Recaps

Toji met Liang Wu in Heaven Dou City to review their businesses, which were earning large profits across the Heaven Dou Empire. After learning that local officials were blocking their expansion in the city, Toji decided to approach the lord of Heaven Dou City despite their past enmity.

• Toji left Du Busi and traveled to Heaven Dou City to meet Liang Wu.
• Liang Wu reported that the Soul Engineer competition had earned more than ten million, while the Soul Tool business had brought in around a million.
• Liang Wu said their markets had expanded throughout the Heaven Dou Empire with help from nobles and the Body Sect.
• Liang Wu explained that officials in Heaven Dou City were obstructing the business and accepting gifts without stopping.
• Toji told Liang Wu to stop bribing minor officials and said they would go directly to the lord of Heaven Dou City.

Toji planned to win over Heaven Dou City's lord to secure the city's market, while visiting the laboratory to inspect his custom Soul Tools and a new batch of military weapons. After Li Xuanfeng worried the empire might seize their technology, Toji reminded him that the Body Sect protected them.

• Toji told Liang Wu to gather information on Heaven Dou City's lord so he could seek cooperation, though he suspected the lord was obstructing their business.
• Toji visited the hidden Soul Tool laboratory and examined Li Xuanfeng's unfinished Level 8 saber, which required several more years of work.
• Li Xuanfeng gave Toji a customized Level 7 Storage Soul Tool and described its matching equipment and anti-theft self-destruct features.
• Li Xuanfeng showed Toji five hundred Level 3, three hundred Level 4, and one hundred Level 5 fixed ranged Soul Tools made for military cooperation with the empire.
• Li Xuanfeng worried that the empire might seize their technology, but Toji said the Body Sect's protection made that unlikely, reassuring him.

Toji prepared to take a batch of Soul Tools to negotiate with the Heaven Dou Empire, then welcomed Lin Xuan and six other Body Sect disciples seeking customized equipment. Their visit showed that the sect had begun embracing Soul Tools and Toji’s new cultivation technique, and the chapter left them in Li Xuanfeng’s hands for examinations and custom orders.

• Toji discussed using the newly made Soul Tools to negotiate with the Heaven Dou Empire and asked Li Xuanfeng to improve production speed.
• After waiting a week for Liang Wu, Toji received Lin Xuan and six Body Sect disciples instead.
• Lin Xuan explained that the disciples had come to support Toji’s Soul Tool business and order customized equipment for their Body Martial Souls.
• Toji brought Li Xuanfeng over, and Li Xuanfeng eagerly began arranging full-body examinations for the disciples.
• Lin Xuan told Li Xuanfeng that more Body Sect disciples might place orders, but declined his offer of a discount.

Toji and Liang Wu prepared to negotiate with the Heaven Dou City lord, using military Soul Tools as leverage to secure cooperation in the city market. After Toji clashed with an imperial family member at the lord's residence, he confronted the angry city lord about the Soul Bone and was challenged to explain what he wanted.

• Liang Wu told Toji that the city lord, imperial family members, and their allies were obstructing their market plans, and he shared a dossier of gathered intelligence.
• Toji showed Liang Wu several military Soul Tools that he intended to offer as a bargaining chip at their scheduled meeting.
• On their way to the city lord, Toji refused to yield to an imperial family member, knocked him down, and dismissed his protest before a powerful voice stopped the confrontation.
• Liang Wu suspected the imperial family member had come to test Toji, and Toji said it was best to be firm.
• The Heaven Dou City lord confronted Toji over the Soul Bone, and Toji accused him of wanting to launder its purchase through the auction house.
• The city lord demanded to know why Toji had arranged the meeting, threatening to send him away if he had nothing worthwhile to discuss.

Toji tried to persuade the city lord to cooperate by demonstrating a compact Soul Tool usable by ordinary soldiers, promising military advantage and imperial support. The city lord accepted a batch of weapons for testing before deciding whether to work with him.

• Toji offered the city lord a chance to gain imperial favor and advance toward becoming a Titled Douluo through cooperation.
• Toji demonstrated a Soul-Breaking Bullet weapon, showing its rapid fire, range, and ability to be operated without Soul Power.
• Toji explained that armies of ordinary soldiers could use the weapons to strengthen the Heaven Dou Empire against the Sun Moon Empire.
• The city lord demanded that his people test the weapons before agreeing to cooperate.
• Toji gave the city lord a ring containing a hundred Level 3, fifty Level 4, and ten Level 5 Soul Tools for testing.

Toji secured the city lord’s agreement to test his new Soul Tools and pursue full-scale cooperation with the Heaven Dou Empire, then headed to the Star Dou Great Forest with Du Busi to seek the Emperor Auspicious Beast, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. He planned to use her to obtain a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and gain her auspicious blessing, while hiding his true knowledge of the beast.

• The city lord decided to personally test Toji’s Class 4 and Class 5 Soul Tools and promised him the market and full-scale cooperation with the Heaven Dou Empire if they proved effective.
• Toji told Liang Wu to protect their manufacturing techniques and said he would travel to the Star Dou Great Forest; Liang Wu agreed to handle the negotiations.
• Toji explained to Du Busi that he wanted to capture the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and have her Ferocious Beast guardian bring a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear in exchange.
• Toji claimed that light-attribute Soul Beasts’ hollowed-out heads could help them locate the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, then left to search the forest.
• Du Busi lost track of Toji after he vanished and remarked on how much stronger he had become.

Toji prepared bait and a sensor to lure the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, then investigated signs of a powerful wolf pack. Elsewhere, Shrek Academy teams led by Chen Feng encountered the pack while resting, and its formidable leaders threatened to trap them.

• Toji hung a light-attribute Soul Beast carcass as bait and placed a sensor beneath it to detect the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Toji found fresh tracks indicating a wolf pack of around a dozen, including at least three ten-thousand-year Soul Beasts, and went to investigate.
• Chen Feng led two Shrek Academy teams through the forest and called a rest after checking that no Soul Beasts were nearby.
• Chen Feng watched Zhang Lexuan, who said she was unhurried about finding a Soul Beast and noted that the teams needed to prepare for the tournament.
• Wolves emerged from the bushes and surrounded the teams, including a mutated wolf of roughly twenty thousand years and two fifty-thousand-year wolves.

Chen Feng and the Shrek team fought off the wolf pack, but the mutant wolf king unleashed a domain that strengthened every wolf and left the team in grave danger. Wu Ming urged them to contact Xuan Zi for rescue.

• Chen Feng ordered the reserve members to stay behind the main team and told everyone to hold formation until they could escape or Xuan Zi arrived.
• Chen Feng’s Dragon Wolf pressure failed to affect the wolves, but he killed three eight-thousand-year wolves with his sound attack and claws.
• The three wolf kings targeted Chen Feng, and Wu Ming intercepted them with her Golden Crow True Fire soul skill.
• The blood-red mutant wolf king unleashed a domain that transformed the forest and greatly strengthened the wolf pack.
• Wu Ming warned that the team would die without help and called for someone to contact Xuan Zi.

Chen Feng and the reserve team fought to survive the Blood Moon Domain as the wolf pack overwhelmed them. Han Ruoruo helped Chen Feng tear open an escape route, but an unknown muscular man entered the domain and blocked it.

• The three wolf kings attacked, injured Han Ruoruo, and overwhelmed the team as the Blood Moon Domain weakened their abilities and sealed their escape.
• Zhang Lexuan defended the reserve team with her moonlight barrier and attacks, then realized the domain had no way out.
• Han Ruoruo proposed binding the wolves while Chen Feng tore through the domain’s edge, and the team followed her plan.
• Han Ruoruo unleashed Soul Burning, Spirit Binding, restraining the pack long enough for Chen Feng to rip open a fissure in the domain.
• As the team tried to escape, a huge unknown man stepped into the fissure and widened it, blocking their way out.

Toji entered the Blood Moon Domain and protected Zhang Lexuan’s group from a powerful wolf attack. He identified the Blood Moon Wolf King as a suitable Soul Beast for Zhang Lexuan and prepared to fight it himself.

• Toji arrived in the Blood Moon Domain, and Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Wu Ming recognized him with relief.
• Toji asked Zhang Lexuan why she had not told him she was hunting for her fifth Soul Ring, while Chen Feng criticized him for having no Soul Power.
• A fifty-thousand-year-old giant wolf attacked Toji, and he knocked it away with one swing of Playful Cloud.
• Toji revealed four black Soul Rings and named the Blood Moon Wolf King as the Soul Beast he intended for Zhang Lexuan.
• Chen Feng urged the group to retreat and seek Elder Xuan Zi, but Toji said they should rely on themselves, and Zhang Lexuan affirmed her faith in him.
• Wu Ming told Chen Feng that she was closer to Toji than Chen Feng was, as Toji faced the Blood Moon Wolf King.

Toji fought the Blood Moon Wolf King and its two fifty-thousand-year giant wolves alone, resisting the Blood Moon Domain and cutting down the empowered wolf pack. As Toji clashed with all three wolf kings, Chen Feng urged the others to recover with Milk Bottles so they could support him if needed.

• Toji's powerful Bloodline Power weakened the Blood Moon Domain, and the others realized its effects did not work on him.
• The Blood Moon Wolf King empowered the remaining wolves and sent them to attack, but Toji killed the pack with Playful Cloud.
• Toji avoided the wolf king's first blood-colored beam, then cleaved apart its manually aimed second beam.
• The two fifty-thousand-year giant wolves tried to block Toji as he charged the Blood Moon Wolf King, but he dodged their attacks and battered them.
• The Blood Moon Wolf King attacked Toji, and their clash shook the domain as Wu Ming asked whether Toji could face all three wolf kings alone.
• Chen Feng told Zhang Lexuan and the others to use Milk Bottles to recover and prepare to support Toji.

Toji defeated the Blood Moon Wolf King and its pack alone, impressing Zhang Lexuan and the others with his overwhelming strength. After the domain vanished, he suggested the wolf king’s Soul Ring might grant Zhang Lexuan a domain-type Soul Skill.

• Toji killed a fifty-thousand-year giant wolf with a single attack, stunning Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and the others.
• Toji fought the Blood Moon Wolf King and another giant wolf, killing the giant wolf with a powerful kick.
• Toji charged through the Blood Moon Wolf King's blood-spike attack, broke its foreleg, and dragged it to the ground with Playful Cloud.
• Zhang Lexuan stabbed the Blood Moon Wolf King through its shattered eye socket, killing it and ending the Blood Moon Domain.
• Wu Ming asked whether Toji was truly a Four-Ring Soul Ancestor, and Toji confirmed that he was.
• Toji told Zhang Lexuan the wolf king might suit her and could grant her a domain-type Soul Skill.

Toji urged Zhang Lexuan to absorb the Blood Moon Wolf King's powerful Soul Ring and condemned Shrek Academy for risking its students’ lives in the name of training. Xuan Zi arrived and, intrigued by Toji’s concealed strength, invited him to join Shrek Academy.

• Toji said he could help Zhang Lexuan safely absorb the Blood Moon Wolf King's over-twenty-thousand-year Soul Ring, and Zhang Lexuan confirmed he had helped her absorb her unusually old Fourth Soul Ring.
• Chen Feng objected to the dangerous plan and wanted to wait for Xuan Zi, but Toji told Zhang Lexuan to recover and prepare to absorb the ring.
• Toji rebuked Chen Feng for relying on Xuan Zi and accused Shrek Academy of sacrificing its students through life-and-death trials, citing Zhao Tie as someone whose potential had been ruined.
• Xuan Zi arrived with a young man, and Chen Feng admitted that Toji had saved them from the three powerful Soul Beasts.
• Xuan Zi examined Toji's unusual lack of detectable Soul Power and extraordinary Qi and blood, then invited him to join Shrek Academy.

Toji refused Xuan Zi’s offer to join Shrek and criticized the academy’s oversight before escaping Xuan Zi’s grasp with his awakened abilities. Xuan Zi exposed Toji and tried to seize him, but Du Busi arrived and confronted him over attacking his personal disciple.

• Toji explained that the Body Sect had rescued and nurtured him, then refused to join Shrek because he objected to its treatment of students.
• Toji urged Xuan Zi to investigate possible falsification of Shrek’s Inspection Corps missions, and Xuan Zi decided to examine Toji first.
• When Xuan Zi lunged for him, Toji wounded himself to activate Unyielding Fortitude and used his Gold Grade Second Martial Soul Awakening to evade capture.
• Xuan Zi recognized Toji as a member of the Body Sect and accused him of infiltrating Shrek, then unleashed his Martial Soul to expose him.
• Xuan Zi reached for Toji again, but Du Busi appeared, repelled him, and threatened war over the attack on his personal disciple.

Du Busi drove Xuan Zi away from Toji and allowed Zhang Lexuan to absorb a Soul Bone and the Blood Moon Wolf King's Soul Ring. When Toji's trap sensor signaled that a Soul Beast—possibly the Three-Eyed Golden Lion—had disturbed one of his traps, he asked Du Busi to investigate while he stayed to help Zhang Lexuan.

• Du Busi confronted Xuan Zi, who wanted to take Toji to Shrek Academy, and Toji reaffirmed that he would not join the academy.
• Xuan Zi objected to Zhang Lexuan absorbing the Blood Moon Wolf King's Soul Ring, but Du Busi offered to protect her, and Xuan Zi agreed to watch from outside their sensing barrier.
• Toji gave Zhang Lexuan a blood-red Head Soul Bone he had found on the mutated Soul Beast, and she began absorbing it before the Soul Ring.
• Toji's Communication Soul Tool signaled that a trap near the light-attribute Soul Beast corpses had been triggered, possibly by the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Toji asked Du Busi to investigate the trap while he stayed with Zhang Lexuan, but Du Busi warned that Xuan Zi might interfere if he left.

Toji helped Zhang Lexuan absorb the Blood Moon Wolf King's Soul Ring, making her a Soul King while gaining further insight into his evolving ability. After Toji left to handle his business, Zhang Lexuan rejoined her companions and discovered she had reached Level 53.

• Du Busi encouraged Toji to face the danger, then left after telling Xuan Zi he had urgent business at the sect.
• Zhang Lexuan finished absorbing the Blood Moon Wolf King's Soul Bone, and Toji told her to rest before absorbing its Soul Ring.
• Zhang Lexuan rushed the Soul Ring absorption and was overwhelmed by its violent power, so Toji drew away the rampaging presence and helped her succeed.
• Toji congratulated Zhang Lexuan on becoming a Soul King and said the Soul Beast's presence had helped his ability evolve further.
• Zhang Lexuan asked Toji to watch her compete in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Soul Fighting Tournament, and he promised he would before leaving.
• Xuan Zi and the others checked on Zhang Lexuan, who revealed her five Soul Rings and discovered she had reached Level 53.

Toji and Du Busi lured the Three-Eyed Golden Lion through a series of food traps, then Toji decided to attack despite suspecting Tang San might be influencing events. The Three-Eyed Golden Lion wounded Toji, but a sudden eruption of overwhelming Soul Power pinned him down, leaving the outcome unclear.

• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion found Toji’s first food trap, noticed that fate around the corpse had been obscured, and ate the bait.
• Du Busi watched from hiding as the Three-Eyed Golden Lion followed the traps, while a concealed Ferocious Beast guarded her.
• Toji arrived at the third trap and grew suspicious that Tang San might be manipulating their unusually good luck.
• Toji decided to proceed with the plan and approached the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, who attacked him with Ultimate Light and Ultimate Fire.
• A violent roar and immense pressure shook the forest and pinned Toji to the ground as the firelight cleared.

Du Busi subdued the Scarlet King and captured the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, demanding a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear as compensation for Toji’s apparent injuries. Toji approached the captive beast to press his forehead against her third eye and learn whether she could affect his fate.

• Du Busi overpowered the Scarlet King, seized the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, and refused to release her without compensation for Toji.
• The Scarlet King agreed to fetch a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear after Du Busi threatened to wreak havoc in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Du Busi revealed that he had sent the Scarlet King away, then let Toji approach the captive Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• Toji asked whether the Three-Eyed Golden Lion could affect his fate, and she stared at him in alarm.
• Toji apologized and moved his forehead toward the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s third eye.

Toji touched the Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s Eye of Destiny, disrupting Tang San’s plans and changing many fates in the lower realm. The Destruction God King stopped Tang San from forcibly restoring the threads, leaving him to consider sending Wutong early to investigate.

• Toji reached the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and touched her Eye of Destiny while Du Busi’s Soul Power kept her from crying out.
• Tang San arranged Huo Yuhao’s fate, then discovered that many threads had shifted and several people, factions, and the Heaven Dou Empire had acquired altered destinies.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s thread of fate twisted, and Tang San realized someone had changed her fate beyond his influence.
• Tang San prepared to use his divine power to search the lower realm, but the Destruction God King intervened and warned him against meddling with lower-realm fates.
• Tang San considered secretly sending divine consciousness below and having Wutong appear early, while worrying about how that would affect his plans for Huo Yuhao.

Toji and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion exchanged memories through Destiny Guidance, which strengthened her cultivation and revealed that she could not perceive or alter Toji’s fate. After the Scarlet King returned with a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, Du Busi demanded another Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast in exchange for explaining how the Auspicious Beast had improved.

• Toji and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion exchanged memories, and Toji realized she could neither see nor affect his fate.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion’s cultivation rose after Destiny Guidance, and Du Busi explained that Toji’s physique strengthened female cultivators through their connection with him.
• Du Busi joked that Toji would attract women and urged him to have descendants who could inherit his Martial Soul for the Body Sect.
• The Scarlet King returned with a ten-thousand-year Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear and found the Three-Eyed Golden Lion unharmed with nearly a thousand years of extra cultivation.
• Du Busi offered to explain the improvement if the Scarlet King brought him another Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast for Toji’s Sixth Soul Ring.

Toji absorbed the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s Soul Ring, merged its power with the Blood Moon Wolf King’s energy, and formed a Soul Core that raised him to Level 53. He learned that his Fifth Soul Ring, Overlord, made him immune to negative effects at the cost of Bloodline Power, and Du Busi prepared to return with him.

• The Scarlet King left with the Auspicious Beast while Toji began absorbing the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s Soul Ring.
• The Blood Moon Wolf King’s power awakened and clashed with the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear’s energy inside Toji, but Toji suppressed and absorbed both forces into his Bloodline Power.
• Toji condensed his Bloodline Power into a Soul Core, and his five Soul Rings appeared as he broke through to Level 53.
• Du Busi recognized the Soul Core as an unprecedented achievement for a Soul King and said he would teach Toji about Soul Cores after they returned.
• Toji revealed that his Fifth Soul Ring, Overlord, granted immunity to negative effects by consuming Bloodline Power.
• Du Busi asked Xuan Zi how much longer he planned to watch.

Toji and Du Busi drove off Xuan Zi after he noticed Toji’s five-ring Soul Core, then headed back toward the Body Sect. Zhang Lexuan returned to her group with the powerful Blood Moon Domain, while Chen Feng eagerly declared that she was the perfect teammate for his Dragon Wolf Martial Soul.

• Xuan Zi confronted Du Busi about Toji’s newly formed Soul Core, but Du Busi threatened him until he backed down.
• Du Busi warned Toji that Shrek now knew he had formed a Soul Core at five rings and told him about Princess Vina’s brain Body Martial Soul.
• Toji decided to check on Zhang Lexuan before returning, and Du Busi offered to teach her after she graduated from Shrek.
• Zhang Lexuan returned to the group and revealed that her fifth Soul Skill was the Blood Moon Domain, which strengthened allies and weakened enemies.
• Zhang Lexuan explained that the domain further amplified wolf-type Soul Masters, prompting Chen Feng to call them a perfect match.

Chen Feng confessed to Zhang Lexuan, who rejected him and defended her choice of Toji. Toji then attacked Chen Feng, and when Xuan Zi intervened, Toji threatened him with Chen Feng as a hostage.

• Chen Feng proposed that he and Zhang Lexuan become lifelong partners, but she refused and said he was interested in her new domain rather than her.
• Chen Feng accused Zhang Lexuan of preferring Toji and boasted that he would surpass him, prompting Zhang Lexuan, Wu Ming, and Han Ruoruo to rebuke him.
• Toji seized Chen Feng and dragged him away, then broke his wrist and left hand when Chen Feng attacked him.
• Xuan Zi arrived and confronted Toji, who held Chen Feng at knifepoint and warned Xuan Zi not to make a move.

Toji held Chen Feng hostage to keep Xuan Zi from attacking, then demanded a Soul Bone and heavenly treasures in exchange for his release. When Xuan Zi laid the treasures down, Toji seized his chance to flee with Chen Feng as Xuan Zi pursued him.

• Xuan Zi confronted Toji, but Toji kept Chen Feng at his throat and resisted the pressure of Xuan Zi's Soul Power.
• Xuan Zi swore on his Martial Soul that he would not kill Toji, but Toji still demanded a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Toji dislocated Chen Feng's jaw when he shouted for Xuan Zi to kill Toji, and Xuan Zi offered heavenly treasures instead.
• Xuan Zi slowly set down the treasures, giving Toji an opening to escape with Chen Feng.
• Xuan Zi activated Martial Soul Possession and charged after Toji.

Toji escaped Xuan Zi in the Star Dou Great Forest by using his speed, the terrain, and tricks to disrupt Xuan Zi’s pursuit. He reunited with Du Busi, while Xuan Zi returned to the students with the injured Chen Feng and could not admit that Toji had gotten away.

• Toji fled with Chen Feng and escaped Xuan Zi’s first attack by weaving between the rock spikes.
• Toji threw Chen Feng toward Xuan Zi to interrupt his pursuit, then vanished into the forest.
• Toji misdirected Xuan Zi with cut branches and falling leaves, escaping again as Xuan Zi unleashed his Martial Soul Avatar and flattened the forest.
• Toji ran out of the Star Dou Great Forest and met Du Busi, who praised his escape and prepared to leave with him once the little girl’s safety was confirmed.
• Xuan Zi returned to the group a day later with the severely injured Chen Feng and could not answer Han Ruoruo’s question about Toji.