Recaps

Lin Chen defeated Heaven Dou Team One, punished Dugu Yan after her team surrendered, and earned Villain Value. As Divine Wind Blazing Fire faced Shrek, Lin Chen predicted that Tang San’s team would soon use a Seven-in-One Fusion Skill.

• Lin Chen subdued Dugu Yan and injured Yu Tianheng until Yu Tianheng surrendered, earning 50,000 Villain Value for defeating Heaven Dou Team One.
• Dugu Bo tried to intervene, but Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo stopped him, while Bibi Dong said Dugu Yan’s punishment would depend on Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen released Dugu Yan after warning her to abandon her arrogant attitude, earning another 10,000 Villain Value.
• After Spirit Hall left the arena, Ye Lingling helped Dugu Yan up, and Divine Wind Blazing Fire began its match against Shrek.
• Lin Chen told Hu Liena he expected Shrek to use a Seven-in-One Fusion Skill, and Dugu Yan watched him from the stands.

Shrek defeated the Divine Wind Blazing Fire Team in the semifinal, setting up the final for the next morning. That night, Bibi Dong warned Lin Chen that her cultivation had reached a dangerous stage, but agreed to stay with him rather than return to seclusion.

• Dugu Yan rejected Yu Tianheng's concern and demanded to be left alone.
• Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, and Feng Xiaotian combined their Soul Power to empower Feng Xiaotian, while Shrek's seven members gathered their strength into Tang San.
• Tang San used the Clear Sky Hammer and defeated Feng Xiaotian's strongest attack, securing Shrek's victory and a place in the final.
• The Tianshui Girl Group discussed Lin Chen's attention, while Shui Ningrou recalled meeting his gaze.
• Bibi Dong told Lin Chen that her Martial Soul could endanger him because she was at a critical stage in her cultivation, then agreed to stay with him for the night.

After Dugu Yan ended her relationship with Yu Tianheng, the Spirit Hall Team and Shrek began their championship final. The battle opened with their fighters clashing as Hu Liena and Xie Yue moved to target Shrek’s key members.

• Dugu Yan told Yu Tianheng they should part ways, then admitted to herself that she could not forget Lin Chen.
• Dugu Yan appeared in the spectator stands as the teams gathered for the final.
• Lin Chen taunted Tang San with a provocative gesture before Elder Yang announced the match.
• Both teams released their Martial Souls, revealing Spirit Hall’s advantage in Soul Power.
• The teams clashed, and Lin Chen sent Hu Liena after Xiao Wu and Xie Yue after Shrek’s two support Soul Masters.

Lin Chen broke through Shrek Academy’s defenses and defeated Tang San, then joined Hu Liena in capturing Xiao Wu. Tang San was knocked back again as Lin Chen held Xiao Wu on the arena.

• Xie Yue clashed with Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing, while Ning Rongrong boosted their Soul Power and helped them drive him back.
• Lin Chen shattered Tang San’s Blue Silver Cage with the Red Firmament Sword, broke one of Tang San’s Eight Spider Lances, and sent him flying.
• Xiao Wu tried to reach Tang San, but Lin Chen blocked her attack and Hu Liena stunned her with Fox Charm.
• Lin Chen caught Xiao Wu by the neck and swept her into his arms as Tang San charged with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Lin Chen blocked Tang San’s hammer with his sword and sent him flying backward again.

Liu Erlong clashed with Yu Xiaogang over his refusal to surrender and protect Xiao Wu, while Lin Chen held Xiao Wu hostage on the arena and challenged Tang San to give up. Tang San chose to keep fighting, and Lin Chen ordered the Spirit Hall team back before activating his Sword Domain.

• Liu Erlong demanded that Yu Xiaogang surrender to save Xiao Wu, but he refused, insisting Shrek still had a chance to win.
• Liu Erlong told Yu Xiaogang she no longer loved him, and Flender promised he would surrender if Xiao Wu was endangered.
• On the fighting stage, Xie Yue and four Spirit Hall teammates broke through Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing's defenses while Lin Chen held Xiao Wu by the neck.
• Lin Chen asked Tang San to surrender, but Tang San ordered Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing to hold off the opposing team and summoned his Clear Sky Hammer.
• Lin Chen taunted Xiao Wu about Tang San valuing victory over her, then ordered the Spirit Hall team to retreat and activated his Fourth Soul Skill, Sword Domain.

Lin Chen used his Sword Domain to restrain Ning Rongrong while defeating most of Shrek’s team, and Ning Fengzhi intervened to protect her. After seeing Shrek’s leaders refuse to let her leave the match, Ning Fengzhi decided that Rongrong would leave Shrek after the battle.

• Lin Chen surrounded the arena with soul swords, and Shrek’s remaining fighters took to the air to counter him.
• Lin Chen’s Sword Domain shot down Oscar and Ning Rongrong, severely injuring Oscar while leaving Rongrong unharmed and trapped.
• Sword Douluo urged Ning Fengzhi to have Rongrong withdrawn, and Ning Fengzhi went to ask Flender.
• Yu Xiaogang refused to let Rongrong leave the match, but Flender promised that she would not fight again and that Shrek would concede if she faced danger.
• Sword Douluo accused Shrek of using Rongrong to distract Lin Chen, and Ning Fengzhi decided to have her leave Shrek after the battle.

Lin Chen defeated Tang San and Shrek Academy, captured Xiao Wu, and forced Flender to surrender. The system rewarded Lin Chen and advised him to wait for Tang San’s fortune to fully manifest before plundering it.

• Lin Chen ordered Xie Yue’s team to target the injured support Soul Masters while Tang San and his teammates tried to protect them.
• Lin Chen handed Xiao Wu to Hu Liena and declared that Xiao Wu belonged to him, provoking Tang San.
• Lin Chen overpowered Tang San and shattered his Eight Spider Lances as Hu Liena and Xie Yue kept Shrek’s other members at bay.
• Tang San unleashed Bat Wing Reincarnation, but Lin Chen’s Ten Thousand Swords Pay Homage destroyed the hidden weapons.
• Flender surrendered for Shrek Academy, and the system awarded Lin Chen Villain Value for defeating Shrek and capturing Xiao Wu while recommending that he plunder Tang San’s fortune gradually.

After the Spirit Hall Team won, Lin Chen exposed Xiao Wu as a Soul Beast and ordered Spirit Hall to seize her. Tang San tried to defend her and attacked Lin Chen, but a deep voice interrupted him.

• Elder Yang declared the Spirit Hall Team the winner, and Ning Fengzhi healed the injured Shrek students.
• Liu Erlong demanded that Lin Chen release Xiao Wu, while Lin Chen accused Shrek Academy of bringing a Soul Beast into the competition.
• Lin Chen ordered Hu Liena to take Xiao Wu's bag, revealing her Soul Beast presence to the Titled Douluo.
• Bibi Dong ordered Chrysanthemum Guan and Gui Mei to seize Xiao Wu, and the spectators learned she was a Soul Beast.
• Tang San summoned the Clear Sky Hammer and threatened to kill Lin Chen, but a deep voice ordered him to withdraw his Qi and recall his soul.

Tang Hao attacked Spirit Hall to free Tang San, but Lin Chen used a Soul Enhancement Pill and his Martial Soul Avatar to wound him. Tang Hao escaped after detonating his ninth Soul Ring and breaking through the barrier, while the other Soul Masters watched Lin Chen’s strength with awe.

• Tang Hao appeared over Spirit Hall and struck the Pope’s Palace with his Clear Sky Hammer, forcing Bibi Dong and the elders to reinforce a Soul Power barrier.
• Lin Chen protected Hu Liena, exchanged for a Soul Enhancement Pill, and confronted Tang Hao despite Bibi Dong’s warnings.
• Lin Chen used his Red Firmament Sword Martial Soul Avatar to pierce Tang Hao’s defenses and wound his shoulder.
• Tang Hao detonated his ninth Soul Ring, blasted Lin Chen’s sword aside, and broke through part of the barrier, allowing Tang San to escape while Hu Liena had already taken Xiao Wu to the rear hall.
• Tang Hao fled with severe injuries, and the spectators watched Lin Chen in shock as the women at Skywater Academy reflected on the gap between them and him.

Tang San blamed Tang Hao for failing to save Xiao Wu, but later accepted his offer to guide his cultivation. As the Shrek group scattered after the competition, Lin Chen led Spirit Hall’s champions to receive their rewards, where Bibi Dong invited him to choose a Soul Bone first.

• Tang San confronted Tang Hao over Xiao Wu’s capture, then asked how he could catch up to Lin Chen; Tang Hao offered to guide his cultivation for the next few years.
• Bibi Dong announced a meeting to discuss an alliance against the growing conflict between Soul Masters and Soul Beasts, while Liu Erlong mourned Xiao Wu’s capture.
• Flender berated Yu Xiaogang for neglecting Liu Erlong, then left with Shrek’s teachers and students; Zhu Zhuqing and Dai Mubai argued, and Ning Rongrong returned with Ning Fengzhi, parting from Oscar.
• Bibi Dong presented three Soul Bones to Lin Chen’s team and told Lin Chen to choose first.

Lin Chen distributed the tournament Soul Bones, then accepted the leftover one from Bibi Dong and discussed Xiao Wu’s fate with her. He offered Xiao Wu a choice between submitting as his beast pet and death.

• Lin Chen gave the Head Soul Bone to Hu Liena and the Left Arm Soul Bone to Xie Yue, then offered the Leg Soul Bone to Xu Kai, who refused it.
• Lin Chen declined the Leg Soul Bone because he wanted to save the slot for a hundred-thousand-year Soul Bone, and Bibi Dong later gave it back to him.
• Lin Chen and Bibi Dong discussed Xiao Wu, and Bibi Dong urged him to keep her alive as a beast pet while allowing him to take concubines under her conditions.
• Hu Liena stayed with Lin Chen in the Pope’s bedchamber and released Xiao Wu’s restriction.
• Lin Chen told Xiao Wu to choose between sacrificing her Soul Ring and Soul Bone to become his beast pet or dying.

Lin Chen used the Beast Taming Art to enslave Xiao Wu, who became attached to him and addressed him as Master. As Shrek's companions began to separate, Liu Erlong headed toward Spirit Hall, determined to save Xiao Wu.

• Xiao Wu refused to become Lin Chen's beast pet, but Hu Liena restrained her while Lin Chen challenged her faith in Tang San.
• Lin Chen exchanged 50,000 Villain Value for the Beast Taming Art and implanted its seal in Xiao Wu's beast soul, making her submit to him as Master.
• Lin Chen, Hu Liena, and Xiao Wu went to bathe together, while Lin Chen reflected that strength determined the rules of the Douluo Continent.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing left Shrek Academy, and Oscar decided to travel and gain experience; Ma Hongjun lamented that the Shrek Seven Devils were scattering.
• Flender noticed Liu Erlong was missing and sent Ma Hongjun to look for her, while Liu Erlong walked toward Spirit Hall, vowing to protect Xiao Wu.

Lin Chen attended a gathering at the Pope’s Palace after Bibi Dong summoned him, where faction leaders greeted him and he noticed representatives from several familiar groups. He asked Ling Yuan to bring the three women from Skywater Academy to sit beside him.

• Ghost Douluo told Bibi Dong that nearly all the invited factions had arrived, and she sent Ling Yuan to fetch Lin Chen.
• Lin Chen woke Hu Liena and Xiao Wu as he prepared to leave, and the two women helped him dress and groom himself.
• Ling Yuan escorted Lin Chen into the Pope’s Palace, where faction leaders including Kundera, Huo Yanbao, and Yang Wuqing greeted him.
• Lin Chen asked the gathered guests to wait for his wife, then took the seat nearest the Pope’s chair and noticed Dai Weisi and Zhu Zhuyun among the attendees.
• Lin Chen spotted Shui Ningrou and her daughters at the back of the hall and asked Ling Yuan to invite the three Skywater Academy women to sit beside him.

Bibi Dong proposed a Soul Master Alliance that would bring the major powers under Spirit Hall’s command, and one faction after another agreed to join. Shui Ningrou committed Skywater Academy after Lin Chen reassured her, while Dai Weisi deferred the Star Luo Empire’s decision to its emperor.

• Shui Ningrou brought Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to the first-rate seats beside Lin Chen, who told the sisters they could call him what they liked.
• Bibi Dong arrived at the assembly and proposed forming an alliance to protect Soul Masters and the major powers from Soul Beasts and Evil Soul Masters.
• Huyan Zhen, Yang Qingwu, and representatives of several other powers pledged to join and follow Spirit Hall’s lead.
• Shui Yue'er urged her mother to join, and Shui Ningrou agreed to bring Skywater Academy into the alliance after Lin Chen smiled at her.
• The White Tiger Sect, Wind Sword Sect, and other powers declared their support, while Dai Weisi said he needed the Star Luo Emperor to decide; only the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had not yet stated its position.

Bibi Dong secured leadership of the Martial Soul Alliance, while Qian Daoliu’s enshrined elders privately plotted to eventually replace her with Xiao Xue and discussed Lin Chen as a potential threat. Bibi Dong then proposed marrying Lin Chen to Ning Rongrong, and Ning Fengzhi agreed to let them get acquainted at Death Canyon as the chapter ended with Lin Chen and Bibi Dong alone in the Pope’s Palace.

• Ning Fengzhi carefully affirmed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s duty to oppose Evil Soul Masters without committing to Bibi Dong’s alliance, and the gathered powers chose Bibi Dong to lead the Martial Soul Alliance.
• Qian Daoliu dismissed concerns about Bibi Dong’s growing authority, while Golden Crocodile Douluo and Holy Dragon Douluo privately discussed supporting Xiao Xue against her and leaving Lin Chen’s fate to Qian Daoliu.
• Bibi Dong announced that alliance members would receive places in Death Canyon when the secret realm opened in three days.
• Bibi Dong proposed that Lin Chen marry Ning Rongrong, and Ning Fengzhi declined to promise the marriage but agreed that Lin Chen could get acquainted with her at Death Canyon.
• Lin Chen told Bibi Dong he would win Ning Rongrong over, and the two remained together in the Pope’s Palace after the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect members left.

Liu Erlong went to Spirit Hall to beg Lin Chen to spare Xiao Wu, who was in his custody. He forced Liu Erlong to become his slave and used a Love Soul Pill to make her fall in love with him, while promising only that Xiao Wu would not die.

• Lin Chen received word that Liu Erlong had arrived at Spirit Hall looking for Xiao Wu, and he ordered Ling Yuan to bring her to his bedchamber.
• Liu Erlong asked Lin Chen to spare Xiao Wu, and he said he wanted her Soul Ring and Soul Bone.
• Lin Chen offered to consider sparing Xiao Wu if Liu Erlong submitted to him, and she agreed to do anything he asked.
• Lin Chen ordered Liu Erlong to strip, then gave her a Love Soul Pill and clarified that sparing Xiao Wu's life did not mean he would not hurt her.
• The pill made Liu Erlong love and obey Lin Chen, and he promised Xiao Wu would live while declaring that his word was law.

Lin Chen learned that Salas had threatened Shui Ningrou and the women of Skywater Academy over its Death Canyon slots, and he arrived with Ling Yuan Douluo and a golden bishop to confront him. Earlier, Xiao Wu reunited with Liu Erlong in Lin Chen’s bedchamber, where he claimed both women as his own.

• Xiao Wu entered the Pope’s bedchamber, recognized Liu Erlong as her mother, and reunited with her.
• Lin Chen declared that Liu Erlong and Xiao Wu were both his women, and they accepted his protection.
• Shui Ningrou told the Skywater Academy women they had only three Death Canyon slots, and the women began offering their places to one another.
• Salas arrived at Skywater Academy, demanded Shui Ningrou and the academy’s slots, and ordered his men to seize the women when she refused.
• Lin Chen arrived with Ling Yuan Douluo and a golden bishop and challenged Salas’s claim to be the heavens.

Lin Chen stopped Salas from harassing the Tianshui girls and warned him not to repeat it. At Skywater Academy's residence, the girls asked Lin Chen to secure training slots for them, and Shui Ningrou spilled tea on him while serving him.

• Salas panicked when Lin Chen and Ling Yuan Douluo arrived, then fled after Lin Chen warned that the Worship Hall would not protect him next time.
• Bishop Yang Feng privately accepted three thousand Gold Soul Coins from Salas, who then raged that Lin Chen had taken the girls he had pursued for years.
• Shui Yue'er asked Lin Chen to help Yu Hairou and the others get slots in Death Canyon, and he promised to ask Bibi Dong for them.
• Shui Yue'er and the other girls crowded around Lin Chen in gratitude, and Shui Ningrou caught them as she brought tea.
• Shui Ningrou bent to serve Lin Chen, spilled the tea on him, and hurriedly covered her neckline.

Lin Chen took Shui Ningrou to her room, where he forced himself on her before they returned to the others and joined the Tianshui Girl Group for a meal. At Spirit Hall, Qian Renxue returned to confront Qian Daoliu and asked to meet Lin Chen, while Qian Daoliu urged her to wait until she became a Titled Douluo.

• Shui Ningrou led Lin Chen to her room to find a fresh martial robe, and Lin Chen seized and assaulted her despite her protests.
• Lin Chen and Shui Ningrou returned to the hall in changed clothes, and Shui Yue'er noticed marks on Shui Ningrou’s neck.
• Lin Chen ate with the Tianshui Girl Group, whose members treated him warmly.
• Qian Renxue returned to Spirit Hall and challenged Qian Daoliu over the Pope’s influence and the Worship Hall’s reduced power.
• Qian Renxue asked to meet Lin Chen, and Qian Daoliu encouraged her to win him over while telling her to focus on becoming a Titled Douluo first.

Lin Chen was summoned to the Worship Hall, where Qian Renxue tested his strength and offered him power, treasures, and Spirit Hall's future in exchange for joining her. He dismissed her promises and left her waiting for his answer.

• Lin Chen returned from Skywater Academy after bringing it under his control, while Bibi Dong remained in seclusion.
• Ling Yuan told Lin Chen that the Worship Hall had summoned him, and he went there with her before sending her away.
• Qian Renxue attacked Lin Chen to test his strength, and he withstood her blow despite his lower cultivation rank.
• Qian Renxue offered Lin Chen half of Spirit Hall and the Douluo Continent if he worked for her, along with an eighty-thousand-year Soul Bone and other rewards.
• Lin Chen said he had little interest in power or money and claimed no beauty could compare to his wife.

Lin Chen rejected Qian Renxue’s offer to join the Worship Hall, despite admitting he wanted her. Bibi Dong learned of their private meeting and reassured herself that Lin Chen would remain hers, while he promised her no one could take her place.

• Qian Renxue tried to recruit Lin Chen by offering herself, but he refused her terms and left the Worship Hall.
• Ghost Douluo told Bibi Dong that Qian Renxue had met Lin Chen privately, and Bibi Dong left her secret chamber to check on him.
• Bibi Dong acknowledged Liu Erlong as her younger sister and concubine, then privately asked Lin Chen to reassure her that he would not be seduced away.
• The next morning, Bibi Dong dressed Lin Chen and tied his hair, confident that she had won his heart.

Lin Chen led a group of female Soul Masters into the Heavenly Ridge Mountain Range, where Huo Wu joined his team and Ning Rongrong began questioning Xiao Wu about her feelings for him. The group continued toward Death Canyon while Lin Chen prepared to reach level sixty, and Xiao Wu encouraged Rongrong to admit that Lin Chen made her feel safe.

• Ghost Douluo briefed the Spirit Hall disciples on the dangers and rules of their training expedition, then led them to the outskirts of the Heavenly Ridge Mountain Range and left them to proceed on their own.
• Lin Chen sent Xie Yue and Sun Chuantao to lead separate teams, then accepted Huo Wu into his group after she left Huo Wushuang and Feng Xiaotian behind.
• Three days later, Lin Chen's all-female group was deep in the mountain range, where Shui Bing'er and Huo Wu butchered a tiger beast while Lin Chen trained to reach level sixty.
• Shui Yue'er offered Lin Chen cooked tiger meat, and he pulled her into his embrace to eat with her, making the other women envious.
• Ning Rongrong asked Xiao Wu about her past with Tang San, and Xiao Wu said she was now Lin Chen's woman and asked Rongrong not to mention him.
• Xiao Wu asked what Rongrong thought of Lin Chen, and Rongrong admitted that his care for the group made her feel safe.

Xiao Wu told Lin Chen she wanted to sacrifice her Soul Rings and Soul Bones to become his beast pet completely, and he promised to handle it. Half a month later, Lin Chen and the women encountered an eighty-thousand-year Soul Beast at a lake in the Heavenly Ridge Mountain Range, and their battle left the python wounded.

• Xiao Wu told Lin Chen she wanted to sacrifice her Soul Rings and Soul Bones and begin cultivating again so she could become his beast pet completely.
• Half a month later, Hu Liena sensed unusual spiritual Qi near a lake, and Lin Chen went ahead to investigate.
• A giant black python with a horn attacked Lin Chen, who estimated it was at least eighty thousand years old and ordered the group to fight it.
• Shui Bing'er and Xue Wu froze the python, Hu Liena briefly confused it, and Lin Chen struck it with his sword skills.
• The python targeted Ning Rongrong, so Xiao Wu shielded her with Invincible Golden Body before Lin Chen carried her clear and trapped the beast in his Sword Domain.
• The python shattered much of Lin Chen's Sword Domain but suffered a wound to its belly.

Lin Chen and his allies killed an eighty-thousand-year-old giant python and obtained a Soul Bone. Their victory was interrupted when Xu Hui and his men appeared with Xie Yue and the others as hostages, demanding the Soul Bone and the chance to claim the island’s treasures.

• Lin Chen directed Hu Liena, Huo Wu, Shui Bing'er, and the others to attack the python’s weak belly, then cut into its wound with Red Firmament.
• The injured python tried to flee toward the lake, but Lin Chen slowed it with Sword Domain while Hu Liena, Shui Bing'er, and the others renewed their attacks until it was cut in two and killed.
• Lin Chen suffered a minor injury, and Hu Liena found an at-least-eighty-thousand-year-old Soul Bone in the python’s corpse.
• Xu Hui, leader of Spirit Hall’s previous Golden Generation, emerged with Yan and more than a dozen young men; Hu Liena identified him as Golden Crocodile’s eldest disciple.
• Xu Hui’s group brought out Xie Yue and the other captured hostages, and Hu Liena confronted Yan for betraying them.
• Xu Hui demanded that Lin Chen hand over the Soul Bone and leave, but Lin Chen refused.

Lin Chen defeated Xu Hui and the Worship Hall disciples, then settled at the lakeside to cultivate and redeem two hundred-thousand-year Soul Bones. He decided to give the incomplete water-attribute Torso Soul Bone to Shui Bing'er as his companions gathered at the lake.

• Lin Chen boosted his Soul Power with Ning Rongrong's support and used his Tool Soul Avatar to defeat the Worship Hall disciples in one slash.
• Lin Chen ordered Huo Wu to restrict Xu Hui's Soul Power and make him circle the lake on his knees.
• Xie Yue stopped his team from beating Yan further, and Hu Liena ran to Lin Chen while Yan passed out from his injuries.
• Lin Chen reviewed his limits and redeemed a hundred-thousand-year right-leg Soul Bone and a hundred-thousand-year right-arm Soul Bone.
• Lin Chen examined the incomplete water-attribute Torso Soul Bone and chose to give it to Shui Bing'er.
• Several women swam to shore carrying spiritual fruits as Lin Chen sat with Hu Liena by the lake.