Recaps

Gui Yuan sparred with Yan after Yan took his anger out on him, revealing his remarkable cultivation and combat abilities. He defeated Yan with his five-thousand-year External Soul Bone and left him injured but alive, while Hu Liena wondered how Bibi Dong would handle the incident.

• Yan challenged Gui Yuan to a spar, but Gui Yuan dismissed Yan’s confidence and revealed his purple, purple, and black Soul Rings and level thirty-six cultivation.
• Gui Yuan boosted himself with his chrysanthemum, attacked Yan with Netherworld Needles, and dodged Yan’s charges using Shadow Step.
• Gui Yuan unleashed Dark Gold Dreadclaw, broke through Yan’s defenses, and knocked him unconscious with a claw strike to the chest.
• Gui Yuan gave Xie Yue a chrysanthemum heart to heal Yan and explained that he had avoided Yan’s vital points.
• Hu Liena worried about how Bibi Dong would respond, while Gui Yuan remained curious about what she would do.

After Gui Yuan defeated Yan, Bibi Dong heard Hu Liena’s report and decided to punish Yan for provoking her disciple. Lie Yangtian came to demand an explanation, but Yue Guan and Gui Mei backed Bibi Dong, who cut Yan’s supplies and reduced his cultivation resources.

• Gui Yuan left with Hu Liena after defeating Yan, while Xie Yue reflected on the strength of Gui Yuan’s food enhancement and Martial Soul.
• Hu Liena reported the duel to Bibi Dong, who was surprised by Gui Yuan’s combat ability and began considering how to punish Yan.
• Lie Yangtian entered the Pope’s Palace and accused Gui Yuan of injuring Yan too severely.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei arrived to support Bibi Dong, and Yue Guan revealed that he had reached Level 96 before challenging Lie Yangtian to fight.
• Bibi Dong ruled that Yan had provoked a seven-year-old Food System Soul Master and canceled his whale rubber supplies while halving his cultivation resources for two years.

Bibi Dong punished Yan for bullying Gui Yuan and forced Lie Yangtian to leave the Pope's Palace empty-handed. Qian Daoliu declined to intervene, while Gui Yuan learned of his teacher's support and the conflict was left for Bibi Dong to handle.

• Bibi Dong cut Yan's resources in half for two years and stopped Spirit Hall's whale rubber supplies, then drove Lie Yangtian from the Pope's Palace with her Soul Power pressure.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei praised Bibi Dong for defending Gui Yuan, and Yue Guan predicted Hu Liena would spread the news to him.
• Hu Liena told Gui Yuan about Yan's punishment, and Gui Yuan accepted the outcome while asking her not to spread the story.
• Lie Yangtian appealed to Qian Daoliu, who questioned him about Gui Yuan's one-move victory and sent him away without promising help.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo asked whether Qian Daoliu would punish Bibi Dong, and Qian Daoliu said he would leave the matter to her.

Dugu Bo recovered from his Martial Soul backlash and grew stronger after taking Yue Guan’s pills, while Hu Liena absorbed a Soul Bone and prepared to hunt for her fourth Soul Ring. The chapter ended with Bibi Dong, Hu Liena, and Xie Yue setting off for Star Dou Great Forest as Gui Yuan saw them off.

• Dugu Bo finished his month of pills, recovered from his symptoms, and rose from Level 91 to Level 93.
• Gui Yuan reached Level 39, while Hu Liena and Xie Yue broke through to Level 40 and Yan remained at Level 39.
• Bibi Dong gave Hu Liena the sixty-thousand-year Spirit Condensing Charm Skull and guarded her as she absorbed it.
• Hu Liena gained the Bewitching Soul Bone Skill, and Bibi Dong planned to seek a spiritual attack Soul Ring for her.
• Three days later, Bibi Dong, Hu Liena, and Xie Yue left for Star Dou Great Forest, while Gui Yuan saw them off.

After Bibi Dong left for the Star Dou Great Forest with Hu Liena and Xie Yue, Gui Yuan proposed that Soul Masters form soul cores to improve their endurance in battle. Yue Guan and Gui Mei took the idea seriously and planned to experiment with it.

• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Bibi Dong departed for the Star Dou Great Forest while Gui Yuan stayed at Spirit Hall.
• Gui Yuan met Yue Guan and Gui Mei and asked why Titled Douluo struggled to defeat enormous armies.
• Gui Yuan proposed condensing Soul Power into a stable core in the lower dantian, allowing Soul Masters to draw on it during battle.
• Gui Yuan demonstrated that he could not compress Soul Power into a dense solid outside his body and explained that a Netherworld Needle was different from a soul core.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei saw potential in the theory and agreed to try condensing soul cores themselves.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei formed soul power cyclones while trying to condense soul cores, then reported their progress to Gui Yuan and planned to wait for Bibi Dong. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Bibi Dong found a Soul Devouring Flame Fox suited to Hu Liena and a rare Space Shattering Silver Fox suited to Xie Yue.

• Yue Guan repeatedly failed to condense a soul core but formed a soul power cyclone that increased his circulation and recovery speed.
• Gui Mei followed Yue Guan's method and formed a soul power cyclone of his own after five days.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei told Gui Yuan about their progress and agreed to wait for Bibi Dong to try condensing a soul core.
• Bibi Dong searched the Star Dou Great Forest with Hu Liena and Xie Yue, rejecting several soul beasts whose ages were unsuitable.
• Bibi Dong found a ten-thousand-year Soul Devouring Flame Fox suited to Hu Liena and a rare Space Shattering Silver Fox suited to Xie Yue fighting in a cave.

Bibi Dong captured two Soul Beasts for Hu Liena and Xie Yue, who absorbed their Soul Rings and gained new abilities. After they returned to Spirit Hall, Gui Mei began teaching Gui Yuan the control skill Ghost Hand.

• Bibi Dong defeated and bound the Soul Devouring Flame Fox and the silver-white fox, then had Hu Liena and Xie Yue kill them and absorb their Soul Rings.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue completed their absorption and reached ranks forty-three and forty-two, respectively.
• Hu Liena gained Mental Detonation, a spiritual attack that also burns spiritual power, while Xie Yue gained Space-Rending Instant Slash, allowing him to attack through repeated spatial jumps.
• Bibi Dong praised their new Soul Skills and led them back toward Spirit Hall.
• Gui Mei taught Gui Yuan Ghost Hand and challenged him to grab a dragonfly without hurting it or letting it escape.

Gui Yuan rejected Lie Yangtian and Yan’s belated apology, then learned Hu Liena had gained a new Soul Skill. He introduced Bibi Dong to Soul Cores, and she successfully formed a Soul Power vortex inside her body, taking the first step toward condensing one.

• Lie Yangtian brought Yan to apologize to Gui Yuan, who told them to stay out of his sight.
• Hu Liena told Gui Yuan about her fourth Soul Skill, and he flicked her forehead before fleeing as she chased him.
• Gui Yuan explained Soul Cores to Bibi Dong, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei described their experiments and increased Soul Power recovery.
• Bibi Dong condensed a small Soul Power crystal outside her body, then began trying to form a Soul Core within herself.
• After a day and a night, Bibi Dong opened her eyes and sensed a slowly rotating Soul Power vortex in her lower dantian.

Gui Yuan reached level forty and set out with Bibi Dong to find a suitable fourth Soul Ring that would enhance all his attributes. After five days in the Star Dou Great Forest, they found signs of a Six-Winged Golden Cicada.

• Gui Yuan told Bibi Dong he had reached level forty and chose an all-attribute enhancement Soul Skill for his fourth Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong, Gui Yuan, Hu Liena, and Xie Yue said their farewells before Bibi Dong took Gui Yuan to hunt a Soul Beast.
• Bibi Dong explained that they would search for one of five Soul Beasts, including the Six-Winged Golden Cicada and the Myriad Phenomena Ancient Vine.
• Bibi Dong led Gui Yuan northwest through the Star Dou Great Forest toward a recorded Golden Cicada Forest.
• On the fifth evening, Bibi Dong spotted golden lights flickering among the trees, and Gui Yuan asked if they had found Six-Winged Golden Cicadas.

Bibi Dong hunted a Six-Winged Golden Cicada so Gui Yuan could obtain its Soul Ring. After she broke through its defenses, Gui Yuan delivered the final blow, and the chapter ended with him preparing to absorb the ring while Bibi Dong stood guard.

• Bibi Dong explained the Six-Winged Golden Cicada's strength and abilities, then told Gui Yuan to wait while she caught it.
• Bibi Dong used her Death Domain to block the cicada's spatial traversal and weaken it.
• The Six-Winged Golden Cicada attacked Bibi Dong and activated its Golden Body Skill, but Bibi Dong pierced the barrier with Eternal Wound.
• Bibi Dong called Gui Yuan over, and he killed the weakened cicada with his Dark Gold Dreadclaw.
• A black Soul Ring emerged, and Bibi Dong told Gui Yuan to absorb it while she stood guard.

Gui Yuan absorbed a thirty-thousand-year Six-Winged Golden Cicada Soul Ring, gaining an External Soul Bone and a lifesaving fourth Soul Skill. As he returned with Bibi Dong, he tried to grow closer to her while she considered what she could give him in return for his Soul Core Theory.

• Gui Yuan endured three days of Soul Shock until the Six-Winged Golden Cicada's remnant soul faded and the thirty-thousand-year Soul Ring fused with him.
• Six-Winged Golden Cicada Wings emerged from Gui Yuan's back, giving him a second External Soul Bone.
• Gui Yuan reached rank forty-three and revealed his fourth Soul Skill, Singular Velvet Golden Body Chrysanthemum, which granted three seconds of immunity and lasted four seconds when combined with his External Soul Bone.
• Gui Yuan explained that he could make five Golden Body Chrysanthemums at a time, each lasting two days, and revealed that his Six-Winged Golden Cicada Wings granted the Spatial Shuttle skill.
• Bibi Dong and Gui Yuan discussed his cultivation and future Soul Rings on their way back, and Gui Yuan sought to strengthen his place in her heart before she met Yu Xiaogang again.
• Bibi Dong considered what she could give Gui Yuan for his Soul Core Theory, knowing she could not provide a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

Gui Yuan returned to Spirit Hall, where Bibi Dong awarded him the Purple Record Medal and offered to grant him a request. The next morning, Gui Yuan and Xie Yue faced off for a sparring match that was about to begin.

• Gui Yuan returned to Spirit Hall at level forty-three and reunited with Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, Hu Liena, and Xie Yue.
• Bibi Dong awarded Gui Yuan the Purple Record Medal for his strength and contributions to Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong offered to fulfill one request for Gui Yuan and promised to help him hunt a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring when he was strong enough to absorb one.
• Gui Yuan declined to make a request, and Bibi Dong noted that she knew about his planned sparring match with Xie Yue.
• Hu Liena waited for Gui Yuan after he left the Pope's Palace and teased him about his new medal.
• The next morning, Gui Yuan and Xie Yue released their Martial Souls and prepared to spar in the square outside the Pope's Palace.

Gui Yuan and Xie Yue fought a sparring match in the square, with Gui Yuan using food enhancements and his Soul Bones to overcome Xie Yue's attacks. Gui Yuan won after blocking Xie Yue's fourth Soul Skill and trapping him with Shadow Step.

• Gui Yuan ate three enhancement foods, then revealed his Dark Gold Dreadclaw Right Palm Bone and Six-Winged Golden Cicada Wings before the match began.
• Xie Yue enhanced his Moon Blades and attacked, but Gui Yuan met him head-on and dodged his crescent slashes with his wings.
• Gui Yuan used his speed and Dark Gold Dreadclaw to pressure Xie Yue until Xie Yue spotted an opening and launched Space-Rending Instant Slash.
• Gui Yuan swallowed the Golden Cicada Chrysanthemum, deflected Xie Yue's strike with a golden barrier, and trapped his ankle with a Ghost Hand.
• Gui Yuan stopped his claw beside Xie Yue's neck, and Xie Yue admitted defeat.

Bibi Dong successfully condensed a poison-attributed Soul Core after enduring repeated failures, then Gui Yuan asked her to share the Soul Core Theory with the Worship Hall. Bibi Dong struggled with the request because of her grievances with its members, but Gui Yuan reminded her she had promised to grant anything he asked for.

• Gui Yuan told Xie Yue that his fourth Soul Skill granted three seconds of immunity, and Yue Guan and Gui Mei praised both young men after their match.
• Bibi Dong spent over a month repeatedly compressing her Soul Power, using her Immortal Body to survive each failed attempt.
• Bibi Dong successfully condensed a Soul Core of Poison, which greatly increased her Soul Power circulation and recovery but did not raise her level because of the Rakshasa God Trial.
• Bibi Dong offered Gui Yuan any reward he wanted, and he asked her to share the Soul Core Theory with the Worship Hall.
• Bibi Dong hesitated because of her painful history with the Worship Hall, while Gui Yuan acted hurt and reminded her that this was his only request.

Gui Yuan persuaded Bibi Dong to deliver his soul core theory to the Worship Hall in hopes of easing tensions with Qian Daoliu. After studying the instructions, Qian Daoliu successfully condensed a soul core, leaving the worshippers ready to consider trying it themselves.

• Gui Yuan convinced Bibi Dong to take his soul core instructions to the Worship Hall, hoping to improve relations between its factions.
• Bibi Dong presented Qian Daoliu with the instructions and said that condensing a soul core had already sped up her soul power circulation.
• Qian Daoliu and the worshippers examined the theory, grew curious about its benefits, and agreed that Qian Daoliu would attempt it first.
• Qian Daoliu followed the instructions for three days and successfully condensed a golden soul core in his lower dantian.

Qian Daoliu confirmed that condensing a Soul Core increased Soul Power circulation and proposed that Spiritual Power might also be condensed into a core. Three days earlier, Yue Guan and Gui Mei began condensing a Soul Core together, but Gui Mei’s Soul Power cyclone lost control and Yue Guan intervened.

• Qian Daoliu confirmed the Soul Core method worked and said Golden Crocodile might reach Peerless Douluo if he successfully condensed one.
• Qian Daoliu suggested that Spiritual Power could also be condensed into a Spiritual Core, and the Enshrined considered the idea.
• Gui Yuan persuaded Bibi Dong that easing relations with the Worship Hall could help her mobilize more elders, and Bibi Dong let him leave.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei spent three days learning to condense Soul Cores and then began seclusion in Yue Guan’s room.
• Gui Mei’s Soul Power cyclone began to expand uncontrollably as it neared solidification, so Yue Guan sent his Soul Power through their interlocked hands to suppress it.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei each condensed a Soul Core after Gui Mei absorbed an immortal herb, and they discovered their Martial Soul compatibility had greatly improved. The next morning, Wang Mozhu saw them leave the same sleeping quarters and jumped to conclusions as they headed to visit Gui Yuan.

• Yue Guan learned that Gui Mei had reached level 96, and Gui Mei absorbed the Netherworld Shadow Flower to strengthen his Martial Soul.
• Gui Mei estimated that the immortal herb could help him reach level 97 within three to five years, then began helping Yue Guan condense a Soul Core.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei discovered their Martial Soul compatibility had risen to at least eighty, and Yue Guan successfully condensed the Yang Soul Core within two days.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei left the sleeping quarters together the next morning, and Wang Mozhu mistakenly imagined that they had become a couple.
• Yue Guan invited Wang Mozhu to accompany them to Gui Yuan, while Gui Mei joked that Gui Yuan would call them his Big Dad and Second Dad.

Yue Guan and Gui Mei reported that they had successfully condensed Soul Cores, and Wang Mozhu learned that Gui Yuan had proposed the theory. Bibi Dong rewarded Gui Mei, then granted Yue Guan and Gui Mei time off to visit Yue Guan’s sister’s grave, leaving Yue Guan moved by her consideration.

• Yue Guan told Gui Yuan and Wang Mozhu that he and Gui Mei had condensed Soul Cores, and Gui Mei had reached Level 96.
• Yue Guan explained the Soul Core theory and credited Gui Yuan with proposing it, then asked Wang Mozhu to document the process and research its dangers.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei reported their breakthroughs to Bibi Dong, who promised Gui Mei a Soul Bone.
• Bibi Dong remembered the anniversary of Yue Guan’s older sister’s death and offered him and Gui Mei several days off to pay their respects with Gui Yuan.
• Yue Guan became emotional over Bibi Dong’s gesture, and Gui Mei reassured him as they left the Pope’s Palace.

Bibi Dong awarded Gui Mei the Rapid Advance Wind Chasing Left Leg Bone, and he absorbed it to gain a powerful defensive and speed-based Soul Bone Skill. Ten days later, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Gui Yuan visited the memorial for Yue Guan’s older sister, where Yue Guan paid his respects before the three left.

• Bibi Dong gave Gui Mei the thirty-thousand-year Rapid Advance Wind Chasing Left Leg Bone, and Gui Yuan wondered what Spirit Hall would offer as tournament prizes in the future.
• Gui Mei absorbed the Soul Bone while Yue Guan stood guard, as Gui Yuan teased Hu Liena about their family seniority.
• Gui Mei tested Ghost Shadow Wind Chasing Slash, which doubled his speed, let him vanish in a black afterimage, and protected him from physical attacks while reducing energy damage.
• Ten days later, Yue Guan, Gui Mei, and Gui Yuan visited the memorial for Yue Guan’s older sister and laid flowers before it.
• Yue Guan told his sister that he, Gui Mei, and Gui Yuan were doing well, then bowed with Gui Mei and Gui Yuan before leading them away.

Qian Daoliu thanked Gui Yuan for sharing the Soul Core Theory, which had helped the Worship Hall enshrined grow stronger, and offered to ease the Pope’s Palace’s shortage of support. He then suggested that Gui Yuan’s First Dad and Second Dad join the Worship Hall, leaving Gui Yuan worried that his teacher might object.

• Qian Daoliu visited Gui Yuan and thanked him for sending the Soul Core Theory to the Worship Hall.
• Golden Crocodile condensed a Soul Core, broke through from Level 98 to Level 99, and became a Peerless Douluo.
• Azure Luan and Lion reached the peak of Level 97, while Guang Ling, Qian Jun, and Jiang Mo advanced from Level 96 to Level 97.
• Gui Yuan told Qian Daoliu he hoped to ease tensions between the Pope’s Palace and the Worship Hall and reduce the burden on his First Dad and Second Dad.
• Qian Daoliu promised to assign two elders to assist Gui Yuan’s teacher and suggested that his First Dad and Second Dad join the Worship Hall.
• Gui Yuan questioned whether they could join because they belonged to the Pope’s Palace and his teacher might object.

Gui Yuan asked Qian Daoliu for a hundred-thousand-year soul bone and explained why an eighty-thousand-year spatial one would not suit him. He then revealed his plan to seek a soul skill from a Mirror Image Beast that could let him fight as a Food System Soul Master, leaving Qian Daoliu intrigued by the idea.

• Qian Daoliu offered Gui Yuan an eighty-thousand-year spatial soul bone, but Gui Yuan refused because he already had the spatial Six-Winged Golden Cicada Wings.
• Gui Yuan explained that he would only fuse with a soul bone below a hundred thousand years if he could not obtain a stronger one later, and Qian Daoliu promised to keep his request in mind.
• Qian Daoliu briefly considered matching Gui Yuan with Qian Renxue, then dismissed the idea because of their circumstances and his ties to Bibi Dong.
• Gui Yuan told Qian Daoliu that he wanted a soul skill that would let him fight as a Food System Soul Master.
• Gui Yuan named the Mirror Image Beast in the Frozen Forest of the Far North as the soul beast he hoped could grant him that skill.

Gui Yuan asked Qian Daoliu to find a hundred-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast in the Far North so he could gain its copying ability. Qian Daoliu and the other enshrined agreed to prepare an expedition, planning to preserve any Soul Ring they found until Gui Yuan could absorb it.

• Gui Yuan told Qian Daoliu that a Mirror Shadow Beast’s copying ability might let his singular velvet sky chrysanthemum copy other people’s Martial Souls or Soul Skills.
• Qian Daoliu agreed to search the Far North’s core region for a hundred-thousand-year Mirror Shadow Beast as a reward for Gui Yuan’s help to Spirit Hall.
• Qian Daoliu asked whether Gui Yuan had begun his Divine Trials, and Gui Yuan said he had not learned the deity’s name or received any trials.
• Qian Daoliu returned to the Worship Hall and told the enshrined about Gui Yuan’s request; Guang Ling explained that Mirror Shadow Beasts were rare and could grant copying abilities.
• The enshrined agreed to join Qian Daoliu on the expedition after he consulted relevant texts, and they decided to keep any hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring until Gui Yuan was strong enough to absorb it.

On his eighth birthday, Gui Yuan’s Soul Rings gained another 4,500 years of age, turning his second Soul Ring black. At the Pope’s Palace, Bibi Dong received Ghost Leopard Douluo and Ling Yuan Douluo, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei learned that Gui Yuan’s Soul Rings might grow older every year.

• Gui Yuan’s [Hedge Fund] triggered, raising each of his four Soul Rings by 4,500 years and transforming the second into a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Bibi Dong welcomed Ghost Leopard Douluo and Ling Yuan Douluo, whom Qian Daoliu had assigned to serve under her at Gui Yuan’s request.
• Bibi Dong gave Yue Guan and Gui Mei more time to rest and told them to spend it with Xiao Yuan.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei found Gui Yuan cooking and noticed that his second Soul Ring had turned black.
• Gui Yuan explained that his Soul Rings had gained age again and admitted they had also increased the previous year.
• Yue Guan told Gui Yuan to inform his teacher, warning that yearly increases could change which Soul Beasts he should choose for future Soul Rings.

Gui Yuan’s Soul Rings gained more age, prompting Bibi Dong to change his Soul Beast hunting plans and warn him to keep the ability secret. Bibi Dong later entered the Rakshasa Secret Realm to demand an explanation for receiving no rewards, while Yue Guan and Gui Mei decided to test their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Yue Guan and Gui Mei took Gui Yuan to the Pope’s Palace, where Yue Guan told Bibi Dong that Gui Yuan’s Soul Ring had increased in age.
• Bibi Dong ordered Gui Yuan to prioritize rare bloodlines when cultivating his Second Martial Soul and keep his Soul Ring ability secret from outsiders and Hu Liena.
• Yue Guan encouraged Gui Yuan to make friends and discuss Martial Soul Fusion Skills with Xie Yue, while Gui Mei explained that fusion skills had a windup.
• Bibi Dong entered the Rakshasa Secret Realm and demanded to know why her trials had given her no rewards, but received no answer.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei discussed their improved Martial Soul compatibility and agreed to test their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Gui Yuan asked Hu Liena and Xie Yue about reducing the windup of their Martial Soul Fusion Skill and learned that Spirit Hall planned to use Xu Yu’s Scepter of Light to help them. Yue Guan and Gui Mei tested their fusion after condensing their Soul Cores and found that its windup and power had improved.

• Gui Yuan visited Hu Liena and Xie Yue to ask about the windup for their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Xie Yue explained that repeated practice had reduced their Demon Charm fusion time to about two seconds, and Hu Liena invited Gui Yuan to spar with them.
• Gui Yuan declined the sparring match until he could hide his Soul Rings and fight without holding back.
• Hu Liena told Gui Yuan that Spirit Hall planned for Xu Yu to gain a Soul Skill that could speed up Martial Soul Fusion.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei tested their fusion, found that its windup had fallen to under a second, and Yue Guan excitedly clung to Gui Mei.