Recaps

Qian Renxue stopped Qian Daoliu from killing Xuan Ming by securing his promise not to harm her, while Bibi Dong and Xuan Ming discussed the consequences. After they parted, the Ice Dragon King offered to accelerate Xuan Ming’s progress by letting him absorb the dragon bones early.

• Qian Renxue persuaded Qian Daoliu to spare Xuan Ming after Xuan Ming promised not to harm her unless she forced him.
• After Qian Daoliu left, Qian Renxue questioned Xuan Ming about Bibi Dong, then worried aloud that something was wrong with him.
• Bibi Dong told Xuan Ming that Qian Renxue had deliberately distracted them to keep the confrontation from escalating, and asked how he would handle their relationship.
• Xuan Ming asked Bibi Dong to keep the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well secret, and she flew away.
• The Ice Dragon King told Xuan Ming that he could now barely withstand absorbing the dragon bones and offered to speed up his progress.

Xuan Ming emerged from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well after half a year in seclusion, having awakened the five attributes of his Black Dragon Martial Soul and concealed his back dragons with spatial power. He learned that Bibi Dong and Qian Renxue had visited while he was submerged, and discovered that Ah Yin had told Qian Renxue about his repeated self-injury.

• Xuan Ming had the Ice Dragon King and Fire Dragon King seal the dragon bones’ power inside his back dragons and help him condense a Soul Core before he entered the well to cultivate.
• After half a year, Xuan Ming emerged and used spatial power to make his back dragons pass through from another space.
• Xuan Ming learned that Dugu Bo had visited and asked him to return to Heaven Dou City because Dugu Yan and the others were worried.
• Ah Yin told Xuan Ming that Bibi Dong had nearly dug up the Lovesick Heartbreak Red and threatened to dig up Ah Yin.
• Ah Yin revealed that she had told Qian Renxue that Xuan Ming had repeatedly crippled himself in the well.

After six months at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Xuan Ming gained powerful new abilities and returned to Heaven Dou City to find a fifth Soul Ring. He reunited with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, then reached Shrek Academy to seek Ah Rou and ask about a Thundering Hell Vine.

• Xuan Ming refused to take Ah Yin with him, saying he feared putting her in danger, and left the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well with her accompanying him.
• Xuan Ming flew to Heaven Dou City with enhanced Soul Cores, an Ice and Fire Bipolar Domain, and Titled Douluo-level fighting strength.
• Xuan Ming visited Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, learned Dugu Yan had advanced to level forty-eight with Dugu Bo's help, and heard that Dugu Bo was cultivating after finding a treasure.
• Xuan Ming took Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to Shrek Academy to find Ah Rou and ask where he could obtain a Thundering Hell Vine Soul Ring.
• Qin Ming greeted the group and led them toward the forest behind the academy, where Ah Rou and Vice Dean Erlong were.

Xuan Ming returned to Shrek Academy, where he reunited with Xiao Wu and was caught in an awkward embrace by Liu Erlong before freeing himself with his domain. At lunch in Seven Treasure Pavilion, Ah Rou explained the ongoing split between the girls and Yu Xiaogang and Dai Mubai, leaving Tang San caught between them.

• Qin Ming told Xuan Ming that Xiao Wu’s revelations about Yu Xiaogang had inflamed Liu Erlong and helped Ah Rou and Liu Erlong become friends.
• Xuan Ming waited for Ah Rou with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling, and Xiao Wu rushed over to embrace him when he arrived.
• Tai Long recognized Xuan Ming and fled before he could finish confronting him.
• Liu Erlong hugged Xuan Ming, but he used his domain to freeze her and pinned her against a wall; Flender and the others arrived and saw them.
• Xuan Ming joined everyone for lunch at Seven Treasure Pavilion, where Ah Rou explained that Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing were opposed to Yu Xiaogang and Dai Mubai, while Tang San was caught in the middle.

Xuan Ming advised Flender on managing Ma Hongjun’s Evil Fire, prompting Ma Hongjun to resolve to change and train seriously. Later, Xuan Ming joined Ning Rongrong and the others at an auction house, where they encountered Tang San and Ning Fengzhi.

• Xuan Ming explained that Ma Hongjun should adjust his diet, use suitable medicine, and gradually increase his training to control his Evil Fire.
• Xuan Ming warned Ning Rongrong and Liu Erlong to use his advice in moderation and said Ma Hongjun had to take responsibility for his own problem.
• Flender encouraged Ma Hongjun to change, and Ma Hongjun vowed to become a powerful Soul Master.
• Tang San met Xiao Wu and the others after emerging from seclusion and said he planned to sell items at the auction house for money to make advanced hidden weapons.
• Ning Rongrong led Xuan Ming and the others to the auction house, where she discussed Tang San’s hidden weapons with Xiao Wu and met Chen Xin.
• Chen Xin brought Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu to Ning Fengzhi, who said he had come to Heaven Dou City to meet Qinghe and praised the group’s cultivation.

Xuan Ming confronted an auction house for violating its ban on human trafficking after a catgirl was put up for sale, forcing the auction to stop. He left the matter to Ning Fengzhi and the authorities, while Qian Renxue learned of the incident at the crown prince’s residence.

• Ning Fengzhi offered to buy Tang San’s Hidden Weapons in bulk, but Liu Erlong warned that the partnership could bring Tang San trouble, leaving him conflicted.
• The auction house revealed a chained catgirl for sale, and Xuan Ming challenged Ning Rongrong and Ning Fengzhi over the violation of their agreement against human trafficking.
• Xuan Ming bid two hundred million Gold Soul Coins for the catgirl, and the auctioneer collapsed as the auction was suspended and guests fled.
• Ning Fengzhi said he would contact the Seven Great Families and the imperial family, while Xuan Ming left the catgirl’s arrangements to him.
• Snake Lance Douluo told Qian Renxue that Xuan Ming had encountered a slave auction.

After Xuan Ming bought a catgirl with a mutated body at auction, Qian Renxue ordered an investigation into the slave trade, while Bibi Dong considered how the scandal could affect Spirit Hall and Xuan Ming’s agreements. Xuan Ming then asked Bibi Dong about finding a Thundering Hell Vine, and she identified the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s forbidden ground as a likely location.

• Qian Renxue learned that Xuan Ming had bought the catgirl and ordered Snake Lance Douluo to investigate everyone involved in the slave trade.
• Bibi Dong told Gui Mei that Xuan Ming would likely abandon his agreements with the Seven Great Families and become less cooperative with the imperial family.
• Bibi Dong warned Qian Renxue through Gui Mei to prepare for the fallout from Xuan Ming’s broken business ties.
• Xuan Ming met Bibi Dong and asked about obtaining a Soul Ring from a Thundering Hell Vine over thirty thousand years old.
• Bibi Dong said a Thundering Hell Vine likely lived in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s guarded forbidden ground, and offered to take Xuan Ming there.
• Xuan Ming suggested asking around first rather than making the trip without confirming the Thundering Hell Vine was there.

Xuan Ming confirmed that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s forbidden grounds held a Thundering Hell Vine and prepared to leave with Bibi Dong. At the Martial Soul Holy Temple, Hu Liena worried about the fallout from the auction house incident, but Xuan Ming clarified that his anger came mainly from being made a fool of.

• Ning Rongrong coaxed Yu Xiaogang into revealing that a Thundering Hell Vine existed and that he knew where to find one.
• Yu Xiaogang said the Thundering Hell Vine was in the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s forbidden grounds and offered to take Tang San there in the future.
• Xuan Ming told Bibi Dong what he had learned and agreed to leave for the clan’s forbidden grounds that night.
• Bibi Dong said they would reach the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan early the next morning while Xuan Ming waited in the Martial Soul Holy Temple.
• Hu Liena warned Xuan Ming about the consequences of the auction house incident, and Xuan Ming said he was mainly angry because the others had made a monkey out of him.

Xuan Ming and Bibi Dong left Heaven Dou City with Yue Guan and Gui Mei to obtain Xuan Ming’s fifth Soul Ring from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s forbidden grounds, while Hu Liena stayed behind to manage the Martial Soul Holy Temple. At the clan’s territory, Xuan Ming revealed his spatial ability, and Ah Yin offered to guide them through the Blue Silver Grass.

• Xuan Ming told Hu Liena that Spirit Hall’s corruption was for Bibi Dong to address, then asked Hu Liena to take his place at the Martial Soul Holy Temple while he and Bibi Dong departed with Yue Guan and Gui Mei.
• Hu Liena asked Bibi Dong about Xuan Ming’s fifth Soul Ring and the Nine-Tailed Fox Heart Lotus; Xuan Ming said he had reached rank fifty and offered to examine the lotus when they returned.
• Qian Renxue arrived at the temple after midnight and learned from Hu Liena that Xuan Ming and Bibi Dong had left; Hu Liena relayed Xuan Ming’s message about the difference between failing to act and choosing not to act.
• At dawn, Gui Mei warned that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s territory was heavily defended, and Xuan Ming revealed that he could open a slow, imprecise spatial gate within a thousand meters.
• Ah Yin offered to use the Blue Silver Grass as her eyes to guide the group, and Xuan Ming questioned why she had let him get lost in Heaven Dou City.

Xuan Ming and Bibi Dong infiltrated Thunder Valley while Yue Guan and Gui Mei distracted Yu Yuanzhen, only to find a vast gathering of Thundering Hell Vines guarding one about to self-destruct. The Ice Dragon King identified the valley as the place where the Thunder God fell and questioned why it lacked the energy core expected at a god’s burial site.

• Ah Yin sensed the Thundering Hell Vine deep within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s grounds, and Bibi Dong sent Yue Guan and Gui Mei to draw Yu Yuanzhen away.
• Yue Guan accused the clan of hiding Tang Hao, provoking Yu Yuanzhen into fighting them and activating his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Avatar.
• Xuan Ming and Bibi Dong slipped into Thunder Valley, where Xuan Ming froze and shattered the vines attacking them.
• Ah Yin sensed over a hundred Thundering Hell Vines, including one over forty thousand years old that was about to self-destruct, and said the others were guarding it.
• The Ice Dragon King said the valley was where the Thunder God fell and that his dispersed divine power may have created the Thundering Hell Vines.
• The Ice Dragon King noted that a god’s fall should have formed an energy core, but the Thunder God’s death did not seem to have done so.

Xuan Ming absorbed the Thundering Hell Vine’s Soul Ring in Thunder Valley while its kin unleashed a storm of lightning. As the Ice Dragon King proposed that Xuan Ming absorb the valley’s reformed lightning energy core, Yu Yuanzhen arrived outside the valley and Xuan Ming faced a dangerous new attempt.

• The Ice Dragon King explained that a failed breakthrough to the God Realm may have destroyed the valley’s lightning energy core, while Xuan Ming and Ah Yin prepared to take the Thundering Hell Vine’s Soul Ring.
• Xuan Ming froze and shattered the Thundering Hell Vine, then absorbed its Soul Ring inside Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Cage as the other vines attacked with lightning.
• Bibi Dong questioned Ah Yin about her feelings for Xuan Ming, and Ah Yin admitted that she liked him.
• Yue Guan and Gui Mei kept Yu Yuanzhen occupied outside the clan grounds until he spotted the storm over Thunder Valley and rushed there, leaving Yu Luomian to hold them back.
• The Thundering Hell Vines’ joint lightning attack reformed the remnants of the valley’s energy core, and the Ice Dragon King urged Xuan Ming to use his new lightning control to absorb the lightning origin.

Xuan Ming absorbed Thunder Valley’s lightning origin while Bibi Dong fought Yu Yuanzhen to protect him. After Xuan Ming defeated Yu Yuanzhen and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elders, he checked on Bibi Dong, and she asked whether he had succeeded.

• Xuan Ming entered the lightning pillar and endured its power as the Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone repeatedly restored his body.
• Bibi Dong blocked Yu Yuanzhen’s lightning attack, then used her Immortal Body to withstand his nine lightning dragons.
• Xuan Ming emerged from the shattered pillar with control over Thunder Valley’s lightning and dispersed the power Yu Yuanzhen had gathered.
• Xuan Ming’s lightning dragon destroyed Yu Yuanzhen’s nine dragons, and the clan elders joined Yu Yuanzhen to resist it before they were all thrown into the valley.
• Xuan Ming approached Bibi Dong, healed her with his domain, and confirmed that he had absorbed the lightning origin.

Xuan Ming and Bibi Dong escaped Thunder Valley after defeating Yu Yuanzhen, who blamed them for stealing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s legendary treasure. As Bibi Dong recovered in the mountain forest, they discussed their feelings and the Nine-Tailed Fox Heart Lotus; the next morning, they headed toward Heaven Dou City before splitting up.

• Xuan Ming redirected Thunder Valley’s lightning against Yu Yuanzhen, then left with Bibi Dong after she decided to avoid an open conflict with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
• Yu Luomian and the clan’s reinforcements rescued Yu Yuanzhen, who accused Xuan Ming of stealing the clan’s supreme treasure and ordered the incident concealed.
• Yu Yuanzhen sent Yu Luomian to Heaven Dou City to question Ning Fengzhi, suspecting the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect might have sided with Spirit Hall.
• Bibi Dong recovered in a secluded forest while Xuan Ming explained that the Ice Dragon King had been able to block Yu Yuanzhen’s attack and asked to use her Nine-Tailed Fox Heart Lotus.
• Bibi Dong said she did not mind Xuan Ming hugging her, and he reacted awkwardly to her explanation.
• The next morning, Xuan Ming headed toward Sunset Forest while Bibi Dong returned to the Martial Soul Holy Temple.

At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Xuan Ming watched the Lovesick Heartbreak Red dispel the resentment in the Nine-Tailed Fox Heart Lotus and learned that Ah Yin had developed two personalities. In Heaven Dou City, Bibi Dong warned Qian Renxue that Xuan Ming would not keep tolerating broken promises, and Xuan Ming arrived at Hu Liena’s room after returning to the city.

• Xuan Ming placed the Nine-Tailed Fox Heart Lotus beside the Lovesick Heartbreak Red, and their powers clashed before the Lovesick Heartbreak Red overcame the lotus’s resentment.
• Ah Yin remembered that Xuan Ming had saved her and questioned his motives; after the flowers’ energy disrupted her projection, the Ice Dragon King told Xuan Ming that she had two personalities.
• Bibi Dong told Qian Renxue that Xuan Ming was owed what had been promised and warned her not to pressure him into swallowing his anger again.
• Qian Renxue worried that Xuan Ming’s turn toward Spirit Hall would make the Heaven Dou Imperial Family, the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and the Seven Great Families oppose him, but Bibi Dong said he understood the danger.
• Xuan Ming returned to Heaven Dou City, delivered gifts to Ning Rongrong at Shrek Academy, and traveled to Hu Liena’s room at the Martial Soul Holy Temple.
• Hu Liena pulled Xuan Ming into her room and asked why he had taken so long to visit after Bibi Dong returned.

Hu Liena absorbed the Nine-Tailed Fox Heart Lotus, evolving her Demon Fox Martial Soul into a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox and gaining extraordinary abilities. After Xuan Ming left, Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that she already knew her teacher had feelings for him.

• Xuan Ming gave Hu Liena the treated Nine-Tailed Fox Heart Lotus, and Bibi Dong helped oversee her absorption.
• Hu Liena's Martial Soul evolved into a Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox, and she tested her greatly increased speed against Xuan Ming.
• The Ice Dragon King explained the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox's cloning, attribute-boosting, and spiritual-burning abilities, along with the clan's ancient war against the Dragon Clan.
• Xuan Ming left the Martial Soul Holy Temple, and Bibi Dong asked Hu Liena if she felt anything wrong.
• Hu Liena told Bibi Dong that the fox's voice had revealed her feelings for Xuan Ming, then reassured her that she had already noticed.

Xuan Ming told Tang Yuehua that he would refuse the proposed compromise over the auction-house dispute and handle the consequences himself, despite her fears for his safety. He left Tang Yuehua worried that he intended to sever his ties with the factions around him.

• Hu Liena confronted Bibi Dong about her feelings for Xuan Ming and offered her teacher support, but Bibi Dong insisted that their past and circumstances made a relationship impossible.
• Xuan Ming visited Tang Yuehua at the Moonlight Pavilion and told her he might not be able to stay much longer because of the auction-house dispute.
• Tang Yuehua urged Xuan Ming to accept a compromise backed by Xue Qinghe, Ning Fengzhi, and their allies, but Xuan Ming said the others had broken their agreement.
• Tang Yuehua warned Xuan Ming that refusing to negotiate could put him in danger, while he assured her that he could handle the consequences and told her to stay out of the matter.
• Tang Yuehua asked why Xuan Ming would not wait until he became stronger, and he said he had other things to do and had endured enough, suggesting he planned to cut ties with the factions.

Xuan Ming left Heaven Dou City for Shrek Academy after deciding he might go to Slaughter City to feed the Blood Spear, with the Ice Dragon King agreeing to follow his lead. Meanwhile, Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong struggled to believe the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's claim that Xuan Ming and Bibi Dong had stolen a forbidden treasure, while Xuan Ming arrived at Shrek and found Ma Hongjun complaining about his punishing training.

• Xuan Ming said he planned to go to Slaughter City to satisfy the Blood Spear, and the Ice Dragon King agreed after weighing the danger.
• Yu Luomian warned Ning Fengzhi that the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan suspected the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect of colluding with Spirit Hall, then left without accepting an explanation.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong discussed the claim that Bibi Dong had helped Xuan Ming steal a treasure from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, finding the timing plausible but the story hard to believe.
• Xuan Ming brought Ah Rou to Shrek Academy, where Ma Hongjun begged Flender to reduce his training, but Flender and Qin Ming said they planned to increase it.

Xuan Ming questioned whether Ning Rongrong and Zhu Zhuqing were ready for the Soul Master Tournament and urged them to consider the consequences of competing. He then challenged Zhu Zhuqing to decide whether the life she had chosen with him was truly the freedom she wanted.

• Yu Xiaogang announced that the group would enter the upcoming Soul Master Tournament, arguing that they might not be together in five years and that competing now would give them experience.
• Ning Rongrong defended her and Zhu Zhuqing's strength, but Xuan Ming warned that the team might not reach the finals and advised her to discuss competing with her family.
• Xuan Ming took Zhu Zhuqing aside, while Ning Rongrong questioned Xiao Wu about her feelings for him and Xiao Wu admitted their relationship was special but kept his gift to her secret.
• Xuan Ming told Zhu Zhuqing that her strength could not protect her from her sister and the Star Luo Imperial Family, and reminded her that he disliked her offering everything she had to escape her old life.
• Zhu Zhuqing said she had chosen her new cage herself, but Xuan Ming told her he had given her the ability to fly rather than rescued her just to confine her; she replied that the cage meant more to her than a cage.

Xuan Ming rejected Zhu Zhuqing’s offer to join his dangerous plans, but she confessed her feelings and kissed him before Dai Mubai interrupted them. Yu Luomian accused Xuan Ming of stealing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s secret treasure, and as their confrontation escalated, Dai Mubai was struck by alternating extreme cold and heat.

• Zhu Zhuqing confessed to Xuan Ming that she wanted a home with him, and after he said he could not involve her in his troubles, she kissed him.
• Dai Mubai arrived and accused Zhu Zhuqing of betraying the Star Luo Empire, so Xuan Ming attacked him with ice needles before Liu Erlong intervened.
• Xuan Ming seized Dai Mubai by the throat, but Liu Erlong asked him to spare the prince before Yu Luomian arrived and accused Xuan Ming of stealing the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s treasure.
• Xuan Ming admitted entering the clan’s forbidden grounds with Bibi Dong but challenged Yu Luomian to identify the supposedly stolen treasure.
• Yu Luomian attacked Xuan Ming, who used Dai Mubai as a shield and then tossed him aside; Dai Mubai was overcome by alternating cold and heat, and Liu Erlong tried to help him.

Xuan Ming sealed Yu Luomian in ice after the Soul Douluo demanded he return to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, while Dai Mubai continued suffering from the cold and heat torment. Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang failed to free Yu Luomian and concluded that only a Titled Douluo from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect might be able to save him.

• Xuan Ming told Liu Erlong that Dai Mubai would survive if he endured three days, then unleashed an Ice and Snow Storm against Yu Luomian.
• Yu Luomian transformed into his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Avatar, but Xuan Ming used Winter's Wrath: Ice Seal to trap him in a massive block of ice.
• Flender, Zhao Wuji, and the other Shrek Academy teachers arrived, and Liu Erlong revealed that Xuan Ming had sealed Yu Luomian himself.
• Liu Erlong tried to melt the ice but frostbit her fingers, then Flender, Liu Erlong, and Yu Xiaogang summoned the Golden Sacred Dragon without freeing Yu Luomian.
• Yu Xiaogang said that only the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's Titled Douluo might be able to save Yu Luomian.

Xuan Ming froze Yu Luomian at Shrek Academy and planned to let the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect rescue him, gaining a favor while distancing the sect from Xuan Ming. As the unnatural snow spread across Heaven Dou City, Xue Qinghe and Spirit Hall investigated the disturbance, and Bibi Dong learned that a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon had been frozen.

• Yu Xiaogang said the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would have to help because Yu Luomian was the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's second-in-command, and he suggested asking Ning Rongrong to contact them.
• Xuan Ming told Ning Rongrong that Yu Luomian would survive but lose his Martial Soul, and urged her to use the crisis to secure a favor and protect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect by drawing a clear line between it and him.
• Ning Rongrong worried about Xuan Ming's preparations, while Xiao Wu reassured her that Xuan Ming would not die before them.
• Xue Qinghe saw unnatural snow falling over Heaven Dou City, learned it had erupted from Shrek Academy, and decided to investigate despite Snake Lance Douluo's warnings.
• Salas told Bibi Dong that Yu Luomian had been frozen in his Martial Soul Avatar at Shrek Academy and that the ice and snow had spread across nearly half of Heaven Dou City.

Xuan Ming explained that he had frozen Yu Luomian after the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Soul Master tried to capture him, while Bibi Dong and Xue Qinghe confronted him about the fallout. He revealed that he had deliberately killed and devoured opponents in the Great Soul Arena to test how others would react, leaving Xue Qinghe grim and questioning whether he had been tested.

• Bibi Dong dismissed Salas's suggestion to report the unknown ice-wielding Titled Douluo to the Elder Hall.
• Xuan Ming warned Ah Rou, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing that Bibi Dong and the Golden-Haired Lion King were coming, then let Ah Yin see through the snowflakes.
• Bibi Dong asked Xuan Ming why he had caused the snowfall, and he said he had frozen Yu Luomian when Yu Luomian came to capture him.
• Xue Qinghe confronted Xuan Ming over his defiance, but Xuan Ming told him they had no room for discussion and gave him and Bibi Dong copies of a threatening letter.
• The letter threatened to expose Xuan Ming as a Fallen Soul Master for killing people in the Great Soul Arena and consuming their blood Qi and Soul Power.
• Xuan Ming admitted he had deliberately acted that way to test others, and Xue Qinghe asked if Xuan Ming had been testing him.

Xuan Ming explained why he had exposed Blood Spear’s flaw and told Xue Qinghe he would not stop the threatened exposure, despite its danger to him and Spirit Hall. After Xue Qinghe left, Bibi Dong revealed she had been stripped of power and began considering how Xuan Ming could help her remove Golden Crocodile; the Ice Dragon King offered assistance in exchange for going to Slaughter City afterward.

• Xuan Ming told Xue Qinghe he had hoped to provoke her into turning against him, but had also exposed Blood Spear’s flaw because he kept his promises and no longer intended to hold back.
• Xuan Ming rejected Xue Qinghe’s warning about the consequences of exposing the secret and said he would not sabotage her plan or reveal her identity, but would not handle the matter with restraint.
• Bibi Dong blamed Xue Qinghe’s side for breaking its promise and said Golden Crocodile and the Worship Hall had stripped her of authority in Spirit Hall.
• After Xue Qinghe left, Bibi Dong asked whether Xuan Ming could freeze or cripple Golden Crocodile so she could regain power.
• The Ice Dragon King offered to help Bibi Dong deal with Golden Crocodile in exchange for going to Slaughter City with Xuan Ming afterward.

Xuan Ming prepared to travel to the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and stabilize his Soul Core, while the others dealt with the aftermath of his fight with Yu Luomian. The chapter ended with Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling learning he would leave Heaven Dou City again and showing their reluctance.

• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong learned from Ning Rongrong how Xuan Ming had become involved with Bibi Dong and discussed his strained ties with the Seven Great Families and the Heaven Dou Imperial Family.
• Xuan Ming asked Ah Rou about finding the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, and the Ice Dragon King proposed going to the Star Dou Great Forest to search for it and help stabilize his Soul Core.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong examined Yu Luomian's ice prison and learned that Yu Xiaogang's failed attempt to break it had destabilized the Frost Qi, leaving Yu Luomian at risk of death or permanent injury.
• Gu Rong said powerful healing would be needed to save Yu Luomian from being crippled, but Ning Fengzhi revealed that Ye Lan had died two years earlier.
• Xuan Ming went to Heaven Dou Royal Academy to tell Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling he planned to leave Heaven Dou City, and Dugu Yan complained that he had only just returned.

Xuan Ming told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that he planned to go to Slaughter City after the tournament and revealed that he intended to provoke a public backlash against himself. At the Seven Treasure Pavilion, Ye Lingling refused to heal Yu Luomian, and Xuan Ming warned Ning Fengzhi that he expected to become a target for everyone.

• Xuan Ming told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling that he planned to go to Slaughter City and explained that he wanted others to condemn him so he could kill them without hesitation.
• Ye Lingling refused to help rescue Yu Luomian, while Dugu Yan challenged Yu Tianheng to learn how his second granduncle had really ended up trapped in ice.
• Yu Xiaogang told Yu Tianheng that Xuan Ming had taken a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan treasure and sealed Yu Luomian, surprising Yu Tianheng, who thought the treasure was only a legend.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to find a healer in hopes of earning the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's favor, but Xuan Ming said reconciliation was impossible and showed him threatening letters.
• Xuan Ming told Ning Fengzhi that the Pope would take part and predicted that he would soon become everyone's target after losing their trust and usefulness.