Recaps

Jun Yi agreed to compete in both events at the academy tournament and revealed that his Soul Power had reached level 39 after his martial soul changed. Qin Ming explained how Dugu Yan had defeated Yu Tianheng and how Dugu Bo had poisoned him, then took Jun Yi to train with the team; meanwhile, Ning Rongrong prepared to leave without seeing Jun Yi again.

• Jun Yi agreed to enter both the individual and team competitions, then showed Qin Ming that his Soul Power had reached level 39.
• Qin Ming told Jun Yi that Dugu Yan had injured Yu Tianheng after rejecting him, and that her martial soul had evolved to raise her Soul Power to level 52.
• Qin Ming explained that Dugu Bo had poisoned Yu Tianheng and left him bedridden for a month.
• Jun Yi said that Dugu Bo's medicinal herbs had changed his own martial soul and increased his Soul Power, then agreed to train with Qin Ming's team.
• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi that she had already sent Jun Yi a letter and did not want to see him before leaving the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

Ning Rongrong left for Spirit Hall Academy after writing Jun Yi a supportive farewell letter, while Ning Fengzhi banned Soul Tool forging within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. Jun Yi read the letter during training at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Dugu Yan invited him to join the exchange tournament and explained why she had to enter the individual matches.

• Ning Rongrong told Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Sword Douluo that she would cultivate hard, then left for Spirit Hall Academy with Zhu Zhuqing.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Zhu Zhuqing a seven-colored glazed jade token and ordered that Soul Tool forging be forbidden within the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Jun Yi read Ning Rongrong's letter, including Zhu Zhuqing's brief message, before Qin Ming called him back to training.
• Jun Yi resumed sparring with Qin Ming while blindfolded and using Observation Haki.
• Dugu Yan embraced Jun Yi and invited him to fill a vacant spot in the exchange tournament, then explained that the academy had required her to enter the individual matches.

Dugu Yan asked Qin Ming to let Jun Yi compete in her place, and he went to consult the education commissioners. As Jun Yi and Dugu Yan discussed why she rejected Yu Tianheng, Ye Lingling misunderstood their closeness as romance, while Dugu Yan inferred that Ye Lingling liked Jun Yi.

• Dugu Yan praised Jun Yi and asked Qin Ming to replace her with him in the competition.
• Jun Yi proposed saving Dugu Yan as a trump card for the team competition, and Qin Ming left to consult the education commissioners.
• Dugu Yan introduced Ye Lingling to Jun Yi, and their comments about poetry and sunsets led to a mutual misunderstanding about each other's feelings.
• Jun Yi asked Dugu Yan why she rejected Yu Tianheng, and she explained that she wanted to focus on becoming a stronger Soul Master.
• Dugu Yan said Yu Tianheng had tried to ambush her after she rejected him, so she broke the bones in his arm; Ye Lingling added that she had refused the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's request to remove his poison.
• Dugu Yan asked Jun Yi whether he had already grown, then flicked her tongue.

Jun Yi gave Dugu Yan a Soul Tool that stored her Jade Phosphor Five Poisons and could release them as an explosive attack. After Dugu Yan named it the Jade Phosphor Poison Pearl, four Heaven Dou Royal Academy students arrived and questioned why Jun Yi was there.

• Jun Yi recalled how Sword Douluo's training had ruined his attempt to seem aloof, and Dugu Yan remarked on the differences between the Upper Three Sects.
• Jun Yi gave Dugu Yan a silver Soul Tool sphere and explained that she could store toxins inside it for use in combat.
• Dugu Yan filled the sphere with her Jade Phosphor Five Poisons, and Jun Yi explained that she should compress the venom to improve its power.
• Dugu Yan tested the sphere, which exploded against a rock and released poison that reduced the rock to ash, then named it the Jade Phosphor Poison Pearl.
• Ye Lingling mistook Jun Yi and Dugu Yan's closeness for romance while Dugu Yan asked Jun Yi to teach her how to use the sphere.
• Four Heaven Dou Royal Academy students arrived and asked Jun Yi why he was there, and he told them he had been waiting for them.

Jun Yi challenged Heaven Dou Team One’s four members after they questioned his place on the team, then overwhelmed them with his strength. He left the fight still attacking Shi Mo, while the remaining teammates were stunned by how easily he had knocked them back.

• Jun Yi reminded Osler that he had joined Heaven Dou Team One and warned that he could raise the dispute with Xue Qinghe.
• Jun Yi called the four members trash and challenged them all to fight him if they could not accept him.
• Dugu Yan assured Ye Lingling that Jun Yi could defeat the four teammates, and the group moved to an open area.
• Jun Yi covered his eyes and knocked Osler out with a single punch, leaving the other three shocked.
• Shi Mo and Shi Mo summoned their Black Tortoise Martial Souls alongside Yu Feng’s blue swift, but Jun Yi struck the brothers and sent them flying.
• Jun Yi knocked Shi Mo back again, leaving him horrified by Jun Yi’s strength.

Jun Yi defeated Shi Mo, Yu Feng, and two other students after they provoked him, and Ye Lingling healed them while Qin Ming investigated the fight. Qin Ming later asked Jun Yi and Dugu Yan to show visiting students around the academy, but Jun Yi refused.

• Shi Mo and Yu Feng attacked Jun Yi, but he evaded their strikes and defeated all four students without using his Martial Soul.
• Jun Yi asked Ye Lingling to heal the injured students, and Dugu Yan questioned why he had hit them so hard.
• Qin Ming arrived, heard Shi Mo explain what happened, and reprimanded the four students for provoking Jun Yi.
• Qin Ming praised Jun Yi's strength and urged him to help the academy win the exchange tournament.
• Qin Ming explained that visiting teachers and students would arrive that afternoon and asked Jun Yi and Dugu Yan to guide them around campus.
• Jun Yi said he was not interested in being a tour guide.

Jun Yi agreed to guide visiting students from Plant Academy, Skywater Academy, and Blazing Fire Academy, while Dugu Yan agreed to join him with Ye Lingling. Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s leaders discussed their hopes for the exchange tournament and the pressure their students could face, leaving Jun Yi and Dugu Yan set to represent the academy.

• Qin Ming named the three academies visiting that day, and Jun Yi enthusiastically volunteered to serve as a guide after hearing which students were coming.
• Dugu Yan agreed to guide the visitors and asked to bring Ye Lingling, who nodded in agreement.
• Qin Ming warned Jun Yi to fight back if anyone provoked or bullied him, and Dugu Yan explained that the academies were rivals.
• Meng Shenji, Zhi Lin, and Bai Baoshan discussed Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s chances of winning, citing Dugu Yan’s increased strength and Jun Yi as a backup.
• Qin Ming reported that Jun Yi and Dugu Yan had agreed to guide the visitors, and the leaders discussed the academy’s poor past tournament results and the pressure facing its students.

Qin Ming learned that Heaven Dou Royal Academy was under pressure to defend its seeded spot in the upcoming tournament, and the committee members welcomed him into their plans. At the academy gates, Jun Yi met Blazing Fire Academy’s headmaster and Huo Wu, who challenged him to a Soul Fight.

• Bai Baoshan and Zhi Lin explained that poor tournament results and pressure from other academies and the imperial family threatened Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s seeded spot.
• Qin Ming encouraged Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin to trust that Xue Qinghe would eventually abolish the rule admitting only nobles.
• Meng Shenji praised Qin Ming’s ability and ideals, then invited him to welcome the arriving academies.
• Jun Yi struggled to find a fitting uniform, then went with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to the academy gates.
• Meng Shenji introduced Huo Yao, headmaster of Blazing Fire Academy, to Jun Yi.
• Huo Wu called Jun Yi ordinary and challenged him to a Soul Fight.

Jun Yi clashed with Huo Wu when Blazing Fire Academy arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then met the captains and students of Skywater Academy and Plant Academy. He led the three groups on a campus tour after asking Shui Bing'er and Mu Yunteng to keep their students together, while Huo Wu questioned his different treatment of Blazing Fire Academy.

• Huo Yao apologized for Huo Wu's temper, and Jun Yi arranged for Blazing Fire Academy to wait for the other academies before touring the campus.
• Huo Wu objected to waiting, but Jun Yi told Huo Wushuang that the group could either wait or explore on its own.
• Shui Bing'er arrived and traded barbed remarks with Huo Wu before the deans of Skywater Academy and Plant Academy joined the gathering.
• Meng Shenji introduced Jun Yi to the two deans, then left with them to discuss the exchange tournament.
• Jun Yi began the campus tour and asked Shui Bing'er and Mu Yunteng to keep their students together, prompting Huo Wu to challenge his friendliness toward the other academies.

Jun Yi apologized to Blazing Fire Academy’s Huo Wushuang after Huo Wu confronted him, then helped Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling show the visiting students around. He joked with Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er about his cultivation, while Huo Wu watched from nearby and grew increasingly furious.

• Huo Wu demanded an explanation from Jun Yi, and Huo Wushuang apologized on her behalf before asking her to behave.
• Jun Yi accepted the apology and asked Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to lead the academy tour, promising Ye Lingling a reward afterward.
• Dugu Yan showed the visitors around campus while Jun Yi joined Skywater Academy’s group and asked Shui Bing’er for her impression of the academy.
• Shui Yue’er introduced herself to Jun Yi, who pretended to be a Titled Douluo and teased her when she asked about his cultivation level.
• Shui Bing’er called out Jun Yi and Shui Yue’er for their increasingly strange conversation, then smiled when they acted innocent.
• Huo Wu watched Jun Yi chatting with Skywater Academy and grew angrier.

Jun Yi’s claims about his powerful connections and encounter with the Pope left the visiting academy students stunned and silent. He explained Spirit Hall Academy’s visiting-student system, then recounted how he had entered the Papal Palace, ending with Shui Yue’er asking whether the Pope was pretty.

• Huo Wu sarcastically challenged Jun Yi over treating Skywater Academy better than Blazing Fire Academy, and Jun Yi said Skywater had been his first choice because it did not admit male students.
• Jun Yi named Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo as witnesses to his choice, leaving the students aware of his powerful connections and silencing Huo Wu.
• Dugu Yan asked whether Heaven Dou Royal Academy was not good enough for Jun Yi, and he said he had refused the Pope’s invitation to enroll at Spirit Hall Academy for the sake of his current academy.
• Jun Yi explained Spirit Hall Academy’s visiting-student arrangement to Shui Yue’er, while Shui Bing’er described its tuition rules and its offer to recruit outstanding visiting students.
• Dugu Yan led the group to a garden, where Jun Yi recounted his journey to the Papal Palace and meeting the Pope, and Shui Yue’er quietly asked whether the Pope was pretty.

During a tour of Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Jun Yi praised the Pope and encouraged the visiting students to aim for the tournament finals, then waited for a sparring match that never came. After revealing his Soul Power had reached rank thirty-nine, he agreed to fight Shui Bing'er, and the two stepped onto the arena.

• Jun Yi praised the Pope’s beauty and told Shui Yue’er that the tournament finals would be held in Spirit City, where the Pope would attend.
• Dugu Yan led the visiting students around Heaven Dou Royal Academy and brought them to the training grounds.
• Jun Yi waited for Huo Wu to challenge him, but the Blazing Fire Academy and Plant Academy students did not request a fight.
• Jun Yi told the Skywater Academy students that his Soul Power was rank thirty-nine, surprising Shui Bing’er and the others.
• At Shui Yue’er’s suggestion, Shui Bing’er asked Jun Yi to spar, and they walked onto the arena.
• Huo Wushuang noticed the pair and speculated that Skywater Academy was testing Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s strength.

Jun Yi and Shui Bing'er began their spar, revealing that Jun Yi had reached level 39 at only twelve years old. After testing each other’s ice control and defenses, Shui Bing'er launched her Ice Seal at Jun Yi, who began gathering Cold Qi to respond.

• Huo Wu and Huo Wushuang watched Jun Yi face Shui Bing'er and assessed the stakes of the exchange competition.
• Shui Bing'er summoned her Ice Phoenix and introduced herself as a level 39 control-type Soul Master.
• Jun Yi revealed that he was also level 39, shocking the visiting academy students, and expanded his ROOM space around them.
• Jun Yi attacked with ice spikes, which Shui Bing'er blocked with her Ice Ring Armor before countering with a pillar of ice.
• Jun Yi cut through the incoming Cold Qi, charged Shui Bing'er, and shattered her ice shield with a punch.
• Shui Bing'er retreated and used her First Soul Skill, Ice Seal, to send nearly a hundred ice spikes toward Jun Yi as he gathered Cold Qi in his palm.

Jun Yi defeated Shui Bing'er in a spar by using his ice control to overcome her Soul Skills and bind her with ice chains. The students were stunned by his strength, while Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that Jun Yi had helped make her medicinal herb possible.

• Jun Yi explained that he had formed his ice shield through control of the ice element rather than a Soul Skill.
• Shui Bing'er used her Repelling Ice Ring and Ice Seal, but Jun Yi let the cold pass through him before breaking her ice spikes and binding her with ice chains.
• Jun Yi released Shui Bing'er and won the spar, leaving her and the watching students surprised by his strength.
• Huo Wu doubted that anyone from Blazing Fire Academy could defeat Jun Yi after seeing how easily he beat Shui Bing'er.
• Dugu Yan told Ye Lingling that Jun Yi had played a part in obtaining the medicinal herb that raised Ye Lingling's Soul Power.
• Jun Yi and Shui Bing'er returned to the spectator seating, where several students stared at Jun Yi eagerly.

After defeating Shui Bing'er, Jun Yi explained how spiritual power could help Soul Masters develop their Martial Souls, then waited with the academies for their teachers to finish meeting. Shui Yue'er invited him to visit Skywater Academy, and the chapter ended with her teasing him about staring at her stockings.

• Shui Yue'er and the Skywater Academy students questioned Jun Yi about his ice control, and he explained that spiritual power helped refine and develop a Martial Soul.
• Jun Yi declined to reveal his personal spiritual-power training method, and Shui Yue'er invited him to visit Skywater Academy in exchange for his explanation.
• Plant Academy and Blazing Fire Academy did not challenge Jun Yi, and Dugu Yan led everyone to the meeting room to wait for their teachers.
• Shui Yue'er asked Jun Yi why he had looked at her stockings, and he admitted that he thought they looked nice.
• Shui Bing'er judged Jun Yi to be a straightforward little lecher after hearing their conversation.

Jun Yi learned why rival academies resented Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s seeded place in the tournament and called Dugu Yan the academy’s true trump card. Meanwhile, the rival deans pressed the education committee to give up the spot, and Huo Yao said they would petition the imperial family if Heaven Dou Royal Academy lost.

• Jun Yi learned from Shui Yue'er that rival academies objected to Heaven Dou Royal Academy receiving a seeded place despite its students’ weak results and noble-only admissions.
• Shui Bing'er praised Jun Yi’s strength and looked forward to facing Heaven Dou Royal Academy, while Jun Yi pointed to Dugu Yan as the academy’s true trump card.
• Huo Yao, Skywater Academy’s dean, and Plant Academy’s dean urged Meng Shenji and the other committee members to relinquish the seeded place.
• Bai Baoshan and Zhi Lin said they had little power to decide, while Meng Shenji insisted they would not give up the spot for the tournament.
• Huo Yao said the deans would petition the imperial family to relinquish the spot if Heaven Dou Royal Academy lost.

The academy heads discussed the exchange tournament and agreed to petition the imperial family regardless of its outcome. After Jun Yi’s achievements stunned the visiting students, Skywater Academy’s headmistress offered to make an exception to admit him.

• Meng Shenji told the academy heads that they could petition the imperial family even if they lost the exchange tournament, and Huo Yao agreed to join the petition.
• The three academy heads and their companions left the board office, while Jun Yi and the students gathered at the campus entrance to see them off.
• Shui Yue'er told Skywater Academy’s headmistress that Jun Yi had reached Soul Power Level thirty-nine and could control ice better than Shui Bing'er.
• Qin Ming privately explained to Meng Shenji that Jun Yi’s Soul Power had increased after he took an herb from Poison Douluo.
• Skywater Academy’s headmistress offered to make an exception to admit Jun Yi despite the academy’s rule against male students.

Jun Yi declined Skywater Academy’s invitation because he had promised to stay at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where the board members celebrated his rank 39 breakthrough. In the imperial palace, Xue Qinghe received a letter from Bibi Dong ordering her to bring Jun Yi into Spirit Hall, and she resolved to keep him out of Bibi Dong’s reach.

• Jun Yi turned down Dean Bing’s offer to join Skywater Academy, while Shui Bing’er suggested he could visit as an exchange student.
• Blazing Fire Academy, Plant Academy, and Skywater Academy departed, and Shui Yue’er teased Jun Yi before leaving.
• Meng Shenji, Bai Baoshan, and Zhi Lin learned that Jun Yi had reached rank 39 shortly before his thirteenth birthday and went to report his talent to His Majesty.
• Bibi Dong sent Xue Qinghe a letter demanding that Jun Yi join Spirit Hall, and Xue Qinghe burned it after reading it.
• Xue Qinghe told She Long that Jun Yi’s Soul Tool skills likely came from a family inheritance and vowed to keep Bibi Dong from claiming him.

Xue Ye punished Xue Beng for ordering an attack on Jun Yi after learning Jun Yi had reached rank thirty-nine at age twelve. At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Jun Yi and his teammates began Qin Ming’s challenge to withstand his full strength for one incense stick.

• Xue Qinghe and Douluo She Long discussed Jun Yi’s hidden abilities and Xue Qinghe’s past decision to keep him close.
• Xue Ye summoned Xue Qinghe while berating Xue Beng and Xue Xing over the attempt to kill Jun Yi.
• Xue Ye struck Xue Beng and confined him to the palace for six months after learning Jun Yi had reached rank thirty-nine at twelve years old.
• Qin Ming challenged Jun Yi and six teammates to withstand his full strength for one incense stick, threatening them with fifty laps if they failed.
• Dugu Yan arranged the team’s positions, and Jun Yi urged everyone to attack freely while promising they would not get hurt.
• Qin Ming announced the start of the training match.

Jun Yi and his teammates fought Qin Ming inside his ROOM space, using coordinated attacks and Jun Yi’s ability to reposition people to evade Qin Ming’s blows. The fight continued as Jun Yi revealed that his spatial control could also create ice blades.

• Jun Yi enclosed the team and Qin Ming in a ROOM space as everyone summoned their Martial Souls.
• Dugu Yan poisoned Qin Ming while the Shi Mo brothers charged him, but he smashed their shields before Jun Yi repositioned them beside Ye Lingling for healing.
• Yu Feng and Osler attacked Qin Ming, but Qin Ming dispelled Yu Feng’s tornadoes and countered Osler with fire and mental pressure.
• Jun Yi repeatedly used ROOM to move Osler and Yu Feng out of Qin Ming’s attacks, surprising Osler with the ability to switch positions without detectable Soul Power.
• Jun Yi told Qin Ming there was more to his Soul Skill, then created over twenty frost blades with ROOM Ice Blades.

Jun Yi’s team fought Qin Ming in a training match, and Jun Yi froze him to secure their victory. After Qin Ming praised their teamwork and treated them to dinner, Jun Yi spotted an unfamiliar yet familiar figure in Heaven Dou Square.

• Jun Yi teleported his teammates around Qin Ming as they attacked together, but Qin Ming countered with powerful flames.
• Dugu Yan used her fifth Soul Skill to break through Qin Ming’s flames, though his sixth Soul Skill overwhelmed her poison dragon.
• Jun Yi teleported behind Qin Ming and froze him, sealing his Soul Power as the training incense burned out.
• Qin Ming praised Jun Yi’s control and the team’s coordination, then offered to treat everyone to a meal in Heaven Dou City.
• Jun Yi explored Heaven Dou Square with the others and suddenly recognized an unfamiliar yet familiar figure in the crowd.

Jun Yi encountered Xue Qinghe in Heaven Dou Square and listened as he apologized for neglecting him, arranging rumors about his talent, and the danger he had faced. Xue Qinghe’s sincere apology left Jun Yi struggling to respond as their conversation continued.

• Jun Yi left Qin Ming and Dugu Yan to greet Xue Qinghe, whom he had encountered strolling alone in the square.
• Jun Yi explained that Qin Ming had brought the academy group to Heaven Dou City for a feast and a walk.
• Xue Qinghe apologized for Jun Yi’s near-death experience, and Jun Yi reassured him that he was not to blame.
• Xue Qinghe admitted he had neglected Jun Yi during his childhood and had spread rumors about his talent to inspire the Heaven Dou Empire’s Soul Masters.
• Xue Qinghe bowed to apologize, and Jun Yi hurried to stop him before beginning an awkwardly affected reply.

Jun Yi comforted Xue Qinghe during a walk through a market, not knowing how deeply his words affected Qian Renxue beneath her disguise. After returning to the palace and briefly revealing her true appearance, Qian Renxue resumed her role as Xue Qinghe and resolved to be herself only after Spirit Hall unified the continent.

• Xue Qinghe told Jun Yi that years of political deception had made him forget what he originally looked like, and Jun Yi encouraged him to stay true to what he wanted.
• Xue Qinghe bought an angel mask and a spider mask, gave the spider mask to Jun Yi, and returned to the palace.
• Jun Yi rejoined Dugu Yan, Ye Lingling, and Qin Ming, then traveled with the group back to Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Qian Renxue dismissed the guards, removed her Xue Qinghe disguise, and looked at her true face in a mirror.
• Qian Renxue put her disguise back on and resolved to reveal her true self only after Spirit Hall unified the continent.

Jun Yi attended the exchange tournament and spent time with Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and the students of Skywater Academy. After meeting Shui Yue'er's mother and joking about joining their academy, he settled among the girls and ignored the jealous stares from students at other academies.

• Jun Yi arrived at the crowded tournament venue with Qin Ming and learned that academies from across the region had been invited to watch.
• Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er greeted Jun Yi, and they teased him about being a servant of two surnames after he declared that his heart belonged to Skywater Academy.
• Shui Yue'er brought Jun Yi to Skywater Academy's seats and introduced him to her mother, Aunt Yue, who was leading the team.
• Jun Yi chatted comfortably with the Skywater Academy students, sitting between Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er.
• Shui Bing'er warned Jun Yi that students from other academies were glaring at him, but he dismissed them as noobs.

Jun Yi watched the competing academies arrive and saw Feng Xiaotian make a flashy entrance, then spend another moment trying to win Huo Wu’s attention. After the academies gathered for the opening ceremony, Jun Yi left Skywater Academy with Shui Yue’er, who asked why he had been staring at her stockings.

• Jun Yi mistook Heaven Dou Royal Academy’s second team for another academy because they wore matching uniforms, and Shui Bing’er and Shui Yue’er teased him.
• Shui Bing’er said Godwind Academy had not yet arrived and that its captain, Feng Xiaotian, had recently reached level forty.
• Feng Xiaotian arrived with a dramatic entrance, greeted Huo Wu, and rallied himself after she ignored him.
• Jun Yi and Shui Yue’er shared sunflower seeds while discussing Feng Xiaotian’s pursuit of Huo Wu, and Shui Bing’er joined them.
• After all academies arrived and the opening ceremony began, Jun Yi returned toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy with Shui Yue’er accompanying him.
• Shui Yue’er asked Jun Yi whether he had been staring at her stockings.