Recaps

Long Qianming sold Xue Rou the chance to absorb a mutated Snow Moon Dragon Eagle for one million Gold Soul Coins, though it yielded no Soul Bone. After Xue Rou absorbed its Soul Ring, Long Qianming recognized her Condensed Water Flying Luan Martial Soul and wondered whether she was Shui Bing'er’s mother.

• Long Qianming stored the Ten Thousand Year Snow Moon Dragon Eagle Soul Bone and corpse, then prepared to kill the surviving juvenile until Dugu Bo noticed acquaintances approaching.
• Xue Wuqing and Xue Rou arrived, and Xue Wuqing mistook Long Qianming for Dugu Bo’s son before learning who he was.
• Xue Rou asked for the juvenile Snow Moon Dragon Eagle, and Long Qianming offered it for one million Gold Soul Coins because it might yield a Soul Bone.
• Xue Wuqing agreed to the price and gave Long Qianming a one-million-Gold-Soul-Coin card, then urged Xue Rou to absorb the beast’s Soul Ring.
• Xue Rou killed the juvenile and absorbed its Purple Soul Ring while Dugu Bo and Xue Wuqing talked and Long Qianming cultivated.
• Xue Rou’s Condensed Water Flying Luan appeared, but the beast produced no Soul Bone; she demanded a partial refund, and Long Qianming refused.

Long Qianming declined Xue Wuqing’s offer to join Skywater Academy and left for Godwind Grand Canyon to train his spear arts and pursue rank 40. Meanwhile, Yu Xiaogang broke through to rank 20 Soul Power and prepared to obtain his second Soul Ring, convinced his Martial Soul would transform.

• Xue Wuqing invited Long Qianming to join Skywater Academy, but Long refused, saying he preferred a quiet life.
• Xue Rou teased Long Qianming and asked whether he found her beautiful, and he bluntly called her average.
• Dugu Bo and Long Qianming parted near Godwind City after Long announced he would train in Godwind Grand Canyon and seek rank 40.
• Yu Xiaogang broke through the rank 20 Soul Power bottleneck after nine months of cultivation.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that he was the foremost theorist and believed Luo Sanpao would transform into a powerful dragon Martial Soul after he obtained a second Soul Ring.

Yu Xiaogang reached rank 20 and persuaded Dean Yu to take him to Sunset Forest for a dark-attribute Soul Ring. There, a mutant purple snake killed the Fire Shadow Earth Dragon Bear and poisoned Yu Xiaogang, while Dean Yu struck the escaping snake down with lightning.

• Yu Xiaogang told Dean Yu he had reached rank 20 and requested a second Soul Ring in Sunset Forest.
• Yu Xiaogang convinced Dean Yu that Luo Sanpao needed a dark-attribute lesser dragon Soul Beast rather than a lightning-attribute one.
• After Yu's eldest brother approved, Dean Yu and Yu Xiaogang traveled to Sunset Forest and found a roughly 750-year-old Fire Shadow Earth Dragon Bear.
• A purple, single-horned mutant snake strangled the dragon bear before Yu Xiaogang could claim its Soul Ring.
• The snake filled the cave with poisonous mist, leaving Yu Xiaogang dazed, as Dean Yu used his second Soul Skill to strike the escaping beast down.

Yu Xiaogang absorbed a mutant snake Soul Beast’s Soul Ring and gained a hypnosis skill, though he was disappointed by its limitations. After returning to Thunder Academy, he secretly left to prove his theories to the world.

• Yu Xiaogang chose the dying mutant snake Soul Beast for Luo Sanpao’s second Soul Ring despite Dean Yu’s concerns about its age.
• Yu Xiaogang endured six hours of severe pain before successfully absorbing the Soul Ring and gaining a hypnosis-type skill.
• Dean Yu praised the skill and offered Yu Xiaogang clan business duties in Heaven Dou City or work as a teaching assistant, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to follow his father’s arrangements.
• Yu Xiaogang and Dean Yu returned to Thunder Academy, where Dean Yu went to report to the clan.
• Yu Xiaogang left the academy secretly at night, intending to prove that his theories would guide the future of the Soul Master World.

Yu Xiaogang traveled to the Häagen-Dazs Duchy hoping to refine his theories and become an academy teacher, but Haagen-Dazs Advanced Soul Master Academy rejected and mocked him. At Plant Academy, Dean Mu Chun welcomed him as a specially appointed teacher and asked him to help the academy win a tournament advancement spot.

• Yu Xiaogang arrived at Haagen-Dazs Advanced Soul Master Academy and announced that he wanted to teach rather than enroll as a student.
• The admissions teachers mocked Yu Xiaogang’s low Soul Power and dismissed his claim that his theoretical knowledge qualified him to teach.
• Yu Xiaogang left in anger, and his failed interviews at other academies ended with guards turning him away.
• Mu Chun greeted Yu Xiaogang at Plant Academy and explained that he had seen Yu Xiaogang’s research at Thunder Academy.
• Mu Chun appointed Yu Xiaogang as a specially appointed teacher and asked him to help Plant Academy win the advancement-round spot at the Soul Master Tournament three years later.

Yu Xiaogang joined Plant Academy and met its two rank-thirty students, Mu Kongkong and Ye Huang, before taking them to the Soul Hunting Forest to find their third Soul Rings. He questioned whether plant Soul Beasts were the right choice for Mu Kongkong’s Ghost King Vine.

• Mu Chun welcomed Yu Xiaogang to Plant Academy, and Yu Xiaogang promised to train a team capable of reaching the finals within three years.
• Mu Chun introduced his grandson Mu Kongkong and Ye Huang, who had both reached rank thirty at age fifteen.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned Ye Huang about his Purple Bamboo Leaf Martial Soul, and Ye Huang said it had no special effects beyond being sharp, light, and thin.
• Yu Xiaogang offered to recommend third Soul Rings for Mu Kongkong and Ye Huang, and Mu Chun agreed to let him lead the hunt.
• Yu Xiaogang, Mu Chun, Mu Kongkong, and Ye Huang entered the Soul Hunting Forest, where Yu Xiaogang said plant Soul Beasts were not the best choice for Mu Kongkong's Ghost King Vine.

Yu Xiaogang argued that Ye Huang should strengthen his Purple Bamboo Leaf Martial Soul with an animal-type Soul Ring, pointing to a Mandala Snake as a suitable example. Ye Huang refused and insisted on absorbing a bamboo Soul Ring, leaving the group to continue searching while excluding him from their conversation.

• Yu Xiaogang presented his Martial Soul Mimicry Theory and claimed an animal-type Soul Ring could improve Ye Huang’s Purple Bamboo Leaf Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang spotted a two-hundred-year-old Mandala Snake and praised its toughness and venom as potential benefits for Ye Huang.
• Ye Huang rejected the Mandala Snake and demanded a Soul Ring from a bamboo Soul Beast instead.
• Mu Chun and Mu Kongkong sided with Yu Xiaogang and urged Ye Huang to accept the animal-type Soul Ring.
• Mu Chun led the group onward, and Ye Huang felt cold-shouldered as the others searched for bamboo Soul Beasts without including him in their conversation.

Mu Kongkong absorbed a Gold Devouring Ant Soul Ring and gained an armor-forming Ghost Vine skill, while Ye Huang continued searching for a suitable bamboo Soul Ring. After a fruitless day, the group urged Ye Huang to choose between a fifteen-hundred-year Purple Bamboo and Lone Bamboo.

• Yu Xiaogang identified a fifteen-hundred-year Gold Devouring Ant as a suitable third Soul Ring for Mu Kongkong, but Ye Huang objected and Mu Kongkong insisted on choosing it.
• Mu Chun trapped and burned the Gold Devouring Ant colony, killing the ants and weakening the chosen ant until Mu Kongkong delivered the final blow.
• Mu Kongkong absorbed the purple Soul Ring and gained Ant Devouring Vine Armor, which strengthened his Ghost King Vine and could form armor on his body.
• The four searched the Soul Hunting Forest for a suitable bamboo-type Soul Beast for Ye Huang but found none of the kinds they wanted.
• Mu Chun suggested Ye Huang absorb a fifteen-hundred-year Purple Bamboo or Lone Bamboo instead.

Ye Huang left Plant Academy after rejecting Yu Xiaogang’s advice and learning that Yu Xiaogang would lead his class and team. Meanwhile, Long Qianming spent two and a half years training in Godwind Grand Canyon and finally attacked the source of a force-four hurricane with his spear.

• Ye Huang refused Yu Xiaogang’s suggestion to absorb an animal-attribute Soul Ring, and the two argued until Mu Chun and Mu Kongkong separated them.
• After learning Yu Xiaogang would become his homeroom teacher and team leader, Ye Huang submitted a withdrawal request and left Plant Academy despite Mu Chun’s efforts to persuade him.
• Long Qianming repeatedly tried to advance against the winds in Godwind Grand Canyon, using his spear to create a windless zone and train his body and spear techniques.
• Over two and a half years, Long Qianming developed the Art of Borrowing Force to Control the Wind and learned to run against the powerful gusts.
• Long Qianming sent his Dragon Pattern Spear into the birthplace of a force-four hurricane, then snapped his fingers and commanded it to explode.

Long Qianming completed three self-created Soul Skills after reaching rank forty, then asked Dugu Bo to help find a rare darkness-and-wood draconic Soul Beast for his fourth Soul Ring. Dugu Bo warned that the creature might only be found in the dangerous Lost Track Grand Canyon, but Long Qianming insisted on going there.

• Long Qianming used his offensive Soul Skill to extinguish a force-four hurricane, then tested his defensive and wind-riding movement skills and declared all three complete.
• Long Qianming told Dugu Bo that he had reached rank forty two months earlier but delayed getting a Soul Ring to finish his techniques.
• Dugu Bo told Long Qianming that Tang Hao was a rank-fifty-four Soul King and a leading contender in the Soul Master Tournament.
• Long Qianming asked Dugu Bo to help him obtain a fourth Soul Ring from an animal-type draconic subspecies Soul Beast with darkness as its primary attribute and wood as its secondary attribute.
• Dugu Bo warned Long Qianming that the Soul Beast might be nearly impossible to find, and Long Qianming chose to search the dangerous Lost Track Grand Canyon.

Long Qianming and Dugu Bo searched the Lost Track Grand Canyon for a suitable Soul Beast, using immortal herbs and Xiao Tian’s dragon might to draw powerful beasts toward them. A Bone Dragon and a Dark Wood Dragon Beast joined forces to attack, leaving Long Qianming to face the Dark Wood Dragon Beast while Dugu Bo confronted the Bone Dragon.

• Dugu Bo agreed to help Long Qianming find a Soul Ring and traveled with him to the Lost Track Grand Canyon.
• After searching for hours, Long Qianming used Ninth Grade Ginseng Kings and Xiao Tian’s dragon might to lure powerful Soul Beasts into Dugu Bo’s poisonous barrier.
• A fifty-thousand-year Bone Dragon arrived, and Long Qianming secretly resolved to make it his Sixth Soul Ring someday.
• A twenty-thousand-year Dark Wood Dragon Beast appeared and exchanged roars with the Bone Dragon before the two agreed to attack Long Qianming and Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo activated his Martial Soul Avatar and said he would hold off the Bone Dragon while Long Qianming faced the Dark Wood Dragon Beast.

Long Qianming and Dugu Bo used the Ninth Grade Ginseng King to turn the Bone Dragon and Dark Wood Dragon Beast against each other, then joined the fight. The Dark Wood Dragon Beast was killed, while Long Qianming asked Dugu Bo to help imprison the exhausted Bone Dragon so he could make it a Soul Ring.

• Long Qianming baited the two dragon Soul Beasts with a Ninth Grade Ginseng King, provoking them to fight each other.
• The Dark Wood Dragon Beast and Bone Dragon exchanged attacks, leaving both badly injured before the Bone Dragon pursued the ginseng king.
• Dugu Bo and Xiao Tian attacked; Dugu Bo reclaimed the Ninth Grade Ginseng King while Xiao Tian killed the Dark Wood Dragon Beast.
• Dugu Bo turned the Bone Dragon’s wing to stone with Medusa’s Gaze, causing it to fall when its Soul Power ran low.
• Long Qianming stopped Dugu Bo from killing the Bone Dragon and asked him to help imprison it for a future Soul Ring.

Long Qianming and Dugu Bo imprisoned the weakened Bone Dragon in a pit surrounded by Inextinguishable Black Flame, leaving it trapped and burning. Long Qianming then absorbed the Dark Wood Dragon Beast’s twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Dugu Bo waited to hear what his fourth Soul Skill could do.

• Long Qianming had Xiao Tian knock out the Bone Dragon, then carried it and the Dark Wood Dragon Beast’s corpse to a cave with Dugu Bo.
• Long Qianming chose a fifty-meter pit, where Xiao Tian laid unignited Inextinguishable Black Flame beneath the ground and Long Qianming chained the Bone Dragon in place.
• Dugu Bo used his Soul Bone Skill to petrify the Bone Dragon’s limbs, tail, head, and key bones, then rested after exhausting his spiritual power.
• Xiao Tian ignited the black flames around the pit, trapping the Bone Dragon as it awoke and struggled unsuccessfully to extinguish them.
• Long Qianming absorbed the Dark Wood Dragon Beast’s twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring with Xiao Tian’s help, completing the process in less than four hours.
• Dugu Bo asked Long Qianming about the effects of his fourth Soul Skill.

Long Qianming revealed the power of his Fourth Soul Skill, Black Dragon Corrosion, and helped Dugu Bo secure the Bone Dragon cave before returning to the Heaven Dou Empire. A month later, the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament began, and Yu Xiaogang prepared Plant Academy to face Three Rivers Academy, underestimating Ye Huang and his team.

• Long Qianming told Dugu Bo that Black Dragon Corrosion could weaken enemies, and Dugu Bo praised its strength and promised to protect him.
• Dugu Bo warned that Spirit Hall might discover the imprisoned Bone Dragon, so he and Long Qianming trapped the cave with poison, flames, and a boulder before leaving the Lost Track Grand Canyon.
• A month later, the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament opened in the Häagen-Dazs Duchy, where the Duke announced a forty-thousand-year Soul Bone as the champion's reward.
• Yu Xiaogang instructed Mu Kongkong and Plant Academy's other members to target Three Rivers Academy's strongest attackers, control, and auxiliary fighters.
• Plant Academy's members predicted a quick victory over Three Rivers Academy, while Yu Xiaogang privately resented Ye Huang for leaving Plant Academy.

Plant Academy faced Three Rivers Academy in the first match of the preliminary division, where Ye Huang’s unexpected tactics and powerful bamboo-leaf skills overwhelmed their opening attacks. The chapter ended as Ye Huang launched thousands of sharpened leaves at Plant Academy’s seven members.

• The host introduced Plant Academy and Three Rivers Academy, and Dugu Xin warned his teammates not to underestimate Ye Huang and his team.
• Ye Huang made a dramatic entrance, drawing spectators’ support and provoking Yu Xiaogang’s resentment over his past decision to reject Ye Huang.
• After the match began, four Three Rivers Academy members walked off the stage, leaving Ye Huang and two teammates to face Plant Academy.
• Mu Kongkong and Plant Academy attacked Ye Huang, but Ye Huang used Vajra Dance while his healer amplified his Soul Power, breaking through their vines and injuring their attacker.
• Ye Huang strengthened his bamboo leaves with Edge of the Leaf and unleashed Ten Thousand Flying Flowers at Plant Academy’s seven members.

Ye Huang led Three Rivers Academy to defeat Plant Academy with his Ten Thousand Trees, Flying Flowers skill, forcing Yu Xiaogang to concede the match. Three Rivers celebrated its victory as spectators mocked Yu Xiaogang over his past expulsion and poor reputation.

• Yu Xiaogang expected Plant Academy's defenses and hidden skills to withstand Ye Huang's attack, but the purple-gold bamboo leaves broke through their barriers.
• Four Plant Academy members fled the stage while Mu Kongkong and two teammates used their Ghost King Cage, which shattered under the assault.
• Yu Xiaogang conceded the match, and Ye Huang withdrew his skill after Mu Kongkong and the other two control-type Soul Masters were knocked unconscious.
• A Plant Academy member accused Ye Huang of betraying the academy, and Ye Huang replied that he had chosen an academy better suited to him.
• Three Rivers Academy celebrated its victory as spectators praised Ye Huang and mocked Yu Xiaogang for being expelled from Häagen-Dazs Academy.

After Plant Academy’s crushing loss to Three Rivers Academy, Yu Xiaogang blamed Ye Huang and reassured his team while clinging to his Martial Soul Mimicry Theory. Mu Chun regretted letting Yu Xiaogang train the students but, under pressure from investors, allowed him to lead two more matches and arranged an assistant teacher; Yu Xiaogang returned to find himself unwelcome and took Mu Kongkong away from special training.

• Yu Xiaogang left the Great Soul Arena blaming Ye Huang and Three Rivers Academy, then told his defeated team that Three Rivers Academy would lose future matches without its auxiliary support.
• Yu Xiaogang questioned whether his theory was wrong, then dismissed his doubts and ordered the team to return for further training before the losers’ bracket matches.
• A man watched Yu Xiaogang leave and said he had located “Young Master Yu” and completed the clan leader’s task.
• Mu Chun regretted letting Ye Huang go and having his grandson absorb a Gold Devouring Ant Soul Ring, while teachers demanded that Yu Xiaogang be replaced.
• Mu Chun agreed to let Yu Xiaogang lead two more matches and arranged an assistant teacher, despite the teachers’ protests and pressure from investors.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to Plant Academy feeling unwelcome and took Mu Kongkong away, disregarding the planned special combat training.

Three Rivers Academy secured first place in its division, while Plant Academy's weaknesses led to three consecutive losses and last place. At the clan hall, Yu Xiaogang refused to admit fault and decided to leave the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to prove his theories.

• Three Rivers Academy finished first in the winners' bracket and was set to face Haagen-Dazs Advanced Soul Master Academy for a place in the final.
• Plant Academy lost three matches after rival teams exploited its weaknesses, and its reputation, staff, students, and financial support declined.
• Mu Kongkong blamed Yu Xiaogang for ruining the team and resented the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan for refusing to apologize or compensate the academy.
• Yu Yuanzhen questioned Yu Xiaogang about his conduct at Plant Academy, but Yu Xiaogang defended his theories and blamed the students' temperaments and his lack of teaching experience.
• Yu Xiaogang declared that he would leave the clan, and Yu Yuanzhen said he would allow it if Yu Xiaogang's mother agreed.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted the prospect of leaving and resolved to perfect his theories and become the continent's Grandmaster of theory.

Yu Xiaogang left the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and headed toward Heaven Dou City, while Long Qianming returned to the qualifier finals and helped Häagen-Dazs Academy devise a way to defeat Three Rivers Academy. The teams entered the arena, confident in their plan to use poison and healing to overwhelm their opponents.

• Yu Xiaolie rejoiced as Yu Xiaogang left the clan, expecting to gain his resources and the clan leader position.
• Yu Xiaogang endured the disciples' mockery, then rested outside the clan and decided to head to Heaven Dou City to watch the qualifiers.
• Long Qianming and Dugu Bo arrived at the finals, where Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er learned that Long Qianming had reached Soul Ancestor at around level 44.
• Long Qianming explained that Dugu Xin could use Myriad Poison Mist against Ye Huang, whose Purple Bamboo Leaves would create a breeze to spread the poison.
• Long Qianming said Su Qing'er's healing output could protect the team from the indiscriminate poison, and Teacher Wang ordered the team to follow the plan without revealing more strength.
• Dugu Xin and the Häagen-Dazs Academy team entered the arena, determined to defeat Three Rivers Academy quickly.

Häagen-Dazs Academy faced Three Rivers Academy in the preliminary final, where Dugu Xin’s poison and his team’s counterattacks overcame Ye Huang’s strategy. The match ended with Three Rivers Academy conceding, giving Haagen-Dazs Advanced Soul Master Academy the final advancement-tournament place.

• Dugu Xin and Su Qing'er revealed dragon Martial Souls, shocking the audience and increasing Ye Huang’s concern about facing four Soul Ancestors.
• Ye Huang organized Three Rivers Academy’s defense, and both teams tested each other’s control skills without launching a full attack.
• Ye Huang expanded a vortex of purple-gold bamboo leaves, while Dugu Xin ordered his teammates to retreat and filled the arena with poisonous mist.
• The poison incapacitated Ye Huang and most of his team, while Dugu Xin and his teammates destroyed Three Rivers Academy’s incoming bamboo-leaf attack.
• Three Rivers Academy’s leader conceded after six members fell unconscious, and the announcer declared Haagen-Dazs Advanced Soul Master Academy the final qualifier.

After Häagen-Dazs Academy won its qualifier, Long Qianming broke through another Soul Power level and accepted a position as the team’s assistant coach. At the advancement tournament in Heaven Dou City, he arranged the team’s opening lineup against Blazing Fire Academy.

• Long Qianming broke through another Soul Power level, and he declined Teacher Wang’s invitation to join the team as a contestant, choosing instead to serve as assistant coach.
• Long Qianming and the Häagen-Dazs Academy team arrived at the Royal Hunting Ground, where the Royal Legion commander described Clear Sky Academy’s strength and Tang Hao’s undefeated record.
• Teacher Wang told the team that the top two advancement tournament finishers would receive byes in the finals and asked Long Qianming to arrange their match lineup.
• Long Qianming selected Bai Ming to face Blazing Fire Academy first and advised him to use his control abilities to exhaust Huo Wujin’s Soul Power rather than fight head-on.

Bai Ming faced Huo Wujin of Blazing Fire Academy in the first advancement-match duel and used his Glazed Zither to overwhelm him with sound waves. Huo Wujin revealed the Ring Fusion technique, leaving Bai Ming and his teammates in danger as the match continued.

• Tang Hao mocked the other academy teams, angering their competitors and several spectators, including Ning Yuanzhe and Xue Ye.
• Long Qianming encouraged Bai Ming before Bai Ming entered the platform to face Huo Wujin.
• Huo Wujin attacked with fireballs and boosted his speed and strength, but Bai Ming countered and unleashed Six-Fingered Zither Demon.
• Huo Wujin endured Bai Ming’s soul-scouring sound waves, then fused his yellow and purple Soul Rings to concentrate their power in his horn.
• Long Qianming recognized Huo Wujin as Huo Wushuang and Huo Wu’s father and watched anxiously as Ring Fusion progressed.

Häagen-Dazs Academy defeated Blazing Fire Academy after Dugu Xin won six bouts in succession, following Huo Wujin’s victory over Bai Ming. After the day’s matches, Long Qianming asked Dugu Xin to introduce him to Huo Wujin.

• Huo Wujin defeated Bai Ming with his fused Soul Rings, and Su Qing'er treated Bai Ming’s injuries.
• Dugu Xin defeated the exhausted Huo Wujin, and the two agreed they hoped to fight fairly another time.
• Dugu Xin defeated Huo Xiong and Blazing Fire Academy’s remaining fighters using his dragon armor, poison, and poison mist, securing Häagen-Dazs Academy’s victory.
• Skywater Academy defeated the Barak team, while Tang Hao defeated the Silvers Team single-handedly for Clear Sky Academy.
• Long Qianming told his team to conserve their strength for Godwind Academy and asked Dugu Xin to introduce him to Huo Wujin; Dugu Xin agreed.

Long Qianming asked Huo Wujin to teach him Ring Fusion and agreed to prove his strength in a spar. He defeated Huo Wujin with one spear strike, leaving the promised secret manual within reach.

• Long Qianming privately asked Huo Wujin to share the Ring Fusion technique, hoping to adapt it for Xiao Tian.
• Huo Wujin said Ring Fusion was an innate talent but offered to teach Long Qianming if he could defeat him and help with a favor.
• Long Qianming and Huo Wujin went to a wasteland outside Heaven Dou City to spar as their academy teams watched.
• Huo Wujin activated his Martial Soul and charged, while Long Qianming waited with his Dragon Pattern Spear.
• Long Qianming launched his spear and detonated its dark Qi, blasting Huo Wujin away and making him spit blood.

Long Qianming defeated Huo Wujin with his self-created spear skill and received the Fire Luan Clan’s Ring Fusion manual. He refused Huo Wujin’s request to represent the clan in the Hundred Sects Grand Competition, but accepted the manual after making clear that he would neither join the clan nor compete.

• Long Qianming defeated Huo Wujin with one strike, and Huo Wujin realized Long Qianming had held back from killing him.
• Huo Wujin gave Long Qianming the Fire Luan Clan’s Ring Fusion manual and asked him to represent the clan in the Hundred Sects Grand Competition two years later.
• Huo Wujin explained that the Fire Leopard Sect had suppressed the Fire Luan Clan and threatened to annex its lands and resources.
• Long Qianming refused to compete, saying that doing so would bring danger from the Fire Leopard Sect and its allies.
• Huo Wujin pressed the manual on Long Qianming, who accepted it while warning that he would not join the clan or compete and would not be bound by the gift.