saint threw two men back when they tried to escape.
• The Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros smashed through its gate and charged the group; one man’s Huo Yan Tiger flames failed to stop it, and he was struck down.
• A man with a Gale Mole Martial Soul dodged the beast’s charge into the arena wall, but the rhinoceros turned and slowly cornered him as the crowd demanded his death.
• A young woman leaped onto the Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros’s back, summoned an imposing earthen-yellow dragon-type Martial Soul, and clung to the beast as it thrashed to throw her off.

At the Heaven Dou Beast Arena, a young woman with a dragon martial soul clung to a rampaging Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros as it killed the other fighters. Just as it charged at her, Su Yu knocked it unconscious and claimed that he wanted her, offering to name his price.

• The young woman struck the Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros's neck with her dragon martial soul, but it went berserk and crushed a Huo Yan Tiger soul master.
• Three surviving Soul Ancestors attacked the beast, but their soul skills barely harmed it, and the Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros killed another man who tried to flee.
• The young woman used her Mountain Dragon Combo against the beast before leaping away as it slammed into a wall.
• The Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros charged at the young woman, but Su Yu appeared and knocked it unconscious with a glance.
• A Soul Saint warned Su Yu that he was breaking the arena's rules, and Su Yu calmly said he wanted the young woman and would name his price.

Su Yu bought Long Ling'er's freedom from the Heaven Dou Beast Arena and arranged for her to join him and the others. He also approved the manager Hecly's request to admit his son to Spirit Hall Academy, and Long Ling'er received her release and identity papers.

• Su Yu brought Long Ling'er back to the private room, where Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing welcomed and comforted her.
• Long Ling'er gave Su Yu her name, and he invited her to stay with them.
• Su Yu took Long Ling'er to meet manager Hecly and paid one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins to buy her freedom.
• Hecly asked Su Yu to help his six-year-old son enter Spirit Hall Academy, and Su Yu approved the request.
• Hecly completed Long Ling'er's release and identity paperwork, and Su Yu handed the documents to her to keep safe.

Su Yu freed Long Ling'er from the Beast Arena and learned that its agents kidnapped unaffiliated Soul Masters to sell as beast slaves. After examining her unusual Martial Soul and binding her loyalty with his ocular power, he entrusted her with protecting Ning Rongrong and the others.

• Su Yu gave Long Ling'er a free citizen document, and she told him the Beast Arena had abducted her while she cultivated outside the city.
• Su Yu promised Long Ling'er protection and brought her back to Ning Rongrong, who chose to go shopping instead of watching the arena.
• Su Yu examined Long Ling'er's unknown draconic Martial Soul and named it the Mountain Dragon.
• Su Yu implanted ocular power in Long Ling'er, warning that it would kill her if she betrayed him and demonstrating its power by making a tree vanish.
• Su Yu entrusted Long Ling'er with protecting Ning Rongrong and the others, and she vowed to guard them and remain loyal.

Su Yu brought Ning Rongrong, Xue Na, Zhu Zhuqing, Xiao Wu, Ye Lingling, and Long Ling'er to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to choose herbs suited to their cultivation. Xiao Wu recognized a transplanted Blue Silver Emperor, and Su Yu began distributing the herbs, giving Ye Lingling a Water Jade Spirit Immortal Flower.

• Su Yu used Flying Thunder God to take the girls to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where he warned them about the dangerous waters and vapor.
• Ning Rongrong found an unusual blue-black Blue Silver Grass with golden-red markings, and Xiao Wu recognized it as a Blue Silver Emperor.
• Su Yu confirmed that the plant was a Blue Silver Emperor he had transplanted there, then turned the girls' attention to the immortal herbs he had prepared.
• Su Yu gave Ye Lingling a Water Jade Spirit Immortal Flower and explained how to eat it to strengthen her foundation and improve her healing Soul Skills.
• Ye Lingling thanked Su Yu, kissed his cheek, and told him she liked him even more than the herb.

Su Yu gave immortal herbs to Ye Lingling, Zhu Zhuqing, Ning Rongrong, Xue Na, and Long Ling'er, who began absorbing them. He then helped Xiao Wu see Ah Yin’s transformed appearance as the Dark Blue Silver Emperor and revealed that it reflected her changed soul, leaving Xiao Wu shocked and asking why Ah Yin had become this way.

• Su Yu gave Ye Lingling Water Jade Spirit Immortal Flower and Zhu Zhuqing Narcissus Jade Muscle Bone, and both began absorbing them.
• Su Yu gave Ning Rongrong and Xue Na White Tale flowers, and they sat down to absorb them.
• Su Yu gave Long Ling'er the Dragon Blood Soul Grass Flower, and a faint dragon-shaped phantom appeared as she absorbed it.
• Xiao Wu asked why Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor form had turned blue-black, and Su Yu explained that she was now the Dark Blue Silver Emperor.
• Su Yu used his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan to let Xiao Wu see Ah Yin’s human form and explained that it showed her soul’s current state.
• Xiao Wu, shaken by Ah Yin’s appearance, asked why she had changed.