Recaps

Toji challenged Li Xuanfeng, a Level 6 Soul Engineer, after Li Xuanfeng doubted his ability to lead a Soul Tool venture. Toji demonstrated his Dark Gold Dreadclaw and agreed to fight Li Xuanfeng outside, where Li prepared to unleash his full strength.

• Toji rebuked Li Xuanfeng for acting superior and told him to leave if he would not cooperate.
• Li Xuanfeng aimed his Soul Tools at Toji, but Toji used Teleportation and his Dark Gold Dreadclaw to pierce Li Xuanfeng's Invincible Shield and threaten his neck.
• Li Xuanfeng claimed he had not used his full power indoors, so Toji agreed to continue the fight in the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Li Xuanfeng introduced himself as a Level 65 Soul Emperor and mocked Toji for being only a Level 42 Soul Ancestor.
• Li Xuanfeng unfolded his Soul Tool Turret and aimed its muzzles at Toji for their match.

Toji defeated Li Xuanfeng by evading his Soul Tools and tearing them apart, then persuaded him to join his team. Toji proposed researching a medium that would let people without Soul Power use Soul Tools, and Li Xuanfeng eagerly asked to hear more.

• Li Xuanfeng unleashed a barrage of Soul Cannon fire, but Toji evaded it at high speed while remaining impossible to sense or lock onto with Soul Power.
• As Li Xuanfeng widened his attack and threatened the arena barrier, Toji closed in and tore the Soul Tool barrels and turret from his body, injuring him and forcing his surrender.
• Li Xuanfeng apologized and agreed to work for Toji, explaining that he valued strength because a weak leader could not protect or support his team.
• Li Xuanfeng asked Toji to share his Soul Tool ideas and hurried to begin research.
• Toji asked whether Soul Tools could use a medium in place of Soul Power, proposing a Soul Guidance Ray that ordinary people could fire.

Toji explained a firearm-inspired way to modify Soul Guidance Rays, and Li Xuanfeng agreed to lead research into the design. The project promised to reshape Soul Tool warfare, while Toji planned to use it to build his business ahead of an approaching war.

• Toji described replacing a Soul Guidance Ray’s beam with a metal bullet propelled by a primer and expanding gas.
• Li Xuanfeng recognized the design’s potential and said ordinary people could use it to threaten Soul Masters.
• Toji assigned Li Xuanfeng to research the modified Soul Guidance Ray and promised the team funding and resources.
• Liang Wu led Li Xuanfeng and the other Soul Engineers to the laboratory, while Toji considered the profits and military impact of future Soul Tools.

Toji returned to find the nobles’ enormous wealth being counted and learned that a Shrek Soul Saint was harassing the Soul Fighting Arena. He rejected Father Zhang’s suggestion to appease the man and declared he could drive him away, or even kill him, if given enough information.

• Liang Wu and his subordinates counted the nobles’ assets, totaling three hundred million Gold Soul Coins and property worth at least five hundred million more.
• Father Zhang told Toji that a Shrek Inspection Corps Soul Saint was threatening the arena’s staff and disrupting business.
• Toji refused Father Zhang’s suggestion to pay off the Soul Saint, while Liang Wu warned that Shrek’s people had exploited him before.
• Toji said the goal was to drive the Soul Saint out of the Heaven Dou Empire and claimed he could kill him if given enough information.

Toji ordered Father Zhang and Liang Wu to gather everything about Zhao Tie and prepare for a prolonged fight. At the Soul Fighting Arena, Zhao Tie harassed a merchant and accused the arena of hiding Luo Tian’s disappearance, until Liang Wu challenged him to spar and Zhao Tie invited both Liang Wu and Father Zhang to attack him together.

• Toji told Father Zhang and Liang Wu to cooperate fully and gather information about Zhao Tie’s habits, abilities, and fighting style.
• Zhao Tie watched the Soul Fighting Arena’s entrance while searching for clues about Luo Tian.
• Zhao Tie stopped a merchant, seized his Storage Soul Tool, and accused him of smuggling materials for the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Liang Wu and Father Zhang confronted Zhao Tie and demanded that he release the merchant.
• Liang Wu challenged Zhao Tie to spar, and Zhao Tie agreed while telling Liang Wu and Father Zhang to fight him together.

Toji watched Zhao Tie defeat Liang Wu and Father Zhang, then studied his wind-based fighting style and devised a way to kill him. He ordered his subordinates to accommodate Zhao Tie and keep him at the Soul Fighting Arena while he continued his investigation.

• Zhao Tie used his speed and wind Soul Skills to overwhelm Liang Wu and Father Zhang in fewer than three exchanges.
• Zhao Tie ordered his people to take the injured men for treatment and publicly claimed Shrek would take responsibility.
• Zhao Tie noticed Toji, mistook him for an ordinary person without Soul Power, and dismissed him as no better than a monkey.
• Toji analyzed Zhao Tie's wind-based Martial Soul and attacks, then decided he had enough information to plan a killing.
• Toji told his subordinates to accommodate Zhao Tie and keep him at the Soul Fighting Arena while he investigated.

Toji arranged to corrupt Zhao Tie with gambling, luxury, and women so he would neglect his search for Luo Tian. After a month of indulgence, Zhao Tie tried to resume his duties, but someone attacked him in bed.

• Zhao Tie failed to find clues about Luo Tian and considered forcibly searching the Soul Fighting Arena staff's memories.
• Liang Wu offered Zhao Tie a share of the gambling profits, and Zhao Tie accepted a bag of Gold Soul Coins.
• Toji explained his plan to Father Zhang, who agreed to put powerful tonics in Zhao Tie's food and wine and help encourage his indulgence.
• Liang Wu drew Zhao Tie into gambling, and Zhao Tie won hundreds of thousands of Gold Soul Coins on his first night.
• Zhao Tie spent a month gambling, drinking, and sleeping with women, putting off his search and cultivation.
• Zhao Tie decided to meditate and resume his search, but five dark-golden claws slashed his neck.

An unseen attacker repeatedly wounded Zhao Tie, a Soul Saint from Shrek Academy, while evading his spiritual and Soul Power senses. Zhao Tie’s attempts to reveal and counter the attacker failed, and the attacker left him badly injured and demanding to know his identity.

• Zhao Tie survived a slash to his neck and used a healing pill, then searched the room for the attacker.
• The unseen attacker severed Zhao Tie’s hands and knees, leaving him unable to maintain Martial Soul Possession.
• Zhao Tie used Martial Soul Avatar as a Wind Falcon to destroy the room, but the attacker remained undetected.
• The attacker descended from above, pierced Zhao Tie’s back with dark-gold claws, and knocked him out of his Martial Soul Avatar.
• Zhao Tie launched wind blades at the attacker, but the attacker shattered them with a great saber and cut a deep gash across Zhao Tie’s chest.
• Zhao Tie staggered and fell, asking the attacker who he was and realizing that he had grown weaker.

Toji defeated Zhao Tie in the Soul Fighting Arena but spared him after taking his Storage Soul Tool, leaving Zhao Tie to flee in terror. Outside, Zhao Tie learned that others had seen him fighting the air and begging nobody, making him wonder if Toji was a ghost.

• Zhao Tie used his Martial Soul Avatar and attacked again, but the dark figure severed his wing and beat him nearly to death.
• Zhao Tie pleaded for his life and threw over his Storage Soul Tool, then recognized the dark figure as Toji.
• Toji took Zhao Tie's Storage Soul Tool and let him go, and Zhao Tie ran from the Soul Fighting Arena.
• Zhao Tie collapsed outside and was helped by Liang Wu's men, who said they had seen him fighting the air and begging nobody.
• Zhao Tie realized the others could not see his opponent and wondered if Toji had been a ghost.

Zhao Tie fled back to Shrek Academy after Toji terrified and wounded him, while Toji and his allies discussed the consequences of the confrontation. Zhao Tie reached the academy alive, but his injuries had worsened and he deeply regretted taking the assignment.

• Zhao Tie panicked at the memory of Toji, fled from the Soul Fighting Arena, and became terrified of ordinary people without Soul Power.
• Toji told Liang Wu and Father Zhang that he had held back and explained how his new abilities let him overcome Zhao Tie's defenses.
• Father Zhang worried Zhao Tie might die or return with reinforcements, but Liang Wu said a medical team was following him to keep him alive.
• Toji predicted Shrek would either stop investigating Luo Tian's death or continue the inquiry, while Liang Wu praised his victory and Father Zhang lamented how Toji had changed.
• Zhao Tie ran from the Heaven Dou Empire to Shrek Academy, arriving exhausted, badly wounded, and regretting that he had investigated Luo Tian's death.

After Toji left him traumatized and badly injured, Zhao Tie was rescued at Shrek Academy and learned that his injuries and heart demon might end his hopes of becoming a Titled Douluo. Pressured to report on the missing Luo Tian, Zhao Tie blamed Evil Soul Masters for Luo Tian’s death.

• Zhao Tie fled to his room, where his fear of Toji overwhelmed him and he collapsed unconscious.
• Du Weilun found Zhao Tie badly injured and summoned a healing-type teacher to treat him.
• The healer said Zhao Tie had survived but had developed a heart demon and might remain a Soul Saint for life.
• Du Weilun reminded Zhao Tie that Luo Tian’s family expected answers about the missing disciple.
• Zhao Tie told Du Weilun that Evil Soul Masters had killed Luo Tian.

Du Weilun and Yan Shaozhe uncovered Zhao Tie’s lie about Evil Soul Masters and learned that an ordinary man had beaten him while he investigated Luo Tian’s disappearance. The academy punished Zhao Tie and decided to seek out the mysterious man, hoping to recruit him or become his ally.

• Zhao Tie falsely told Du Weilun that masked Evil Soul Masters had attacked him, and Du Weilun reported the claim to Yan Shaozhe.
• Yan Shaozhe confronted Zhao Tie, who confessed that an ordinary person without Soul Power had beaten him during his investigation into Luo Tian.
• Yan Shaozhe and Du Weilun concluded that Zhao Tie’s account of the fight was true, though they struggled to explain how the man had defeated a Soul Saint.
• Yan Shaozhe punished Zhao Tie by making him fully responsible for Luo Tian’s case, and Zhao Tie admitted his misconduct involving gray-market operators.
• Yan Shaozhe instructed Du Weilun to approach the mysterious man and invite him into the academy if he was willing, or otherwise build a friendly alliance.

At the Soul Fighting Arena’s celebration of Toji’s fifteenth birthday, Toji reflected on his slow cultivation and refused the wine and attention offered to him. He volunteered to bring Lexuan back from her holiday, leaving to show her how the Zhang Family had prospered.

• Nearly a year after Zhao Tie fled, the Soul Fighting Arena had returned to peace, and Liang Wu and Father Zhang celebrated Toji’s birthday.
• Toji noted that a year of hard training had raised his cultivation only from level forty-two to level forty-three, and he wondered whether harsher training could speed it up.
• Toji asked for a different drink and rejected the women Liang Wu had brought over, prompting Father Zhang to remind Liang Wu that Toji was only fifteen.
• Father Zhang said he would take time off to bring Lexuan back, but Toji offered to go himself and show her the Zhang Family’s progress.

Toji received Playful Cloud, a Level 7 Soul Tool made by Li Xuanfeng that used the wielder’s blood Qi instead of Soul Power. Toji agreed to test it at the laboratory’s testing ground, where Li Xuanfeng began by striking a large stone with the weapon.

• Toji arrived at the Soul Tool laboratory and followed an engineer to Li Xuanfeng’s laboratory.
• Li Xuanfeng presented Toji with a three-section staff that ran on blood Qi and explained how its customized cores worked.
• Toji tested Playful Cloud’s weight and handling, praised it, and named it.
• Li Xuanfeng led Toji to the testing ground and began demonstrating Playful Cloud by smashing it against a large stone.

Li Xuanfeng demonstrated Playful Cloud’s power, and Toji tested the custom Soul Tool before commissioning a full set of equipment and setting a ten-year deadline for a mass-producible Soul Guidance Ray project. At Shrek Academy, Zhang Lexuan waited in the rain for her father until Toji appeared and offered to help her hunt for a suitable Soul Beast.

• Li Xuanfeng showed how Playful Cloud could shatter a boulder without consuming Soul Power.
• Toji crushed another boulder and the ground beneath it with Playful Cloud, astonishing Li Xuanfeng.
• Toji praised the custom weapon, promised more research funding, and asked Li Xuanfeng to create a tailored set of Soul Tools and finish a mass-producible Soul Guidance Ray within ten years.
• Zhang Lexuan waited in the rain at Shrek Academy for her father, and Du Weilun offered to take her home and accompany her on a Soul Beast hunt.
• Toji appeared behind Du Weilun and told Zhang Lexuan he would help her find a suitable Soul Beast.

Toji arrived at Shrek Academy to take Zhang Lexuan home, unsettling Du Weilun with his concealed presence and apparent strength. As they walked through the rain, Toji told Zhang Lexuan he would help her hunt a Soul Beast for her Third Soul Ring, and she playfully reached toward his abs.

• Du Weilun summoned his Martial Soul when Toji appeared behind him, then sensed a deadly pressure despite detecting no Soul Power.
• Toji ignored Du Weilun's questions and went to Zhang Lexuan, shielding her from the rain and giving her an umbrella.
• Zhang Lexuan called Toji her family, and Du Weilun let them leave while suspecting Toji had the superhuman physique Zhao Tie had described.
• Du Weilun decided to report Toji to the dean after watching him and Zhang Lexuan walk away.
• Toji told Zhang Lexuan he would take her to the Star Dou Great Forest to find a suitable Soul Beast for her Third Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan described Toji as taller and more restrained than before, then reached toward his shirt to feel his abs.

Toji and Zhang Lexuan searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a Soul Beast compatible with Zhang Lexuan’s Moon Martial Soul. After Toji killed a charging wild boar Soul Beast with one blow, he realized they needed to search at night and planned to camp until then.

• Zhang Lexuan told Toji about her achievements as a core disciple and class monitor at Shrek Academy.
• A thousand-year wild boar Soul Beast charged at them, and Zhang Lexuan stepped in front of Toji to protect him.
• Toji struck the wild boar Soul Beast with Playful Cloud and killed it with one blow, leaving Zhang Lexuan stunned.
• Toji realized they had spent the day searching for a Soul Beast suited to Zhang Lexuan’s Moon Martial Soul, which would be easier to find at night.
• Toji proposed camping and roasting the wild boar, assuring Zhang Lexuan he could get them out safely even if they attracted every Soul Beast in the forest.

Toji and Zhang Lexuan shared a campfire before driving off a pack of wolves, while Zhang Lexuan later hunted a Thousand-Year Soul Beast and obtained a purple Soul Ring. Han Ruoruo and Du Weilun found her at the kill site, where Toji surprised Du Weilun again.

• Toji cooked boar meat for Zhang Lexuan, and she praised his skill and hinted that she preferred someone mature like him.
• A pack of wolf-shaped Soul Beasts approached their camp, but Toji frightened them away with his presence and a command to leave.
• At the Shrek Academy camp, Han Ruoruo worried that Zhang Lexuan had not joined the group on the trip.
• A powerful roar came from the forest, so Du Weilun went to investigate with Han Ruoruo.
• Du Weilun and Han Ruoruo found Zhang Lexuan beside a dead Thousand-Year Soul Beast as its purple Soul Ring rose, and she said she had killed it herself.
• Du Weilun scolded Zhang Lexuan for taking such a risk, but Toji defended the need for students to face challenges and startled Du Weilun from behind.

Toji defended his extreme training methods to Du Weilun and watched over Zhang Lexuan as she absorbed a suitable Thousand-Year Soul Ring. Zhang Lexuan reached level thirty-two, and Du Weilun invited her and Toji to return to camp for the night.

• Toji told Du Weilun that Zhang Lexuan needed to face danger to grow stronger and that he could protect her from even a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Du Weilun accepted Toji's reasoning and confirmed that the thirteen-hundred-year Soul Beast's moon-related abilities suited Zhang Lexuan.
• Zhang Lexuan meditated and absorbed the Soul Ring while Han Ruoruo and Du Weilun watched nervously.
• Zhang Lexuan completed the absorption, gained her Third Soul Ring, and confirmed that she was a level thirty-two Soul Elder.
• Zhang Lexuan thanked Toji, and Du Weilun invited her and Toji to spend the night at the camp.

Toji tried to cultivate using Qi and Blood but injured himself, then Zhang Lexuan visited his tent with food and received custom Soul Tools from him. The chapter left Toji planning to study Qi and Blood cultivation with his teacher and Zhang Lexuan beginning to accept his gift.

• Zhang Lexuan agreed to share a tent with Han Ruoruo, and Toji approved of their closeness.
• Toji considered how to meet the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and concluded he would need his teacher’s help.
• Toji attempted to cultivate with Qi and Blood, but the effort made him cough up blood, so he decided to ask his teacher for guidance.
• Zhang Lexuan brought Toji roast meat and fruit, then asked what he had been doing.
• Toji gave Zhang Lexuan a custom Storage Soul Tool containing Level 3 Soul Tools and told her to treat them as a gift.

Toji gave Zhang Lexuan custom Soul Tools and revealed that the Zhang Family had been rebuilt, easing her years of fear. Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming then joined them in the tent and teased Zhang Lexuan about her closeness with Toji.

• Zhang Lexuan worried that Toji had spent too much on her Soul Tools, but Toji reassured her that he had plenty of money.
• Toji told Zhang Lexuan that the Zhang Family had been restored and had become more prosperous than before, and she realized he had helped her family.
• Zhang Lexuan tried on the silver bracelet, which adjusted to her wrist and resonated with her Soul Power.
• Zhang Lexuan explained that she had met Han Ruoruo after Shrek Academy assigned her to Ruoruo's dormitory.
• Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming entered the tent, and Wu Ming teased Zhang Lexuan about Toji before Han Ruoruo joked that a mysterious person might have spirited her away.

Toji spent the night outside his tent while Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming teased one another, then accompanied the academy group as they hunted Soul Rings in the Star Dou Great Forest. After everyone obtained their Soul Rings and left the forest, Zhang Lexuan reluctantly said goodbye to Han Ruoruo and Wu Ming.

• Toji left his tent so Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming could talk, while the two women teased Zhang Lexuan about her bond with him.
• The next morning, Du Weilun explained the Soul Ring hunt and asked Toji to focus on protecting Zhang Lexuan.
• The group entered the Mixed Zone, where Han Ruoruo, Wu Ming, and the other students obtained their Soul Rings without incident.
• Toji concealed his abilities throughout the hunt, leaving Du Weilun unable to assess his combat strength.
• After the group left the Star Dou Great Forest, Han Ruoruo encouraged Zhang Lexuan to work toward entering the inner court and promised to recommend her.

Toji escorted Zhang Lexuan back to the Heaven Dou Empire after teasing Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo about his appeal. They arrived at a luxurious new residence, where Zhang Lexuan's parents and subordinates welcomed them home.

• Zhang Lexuan promised Han Ruoruo she would work hard to catch up, while Toji planned to help her cultivate and become his ally.
• Wu Ming teased Toji about his expression, and his suggestive reply made her flare up before he apologized and left with Zhang Lexuan.
• Wu Ming and Han Ruoruo wondered why they felt drawn to Toji and speculated about his strong Yang Qi.
• Toji carried Zhang Lexuan at high speed toward the Heaven Dou Empire, reassuring her when she grew frightened.
• Toji and Zhang Lexuan arrived at a larger residence, where her parents and subordinates welcomed them, and Mother Zhang hugged her and asked about her time at the academy.

Zhang Lexuan returned home, and Toji met with Liang Wu to discuss their Soul Tool business and Toji’s plans for revenge. Toji prepared to return to the Body Sect before seeking allies in the Sun Moon Empire and confronting those responsible for his suffering.

• Zhang Lexuan reunited with her parents, and Toji left after explaining that he had taken her to obtain her Third Soul Ring.
• Toji met Liang Wu, who reported progress training Soul Engineers and plans to expand their Soul Tool business and hold a Soul Engineer competition.
• Toji told Liang Wu he planned to search the Sun Moon Empire for the Evil Soul Masters who had eaten his parents and asked about the former Inner Court disciples involved in selling him.
• Liang Wu explained that the village’s destruction had been covered up, and Toji revealed that the Evil Soul Masters had formed the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Toji planned to return to the Body Sect, seek help from Illustrious Virtue Hall, and eventually take revenge on the Evil Soul Masters and the Inner Court disciples.

Three years later, Toji mastered his self-created Qi and blood cultivation technique after reaching level fifty and fighting a Scarlet Flame Demon Tiger. He agreed to share the technique with the Body Sect and planned to return to Heaven Dou City before seeking his Fifth Soul Ring.

• Toji drove off a Scarlet Flame Demon Tiger with Playful Cloud and realized he had mastered his Qi and blood cultivation technique.
• Toji checked his level and found he had reached level fifty despite cultivating much more slowly than a normal Soul Master.
• Du Busi praised Toji’s breakthrough and asked him to share the technique with the Body Sect’s disciples.
• Toji agreed, saying the technique had been developed through their shared research and would strengthen the sect.
• Toji declined to rush for his Fifth Soul Ring, explaining that he would return to Heaven Dou City to check on his businesses and Soul Tool development.
• Toji asked Du Busi to help resolve a few problems when he was ready to obtain his Fifth Soul Ring, and Du Busi agreed.