Recaps

Kai gave Dugu Bo an Immortal Herb Illustrated Guide, helping him find and absorb the Earth Dragon Golden Melon and evolve his snake martial soul into a flood dragon. After Dugu Bo agreed to their shared ownership of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Kai asked him to guard it and mentioned Tang Hao.

• Kai told Dugu Bo that the Earth Dragon Golden Melon could evolve his snake martial soul, and Dugu Bo searched the immortal herbs for it.
• Kai and Dugu Bo agreed to share the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and its immortal herbs.
• Kai gave Dugu Bo the Immortal Herb Illustrated Guide, and Dugu Bo used it to find and absorb the Earth Dragon Golden Melon.
• Dugu Bo's martial soul evolved into a flood dragon, and he thanked Kai and noted that another Earth Dragon Golden Melon could help his granddaughter.
• Dugu Bo agreed to help Kai within his abilities and moral limits, and Kai asked him to guard the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well before asking whether he knew Tang Hao.

Kai told Dugu Bo that Tang Hao had attacked them over a Soul Ring method and warned that Tang Hao’s group knew about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, securing Dugu Bo’s promise to guard it. Meanwhile, Tang Hao trained Tang San and gave him a healing Soul Ring before deciding to take him and Xiao Wu away from Nuoding Academy.

• Kai explained that Tang Hao had tried to rob them for their early Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring method, so they crippled him and took the Clear Sky Sect’s inherited Soul Bones.
• Kai warned Dugu Bo that Tang Hao’s people knew about the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and might try to take its immortal herbs.
• Dugu Bo agreed to protect the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and keep it out of Tang Hao’s hands.
• Tang Hao found Tang San a roughly four-hundred-year-old Blue Silver Grass Soul Beast, and Tang San gained a healing Soul Skill as his first Soul Ring.
• Tang Hao told Tang San they would return to Nuoding Academy, take Xiao Wu with them, and look for a safer Soul Master Academy.

Adola returned to Nuoding Academy with the group, and Leng Yulai revealed to the dean that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son. The dean was shocked by Tang San’s background and questioned the circumstances of his enrollment, while Tang San’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• The dean welcomed Adola back and asked the group where Tang San had gone after discovering that he had disappeared overnight.
• Leng Yulai told the dean privately that Tang San was the son of Tang Hao, the Clear Sky Douluo who had injured the Pope.
• The dean reacted loudly in disbelief, and Leng Yulai warned him to keep Tang Hao’s identity secret in case Tang Hao returned and sought revenge.
• The dean apologized for losing his composure and wondered why Tang San, a child of the Clear Sky Sect, had taken a Work-Study Student place.
• Leng Yulai and the dean discussed the rumors surrounding Tang Hao’s injury of the Pope, and the dean questioned how the Pope could have died despite Spirit Hall’s powerful healers.

Kai explained why he doubted that Tang Hao had directly caused Qian Xunji’s death, then warned Nuoding Academy that Tang Hao might seek revenge. He left the dean with a Soul Tool to call for help and told his companions to prepare for Tang Hao’s possible return for Xiao Wu.

• The dean of Nuoding Academy reasoned that Spirit Hall’s healing Soul Douluos should have been able to save Qian Xunji, suggesting Tang Hao’s injuries had not directly killed him.
• The chapter revealed that Bibi Dong had killed and devoured the gravely wounded Qian Xunji, while Qian Daoliu had let Tang Hao escape.
• Kai told the dean that Tang Hao had tried to take his early Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring method and make him serve Tang San, so Leng Yaozhu and Leng Yulai had defeated him and taken one hand and one foot.
• Kai warned the academy that Tang Hao might come for revenge, criticized the Clear Sky Sect for abandoning the Four Single-Attribute Clans, and gave the dean a Soul Tool to amplify his voice and summon help.
• Kai and his companion concluded that Tang Hao would likely return for the 100,000-year Soft Bone Rabbit and cautioned that Xiao Wu might know Tang San’s thoughts.

Kai agreed to help the dean of Nuoding Academy protect the school from Tang Hao and discussed how to handle Xiao Wu, the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soft Bone Rabbit. He left the group focused on preventing Tang Hao from harming Xiao Wu or Xiao Wu from escaping.

• Kai and Leng Yulai promised to stay at Nuoding Academy and help protect it, though Tang San and the others might leave.
• Kai speculated that Tang Hao had obtained four of his six Soul Bones by massacring Soul Beasts, and the dean condemned the practice.
• Kai and his companions considered killing Xiao Wu or keeping her for a future Soul Ring, but Kai said he wanted a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring for Gu Luoyi.
• Leng Yulai suggested that Gu Luoyi could become Kai’s wife when they were older, and Kai told them to discuss it in the future.
• Kai said they needed to stop Tang Hao from attacking Xiao Wu and keep Xiao Wu from running away.

Gu Luoyi learned about Xiao Wu’s past and questioned whether she truly intended to avenge her mother, while Yu Xiaogang prepared to claim Tang San’s recorded techniques as his own. The chapter left Yu Xiaogang heading toward Shrek Academy with a plan to take credit for Tang San’s work.

• Gu Luoyi asked about Xiao Wu’s age and status, and Kai explained that she was the 100,000-year Soft Bone Rabbit Emperor with many descendants.
• Leng Yulai told Gu Luoyi that Bibi Dong had killed Xiao Wu’s mother and that Xiao Wu had come to the human world claiming she would grow stronger and seek revenge.
• Leng Yulai criticized Xiao Wu for neglecting her studies and playing the academy’s big sister instead of pursuing revenge, and Leng Yaozhu joked that she would rather abandon a daughter like her.
• Yu Xiaogang sorted through the things he had extracted from Tang San and planned to present the theories, cultivation methods, and self-created soul skills to Dai Mubai and the others as his own.
• Yu Xiaogang set out for Shrek Academy, believing Tang San could not prove the work was his, while remaining unaware that Tang San had copied it from the Bashu Tang Sect.

Yu Xiaogang packed his materials and left Nuoding Academy for Flender’s Shrek Academy, imagining that teaching its students would restore his reputation. The academy’s students and teachers celebrated his departure, while the dean explained that Shrek was founded by Flender but had yet to gain recognition.

• Yu Xiaogang packed his luggage and prepared to teach Dai Mubai and the other students at Flender’s Shrek Academy.
• Nuoding Academy’s students mocked Yu Xiaogang’s abilities and criticized his theories as he left with his luggage.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that he would make Shrek’s students into geniuses and prove the academy’s students wrong.
• Nuoding Academy’s teachers questioned what Shrek Academy was and doubted that Yu Xiaogang should be allowed to teach there.
• The dean explained that Flender had founded Shrek Academy and was Yu Xiaogang’s sworn brother, but said the academy had not gained recognition.
• Yu Xiaogang left Nuoding Academy, and the students and teachers began celebrating.

Tang San returned to Nuoding Academy, hoping to reunite with Xiao Wu and recruit her with the promise of his father's protection. Xiao Wu rejected him and laughed off his claim that Tang Hao was Clear Sky Douluo, leaving Tang San unable to convince her.

• Tang San persuaded the injured Tang Hao to let him investigate Nuoding Academy, and Tang Hao resolved to help his son regain godhood and restore the Clear Sky Sect.
• Tang San learned that Nuoding Academy was celebrating Yu Xiaogang's departure and heard that Yu Xiaogang had gone to Shrek Academy.
• Tang San searched for Xiao Wu, who hid from him because she feared Tang Hao and resented Tang San's intentions toward her and her brothers.
• Tang San found Xiao Wu and asked her to leave with him so they could grow stronger together, but she refused.
• Tang San claimed that Tang Hao was Clear Sky Douluo, but Xiao Wu mocked the claim and pointed out that Tang San had Blue Silver Grass and lived as a work-study student.

Xiao Wu rejected Tang San’s claims that he had powerful backing, and Tang San tried to win her trust by revealing that he knew she was a 100,000-year Soul Beast and offering to help her take revenge on Spirit Hall. Xiao Wu remained wary and demanded to know why she should believe him.

• Xiao Wu mocked Tang San’s claims about his backing, pointing out that he was a poor work-study student with no proof of powerful connections.
• Tang San realized he could not prove his claims, but he still refused to give up on Xiao Wu or the Soul Rings and Soul Bones he hoped to obtain from her younger brothers.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu that he knew her true identity and offered to help her take revenge on Spirit Hall, naming Bibi Dong as the one who killed her mother.
• Xiao Wu privately dismissed Tang San’s appeal to their shared Soul Beast blood and remembered that he wanted the Titan Giant Ape’s and Sky Azure Bull Python’s Soul Rings and Soul Bones.
• Xiao Wu asked Tang San what resources he had and why she should believe him.

Tang San failed to convince Xiao Wu to join him against Spirit Hall, while Leng Yulai watched him from the shadows. Tang Hao considered a risky attempt to approach Xiao Wu, but Tang San refused, prompting Tang Hao to decide his son needed a lesson in loyalty to the Clear Sky Sect.

• Tang San urged Xiao Wu to trust him and unite against Spirit Hall, but she rejected him and left.
• Leng Yulai observed Tang San and chose not to interfere yet, wary of a powerful presence that might be backing him.
• Tang Hao questioned Tang San about why Xiao Wu had refused him and wondered whether someone was influencing her.
• Tang Hao suggested sneaking back at night, but Tang San refused because two Titled Douluo posed too great a threat.
• Tang Hao heard Tang San's thoughts about protecting his father and preserving the Clear Sky Sect as a fighting force, then decided Tang San needed a lesson about his debt to the sect.

Tang Hao urged Tang San to stay loyal to the Clear Sky Sect, while Tang San privately resented the sect and questioned its reputation and the Clear Sky Hammer’s strength. Tang Hao heard Tang San’s thoughts but stayed silent, then told him to focus on growing stronger and said he would find him another Soul Master Academy.

• Tang Hao told Tang San that the Clear Sky Sect was their home and warned him not to speak against it.
• Tang San privately thought the sect had never helped him and that Tang Chen, rather than the Clear Sky Hammer itself, had made the sect famous.
• Tang Hao heard Tang San’s thoughts and held back from answering, aware of his own self-interested reasons for accepting Tang San as his son.
• Tang Hao explained that the two Leng Family sisters had crippled his hand and foot, leaving him too weak to challenge them or retrieve Xiao Wu.
• Tang San said he would try to persuade Xiao Wu to leave with them, but Tang Hao told him to stop and promised to find him another Soul Master Academy.

Yu Xiaogang planned to take Tang San's cultivation methods and Self-Created Soul Skills, claim them as his own, and use their success to regain status with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. He arrived at Shrek Academy and identified himself to a guard as Flender's old friend, the last member of the Golden Iron Triangle.

• Yu Xiaogang planned to teach Tang San's techniques to Shrek's students, claim credit for them, and win recognition and an elder's position in his clan.
• Yu Xiaogang decided to modify the techniques to hide their similarities to Tang San's while continuing to seek Tang San's secrets and opportunities.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived in Suotuo City, heard that Shrek charged nonrefundable application fees, and found the academy more dilapidated than he had expected.
• Yu Xiaogang entered Shrek Academy at night and was stopped by an elderly man who demanded to know his identity and purpose.
• Yu Xiaogang told the guard he was Flender's friend and a member of the Golden Iron Triangle, and the guard told him to wait.

Yu Xiaogang reunited with Flender, who urged him to face Liu Erlong and stop hiding from their past. Yu Xiaogang refused, citing the scandal and the Golden Iron Triangle’s reputation, then said he had come to help Flender and prove himself.

• Li Yusong told Flender that Yu Xiaogang had arrived and asked whether he was Flender’s friend and a member of the Golden Iron Triangle.
• Flender hurried to meet Yu Xiaogang and brought him to his office to speak privately.
• Flender reproached Yu Xiaogang for disappearing after the incident with Liu Erlong and urged him to return to her.
• Yu Xiaogang insisted that he could not accept a relationship with Liu Erlong because of its ethical implications and the damage it could do to their reputations.
• Yu Xiaogang said he had come to help Flender and prove himself.

Yu Xiaogang showed Flender modified Tang Sect techniques and claimed they could help Shrek Academy attract talented students and rise to fame. Flender agreed to cooperate despite lingering doubts, while Yu Xiaogang planned to meet Erlong later and remained unaware that the techniques would bring him hatred and pursuit.

• Yu Xiaogang told Flender that his new techniques could transform Shrek Academy, restore his reputation, and even help it win the Soul Master Tournament.
• Flender questioned whether Yu Xiaogang’s promises were realistic, then examined the manuals for the Mysterious Heaven Skill, Mysterious Jade Hand, Purple Demon Eye, Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track, and Controlling Crane Capturing Dragon.
• Yu Xiaogang claimed he had created the techniques himself and persuaded Flender to recruit promising students to learn them.
• Flender asked Yu Xiaogang to explain the parts he did not understand, and Yu Xiaogang gave him explanations that left him vaguely uneasy.
• Flender agreed to work with Yu Xiaogang but asked whether he would visit Erlong; Yu Xiaogang deferred the matter and did not realize the techniques would later make people hate and hunt him.

Flender asked Yu Xiaogang to let Shrek Academy’s teachers practice his cultivation methods and Self-Created Soul Skills, hoping their increased strength would attract investment and elevate the academy. Yu Xiaogang agreed, and after Flender introduced the methods to Zhao Wuji and the other teachers, Zhao Wuji began to recognize Yu Xiaogang’s name.

• Flender told Yu Xiaogang that his methods could help even low-talent Soul Masters reach Soul King and asked to share them with Shrek’s teachers.
• Yu Xiaogang agreed to let the teachers practice, hoping Shrek would publicize him as a great theorist and help restore his reputation.
• Flender summoned Zhao Wuji and the other teachers to see the methods and skills.
• Zhao Wuji worried that Flender had stolen the techniques from a powerful sect, but Flender assured him that Yu Xiaogang had developed them himself.
• Zhao Wuji began recalling where he had heard Yu Xiaogang’s name and suddenly recognized it.

Zhao Wuji doubted Yu Xiaogang’s reputation and the origins of his cultivation methods, while Flender and the others praised their usefulness. Yu Xiaogang imagined earning fame, unaware that his tampering with Tang San’s stolen methods could bring severe retaliation.

• Zhao Wuji recognized Yu Xiaogang as the mocked theorist and questioned whether he could really have created the cultivation methods and self-created soul skills.
• Flender defended Yu Xiaogang, crediting him with developing the Golden Iron Triangle’s martial soul fusion skill and insisting that others had smeared his reputation.
• Li Yusong accepted Flender’s assurances and examined the Mysterious Heaven Skill and the self-created soul skills.
• Shao Xin praised the skills for giving food-type soul masters a way to fight, and Flender noted that such skills were unusual because they lacked martial soul restrictions.
• Yu Xiaogang imagined becoming renowned and receiving offerings from future generations, without considering Tang San’s likely revenge for the plagiarized and modified methods.
• Flender proposed a celebratory toast as the group gathered to drink.

Tang Hao brought Tang San to a new academy and urged him to grow strong enough to avenge his father and reunite with Xiao Wu. While Tang San registered, Tang Hao decided to seek protection for him, settling on Tai Tan because asking the Clear Sky Sect for help could expose the loss of its inherited Soul Bones and cause internal conflict.

• Tang Hao brought Tang San to a junior academy in a small city and explained that they could not retrieve Xiao Wu because he could not defeat the two Titled Douluos who had maimed him.
• Tang San accepted that he needed to become stronger, while vowing to avenge Tang Hao and punish Kai and the others.
• Tang San went to register at the new academy using money Tang Hao gave him.
• Tang Hao considered asking his brother Tang Xiao for help but feared the Clear Sky Sect would learn that its inherited Soul Bones had been taken and turn against him.
• Tang Hao decided Tai Tan should protect Tang San for now and set out to find him.

Six years after enrolling at Nuoding Academy, Kai and Gu Luoyi graduated and began considering advanced soul master academies, while Xiao Wu struggled to find one where her identity would remain hidden. Kai’s gifts of soul tools left Nuoding Academy’s dean impressed and convinced that Kai’s backing was formidable.

• Tai Tan asked Tang Hao why he was missing a hand and foot, and Tang Hao claimed he had lost a wager to a female Titled Douluo.
• Six years later, Kai and Gu Luoyi graduated from Nuoding Academy, and Kai said he would research which advanced academy suited them.
• Gu Luoyi said she would follow Kai wherever he chose to go.
• Xiao Wu rejected Shrek Academy as too dangerous and worried that Soul Douluos at other schools might discover she was a transformed soul beast.
• Nuoding Academy’s dean examined the soul tools Kai had given him and marveled at their capabilities, while accepting that Kai belonged in a wider world.

Su Yuntao struggled over whether to report Kai’s ability to make Soul Tools to Spirit Hall, torn between loyalty to the organization that had supported him and his duty to protect his late friend’s orphan. He feared that reporting Kai would provoke Bibi Dong and a violent clash, and the chapter left him still unsure what to do.

• Su Yuntao examined the Soul Tools Kai had given him and realized they could reveal that Kai knew how to manufacture them.
• He considered reporting Kai to Spirit Hall, as his duty required, but remembered Kai’s resentment over Spirit Hall’s role in his parents’ deaths and its inadequate compensation.
• Su Yuntao weighed his loyalty to Spirit Hall against his responsibility to protect his friend’s son, whom he had promised to help.
• He feared Bibi Dong would try to seize Kai if she learned of his ability, potentially starting a battle between Spirit Hall and the Titled Douluos protecting him.
• Su Yuntao prayed to the Angel God for guidance but remained confused and unable to choose between the two sides.

Tang San discussed building the Tang Sect through mass-produced hidden weapons with Tai Tan, who proposed recruiting the blacksmiths of Gengxin City. Tang San chose to develop cautiously, seek funding from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect through Ning Rongrong, and attend Shrek Academy, leaving Tai Tan bewildered by the choice.

• Tai Tan asked Tang San about his plans after graduation and offered to arrange recommendations to advanced academies.
• Tang San asked whether the Strength Clan could mass-produce his hidden weapons, and Tai Tan suggested recruiting blacksmiths from Gengxin City.
• Tang San said he wanted Lou Gao to examine his complicated legendary hidden weapons but warned Tai Tan not to expand too quickly and attract Spirit Hall's attention.
• Tang San planned to use Ning Rongrong and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to secure funding and support for the Tang Sect.
• Tang San told Tai Tan he had decided to attend Shrek Academy, and Tai Tan reacted with bewilderment.

Tang San decided to take Tai Tan to Shrek Academy, hoping to recruit talented students to oppose Spirit Hall. Meanwhile, Su Yuntao helped Kai consider academies that would not bind him to either empire, and offered prepared information for him to review.

• Tang San explained that he planned to attend Shrek Academy and recruit its geniuses, trusting Tai Tan to deal with any trouble there.
• Tai Tan agreed that winning over talented students could help them fight Spirit Hall and reaffirmed his loyalty to Tang Hao.
• Su Yuntao offered to help Kai choose an advanced Soul Master academy suited to his two powerful martial souls.
• Su Yuntao warned Kai that joining either empire's imperial academy would entangle him in its conflict with Spirit Hall.
• Kai rejected both empires' academies, and Su Yuntao brought out information books so they could search for another suitable school.

Kai rejected joining Spirit Hall because its compensation for his parents’ deaths was difficult for him to accept, while Su Yuntao discussed the few academies that might suit Kai’s Ice Dragon King martial soul. As Kai and Gu Luoyi approached graduation from Nuoding Academy, Kai still had no suitable advanced academy lined up.

• Su Yuntao suggested Kai consider Spirit Hall’s academy, but Kai said he could not accept Spirit Hall after its Pope caused his parents’ deaths and the compensation amounted to Gold Soul Coins.
• Su Yuntao explained that the elemental academies resisted efforts by the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Elephant Armor Sect to draw them into larger factions.
• Su Yuntao recommended Skywater Academy for Kai’s ice attribute, then noted it admitted only pretty female students with water or ice attributes.
• Kai told Su Yuntao that the Titled Douluo was searching for an academy, but had not found one that suited him.
• At Nuoding Academy’s graduation gathering, Gu Luoyi said she planned to go with Kai because he had not found a suitable academy.

At Shrek Academy, Li Yusong refused to refund registration fees to failed applicants and intimidated their families by claiming the academy had Spirit Hall’s youngest elder among its graduates. Ning Rongrong suspected his story, then heard an unexplained voice mention her and other future students.

• A failed applicant’s father demanded his registration fee back, and other families joined his complaint and threatened to report Shrek Academy to Spirit Hall.
• Li Yusong defended the fee policy, described Shrek as an academy for monsters, and displayed his seven Soul Rings to frighten the crowd into silence.
• Ning Rongrong doubted Li Yusong’s claim that Shrek had produced Spirit Hall’s youngest elder because the academy remained in a poor village and she had never heard of the elder.
• Tai Tan arrived with Tang San, and Ning Rongrong wondered whether Shrek Academy might be more impressive than it appeared.
• Ning Rongrong heard an unknown voice discuss Shrek’s students and call her name, then wondered who was speaking and whether she had revealed her identity.

Ning Rongrong overheard Tang San’s thoughts about exploiting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and learned that Shrek Academy’s history was far less impressive than he had been led to believe. She decided to hide her suspicions, investigate Tang San, and register at the academy herself.

• Ning Rongrong listened as Tang San’s inner voice called Shrek Academy a scam and described its later rise through its attempted mergers with other academies.
• Tang San’s thoughts revealed that he wanted the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to buy his hidden weapons, and Ning Rongrong resolved to uncover his secrets and stop her sect from being swindled.
• Tang San arrived to register with ten gold soul coins and displayed his Blue Silver Grass martial soul, while Li Yusong hesitated under pressure from Tai Tan.
• Ning Rongrong concluded that Tang San had been telling the truth about Shrek Academy and decided to play along while investigating him.
• Ning Rongrong stepped forward to register, revealed her Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, and assured the staff that her family knew she had come.

Ning Rongrong arrived at Shrek Academy to investigate its teaching and protect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s interests, while Tang San’s thoughts revealed his ambitions to her. Li Yusong learned that both Ning Rongrong and Tang San had powerful sect backing, and the chapter left Zhu Zhuqing hearing Tang San’s strange thoughts about her and a past life.

• Ning Rongrong decided to investigate Shrek Academy before taking action against Tang San, whom she suspected of plotting against her sect.
• Li Yusong learned Ning Rongrong’s identity and let her enter, wary of offending the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Tai Tan told Li Yusong that Tang San was his young master and that he belonged to one of the Upper Three Sects, prompting Li Yusong to fear the consequences of mistreating either newcomer.
• Zhu Zhuqing arrived as Tang San’s thoughts about her and his supposed past-life memories entered her mind.
• Zhu Zhuqing searched for the speaker and wondered if the person whose thoughts she heard was sick in the head.