Recaps

Xu Zi led the Spirit Hall Second Team into a match against Skywater Academy, surprising Shui Bing'er and the spectators by revealing himself as the team’s level 37 Support System captain. The teams released their Martial Souls, and the match began with attention fixed on Xu Zi’s Purple Sun.

• Xu Zi instructed the Spirit Hall Second Team to rush Skywater Academy’s Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu and promised he could counter their ice attacks.
• Xu Zi stepped forward as captain, introduced himself as a level 37 Support System Soul Elder, and startled Shui Bing'er and the spectators.
• At Shrek’s villa, the team and their teacher discussed whether Xu Zi’s role concealed another strategy, while the blue-black-haired youth doubted the Spirit Hall team could beat Skywater’s Ice Phoenix if it held back.
• Both teams released their Martial Souls, and Xu Zi’s Purple Sun rose behind the Spirit Hall team, drawing the attention of the arena.
• The referee started the match.

Xu Zi used his Purple Sun to melt Skywater Team’s ice-based strategy and turn the battle in Spirit Hall Second Team’s favor. Shui Yue’er and Gu Qingbo were captured and beaten unconscious, while the teams resumed their advance.

• Shui Bing'er drew on Xue Wu’s Soul Power to freeze the charging Spirit Hall Second Team and prepare Skywater Team’s counterattack.
• Shui Yue'er, Gu Qingbo, and the three Power Attack System members launched an assault across the icy ground.
• Xu Zi expanded his Purple Sun, melting the ice and disrupting the Skywater Team’s charge.
• Li Qin and the Dragon Pattern Staff brothers knocked Shui Yue'er and Gu Qingbo into the Spirit Hall Second Team’s encirclement and beat them unconscious.
• Xu Zi ordered his six teammates to maintain formation and continue attacking.

Xu Zi and the Spirit Hall Second Team gained the upper hand against the Skywater Team, but Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu unleashed Ice and Snow Drifting and froze most of the opposing team. Xu Zi stepped into the ice tornado and challenged them to reveal the full power of their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

• Xu Zi's Purple Sun melted and weakened the Skywater Team's ice defenses, while Shui Bing'er ordered her teammates to retreat.
• Xu Zi directed his team to scatter, and Huang Su knocked Shen Liuyu unconscious as the Dragon Pattern Staff brothers and Li Qin attacked the remaining Skywater members.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu unleashed Ice and Snow Drifting, freezing the three Dragon Pattern Staff brothers and encasing Li Qin in ice.
• Xu Zi's team and the Skywater Team returned to a more balanced position, and Shui Bing'er admitted she had underestimated Xu Zi.
• Xu Zi walked through the ice tornado and challenged Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu to use the full power of their Martial Soul Fusion Skill.

Shui Bing'er unleashed Skywater Team's Ice Phoenix Martial Soul Fusion Skill against Xu Zi and the Spirit Hall Second Team's last two members. Xu Zi broke through its icy tornado and baited the Ice Phoenix's attention before the Purple Sun reappeared behind it, revealing a pair of dragon eyes.

• Shui Bing'er acknowledged that she had underestimated Xu Zi and transformed the icy pillar into a glowing egg that unleashed a powerful tornado.
• Xu Zi used the Purple Sun to smash the egg down, then took Tuoba She and Huang Su's armor and rock and broke apart the icy tornado.
• The egg hatched into an Ice Phoenix, and Shui Bing'er said she had waited to break out of its shell because Xu Zi had injured A Wu.
• The Ice Phoenix attacked Xu Zi, Tuoba She, and Huang Su with eight ice cones, breaking their defenses and knocking Tuoba She and Huang Su backward.
• Xu Zi distracted Shui Bing'er by drawing her attention upward, and the Purple Sun appeared behind the Ice Phoenix with a pair of purple-gold dragon eyes inside it.

Xu Zi used his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon to defeat Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu's Ice Phoenix, then revealed that both women had survived. The match ended with Dean Shui reunited with her daughter and Xue Wu, while Ling Yuan Douluo confronted Xu Zi over his silence.

• Xu Zi materialized the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon and used Purple Dragon Swallows the Sun to devour the Ice Phoenix.
• The Ice Phoenix vanished into the Purple Sun, leaving the spectators to fear that Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu had been killed.
• Dean Shui rushed onto the field and demanded to know where her daughter was, but Ling Yuan Douluo restrained her.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu fell out of the Purple Sun alive, and Xu Zi covered them with white cloths.
• Dean Shui embraced Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu after they recovered, while Ling Yuan Douluo warned Xu Zi they would talk later.

Xu Zi led the Spirit Hall Second Team to victory over Skywater and advanced to the next round. Afterward, Huang Ying invited him to a meal and began thanking him for joining the team because she had begged him.

• Tang San asked Yu Xiaogang about the purple-haired captain’s weapon-and-beast Martial Soul, and Yu Xiaogang explained its weakness and helped Shrek devise a close-combat strategy.
• Ling Yuan melted the ice covering the arena, and the referees declared the Spirit Hall Second Team the winner and advanced them to the next round.
• Xu Zi told Shi Xing to lead the team in the next match, then left the venue and returned to Spirit Hall Academy.
• Huang Ying met Xu Zi at the academy’s back gate and invited him to eat at a familiar little shop.
• Huang Ying told Xu Zi she wanted to thank him because she knew he had joined the second team after she begged him.

Xu Zi shared a meal with Huang Ying, who nearly agreed to take him out before Zhang Ping interrupted them and reminded her of the next match. Ling Yuan then told Xu Zi that the schedule had changed, leaving his second team set to face the newly formed Heaven Thunder Team.

• Huang Ying explained her family ties to Huang Su and thanked Xu Zi for keeping him on the second team, while Xu Zi let her believe he had done it for her sake.
• Huang Ying fed Xu Zi a meatball, and he encouraged her to pursue singing alongside cultivation.
• Zhang Ping interrupted their meal to remind Huang Ying that the academy's first match against the Star Luo Division's runners-up was the next day.
• Huang Ying declined Xu Zi's invitation to explore the Holy City because her family supported the Golden Crocodile Family and would object to her associating with him.
• Ling Yuan arrived and told Xu Zi that Blazing Fire Academy had joined forces with Godwind Academy and the Heaven Dou Royal Team had joined Thunder Academy.
• Xu Zi learned that his second team would face the Heaven Thunder Team, which included Yu Tianxin, Yu Tianheng, and Dugu Yan.

Xu Zi shared a meal with Huang Ying, who explained why she could not be seen with him in public, but their conversation was interrupted by Ling Yuan. Ling Yuan revealed that the second team would face the newly formed Heaven Thunder Team the next day.

• Huang Ying assumed Xu Zi had joined the second team because her plea had persuaded him not to displace her, and Xu Zi let her keep that impression.
• Huang Ying fed Xu Zi a meatball and discussed her family's constraints and her wish to pursue singing.
• Zhang Ping interrupted their meal to remind Huang Ying about the team's meeting before its match against the Star Luo Division's runner-up.
• Huang Ying said her family would oppose her spending time with Xu Zi because it supported the Golden Crocodile Family.
• Ling Yuan brought Xu Zi the updated match schedule and explained that Blazing Fire had formed the Wind Fire Team while six Heaven Dou Royal Team members had joined Thunder Academy.
• Xu Zi learned that his second team would face the Heaven Thunder Team the next day.

Xu Zi arranged the tournament schedule to keep Shrek from seeing him use the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon against the Heaven Thunder Team. After learning the team’s roster, he prepared to face the Blue Lightning Twin Stars in the final match of the day.

• Ling Yuan told Xu Zi that several teams had merged or withdrawn, and he asked to face the Heaven Thunder Team in the last match while scheduling Shrek against the Star Luo Royal Team second.
• Xu Zi left Huang Ying and, after Ling Yuan had helped consolidate his Soul Power, woke to Shi Xing reporting that the Heaven Thunder Team combined fighters from the Heaven Dou Royal Team and the Thunder Team.
• Xu Zi assured Shi Xing that he had prepared a battle plan, promised that Shi Xing would fight beside him, and said he would choose the other five team members later.
• Ling Yuan gave Xu Zi a detailed roster identifying Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin as the Blue Lightning Twin Stars and listing the other Heaven Thunder Team members.
• Xu Zi said he was fortunate to have won Ling Yuan over because her help with the schedule made it possible for him to use Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon possession.

Xu Zi led the Spirit Hall Second Team against the Heaven Thunder Team after confirming their opponents knew little about their abilities. The teams collided amid lightning and poison, and the chapter ended as the Spirit Hall frontliners broke through Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist and met the enemy’s front line.

• Ling Yuan Douluo told Xu Zi that Shrek and several other teams had left, and Xu Zi assigned six teammates to fight while keeping Li Qin in reserve.
• Xu Zi led the Spirit Hall Second Team onto the field, where Yu Tianheng and the Heaven Thunder Team prepared to target him with an aerial strike.
• The referee began the match, and both teams revealed their dragon-themed Martial Souls and charged.
• Dugu Yan empowered the Heaven Thunder Team with poison, while Lei Dong and Yu Tianxin laid down lightning attacks.
• Tuoba She and another defender absorbed the lightning, and Xu Zi’s Purple Sun weakened Dugu Yan’s poisonous mist.
• The Spirit Hall Second Team’s frontliners pushed through the mist and clashed with the Heaven Thunder Team’s front line.

Heaven Thunder Team and Spirit Hall Second Team clashed in a battle shaped by lightning, poison, and the Holy Dragon Sect’s arrival. As Dugu Yan stalled Spirit Hall’s advance, Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin prepared a dragon transformation.

• Yu Tianheng’s Thunder Dragon Claws struck Tuoba She, but the Holy Dragon Sect’s defense let him withstand the attack.
• The Dragon Pattern Staff brothers pushed back the Shi brothers, while Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng helped hold Spirit Hall’s charge.
• Yu Tianheng and Shi Xing fought evenly until the purple sun burned away the poison and empowered Shi Xing, shifting the battle in Spirit Hall’s favor.
• Yu Tianxin called for Yu Tianheng to act, and both brothers retreated as the Shi brothers were nearly overwhelmed.
• Dugu Yan used her Jade Phosphor Serpent venom to halt Spirit Hall’s front line, while Xu Zi watched lightning surge behind her and announced, “Dragon, transformation.”

As Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin completed Dragon Transformation, the Heaven Thunder Team recovered its footing, but Xu Zi’s Purple Sun threatened their exposed back line. Lei Dong and Lei Tian revealed their trap at the last moment, snaring the Purple Sun in a lightning web and sending Lei Tian diving toward Xu Zi.

• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin completed Dragon Transformation, and Xu Zi recognized a trace of the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon’s bloodline in Yu Tianxin.
• Shi Xing attacked Dugu Yan and Lei Dong, but Yu Tianxin returned to the fight and helped the Heaven Thunder Team’s three frontliners hold off the Spirit Hall Second Team.
• Yu Tianheng’s Dragon Transformation let him withstand Shi Xing’s flames and drive him back, while Xu Zi waited for Dugu Yan and Lei Dong to be left exposed.
• The Purple Sun plunged toward Dugu Yan and Lei Dong, but Lei Dong revealed Lei Tian hiding above it and activated his fourth Soul Skill to trap it in a lightning web.
• Lei Dong called for Lei Tian to attack Xu Zi, and Lei Tian transformed into blue lightning and dived toward him with his talons extended.

Xu Zi used his combined Martial Soul’s dragon-like possession to turn Lei Tian’s ambush against him and send him out of the arena. The Heaven Thunder Team’s attack faltered as the battle continued with Shi Xing already eliminated.

• Lei Tian attacked Xu Zi while Lei Dong raised the lightning nets and Dugu Yan spread her poison over the Spirit Hall Second Team’s front line.
• Yu Tianheng’s assault and the lightning web overwhelmed Shi Xing, eliminating him from the match.
• Yu Tianxin ordered Lei Tian to attack the Spirit Hall fighters from behind, but Lei Tian did not respond as a new Purple Sun rose behind him.
• Xu Zi revealed that he had endured Lei Tian’s strikes while preparing his Martial Soul Possession, then used purple-gold dragon claws to break Lei Tian’s arms and throw him outside the arena.
• The dragon might from Xu Zi’s transformation stunned the arena, while Ling Yuan noted that representatives from Heaven Dou, Star Luo, and Seven Treasure had already left.

Xu Zi’s Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon overwhelmed the Heaven Thunder Team, but the injured Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng joined together in the Hengxin Combination and refused to surrender. The fight remained unresolved as the brothers declared that Heaven Thunder could still fight.

• Xu Zi’s dragon transformation suppressed the Beast Martial Soul Masters, and he directed the battered Spirit Hall Second Team to support him while he faced Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng.
• Xu Zi broke through Lei Dong’s lightning net, crippled Yu Tianxin with one punch, then knocked Lei Dong out and smashed the Shi Brothers’ Black Tortoise Shields.
• Dugu Yan attacked Xu Zi with her poison, but he stopped her, knocked her unconscious, and threw her toward Ye Lingling.
• Yu Tianheng unleashed Dragon’s Wrath, but Xu Zi endured the lightning and broke his shin before Yu Tianxin struck Xu Zi with another Dragon’s Wrath.
• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng bound their injuries together in the Hengxin Combination and told the head referee that the Heaven Thunder Team could still fight.

Xu Zi defeated the Blue Lightning Twin Stars after a fierce battle in the Soul Fighting Plaza. The referee declared Spirit Hall Academy Second Team the winner, while Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin collapsed from their injuries.

• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng combined their Dragon's Wrath attacks and knocked Xu Zi down, then tried to carry him out of the plaza.
• Xu Zi struck Yu Tianxin with Will of Destruction, and his returning Purple Sun knocked Yu Tianheng aside.
• Xu Zi swung Yu Tianxin into Yu Tianheng, leaving both cousins defeated and unable to stand.
• The head referee announced Spirit Hall Academy Second Team's victory, and the team cheered.

Xu Zi faced the injured Blue Lightning Twin Stars after the rest of his team left the arena, and the Hengxin Combination launched one final attack. Their foot-triggered Dragon's Wrath blasted Xu Zi backward, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin refused to surrender and declared that the Heaven Thunder Team still had the strength to fight.
• Xu Zi challenged his five teammates to face the injured Twin Stars, but they declined to take advantage of their condition and left the arena.
• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng agreed that Yu Tianheng would concede after the next exchange, regardless of who won.
• The Twin Stars attacked Xu Zi together with Blue Lightning Flying Dragon Rush, and Xu Zi shattered Yu Tianxin's Light Defense with a punch.
• Yu Tianxin and Yu Tianheng struck Xu Zi with Dragon's Wrath released through a kick, knocking him backward before he could unleash Will of Destruction.

Xu Zi defeated Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin after a fierce battle in which the Blue Lightning Twin Stars used Dragon Transformation and Dragon's Wrath to nearly overcome him. Spirit Hall Academy Second Team won the final match of the second round, while Xu Zi left impressed by the Blue Lightning Yu family's secret technique.

• Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin coordinated attacks that knocked Xu Zi down and tried to carry him out of the Soul Fighting Plaza.
• Xu Zi struck Yu Tianxin with Will of Destruction, then used the returning Purple Sun to knock Yu Tianheng down.
• Xu Zi swung the unconscious Yu Tianxin into Yu Tianheng, defeating both cousins and ending their Dragon Transformations.
• The head referee declared Spirit Hall Academy Second Team the winner of the final match of the second round.

Xu Zi's team defeated the Imperial Fighting Team and Thunder Team, and Ye Lingling's healing revealed the lingering damage caused by his Power of Destruction. Xu Zi admitted he had considered crippling Yu Tianheng and Yu Tianxin to keep them from telling Shrek about the battle, but had held back; the teams faced off in the plaza.

• Ye Lingling healed Yu Tianxin and treated the injured fighters, while Xu Zi noted that her absence from the match had cost the Thunder Team its best chance against him.
• Ling Yuan Douluo ordered the plaza cleared and suggested delaying the third round until nearly noon the next day.
• Xu Zi's teammates praised him for carrying the second team through the tournament, while Yu Tianheng apologized for keeping Ye Lingling out of the match.
• Ye Lingling discovered that Xu Zi's Power of Destruction lingered in the injuries and resisted ordinary healing, though her life energy could counter it.
• Xu Zi told Yu Tianheng that he had considered crippling him and Yu Tianxin to prevent them from informing Shrek about the battle, but had relented after seeing their fighting spirit.

After defeating the Heaven Thunder Team, Xu Zi advised Yu Tianxin to abandon the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon path and cultivate according to his mutated purple dragon bloodline. He declined his teammates’ invitation to celebrate and left to study information about their next opponents.

• Yu Tianheng promised that neither the Imperial Fighting Team nor the Thunder Team would reveal details of the battle, and Xu Zi accepted his word.
• Ling Yuan Douluo gave Xu Zi information about the Second Team’s next opponents and told him to prepare tactics for the following day.
• Xu Zi told Yu Tianxin that his Martial Soul had irreversibly mutated and that his purple dragon bloodline made the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon path unsuitable.
• Xu Zi advised Yu Tianxin to change his meditation method and seek strength-attribute Soul Rings, with Ton Ants as a last resort.
• Yu Tianxin sensed a new resonance with his mutated bloodline, while Xu Zi left with his teammates and declined their invitation to celebrate so he could study the match schedule.

Xu Zi discussed his twin-souled crown prince brother and the origins and limits of his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul with Ling Yuan. Ling Yuan arranged for him to face the Wind Fire Team in the semifinals, and Xu Zi anticipated exploiting their wind and fire attributes while reaffirming his plan to pursue the strength-attribute path.

• Xu Zi returned to his villa, prepared milk tea, and told Ling Yuan about his crown prince brother's Sun and Silver Moon Martial Souls and high Soul Emperor cultivation.
• Xu Zi explained that his Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon Martial Soul was an incomplete form created after he consumed unusual fruit and medicine, while keeping its deeper secret to himself.
• Ling Yuan showed Xu Zi the semifinal arrangements and revealed that she had assigned him the Wind Fire Team as an opponent.
• Xu Zi noted that the Wind Fire Team included four core members of the Blazing Fire Team and believed his Purple Sun could absorb their light- and fire-attribute energy.
• Xu Zi resolved to pursue the strength-attribute path and seek the truth about the powerful mother dragon shared by the Dragon God and the Purple Brilliant Heaven Destroying Dragon's ancestor.

Xu Zi reviewed the Wind Fire Team’s lineup and the tournament rankings before realizing that members of the Wind Sword and Fire Leopard Sects were competing for the team. He left to adjust the Spirit Hall Second Team’s preparations for the semifinals.

• Xu Zi read the Wind Fire Team’s profiles and concluded that its four agility attackers were chosen to counter the Spirit Hall Second Team’s slow front line.
• Ling Yuan explained that Star Luo Royal Academy had asked to target Shrek Academy in the semifinals, and Xu Zi recognized that Shrek was concealing its real strength.
• Ling Yuan warned Xu Zi that the Wind Fire Team included Soul Masters from the Wind Sword Sect and Fire Leopard Sect, two of the Seven Great Sects.
• Xu Zi realized all seven great sects had entered the tournament to compete for three Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and rushed out to revise his team’s pre-match arrangements.

Xu Zi prepared the Spirit Hall Second Battle Team for its semifinal against the Wind Fire Team, changing their formation to counter the opponents’ speed. The match began with the teams facing off, and Xu Zi’s unexpected front-line position left the Wind Fire Team unsure how to respond.

• Xu Zi reviewed Elder Ling Yuan’s intelligence and the ranking sheet with his teammates, then rallied them to defeat the Wind Fire Team.
• Xu Zi benched the youngest of the three brothers and ordered the other six to spread out freely, with himself in the front row.
• Shrek defeated the Star Luo Royal Team and left the venue, reassuring Xu Zi that they would not learn the Second Team’s match tactics in time.
• Xu Zi led the Spirit Hall Second Battle Team onto the arena to face Feng Xiaotian and the Wind Fire Team.
• Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, and Huo Wushuang were surprised to see Xu Zi at the front and the Second Team arranged in a single line.

Xu Zi led Spirit Hall Academy against Wind Fire Team, using his Purple Sun Martial Soul to absorb Huo Wu’s fire attacks and withstand Huo Lie’s assault. The battle continued with Xu Zi seizing Huo Lie’s claws and forcing them toward Devour the Sun.

• Xu Zi introduced himself as a dual control and support Soul Elder, drawing disbelief from Feng Xiaotian and the spectators.
• At the match’s start, Xu Zi assigned his teammates to engage Wind Fire Team’s attackers and ordered Li Qin to target Li Qin’s Flame Crane opponent.
• Huo Wu sent a fiery shadow behind Spirit Hall Academy’s formation to strike with Repelling Fire Rings, but Xu Zi’s Devour the Sun swallowed the flames.
• Xu Zi blocked Huo Lie’s pounce, then absorbed the fire from Huo Lie and Huo Wu without being burned.
• Xu Zi grabbed Huo Lie’s leopard claws and shoved them toward Devour the Sun.

Xu Zi used his Purple Sun Martial Soul to absorb Huo Lie’s fire Soul Power, then helped Li Qin capture Huo Yun and drain her as well. With power from both Soul Ancestors, Xu Zi expanded Devour the Sun over the arena, where its suction began draining the remaining Wind Fire Team members and left them facing despair.

• Huo Wu warned Huo Lie that Xu Zi’s second Soul Skill devoured flames, but Xu Zi seized Huo Lie and absorbed his fire-attribute Soul Power despite his resistance.
• Xu Zi knocked the weakened Huo Lie unconscious, while Li Qin caught Huo Yun when she flew down to help her brother.
• Xu Zi and Li Qin forced Huo Yun into the purple-black death star, eliminating the second Wind Fire Team member.
• After absorbing Soul Power from two Soul Ancestors, Xu Zi expanded Devour the Sun into a vast disc above the arena.
• The solar disc began draining the flames and Soul Power of Huo Wushuang, the Fire Shadow, and the Godwind Academy fighters, pushing the remaining Wind Fire Team members toward despair.

The Wind Fire Squad fought desperately against Xu Zi’s Spirit Hall Second Team, and Huo Wu’s two-stage Blazing Sun attack freed her allies and left Xu Zi’s side reeling. Feng Xiaotian awakened their Wind Fuels the Fire fusion skill, but Xu Zi revealed that he had been charging up an attack of his own as a dragon lunged from the Purple Sun.

• Xu Zi spotted Huo Wu’s hidden fire energy and sent Li Qin to attack her, while he struck Feng Xiaotian with Will of Fire and helped bury him beneath a rock wall.
• Huo Wu fused her rings and unleashed Blazing Sun, blasting Li Qin away before compressing the fire energy and charging Xu Zi.
• Huo Wu’s second explosion knocked Xu Zi and several teammates down and cleared the rocks from Feng Xiaotian, after which she collapsed from exhaustion.
• Feng Xiaotian caught Huo Wu and activated the Wind Fuels the Fire fusion skill, gaining enough power to contend with a Five-Ring Soul King.
• Xu Zi revealed that he had been charging his own attack and distracting the Wind Fire Squad as a dragon’s head emerged from the Purple Sun and lunged at Feng Xiaotian.