Recaps

Long Qianming studied Ring Fusion, mastered a version that could fuse up to six Soul Rings, and brought the Häagen-Dazs Team to face Clear Sky Academy in the advancement tournament final. Dugu Xin challenged Tang Hao in a single bout, and the chapter ended as Dugu Xin’s Jade Phosphorus Dragon blocked Tang Hao’s hammer strike and fired a beam at him.

• Long Qianming read the Ring Fusion manual and worried that his Soul Rings might not meet its requirements.
• The Häagen-Dazs Team won four consecutive matches and advanced to the final, while Clear Sky Academy defeated Elephant Armor Academy again.
• Long Qianming mastered Ring Fusion for up to six Soul Rings and resolved to seek the Clear Sky Sect’s Ring Detonation manual when he was strong enough.
• At the Royal Hunting Ground, Long Qianming proposed that the final be decided in one bout between Dugu Xin and Tang Hao.
• Tang Hao charged through Dugu Xin’s poison mist and unleashed his Fourth Soul Skill, Titan’s Hammer.
• Dugu Xin used Jade Phosphorus Breath to block Tang Hao’s hammer projection and fire a beam of energy at him.

Tang Hao defeated Dugu Xin in the advancement round, securing first place for Clear Sky Academy while Häagen-Dazs Academy took second. As Long Qianming prepared to enter seclusion, he joined Dugu Bo and urged him to seek a position as a Heaven Dou Revered Elder to protect the Dugu Family from the coming turmoil.

• Tang Hao used his Fifth Soul Skill and Void Absolute to break Dugu Xin’s arms and overwhelm him, prompting Long Qianming to concede the match.
• Su Qing’er healed Dugu Xin, and Clear Sky Academy took first place while Häagen-Dazs Academy finished second in the advancement round.
• Long Qianming told Dugu Xin and Su Qing’er that he would skip the trip to Spirit City and enter seclusion to improve his strength.
• Dugu Bo met Long Qianming near Sunset Forest and took him toward the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, explaining that he needed help resolving a matter.
• Long Qianming warned Dugu Bo that a major conflict among Soul Masters and sects was approaching and suggested he contact Xue Hui about becoming a Heaven Dou Revered Elder.

Long Qianming successfully tested Ring Fusion on Xiao Tian, discovering that the Dark Sacred Dragon could use both Soul Skills while consuming less Soul Power and gaining a Soul Beast’s presence. Dugu Bo became an honored retainer of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, while Qian Xunji ordered the Reclusive Elimination Plan to begin.

• Long Qianming showed Dugu Bo the medicinal herbs he had cultivated at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well and demonstrated Ring Fusion on the practice ground.
• Long Qianming fused his first two Soul Rings and sent the resulting ring into Xiao Tian, causing the Dark Sacred Dragon’s presence to surge.
• Xiao Tian used its first and second Soul Skills together to destroy a boulder, and Long Qianming found that the skills consumed half as much Soul Power.
• Dugu Bo returned to Heaven Dou City, where Xue Ye contacted him and he became an honored retainer of the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Qian Xunji ordered Salas and the two elders to begin the Reclusive Elimination Plan, sending them toward the Heaven Dou Empire and Star Luo Empire.

Qian Xunji warned Bibi Dong that Spirit Hall would face harsh training if it lost the tournament, while she looked forward to competing against Tang Hao and seeing Long Qianming. On the journey to Spirit City, the Blazing Fire Academy convoy was ambushed, and Huo Shu discovered that the attackers belonged to the Fire Leopard Sect.

• Qian Xunji threatened Bibi Dong and her team with three years of training in the Lost Track Grand Canyon if they lost the tournament.
• Dugu Bo escorted Dugu Xin and the others toward Spirit City while Long Qianming continued cultivating at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Huo Shu sensed danger as the Blazing Fire Academy convoy crossed wooded hills, and thirty black-robed Soul Masters surrounded them.
• Huo Shu fought to protect Huo Wujin and Huo Feng while the attackers targeted them and battled the Royal Guard.
• Huo Wujin and Huo Feng fired distress signals, and Huo Shu recognized the attackers as members of the Fire Leopard Sect when their leader revealed himself as Huo Yanshan.

Huo Yanshan’s ambush killed four young Fire Luan disciples and a promising Soul Emperor, but Huo Wujin and Huo Feng escaped with help from the Elephant Armor Sect and Fire Luan reinforcements. After retreating, Huo Yanshan reported to Chrysanthemum Guan, who punished his force for failing to kill Huo Wujin and Huo Feng.

• Huo Shu’s team fought Huo Yanshan’s forces, and four young disciples sacrificed themselves while Huo Wujin, Huo Feng, and Xiao Xiong fled.
• The Elephant Armor Sect arrived, killed the pursuing Soul Kings, and helped protect Huo Wujin and his companions until Fire Luan Clan reinforcements arrived.
• Huo Yanshan set the forest ablaze and escaped with his remaining subordinates before the Fire Luan Clan and Elephant Armor Sect could catch them.
• Huo Shu gathered the dead and returned to Blazing Fire City as the survivors vowed to make the Fire Leopard Sect pay.
• Huo Yanshan told Chrysanthemum Guan that he had completed his mission, but Chrysanthemum Guan accused him of failing to kill Huo Wujin and Huo Feng.
• Chrysanthemum Guan crushed the thirteen Soul Kings under Titled Douluo pressure while Huo Yanshan and the five Spirit Hall Soul Emperors remained standing.

Chrysanthemum Guan killed Huo Yanshan after exposing Spirit Hall’s manipulation, while other attacks and news of powerful Soul Masters’ deaths intensified unrest across the continent. When Bibi Dong learned Long Qianming was cultivating in seclusion instead of coming to Spirit City, she decided to find him after the finals and bring him back to protect him.

• Chrysanthemum Guan killed Huo Yanshan and ordered the bodies burned to conceal the cause of their deaths.
• Ghost Douluo’s ambush in the Star Luo Empire killed the White Tiger Sect’s young sect master, and news spread that three sect teams had withdrawn from the tournament.
• Qian Xunji learned that the old sect masters of Elephant Armor and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had died, and he welcomed the news as a boost to Spirit Hall’s plans.
• The twenty-nine tournament teams arrived in Spirit City and settled into separate hotels ahead of the finals.
• Bibi Dong visited Su Qing’er to look for Long Qianming, learned he was cultivating in seclusion, and resolved to find him after the finals and bring him to Spirit City.

Bibi Dong encountered Yu Xiaogang, rejected his Martial Soul Mimicry Theory, and left him humiliated. Qian Lingyun arranged for Yu Xiaogang to become the Spirit Hall orphanage director, while the tournament concluded with Häagen-Dazs Academy taking third place.

• Bibi Dong mistook Yu Xiaogang for Long Qianming, then asked about his Martial Soul theories after learning he wanted to watch the tournament finals.
• Yu Xiaogang presented his Martial Soul Mimicry Theory, and Bibi Dong dismissed it as nonsense before walking away.
• Qian Lingyun, jealous of Bibi Dong, arranged for Yu Xiaogang to direct the Spirit Hall orphanage and promised him access to the library.
• Thirty teams gathered at Full Moon Square for the finals draw, and Clear Sky Academy and Star Luo Royal Academy received byes.
• Häagen-Dazs Academy defeated its opponents and used its Martial Soul Fusion Skill to take third place in the tournament.

The Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament final began with Spirit Hall Academy facing Clear Sky Academy, and Bibi Dong led her team against Tang Hao. Tang Hao unleashed his Sky-Piercing Strike, leaving Bibi Dong to defend her team with a massive barrier.

• Spectators watched Yu Xiaogang stand with Spirit Hall, drawing angry insults from members of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and Thunder Academy.
• Clear Sky Academy fielded only five members, while Bibi Dong and Tang Hao led their teams into the final match.
• Bibi Dong’s team restrained Tang Hao with chains and a spider web, but Tang Hao broke free and charged at her with his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tang Hao used Sky-Piercing Strike to form a gigantic black Clear Sky Hammer, alarming the spectators and Qian Xunji.
• Bibi Dong gathered her teammates and used Thousand Peaks and Ten Thousand Shields to raise a huge purple barrier against Tang Hao’s attack.

Tang Hao defeated Spirit Hall in the tournament final and claimed the championship Soul Bone, while Dugu Bo discovered Long Qianming had left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. A year and a half later, Long Qianming hunted a powerful Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear in the Lost Track Grand Canyon, regretting that he had let it escape before.

• Tang Hao shattered the arena barrier with his Sky-Piercing Strike, defeating Bibi Dong and Spirit Hall's team.
• Qian Xunji gave Tang Hao the forty-thousand-year Heaven Poison Demon Scorpion left arm bone as Clear Sky Academy's championship reward.
• Dugu Bo returned to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with Dugu Xin and Dugu Qing, found most of his herbs missing, and discovered Long Qianming had left them a ten-thousand-year Soul Bone and a letter.
• Dugu Bo refused to search for Long Qianming, telling Dugu Xin and Dugu Qing to focus on becoming stronger as the continent grew more dangerous.
• A year and a half later, Long Qianming found a wounded Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear in the Lost Track Grand Canyon and regretted not having Xiao Tian kill it during their earlier fights.

Long Qianming defeated the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and began absorbing its Soul Ring, but a pair of external palm bones triggered a spiritual battle. With Xiao Tian's help, he crushed the bear's soul and discovered that his Dark Sacred Dragon Martial Soul had taken the embryonic form of a spear he could not yet summon.

• Long Qianming and Xiao Tian cornered the wounded Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, overcame its defenses, and stopped it from self-detonating with the Dragon Pattern Spear.
• Xiao Tian killed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, and Long Qianming carried its corpse to the cave where the Netherworld Gold Scorpion King and Queen had died.
• Long Qianming began absorbing the bear's thirty-two-thousand-year Soul Ring, and a pair of dark golden external palm bones attached themselves to his hands, making the energy violent.
• The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear's soul attacked Long Qianming in his spiritual sea, but Xiao Tian entered and crushed it, turning it into energy that strengthened Long Qianming's spiritual power.
• Long Qianming saw his Dark Sacred Dragon Martial Soul take the embryonic form of a dragon-patterned spear, but realized he could not summon the Black Dragon Blood Spear until he obtained his Martial Soul Avatar.

Long Qianming perfected his metal attribute, awakened the Yin Yang Domain, and developed the first stages of Dragon Body Power before testing his strength against Xiao Tian. Elsewhere, Bibi Dong and her companions fled a Soul Beast uprising, while a hidden creature directed the beasts toward Long Qianming.

• Long Qianming absorbed the singular velvet sky chrysanthemum, completed his five-element cycle, and formed an inner core containing the Dark Sacred Dragon.
• Long Qianming awakened the Yin Yang Domain and discovered that his body could transform through Dragon Body Power while Xiao Tian fought alongside him as an External Martial Soul.
• Long Qianming activated his Dark Gold Demonic Dragon Armor and Yin Yang Domain, reached the second stage of Dragon Body Power, and sparred with Xiao Tian.
• Bibi Dong and her two teammates were training in the Lost Track Grand Canyon when Ling Yuan evacuated them from a Soul Beast uprising.
• A hidden creature watched from the black mist and drove the Soul Beasts toward Long Qianming without approaching him itself.

Long Qianming fought Xiao Tian’s Dark Sacred Dragon while Ling Yuan led Bibi Dong and the others away, then returned to investigate and rescued him. Ling Yuan recognized Long Qianming as an old acquaintance after he claimed the dragon had killed his companions.

• Long Qianming used his Space-Rending Claw and Demonic Dragon Heaven-Rending Break against Xiao Tian, but Xiao Tian endured the attacks and eventually gained the advantage as Long Qianming’s Soul Power ran low.
• Ling Yuan sensed the battle and left Bibi Dong and the others behind a protective wall of fire while she went to investigate the Dark Sacred Dragon.
• Long Qianming pretended to be badly injured and took Xiao Tian’s tail strike, allowing Ling Yuan to catch him as she arrived.
• Ling Yuan used her Fire Luan Meteor Shower to drive Xiao Tian away, and Xiao Tian flew far enough from Long Qianming to dissipate into black Qi.
• Long Qianming told Ling Yuan that the Dark Sacred Dragon had killed his companions, and Ling Yuan recognized him as the Little Miracle Doctor of Kidney Deficiency from Gengxin City.

Ling Yuan rescued Long Qianming from the Lost Track Grand Canyon as a beast tide approached, and Bibi Dong helped carry him to safety. After they escaped the tide, Bibi Dong angrily told Long Qianming to walk on his own.

• Ling Yuan flew Long Qianming away from the Dark Sacred Dragon's battleground and brought him back to Bibi Dong as the beast tide neared.
• Bibi Dong gave Long Qianming a healing steamed bun and caught him when he nearly fell, while he pretended to be badly injured.
• Ling Yuan warned that the beast tide would arrive within minutes and proposed taking Long Qianming while the others retreated.
• Bibi Dong carried Long Qianming on her back through the canyon, scolding him for entering such a dangerous place and admitting she would lose a good friend if he died.
• After half an hour, the group reached the northern outskirts and saw the beast tide disperse, and Bibi Dong set Long Qianming down and told him to walk.

Long Qianming explained his Tool Martial Soul’s beast transformation to Ling Yuan and Bibi Dong, then fled the Spirit Hall camp to avoid exposing his secrets or being recruited. After reaching a city, he sensed a dying, poisoned person in an alley.

• Ling Yuan questioned Long Qianming about his dragonlike appearance, and he claimed his Dragon Pattern Spear could undergo beast transformation.
• Ling Yuan and Bibi Dong offered to help Long Qianming join Spirit Hall and become a Titled Douluo’s disciple.
• Long Qianming coughed up blood, and Bibi Dong carried him back to the camp for treatment.
• Long Qianming used his Soul Bone’s Simulation skill to disguise himself and escape while Bibi Dong went to make him steamed egg custard.
• Long Qianming fled east from the camp and, after reaching a city, sensed a deeply poisoned person in an alley.

Long Qianming rescued Wang Fan, an Azure Nether Sect shadow with a Bone Chicken Martial Soul, and learned that the sect had sacrificed Wang Fan’s little sister for an awakening ritual. After refusing to rescue her and leaving the hotel, Long Qianming was followed by three Soul Elders, who cornered him in an alley and prepared to attack.

• Long Qianming saved the poisoned Wang Fan, treated him at a hotel, and heard that the Hundred Sects Grand Competition had intensified conflicts among the major sects.
• Wang Fan woke, revealed that he had served as the Azure Nether Sect’s young sect master Qing Li’s shadow, and explained that his little sister had been taken for the sect’s awakening ritual.
• Wang Fan begged Long Qianming to rescue his little sister, but Long Qianming refused, left him money, and departed the hotel.
• Three Soul Elders followed Long Qianming because he had collected Qing Li’s body, and Long Qianming led them into an alley.
• The three Soul Elders summoned their Martial Souls and Soul Rings, while Long Qianming waited at the dead end.

Long Qianming killed three Lesser Yang Sect disciples and agreed to help Wang Fan rescue his younger sister from the Azure Nether Sect. As the Lesser Yang Sect marched out to attack its rival, the Azure Nether Sect prepared to sacrifice Wang Fan’s sister in a ritual intended to awaken the ancient mutant Soaring Serpent Martial Soul in a child posing as Qing Li.

• Long Qianming used his dragon claws to kill three Lesser Yang Sect disciples who had attacked him, despite one threatening him with his father’s rank in the sect.
• Long Qianming agreed to help Wang Fan rescue his younger sister and told him to wait with horses outside the city while he handled the rescue.
• Wang Fan recognized the stolen tokens and storage tool as proof that Long Qianming had killed the three attackers, then suggested using the tokens to infiltrate the Lesser Yang Sect.
• Long Qianming escorted Wang Fan out of the city, disguised himself, and spent two days gathering information about the rival sects.
• The Lesser Yang Sect master led most of his disciples out to attack the Azure Nether Sect, leaving only the third elder, two Soul Emperors, and eighty disciples behind.
• At an Azure Nether Sect cave, the master and his wife prepared a ritual using Wang Fan’s bound younger sister as a sacrifice to awaken the Soaring Serpent Martial Soul in a child who looked like Qing Li.

Long Qianming disguised himself as the Lesser Yang Sect’s second elder, broke into its treasure pavilion, and stole nearly all its valuables. After defeating the sect’s defenders with his dragon body and explosive black Qi, he escaped, leaving the third elder vowing revenge.

• The Azure Nether Sect Master led his elders and disciples to confront the Lesser Yang Sect while his wife remained with Li'er during the awakening ceremony.
• Long Qianming disguised himself as the Lesser Yang Sect’s second elder and reached its treasure pavilion, but two Soul Emperors recognized the deception.
• Long Qianming knocked out the two guards, broke into the pavilion, and stored its valuables in his Space Soul Tools before a Black Water Centipede forced him outside.
• Surrounded by eighty Soul Masters, Long Qianming blocked their attacks and used an explosive technique to kill or badly injure most of them, including the third elder’s forces.
• Long Qianming escaped with Walking on the Wind, and the wounded third elder vowed to find him and avenge the sect’s disciples.

Long Qianming raced to the Azure Nether Sect and disrupted the sect master's wife’s plan to awaken the Soaring Serpent Martial Soul. He crippled Qing Li’s Martial Soul and left the sect master's wife mentally broken as the sect battle raged outside.

• After the Lesser Yang Sect was destroyed, rival clans began seizing its businesses, while a dying messenger reported the attack to the Lesser Yang Sect Master outside the Azure Nether Sect.
• Believing the Azure Nether Sect was responsible, the Lesser Yang Sect Master ordered an assault, and the two sects erupted into battle.
• In a cave, the sect master's wife prepared to sacrifice a bound girl to activate the awakening altar, and Xiao Mo approached the girl with a greatsword.
• Long Qianming burst through the cave, destroyed the altar with his spear, and struck Qing Li, shattering the boy’s Azure Nether Snake Martial Soul.
• The sect master's wife attacked Long Qianming with her soul skill, but he turned the remnant snake souls against her and left her helpless and mentally broken.

Long Qianming rescued Wang Lin while the Azure Nether Sect fell to the Lesser Yang Sect and its sect master crushed a betrayal within his ranks. After learning that a different Dragon Duke had destroyed the sect, the Lesser Yang Sect's sect master vowed revenge but received a description that ruled out Meng Shu and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

• Long Qianming confirmed Wang Lin’s identity, freed her, knocked her unconscious, and carried her away from the Azure Nether Sect.
• The Azure Nether Sect’s fourth elder poisoned and helped kill its sect master, then urged the sect’s disciples to surrender to the Lesser Yang Sect.
• After the battle, the Lesser Yang Sect’s sect master crippled the fourth elder and ordered the Azure Nether Snake clansmen killed or captured.
• The Lesser Yang Sect’s sect master found Qing Li’s dantian destroyed and the former mistress mentally broken in the awakening cave, then ordered the child there killed.
• The third elder reported that a Dragon Duke had stolen the sect’s valuables and destroyed its grounds, and clarified that the attacker was not Meng Shu but a black, flesh-armored dragonman.

The false Dragon Duke’s destruction of the Azure Nether Sect brought the Lesser Yang Sect wealth and sparked open conflict among Soul Master factions. Spirit Hall identified Long Qianming and ordered his capture, while the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan debated what to do about him.

• The Lesser Yang Sect master ordered a likeness of the Dragon Duke distributed and sent information about him to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, as the sect claimed the Hundred Sects Grand Competition’s rules no longer applied.
• After news spread that the Azure Nether Sect had fallen, families across the continent fought for territory, and Meng Shu and Chao Tianxiang set out for the Lesser Yang Sect to explain that Meng Shu had not used the Dragon Duke’s name.
• Qian Lingyun recognized Long Qianming in the portrait, ordered Spirit Hall branches to capture him or kill him if he resisted, and had Bibi Dong confined for objecting.
• Qian Lingyun told Salas to secretly alert the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan about Long Qianming, then summoned Yu Xiaogang to the Pope’s Palace.
• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s elders gathered to discuss the portrait, with one proposing that they recruit Long Qianming and another rejecting the idea.

Long Qianming discovered the potential in Wang Fan and Wang Lin’s martial souls and agreed to take them as his disciples. Meanwhile, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan ordered Long Qianming’s assassination, and he began guiding his new disciples on how to develop their powers.

• Yu Yuanzhen agreed with the grand elder that Long Qianming threatened the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and ordered Sixth Brother to kill him in the Star Luo Empire.
• Long Qianming examined Wang Lin and recognized that her soul banner could absorb undead energy, while Wang Fan’s bone chicken martial soul also had great potential.
• Long Qianming told the siblings that they could become Titled Douluo, and Wang Fan and Wang Lin knelt and asked him to accept them as disciples.
• Long Qianming agreed to teach the siblings and explained that Wang Fan should develop his bone chicken with flying soul beasts whose primary attributes were darkness or undead and whose secondary attribute was fire.

Long Qianming guided Wang Fan and Wang Lin in developing their martial souls, and Wang Lin chose to follow the Human Emperor Banner path. After a year and a half, Long Qianming broke through to rank sixty and took the siblings to find soul beasts; he located a suitable Light Tiger for Wang Lin’s first soul ring.

• Long Qianming explained how Wang Fan could strengthen his Bone Chicken martial soul by absorbing a soul beast with phoenix bloodline and suitable attributes.
• Long Qianming presented Wang Lin with three paths for her Soul Banner: the Soul Refining Banner, the Human Emperor Banner, and the Five Elements Flag, and Wang Lin chose the Human Emperor Banner.
• Long Qianming trained the siblings, helped Wang Fan obtain a suitable flying soul beast, and arranged attribute-matched soul beast meat and whale rubber to strengthen their bodies.
• A year and a half later, Long Qianming broke through to rank sixty, while Wang Lin had reached rank ten and Wang Fan was nearing rank fourteen.
• Long Qianming took the siblings to the Star Spirit Soul Beast Mountain Range and found a four-hundred-to-five-hundred-year-old Light Tiger suitable for Wang Lin’s first soul ring.

Long Qianming helped Wang Lin hunt and absorb her first Soul Ring before Ye Huang stumbled into them while fleeing Aolaien over a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Bone. Long Qianming confronted Aolaien, whose greed and threat to kill them all ended with one dragon-powered punch that left him badly wounded.

• Long Qianming subdued a five-hundred-year-old Light Tiger, and Wang Lin killed it and began absorbing its yellow Soul Ring.
• After four two-hour periods, Ye Huang ran out of the undergrowth, injured and pursued, and Long Qianming saved him from Aolaien's lightning attacks.
• Ye Huang explained that Aolaien was pursuing him over a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Bone, while Aolaien demanded Long Qianming's Storage Soul Tool and threatened everyone.
• Long Qianming pushed Ye Huang aside, transformed into a half-dragon, and smashed through Aolaien's Lightning Armor with a single punch.

Long Qianming killed Aolaien, gave Ye Huang the Soul Bone and a Storage Soul Tool, and reunited with Wang Lin after she absorbed her first Soul Ring. He examined her Human Emperor Banner’s new abilities and began considering how to improve its development.

• Long Qianming killed Aolaien and took his Storage Soul Tool, then gave the ten-thousand-year left arm bone to Ye Huang.
• Long Qianming gave Ye Huang a Storage Soul Tool and asked him to escort Wang Fan and Wang Lin to Häagen-Dazs Academy when he left.
• Ye Huang accepted the Soul Bone and began absorbing it after Long Qianming explained the precautions.
• Wang Lin woke up as a Soul Master and described her Human Emperor Banner’s first Soul Skill, Human Emperor’s Conversation.
• Long Qianming judged Wang Lin’s support abilities too weak and asked whether she could absorb the undead energy from Aolaien’s corpse.

Wang Lin captured a Soul Emperor's departed soul in her Human Emperor Banner, while Long Qianming helped Ye Huang pursue a Purple Radiant Bamboo Soul Ring that might evolve his Martial Soul. After killing the bamboo Soul Beasts blocking their path, Long Qianming reached the Purple Radiant Bamboo at the grove's center.

• Wang Lin gathered a Soul Emperor's departed soul into her Human Emperor Banner, and Long Qianming advised her to keep absorbing souls with the same attribute.
• Ye Huang explained that he had spent half a year searching for a Purple Radiant Bamboo Soul Beast to obtain his fifth Soul Ring.
• Long Qianming told Ye Huang that absorbing Purple Radiant Bamboo after four bamboo Soul Rings could give him a high chance of Martial Soul Evolution.
• Long Qianming led Ye Huang, Wang Fan, and Wang Lin deep into the Star Spirit Mountain Range, where they found traces of Purple Radiant Bamboo.
• Long Qianming sent Wang Fan and Wang Lin back, then fought through the bamboo Soul Beasts and killed several thousand-year ones with his spear.
• Long Qianming broke into the area controlled by the Purple Radiant Bamboo and saw the twenty-meter-tall, translucent purple bamboo with golden markings.