Recaps

Heaven Dou Royal Academy selected four students for an exchange melee against the Four Elements Academy, while Feng Xiaotian revealed that he had slowed his cultivation to develop a self-created soul skill. The chapter ended as Huo Wu and Dugu Yan faced off, each stating her rank before the match began.

• Feng Yuange told Meng Shenji that Feng Xiaotian had reached rank thirty-six after delaying cultivation to practice a self-created soul skill.
• Qin Ming chose Tian Chen, Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, and Shi Mo to represent Heaven Dou Royal Academy in the melee.
• Four students from the Four Elements Academy stepped forward, including Huo Wu, who challenged Dugu Yan with a pointed announcement of her rank thirty-one cultivation.
• Dugu Yan answered that she was a rank thirty-four Control-Type Battle Spirit Master and met Huo Wu's challenge without backing down.

At the Soul Fighting match, Tian Chen faced Yu Tianxin, a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Elder, while the other participants paired off. Tian Chen crushed Yu Tianxin’s Thunder Dragon Claw with his bare claw, and the encounter strengthened his resolve to destroy the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Huo Wu identified Tian Chen as the person who had taken her things, and Shui Bing'er challenged her claim that she had simply been outmatched.
• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin agreed to switch opponents, and Qin Ming started the match between the eight Soul Elders.
• Huo Wu fought Dugu Yan while Yu Tianheng confronted Huo Wushuang, and Yu Tianxin launched his Thunder Dragon Claw at Tian Chen.
• Tian Chen caught Yu Tianxin’s attack with his golden crocodile claw and crushed it, revealing the strength of his Martial Soul and right palm bone.
• Tian Chen judged the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul a threat to his plans and became more determined to slaughter the clan.

Tian Chen defeated Yu Tianxin and used his spatial Soul Skill to turn Yu Tianxin’s lightning attack against four opponents, earning recognition at the exchange gathering. After naming the skill Flying Thunder God, he left the platform while Qin Ming considered taking him as a disciple.

• Yu Tianxin activated Thunderous Fury and unleashed his lightning-arrow Soul Skill at Tian Chen.
• Tian Chen used a burst of silver light to absorb Yu Tianxin’s attack, then split it into four streams aimed at Yu Tianxin, Huo Wushuang, Huo Wu, and Shui Bing’er.
• Yu Tianxin and Shui Bing’er endured the redirected attack, while the dean of Blazing Fire Academy intervened to save Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu.
• Shui Bing’er asked Tian Chen what his Third Soul Skill was called, and he named it Flying Thunder God.
• The spectators applauded Tian Chen’s victory, and he told Qin Ming that his Martial Soul was mutated before leaving the platform.
• Qin Ming considered approaching Tian Chen later to ask him to become his disciple.

After Tian Chen impressed the students with his strength, Qin Ming invited him and the others to lunch in Heaven Dou City. Tian Chen decided to visit Sunset Forest to deliver Dugu Bo’s antidote and cultivate, while the group’s meal brought them closer together.

• Ye Lingling teased Tian Chen about talking with Shui Bing'er, but he explained that they had discussed Soul Skills.
• Tian Chen remembered that he had delayed delivering Dugu Bo’s antidote and decided to travel to Sunset Forest to deliver it and cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Qin Ming invited Tian Chen, Ye Lingling, Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng, and the others to lunch in Heaven Dou City, and Tian Chen accepted.
• The group ate at the Sunset Hotel, where the meal eased tensions and Yu Tianheng shared drinks with Tian Chen after recognizing his closeness with Ye Lingling.

Tian Chen received three months of leave from Qin Ming and left Heaven Dou City for Sunset Forest. As he entered the unfamiliar part of the forest, he enjoyed its scenery and imagined living in seclusion near the Lake of Life after killing the Titan Giant Ape and Sky Azure Bull Python.

• At dinner, Tian Chen asked Qin Ming for leave, and Qin Ming approved three months on the condition that he return for the tournament before class assignments.
• Yu Feng teased Tian Chen about leaving, and Ye Lingling reacted with a cold stare before reluctantly letting him go.
• After Tian Chen left, Dugu Yan teased Ye Lingling about him and thought Yu Tianheng was no match for the man she had in mind.
• Tian Chen left Heaven Dou City and entered Sunset Forest from an unfamiliar direction, enjoying the forest's fresh air and scenery.

Tian Chen entered Sunset Forest to search for a Soul Beast and encountered an injured Man Faced Demon Spider near a Soul King and a young woman with the same spider Martial Soul. After Tian Chen refused the woman's demand for help and vanished, the Man Faced Demon Spider attacked the pair, and the middle-aged man met its charge.

• Tian Chen traveled deep into Sunset Forest under his Simulation Soul Skill and sensed blood and violent Soul Power nearby.
• Tian Chen discovered a nearly four-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider and noticed it was injured and surrounded by poisonous silk.
• A young woman and a middle-aged Soul King emerged and ordered Tian Chen to stop the spider; Tian Chen realized the woman possessed a Man Faced Demon Spider Martial Soul.
• The young woman offered Tian Chen a bargain, but he insulted her and used his Fourth Soul Skill to disappear.
• The middle-aged man warned the young woman that the spider had one web attack left, then blocked its charge with his strengthened arms.

A middle-aged Soul Master and an alluring woman hunted a Man Faced Demon Spider, but the woman turned against him and revealed her connection to the beast. She left the middle-aged man trapped in her venomous web and identified herself as the beast he had been hunting.

• The rank-fifty-nine middle-aged man battered the Man Faced Demon Spider while it dodged his attacks and protected its vulnerable eyes.
• The alluring woman promised to restrain the spider and used her third Soul Skill to cast a venomous web over it.
• The Man Faced Demon Spider unexpectedly shot a white web at the middle-aged man, who dodged it and was caught in the woman's black web instead.
• The middle-aged man struggled against the web's venom as the spider approached the woman submissively, and she healed its wounds.
• The alluring woman pressed a spider leg against the middle-aged man's chest and whispered that she was the beast he had been talking about.

Tian Chen discovered that the seductive woman was a hundred-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider in human form and launched a surprise attack while she cultivated. His Earth Array Thrust crippled the Man Faced Demon Spider, but the woman completed her fourth Soul Ring and began draining the beast.

• The seductive woman devoured a middle-aged Soul Master's heart and absorbed the rest of his life force through her spider legs.
• Tian Chen realized she was a hundred-thousand-year Man Faced Demon Spider in human form and decided to kill her for her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Tian Chen concealed himself, avoided the spider webs, and approached the cultivating woman and beast.
• Tian Chen used Earth Array Thrust to pierce the Man Faced Demon Spider's six vulnerable eyes.
• The seductive woman completed her fourth purple Soul Ring, recognized Tian Chen, and drained the wounded Man Faced Demon Spider.

Tian Chen fought the transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Man Faced Spider Emperor, whose domain suppressed his Mental Power. As their battle escalated, a silver dragon-headed staff appeared and three figures approached, leaving Tian Chen to wonder if Dragon Duke and Snake Granny had arrived.

• The Man Faced Spider Emperor formed a domain and advanced on Tian Chen, intending to devour him.
• The Spider Emperor trapped Tian Chen with a giant web, but he used his Soul Power mark to teleport above the dead Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Tian Chen attacked with Earth Array Thrust, and the Spider Emperor escaped on golden silk strands.
• The Spider Emperor unleashed poisonous white mist that dissolved the surrounding plants and trees.
• A silver dragon-headed staff appeared and dispersed the mist, and Tian Chen saw three figures approaching.

Tian Chen encountered Dragon Duke Meng Shu, Snake Granny Chao Tianxiang, and Meng Yiran after Meng Shu captured the human-transformed Man Faced Spider Emperor. Pressured to reveal his affiliations, Tian Chen claimed he belonged to no sect and blamed his rapid cultivation on his mutated Martial Soul.

• Meng Shu attacked the Man Faced Spider Emperor, then struck again and knocked her unconscious after she regenerated from her wounds.
• Meng Shu demanded to know which sect Tian Chen belonged to and considered killing or recruiting him depending on his answer.
• Tian Chen said he had joined no sect, explaining that he benefited from Spirit Hall's resources without formally belonging to it.
• Meng Yiran accused Tian Chen of lying, but he attributed his rapid cultivation to his mutated Martial Soul.
• Meng Shu examined Tian Chen's unfamiliar Martial Soul and believed much of his explanation.

Tian Chen joined Meng Shu’s clan under the alias Chen Tian after his Soul Bone was exposed. As Meng Shu’s group prepared to help Meng Yiran obtain a Soul Ring, a huge swarm of Man Faced Demon Spiders surrounded them, while Dugu Bo sensed trouble nearby and changed course.

• Meng Shu offered Tian Chen a place in his clan, and Tian Chen agreed while inwardly planning to leave if the clan fell.
• Tian Chen introduced himself as Chen Tian, a seventeen-year-old rank forty-three Power Attack System Battle Soul Ancestor with a crocodile Martial Soul.
• Meng Shu and Tian Chen sensed danger, and Meng Shu told Meng Yiran they had found her second Soul Ring.
• A swarm of Man Faced Demon Spiders surrounded the group, including three with over ten thousand years of cultivation.
• Dugu Bo sensed something and changed his flight path toward the disturbance.

Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang tried to retreat from the Man Faced Demon Spiders with Tian Chen and the unconscious Man Faced Spider Emperor, but Dugu Bo arrived and demanded the beast. Tian Chen left with Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan, while Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang were left behind.

• Chao Tianxiang and Meng Shu decided to retreat, with Meng Shu staying behind to hold off the Man Faced Demon Spiders.
• Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan arrived, and Dugu Bo ordered Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang to leave the Man Faced Spider Emperor behind.
• Meng Shu chose to withdraw rather than risk a fight with Dugu Bo.
• Tian Chen used his Fourth Soul Skill to move to Dugu Bo's side and refused to leave with Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang.
• Dugu Bo flew away with Tian Chen, Dugu Yan, and the unconscious Man Faced Spider Emperor.

Tian Chen and Dugu Bo planned to ambush Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang to keep them from revealing the transformed Man Faced Spider Emperor. After Dugu Bo left to recruit Huyan Zhen, Dugu Yan told Tian Chen that their grandfathers had arranged for them to marry, but Tian Chen avoided responding directly.

• Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang decided to return to their clan and confront Dugu Bo, threatening to spread word of the transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast if they could not claim it.
• Dugu Bo brought Tian Chen and Dugu Yan back to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, where Tian Chen explained his conflict with Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang and revealed the Man Faced Spider Emperor’s domain.
• Dugu Bo considered the transformed Man Faced Spider Emperor a powerful future match for Dugu Yan and agreed with Tian Chen that they should prepare to kill Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang if they came after them.
• Tian Chen gave Dugu Bo a token and asked him to bring Huyan Zhen from the Elephant Armor Sect; Dugu Bo agreed and left the valley.
• Dugu Yan told Tian Chen that Grandpa Tian had asked her grandfather to arrange their marriage after they turned eighteen, but Tian Chen said they should leave the future for later and went to cultivate.

Tian Chen cultivated in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well while Dugu Yan trained nearby, until Dugu Bo and the newly advanced Titled Douluo Huyan Zhen arrived. Tian Chen ordered Huyan Zhen to help kill Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang, and the two set out to confront them as Dugu Yan pressed Tian Chen about meeting Ye Lingling.

• Tian Chen used the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well to absorb more of the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass and Infernal Delicate Apricot’s effects, while Dugu Yan cultivated on the shore.
• Dugu Bo and Huyan Zhen arrived, and Huyan Zhen paid his respects to Tian Chen before asking about the strange spring.
• Tian Chen told Huyan Zhen to help him kill Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang, and Huyan Zhen agreed without hesitation.
• After waiting in the valley, Dugu Bo flew out to answer Meng Shu’s challenge, and Tian Chen sent Huyan Zhen to back him up.
• Dugu Yan asked Tian Chen when he would meet Ye Lingling, while Tian Chen said he needed to cultivate and could not go to Heaven Dou City.

Dragon Duke and Snake Granny returned to Sunset Forest to confront Dugu Bo, but Huyan Zhen joined him and killed them. Their final thoughts were of their granddaughter, Meng Yiran.

• Meng Shu sensed Dugu Bo's poison formation as he and Chao Tianxiang approached the valley, but they decided to continue.
• Dugu Bo appeared and confronted the couple as they prepared to use their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Huyan Zhen arrived as a Titled Douluo and attacked Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang before they could complete their fusion.
• Huyan Zhen unleashed his Eighth Soul Skill and crushed the Peerless Dragon Snake, whose final thoughts were of Meng Yiran.

After Huyan Zhen killed Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang, Tian Chen settled at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and borrowed Dugu Bo’s Core Pearl to aid his cultivation. Three months later, Tian Chen had reached rank forty-four, while Meng Yiran remained captive in the valley.

• Huyan Zhen reported killing Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang, and Tian Chen ordered him to capture Meng Yiran rather than attack their sect.
• Tian Chen asked Dugu Bo to lend him his Core Pearl, then swallowed it to accelerate his cultivation alongside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Tian Chen and Dugu Yan stayed in the valley as he cultivated for three months, reaching rank forty-four and improving his physique with the effects of two immortal herbs.
• Dugu Yan reprimanded the captive Meng Yiran for her hostile expression, while Tian Chen said she could live as long as she behaved.
• Dugu Yan served Tian Chen a meal made from the most essential parts of several Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, explaining that she had read about it in Dugu Bo’s book.

Tian Chen and Dugu Yan confessed their feelings and became a couple in Sunset Forest. Meanwhile, Meng Yiran agreed to help the Man Faced Spider Emperor by secretly delivering a mysterious crystal to Star Dou Great Forest.

• Tian Chen ate Dugu Yan’s nourishing breakfast, then asked whether she truly liked him.
• Dugu Yan admitted her feelings, kissed Tian Chen, and asked if he liked her; Tian Chen said he did.
• Tian Chen and Dugu Yan rested together in the valley, unaware of the conversation unfolding in the dungeon.
• The Man Faced Spider Emperor asked Meng Yiran whether she wanted revenge for her grandparents, and she asked what he needed her to do.
• The Man Faced Spider Emperor gave Meng Yiran a purplish-black crystal and told her to deliver it to Star Dou Great Forest.

The Man Faced Spider Emperor recalled how the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had nearly killed her and planned to use its arrival to escape captivity. Meanwhile, Tian Chen and Dugu Yan left the Sunset Forest together, growing closer as they decided to spend the day together.

• The Man Faced Spider Emperor revealed that the crystal she gave Meng Yiran carried her scent so the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger could track her.
• She recalled how the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger had suppressed her despite having less than sixty thousand years of cultivation, forcing her to take human form and cultivate anew.
• The Man Faced Spider Emperor hoped Dugu Bo would keep the tiger occupied long enough for her to find a chance to escape.
• Tian Chen concealed himself and Dugu Yan with his Head Soul Bone's Simulation Soul Skill as they headed out of the Sunset Forest.
• Dugu Yan asked to decide their plans for the day, kissed Tian Chen, and leaned affectionately against him.

Tian Chen and Dugu Yan visited Moonlight Pavilion in Heaven Dou City to watch its graduation ceremony, where Tian Chen recognized Tang Yuehua and the disguised Qian Renxue. After Xue Qinghe opened the ceremony, Tian Chen wondered whether to approach Qian Renxue.

• Tian Chen and Dugu Yan left Sunset Forest and leisurely entered Heaven Dou City.
• Dugu Yan led Tian Chen to Moonlight Pavilion and told its attendants that he was her boyfriend and they had come to watch the graduation ceremony.
• Tian Chen recognized Tang Yuehua and identified the crown prince Xue Qinghe as Qian Renxue.
• Xue Qinghe addressed the guests and officially opened the graduation ceremony.
• A hundred graduates entered the hall as a harp performance began, and Tian Chen hesitated over whether to contact Qian Renxue.

Tian Chen and Dugu Yan spent the day together in Heaven Dou City, then checked into the Sunset Hotel for the night. As they flirted in their room, Tian Chen asked Dugu Yan to use her Martial Soul, and she wrapped her snake tail around his waist.

• Tian Chen noticed Xue Qinghe and Tang Yuehua at the Moonlight Pavilion but decided not to approach Xue Qinghe as himself.
• Dugu Yan and Tian Chen left the performance and spent the afternoon exploring Heaven Dou City.
• Dugu Yan persuaded Tian Chen to stay overnight at the Sunset Hotel, where they booked a single room.
• Tian Chen teased Dugu Yan about pretending to be drunk, and she entered the bathroom after him.
• Dugu Yan approached Tian Chen by the window, and after he whispered instructions, she released her Martial Soul and wrapped her snake tail around his waist.

Tian Chen took Dugu Yan to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then met with his grandfather, Tian E, who was searching for a ten-thousand-year nine-grade ginseng king. Tian Chen joined the search and told Tian E about killing Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

• Tian Chen and Dugu Yan woke together, then left the Sunset Hotel for Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• A black-clad Soul Emperor discreetly gave Tian Chen a token bearing a golden crocodile, which Tian Chen recognized as his grandfather’s sign.
• Tian Chen left Dugu Yan at the academy and met Tian E in a valley outside the city.
• Tian E told Tian Chen that he was searching for a ten-thousand-year nine-grade ginseng king in the northern part of the continent.
• Tian Chen suggested they search Sunset Forest first and recounted how he had killed Meng Shu, Chao Tianxiang, and a transformed Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Tian Chen accompanied Tian E to Sunset Forest, where Tian E demonstrated his spatial abilities after reaching level 99 and explained soul-core cultivation. At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, they found Meng Yiran fleeing a pack of Gale Demon Wolves, and Tian Chen killed her after she confronted him about her family.

• Tian E used his spatial abilities to carry Tian Chen across dozens of kilometers and explained that he gained them after forming a second soul core and reaching level 99.
• Tian E described the formation of a first soul core and precautions for cultivating as a Titled Douluo while Tian Chen listened.
• Tian E brought Tian Chen above the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and concealed their presence in the surrounding space.
• Tian Chen and Tian E spotted the wounded Meng Yiran fleeing a pack of Gale Demon Wolves, and Tian E asked Tian Chen what he planned to do.
• Tian Chen used Teleportation and Dark Gold Dreadclaw to pierce Meng Yiran's chest after she asked why he had harmed her family.

Tian Chen killed the six Gale Demon Wolves that had been chasing Meng Yiran, then returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Tian E. Tian E considered capturing the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Grade Ginseng King to help Tian Chen cultivate.

• The six Gale Demon Wolves attacked Tian Chen with Wind Blades, but his Invincible Golden Body blocked them.
• Tian Chen used Golden Crocodile Breath to pursue and kill all six Gale Demon Wolves, leaving six Purple Soul Rings behind.
• Tian Chen dismissed the Soul Rings and asked Tian E to return with him to the valley.
• Tian E brought Tian Chen to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and considered confining the Ten-Thousand-Year Nine-Grade Ginseng King there to support Tian Chen's cultivation.

Tian Chen and Tian E confronted the imprisoned Man Faced Spider Emperor, who recognized Tian E as the Soul Master who had severely injured her decades earlier. She offered to trade a life-rich crystal for her freedom, and Tian Chen realized it was the legendary gold of life.

• Tian Chen and Tian E entered the cave where the Man Faced Spider Emperor was imprisoned.
• The Man Faced Spider Emperor recognized Tian E and revealed her hatred because he had helped hunt her decades ago.
• Tian E questioned how she had recovered and reached the hundred-thousand-year realm so quickly.
• The Man Faced Spider Emperor said a transparent cyan crystal had helped her advance and offered it in exchange for her life.
• Tian Chen recognized the crystal as gold of life and understood that its power could save him and support absorbing Soul Rings beyond his level.

Tian Chen and Tian E secured the Man Faced Spider Emperor’s promise to lead them to the gold of life, while Tian Chen decided to abandon his Heaven Dou Empire infiltration mission and focus on cultivation. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, he met Ning Yingxue, who began their private conversation by asking whether he was an orphan.

• Tian E agreed to spare the Man Faced Spider Emperor if she led them to the hidden crystal, then released her and gave her a day to prepare.
• Tian Chen told Tian E he wanted to stop the infiltration mission and cultivate at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well; Tian E agreed to speak with the Great Enshrined.
• Tian Chen went to Heaven Dou Royal Academy as Ao Tuo, intending to explain his decision to Qin Ming and visit Ye Lingling.
• Ning Yingxue introduced herself as a rank twenty-nine Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Soul Master and invited Tian Chen to speak privately.
• At a mountaintop teahouse, Ning Yingxue asked Tian Chen whether he was an orphan, leaving him offended and confused.