Recaps

After waking from absorbing a 3,800-year Soul Ring, Lin Tian discovered that he had reached level thirty-seven and gained an External Soul Bone in the form of butterfly wings. Lu Yu explained the wings’ nature, and Lin Tian named them the Purple-Patterned Wings.

• Lu Yu told Lin Tian that he had been unconscious for three days and confirmed that he had successfully absorbed a 3,800-year Third Soul Ring.
• Lin Tian sensed that his Soul Power had risen to level thirty-seven, then accidentally summoned the wings on his back and crashed into the table.
• Lu Yu helped Lin Tian calm down and control the wings, then explained that they were a growth-capable External Soul Bone.
• Lin Tian offered to remove the wings and give them to Lu Yu, but Lu Yu refused and explained that the Soul Bone could not be absorbed by anyone else once removed.
• Lu Yu warned Lin Tian to hide the wings from outsiders until they had completely fused, and Lin Tian named them the Purple-Patterned Wings.

Lin Tian explained his third Soul Skill and strange Soul Bone Skill to Lu Yu before Flender confronted Lu Yu over recruiting Oscar. Flender accepted Lu Yu’s original offer to fund Oscar’s cultivation, then returned to Shrek Academy and found Oscar worried about Lu Yu.

• Lin Tian told Lu Yu that his third Soul Skill doubled the power of lightning-attribute skills and that his Purple-Patterned Wings formed a chrysalis that needed lightning to open.
• Flender’s Soul Power swept through the courtyard, and he shouted for Lu Yu to come out.
• Lu Yu recognized Flender as Shrek Academy’s dean and flattered him before apologizing for approaching Oscar without knowing he was a Shrek student.
• Flender asked whether Lu Yu’s offer to Oscar still stood, and Lu Yu agreed to keep the original terms.
• Flender returned to Shrek Academy and found Oscar pacing anxiously; Oscar asked whether Flender had made things difficult for Lu Yu.

After Flender frightened Lu Yu and Lin Tian, he warned Oscar to conceal his Innate Full Soul Power while allowing him to keep meeting the pair. Lu Yu resolved to grow stronger, and Oscar returned to visit him.

• After Flender left, Lu Yu told Lin Tian that the visitor was Flender, a level 78 Soul Saint, and reassured him that he had come to check whether they were trying to recruit Oscar.
• Flender told Oscar to claim his innate Soul Power was level seven and warned him that outsiders might target him if they learned he had Innate Full Soul Power.
• Flender decided to let Oscar get to know Lu Yu and Lin Tian, but abandoned the idea of sending Ma Hongjun after finding his room empty.
• Lu Yu and Lin Tian remained shaken by Flender's visit, while Lu Yu worried about how to become stronger quickly.
• Oscar knocked at Lu Yu's courtyard, and Lu Yu welcomed him inside.

Lu Yu tried to help Oscar overcome the embarrassment of his Soul Incantation by training him to split his attention. Oscar struggled through repeated failures but persisted, leaving the practice unfinished.

• Lu Yu welcomed Oscar and learned that Flender had agreed to let him join them while keeping Oscar's Innate Soul Power secret.
• Oscar created a Recovery Sausage for Lu Yu and Lin Tian, then admitted that he had to recite his embarrassing Soul Incantation aloud to use his Soul Skill.
• Lu Yu proposed that Oscar train by drawing a circle with one hand and a square with the other, hoping that divided attention might let him alter how he recited the incantation.
• Oscar began practicing, but his drawings repeatedly tangled into crooked shapes as Lu Yu encouraged him to continue.
• Oscar kept practicing despite aching, numb fingers and a swollen-feeling head, while Lin Tian bought more paper for him.

Oscar struggled to master drawing a circle and square independently before Lu Yu took Lin Tian to Thunder Valley to test his mysterious Purple-Patterned Wings Soul Bone Skill. A cocoon formed around Lin Tian, withstanding Lu Yu’s strongest attack, and Lu Yu drew down heavenly lightning to trigger its release.

• Oscar practiced drawing until exhaustion, and Lu Yu comforted him before taking him and Lin Tian to eat.
• Back at Shrek Academy, Ma Hongjun teased Oscar about spending time with Lu Yu, while Flender watched with quiet unease.
• Lu Yu dragged a reluctant Lin Tian to Thunder Valley to test the Soul Bone Skill that made the Purple-Patterned Wings encase him in a cocoon.
• Lin Tian’s cocoon sealed him off from the outside world, and Lu Yu found it remained intact against strikes from a tree trunk and the Ruyi Staff.
• Lu Yu set up an iron lightning rod against the cocoon, retreated, and a bolt of heavenly lightning struck the rod.

Lu Yu tested Lin Tian’s thunder chrysalis Soul Bone Skill and deduced that it was immune to every kind of attack except lightning, but left Lin Tian helpless and unconscious until lightning freed him. A month of further testing revealed that stronger bodies required more lightning to break out, so Lu Yu and Lin Tian stopped using the skill to temper Lin Tian’s body.

• Lin Tian emerged from the thunder chrysalis with a stronger body, and Lu Yu urged him to activate the skill again for further tests.
• Lu Yu crushed the chrysalis with the Ruyi Staff and then burned it in a huge fire, but neither attack damaged it.
• Lu Yu concluded that the chrysalis was a rule-type Soul Skill that resisted all non-lightning attacks, while Lin Tian realized it could protect him from most opponents at the cost of being unable to move or sense anything.
• Lu Yu warned Lin Tian that without lightning, he could remain trapped in the chrysalis indefinitely, leaving his fate to chance.
• Over the next month, Lu Yu and Lin Tian found that the chrysalis needed increasingly more lightning to open as Lin Tian’s body grew stronger; after Lin Tian took 17 strikes to emerge, they stopped using the skill for body tempering.

Oscar practiced drawing a square and circle simultaneously until Lu Yu suggested a way to alter his Soul Incantation, allowing him to summon a Healing Sausage. Lu Yu left to visit his younger brother, and Oscar returned to Shrek determined to improve his casting speed.

• Oscar kept visiting Lu Yu and practicing drawing a square and circle, while Ma Hongjun followed him and was beaten by Lu Yu and the others.
• Lu Yu told Oscar he was leaving to see his younger brother, Lu Fei, and Oscar revealed that he had learned to draw a square and circle simultaneously.
• Lu Yu suggested Oscar silently think his original Soul Incantation while saying a modified one, and Oscar successfully summoned a Healing Sausage.
• Oscar said the new incantation took fifteen percent longer to cast, so Lu Yu promised to teach him a Self-Created Soul Skill if he halved the casting time before they met again.
• Oscar returned to Shrek and tried to sneak up on Zhao Wuji, who caught his hand; Oscar explained that Lu Yu and Lin Tian had gone home.

Oscar secretly tested his changed Soul Incantation on Zhao Wuji, Li Wensong, and Lu Qibin, who sensed something was different but did not identify the cause. Ma Hongjun noticed the new incantation while asking Oscar for a sausage, prompting Oscar to explain the change to Flender, who reacted with shock.

• Oscar gave Zhao Wuji a healing sausage made with his new Soul Incantation, leaving Zhao Wuji puzzled.
• Oscar made sausages for Li Wensong and Lu Qibin, and both teachers sensed something was off but could not recall what he had said.
• Oscar watched Flender make Ma Hongjun run laps as punishment for sneaking out to a brothel.
• Ma Hongjun called Oscar over for a sausage and realized that Oscar had used a different Soul Incantation.
• Oscar announced that he had changed his incantation to "I Have a Healing Sausage" and explained how to Flender, who was stunned by the news.

Lu Yu returned to Nuoding City and reunited with Su Yuntao, then secretly tested Lu Fei’s combat skills at the academy. When the fight exposed his face, Lu Fei recognized his long-missed older brother.

• Lu Yu returned to Su Yuntao’s home, prepared dinner, and reunited with Su Yuntao after three months apart.
• Lu Yu told Su Yuntao that his Soul Power had reached rank three, concealing his true strength and achievements.
• Lu Yu visited Nuoding Academy, hid in Lu Fei’s dormitory, and ambushed him to test his progress.
• Lu Fei used Martial Soul Possession and fought the masked attacker, but Lu Yu matched his attacks with practiced skill.
• Lu Fei’s flames burned away Lu Yu’s mask, and Lu Fei recognized his face and asked if he was his brother.

Lu Yu returned to the academy and reunited with Lu Fei, then Yu Xiaogang learned of his return and asked Tang San to help him study Lu Yu's external beast Martial Soul. Tang San agreed, though he resented how eagerly Yu Xiaogang pursued Lu Yu.

• Lu Fei recognized Lu Yu and Great Sage, then embraced his brother and cried after their three-month separation.
• Xiao Chenyu and other students arrived to investigate the noise, and Lu Fei explained that Lu Yu was his brother and had been testing his cultivation.
• Lu Yu took Lu Fei home while rumors about his mysterious background spread through the academy.
• Tang San told Yu Xiaogang that Lu Yu had returned, and Yu Xiaogang hurried to find him before stopping to ask where he had gone.
• Yu Xiaogang explained that studying Lu Yu's external beast Martial Soul might help him break through level 29, and Tang San agreed to help.

Lu Yu reunited with Lu Fei, learned that his younger brother had reached level nine Soul Power, and promised to stay in Nuoding City and help him hunt for a Soul Ring. When Tang San came seeking Lu Yu on Yu Xiaogang’s behalf, Lu Yu arranged to meet Tang San alone at the school gate after classes.

• Lu Fei excitedly told Lu Yu about his academy life, and the brothers returned to Su Yuntao’s courtyard for a meal.
• Lu Fei revealed that he had reached level nine Soul Power, and Lu Yu promised to stay in Nuoding City and take him Soul Hunting once he reached level ten.
• Lu Yu promised to pick Lu Fei up after classes, then returned home to cultivate while Lu Fei went to Nuoding Academy.
• Tang San visited Lu Fei, who told him to wait for Lu Yu at the school gate after classes.
• Yu Xiaogang urged Tang San to meet Lu Yu in his place, and Tang San agreed to help his teacher.
• At the end of classes, Xiao Wu asked Tang San what was troubling him, but he said it concerned his teacher.

Tang San waited at Nuoding Academy to meet Lu Yu on Yu Xiaogang’s behalf, then followed him to a courtyard and praised his teacher’s Martial Soul theories. Lu Yu asked Tang San to explain the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul, and Tang San began citing Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Ring age limits.

• Tang San left Xiao Wu and waited alone at Nuoding Academy’s gate for Lu Yu.
• Lu Fei ran to Lu Yu and hugged him, while Tang San watched before following them to Lu Yu’s courtyard.
• Lu Yu asked Tang San why Yu Xiaogang had sent him, and Tang San recommended Yu Xiaogang as a Martial Soul expert.
• Lu Yu asked about the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Soul, and Tang San proudly praised Yu Xiaogang’s work.
• Tang San told Lu Yu that Yu Xiaogang set the First Soul Ring limit at 423 years and the Second at 764 years, then summoned his yellow Hundred-Year Soul Ring as proof.

Lu Yu challenged Tang San’s belief in Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Ring limits by questioning how anyone could determine a Soul Beast’s exact age or why Blue Silver Grass could absorb a ring also suited to powerful dragon Martial Souls. Tang San began doubting Yu Xiaogang, and Lu Yu led him toward reconsidering the Mandala Snake Soul Ring that gave Blue Silver Grass poison.

• Lu Yu asked Tang San how Yu Xiaogang had established the exact 423-year First Soul Ring limit, and Tang San struggled to answer.
• Lu Yu argued that Blue Silver Grass and powerful dragon Martial Souls should not share the same Soul Ring limit, prompting Tang San to doubt Yu Xiaogang’s teachings.
• Hidden nearby, Tang Hao recognized the force of Lu Yu’s questions and regretted letting Tang San study under Yu Xiaogang.
• Lu Yu asked what Soul Beast Tang San had hunted for his First Soul Ring, and Tang San said the Grandmaster had helped him hunt a 400-year-old Mandala Snake.
• Tang San explained that the Mandala Snake’s poison compensated for Blue Silver Grass’s lack of offensive power, while Lu Yu prepared to question the choice.

Lu Yu convinced Tang San that the Mandala Snake Soul Ring might be poisoning his Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul, destroying Tang San’s trust in Yu Xiaogang. Enraged, Tang Hao beat Yu Xiaogang nearly unconscious but spared him because he still needed him to address the drawbacks of cultivating Twin Martial Souls.

• Lu Yu questioned Tang San about the connection between a person and their Martial Soul, then argued that Tang San’s poisonous Mandala Snake Soul Ring was harming his pure Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San grew shocked and panicked as he considered that the poison might gradually corrode his Martial Soul and damage his body, and his trust in Yu Xiaogang collapsed.
• Tang Hao overheard Lu Yu’s warning and flew into a rage, blaming Yu Xiaogang for endangering Tang San’s cultivation.
• Tang Hao burst into Yu Xiaogang’s dormitory and beat him severely, then threw him against a wall and kicked him.
• Tang Hao left Yu Xiaogang alive because he still needed him to solve the drawbacks of cultivating Twin Martial Souls.

Tang Hao comforted Tang San after his despair over his cultivation, insisting that Yu Xiaogang was needed to solve the problem of cultivating Twin Martial Souls. After Tang San left, Tang Hao set off to punish Yu Yuanzhen, while teachers discovered the badly injured Yu Xiaogang.

• Tang Hao gave Yu Xiaogang a token and left him after warning him to train Tang San and abandon his theories.
• Tang Hao found Tang San despondent, reassured him that he had a way to deal with his Martial Soul, and told him Yu Xiaogang was the only person who could help him cultivate Twin Martial Souls.
• Tang San asked whether Lu Yu could help, and Tang Hao said Lu Yu's theoretical knowledge was useful but he did not know the secret of cultivating Twin Martial Souls.
• After Tang San left, Tang Hao flew toward the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to make Yu Yuanzhen pay for Yu Xiaogang's mistakes.
• Teachers found Yu Xiaogang unconscious in his bloodied quarters and called for a healing-type Soul Master after confirming he was alive.

Lu Yu learned that Yu Xiaogang had been beaten and left unconscious, while Tang San used the incident as a reason to visit him at the clinic. Tang San stayed beside Yu Xiaogang until dusk, when the unconscious man began asking for water.

• At dinner, Lu Yu gave Lu Fei the Taiqing True Qi Manual and told him to memorize it and keep it secret.
• After taking Lu Fei to Nuoding Academy, Lu Yu climbed over the wall to ask about Grandmaster and learned that Yu Xiaogang had been beaten the previous night.
• Tang San told Xiao Wu that he had seen his father, then arranged to visit Yu Xiaogang under the pretext of caring for him.
• Tang San learned Yu Xiaogang's clinic address, went to his room, and sat silently beside his unconscious bed through the afternoon.
• At dusk, Yu Xiaogang twitched and muttered that he wanted water.

Tang San secretly poisoned Yu Xiaogang’s medicine while pretending to care for him, and Yu Xiaogang trusted him more deeply as he recovered from his injuries. The chapter ended with Tang San continuing his deception, intent on keeping Yu Xiaogang weak and under his control.

• Yu Xiaogang woke briefly in the hospital and asked for water, while Tang San acted outraged over his injuries despite secretly feeling satisfied.
• Tang San prepared medicine and secretly added a slow-acting poison that would erode Yu Xiaogang’s Qi and blood without being detected.
• Tang San gently fed Yu Xiaogang the poisoned medicine and continued visiting and caring for him over the next three days.
• Yu Xiaogang gradually regained consciousness but remained weak and tired, and he grew grateful to Tang San for his attentive care.
• Yu Xiaogang resolved to teach Tang San everything he knew and help him become a Titled Douluo, while Tang San privately planned to keep him frail and manipulable.

Lu Yu taught Lu Fei the Taiqing True Qi Manual's meridians, and Lu Fei cultivated far faster than with Nuoding Academy's method. Lu Yu planned to take him to Suotuo City, but Su Yuntao refused to leave Nuoding City because he remained committed to overseeing local children's Martial Soul awakenings.

• Lu Yu guided Lu Fei through the Taiqing True Qi Manual's meridians, and Lu Fei completed a full cultivation cycle after memorizing the route.
• Lu Fei said the manual let him absorb about twenty times more Soul Power than the academy's meditation method and expected to reach level ten within two days.
• Lu Yu told Lu Fei to graduate at level ten and said they would leave Nuoding City so Lu Fei could gain experience.
• Lu Yu visited Su Yuntao and invited him to join the brothers in Suotuo City after Lu Fei reached level ten.
• Su Yuntao declined, explaining that he wanted to remain in Nuoding City to provide Martial Soul awakenings for children from nearby communities.
• Lu Yu accepted Su Yuntao's decision, and Su Yuntao promised he would always stand behind the brothers.

After discovering their old home had been burned down, Lu Yu confronted the village chief's family and left with Lu Fei, while secretly sending the Great Sage back to deal with them. Su Yuntao received Lu Yu's farewell gift as the brothers arrived in Suotuo City, where Lu Yu planned to take Lu Fei Soul Hunting.

• Lu Fei asked Lu Yu to revisit their old home, where they found it burned to ruins.
• Lu Yu confronted the village chief, who admitted burning the house and blamed the brothers for Ta Ke's death; Lu Yu revealed his Soul Rings and left without attacking the family.
• Lu Yu comforted Lu Fei about Ta Ke's death, then secretly sent the Great Sage back toward the village chief's residence.
• Su Yuntao found Lu Yu's farewell letter, 100,000 Gold Soul Coins, and a secret medicine that would let his Third Soul Ring absorb a thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Lu Yu and Lu Fei reached Suotuo City, and Lu Yu said they would rest before going Soul Hunting.

Lu Yu explained two development paths for Lu Fei’s Fire Monkey Martial Soul, and Lu Fei chose to strengthen its flames. The brothers set out to find Lu Fei a First Soul Ring and reached Lava Canyon, where Lu Yu planned to hunt a flame-shaped Soul Beast.

• Lu Yu returned to his courtyard with Lu Fei and introduced him to Lin Tian and Oscar.
• Lu Yu described a flame-focused path and a strength-and-size-focused path for Lu Fei’s Fire Monkey, and Lu Fei chose to pursue stronger flames.
• Lu Yu prepared water-filled barrels for the hunt and declined Lin Tian’s offer to accompany them.
• Lu Yu took Lu Fei toward the Star Dou Great Forest, planning to find a flame-shaped Soul Beast in Lava Canyon for his First Soul Ring.
• Lu Yu and Lu Fei reached the outskirts of Lava Canyon, where Lu Yu explained that the local Soul Beasts were mostly fire-attribute.

Lu Yu took Lu Fei into the Lava Canyon to find a Scarlet Flame Fire Spirit whose pure flame energy could strengthen Lu Fei’s Fire Monkey Martial Soul. They found a dormant ten-year-old spirit, but Lu Yu led Lu Fei deeper into the dangerous, scorching cave to search for a stronger one.

• Lu Yu explained that the brothers were seeking a flame Soul Beast in the Lava Canyon and told Lu Fei about the sea and a distant continent.
• Lu Yu and Lu Fei reached the Lava Canyon, put on masks against its heat and sulfur, and entered along the outskirts.
• Lu Yu identified a charred trail leading into a cave and guided Lu Fei inside toward the Scarlet Flame Fire Spirit.
• The brothers found a dormant Scarlet Flame Fire Spirit with a white core, and Lu Yu judged it to be only ten years old.
• Lu Yu led Lu Fei farther into the cave in search of a stronger spirit, though the heat and lava made their progress difficult.

Lu Yu and Lu Fei found a nearly nine-hundred-year Scarlet Flame Fire Spirit, but Great Sage’s physical attack proved useless. Lu Yu used water to extinguish its flames and captured its core, then escaped the lava cave with Lu Fei.

• Lu Yu and Lu Fei discovered a nearly nine-hundred-year Scarlet Flame Fire Spirit in a lava pool.
• Lu Yu ordered Great Sage to strike the spirit, but it reformed immediately and proved immune to physical attacks.
• The enraged spirit chased the brothers, and Lu Yu threw a water-filled wooden bucket at it.
• The bucket burned away, releasing water that extinguished most of the spirit’s flames.
• Lu Yu and Lu Fei doused the remaining flames, and Lu Yu caught the spirit’s core in an iron bucket.
• Lu Yu kept the core submerged as the brothers escaped the lava cave.

Lu Fei absorbed the Scarlet Flame Fire Spirit’s nearly nine-hundred-year Soul Ring, becoming a Soul Master and gaining a defensive skill with partial physical-damage and fire immunity. Lu Yu congratulated him and considered ways to strengthen his resistance to ice and water before the brothers headed back toward the exit.

• Lu Yu warned Lu Fei about the pain of absorbing the Scarlet Flame Fire Spirit’s Soul Ring, and Lu Fei shattered its core to form a Yellow Soul Ring.
• Lu Fei endured the Soul Ring’s scorching power until it merged into his body, making him a Soul Master at level fourteen.
• Lu Fei showed Lu Yu how his Fire Monkey Martial Soul had changed and learned that his Soul Skill granted fifty percent immunity to physical damage and fire.
• Lu Yu reassured Lu Fei that the skill would help him fight Tool Martial Soul Masters, then considered whether Immortal Herbs could give him immunity to ice and water.
• Lu Yu told Lu Fei they should leave, and the brothers walked toward the exit together.

Lu Yu returned to Suotuo City with Lu Fei, whose new Soul Skill granted half immunity to physical and fire damage. He revealed his self-created Rasengan and began teaching it to Oscar, Lin Tian, and Lu Fei, leaving them facing its demanding training stages.

• Lu Yu and Lu Fei returned to their courtyard, where Oscar and Lin Tian congratulated Lu Fei on gaining his first Soul Ring.
• Lu Fei explained that his First Soul Skill, Physical and Fire Dual Immunity, reduced physical and fire damage by half, impressing Oscar and Lin Tian.
• Oscar showed Lu Yu that he had mastered his new Soul Incantation for producing a Recovery Sausage, and Lu Yu promised to give him a gift.
• Lu Yu demonstrated his self-created Soul Skill, the Rasengan, and agreed to teach it to Oscar, Lin Tian, and Lu Fei.
• Lu Yu began the first training stage by showing how to spin a water-filled cowhide bag in the palm using precise Soul Power control, then started demonstrating the second stage.

Lu Yu taught Lin Tian, Oscar, and Lu Fei demanding Rasengan control exercises, then spent years struggling with slow cultivation before finally reaching level 40. As he prepared to hunt for his fourth Soul Ring, Lin Tian suggested Lu Yu’s weak Soul Rings might be the cause of his slow progress.

• Lu Yu demonstrated the second stage of Rasengan training and explained that the exercises developed control over Soul Power and the Rasengan.
• Oscar committed to learning the Rasengan, while Lu Fei complained that the training was too difficult and Lin Tian stayed quiet.
• Over three years, Lu Yu gained a Nightmare Cat Third Soul Ring and searched for a way to improve his slow cultivation, eventually choosing the Myriad-Devouring Golden Toad as a possible target for his fourth ring.
• Lu Yu broke through to level 40 after two and a half years of slow cultivation, and Lin Tian, Lu Fei, and Oscar celebrated with him.
• Lin Tian questioned whether Lu Yu’s three ten-year Soul Rings were holding back his cultivation and asked if he intended to absorb another ten-year ring.