Recaps

Lu Jingming awakened Black Abyss White Flower, established Saint Freya Academy, and secured a thousand-year first Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest. Eight years later, Yan Shaozhe brought Ma Xiaotao to Haiyuan City seeking Jing Liu’s help, where Ma Xiaotao challenged Zhang Lexuan to a fight.

• Lu Jingming used his retained True Power to summon Jing Liu and defeat the noble factions invading the City Lord's Manor, then reached the Awakening Hall with Miko.
• Jing Liu helped Lu Jingming replace his inherited Martial Soul with Black Abyss White Flower, awakening his Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power.
• Lu Jingming and Chang Li established Saint Freya Academy, offering commoners free awakenings and training while Jing Liu and The Great Black Tower led its departments.
• Jing Liu took Lu Jingming to the Star Dou Great Forest, where he killed a Blazing Phoenix Bird and began absorbing its thousand-year soul ring despite Yan Shaozhe's warnings.
• Lu Jingming endured the ring's power and broke through his Soul Power bottleneck, while Xu Jiujiu witnessed his unprecedented first Soul Ring and befriended him.
• Over eight years, Chang Li and Jing Liu helped Lu Jingming transform Haiyuan City with Soul Tools, expanding trade and protecting the city with the Golden Guard.
• Yan Shaozhe brought Ma Xiaotao to Haiyuan City to seek Jing Liu's help with Ma Xiaotao's worsening evil fire, and Jing Liu directed him to negotiate with Lu Jingming's side.
• Ma Xiaotao challenged Lu Jingming, but Zhang Lexuan accepted the fight and promised to suppress her Soul Power as they battled on the beach.

Lu Jingming expanded Haiyuan City’s influence, sent Ju Zi on a dangerous infiltration mission, and obtained a powerful soul ring before joining Saint Freya Academy’s tournament team. The 2023 competition began in Heaven Dou City as Shrek Academy’s delegation entered the arena.

• Zhang Lexuan defeated Ma Xiaotao, and Jing Liu later purged and sealed Ma Xiaotao’s evil fire as Shrek Academy agreed to Haiyuan City’s conditions and adopted the Simulated Universe.
• Lu Jingming assigned Ningguang to establish a merchant association in Shrek City and gave Zhang Lexuan and Keqing the Golden Tree cultivation places while he remained in Haiyuan City.
• Over the following years, Lu Jingming cultivated and trained in the Simulated Universe as it spread across the continent, while the Sun Moon Empire’s engineers failed to uncover its principles.
• Ji Yingying brought Ju Zi to Lu Jingming, and after reconsidering her hatred, Ju Zi joined the Wuchang Division as White Seven and left to infiltrate Xu Tianran’s side.
• Lu Jingming traveled with Saint Freya Academy’s tournament team into the Star Dou Great Forest, where Jing Liu protected him as he obtained the Sacred Flame Sky Tiger’s soul ring.
• Di Tian reported Lu Jingming’s powers of Creation and Destruction to Gu Yuena, who created an avatar named Gu Yue and ordered Di Tian to arrange a human identity for her.
• In Heaven Dou City, Lu Jingming reunited with Ma Xiaotao and met Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming as the academies prepared for the tournament.
• The 2023 tournament opened before one hundred thousand spectators, and Han Ruoruo led Shrek Academy onto the stage as Lu Jingming watched their team enter.

Saint Freya Academy claimed the tournament crown, while Gu Yue joined the academy and discovered Lu Jingming’s overwhelming strength. Lu Jingming and Zhang Lexuan’s soul-ring expedition became a rescue mission after the Silver Moon Flood Dragon Emperor killed most of Xuan Zi’s students, leaving Xuan Zi devastated.

• Saint Freya Academy defeated Shrek Academy in the championship match and won the tournament, while Lu Jingming took the champion Soul Bones toward the Star Luo Empire.
• Gu Yue passed Saint Freya Academy’s Five-Star Assessment, joined the academy as an S-Rank student, and recognized Lu Jingming as the opponent who had defeated her in the simulation.
• Lu Jingming defeated Tang San and Gu Yue in the Simulated Universe, then learned that the Thousand Realms Equinox required Honkai Energy.
• Ju Zi received a Calamity Crystal from Ji Yingying and discovered that Lu Jingming’s power could let her carry it out of the Simulated Universe.
• Lu Jingming reached level fifty and set out with Zhang Lexuan and Jing Liu to obtain soul rings in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Silver Moon Flood Dragon Emperor attacked Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo’s group, killing most of the students before Jing Liu froze and subdued it.
• Lu Jingming healed Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo, who told Xuan Zi that the beast had killed their companions and that Xue Yue had saved them.
• Han Ruoruo explained that the Silver Moon Flood Dragon Emperor had left no bodies, and Xuan Zi collapsed in despair as Lu Jingming judged that his overconfidence had contributed to the disaster.

Lu Jingming and his companions defeated two powerful soul beasts, while his modified Simulated Universe spread across the continent and helped secure Haiyuan City the 2024 tournament. After arranging the city’s preparations, Lu Jingming entered the Simulated Universe to face Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils, leaving Tang San fighting him in grief and fury.

• Jing Liu defeated the Mountain Moving Giant Ape, and Lu Jingming killed it, absorbed its Soul Ring, and gained two Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Skills.
• Zhang Lexuan refined the Silver Moon Flood Dragon Emperor’s torso soul bone, while Lu Jingming and his companions encountered the phenomenon of Huo Yuhao obtaining Sky Dream Ice Silkworm and Electrolux and left without interfering.
• Lu Jingming and Zhang Lexuan left Huo Yuhao’s group, and Gu Yue challenged Lu Jingming to a simulated fight, which he won.
• Lu Jingming spent time with Keqing and Zhang Lexuan, then worked with Black Tower to send Login Devices for a modified Simulated Universe into a parallel world.
• Bibi Dong and Chen Xin tested the Login Device, and Chen Xin advanced to Rank 97 after witnessing Jing Liu’s sword path.
• Lu Jingming and Chang Li negotiated with Xu Jiawei to have Haiyuan City host the 2024 tournament, and Chang Li’s essence blood helped Sky Eagle Douluo advance to Rank 98.
• Lu Jingming returned to Haiyuan City, began preparing the tournament venue and city guard, then entered the Simulated Universe after learning someone had encountered his virtual data body.
• Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils entered the Simulated Universe and fought Lu Jingming, who killed several of them and decomposed Tang San’s Hidden Weapons as Tang San charged at him.