Recaps

Toji escaped Mingdu with the badly injured Elder Nether Scorpion after tricking him into believing he would be released. In the Jingyang Mountain Range, Toji smeared his energy-rich blood on Elder Nether Scorpion to attract Soul Beasts, leaving his promise deliberately unfinished.

• Toji dragged Elder Nether Scorpion through the underground waterways while avoiding the Mingdu Defense Force and learning about Xu Tianran from him.
• Toji offered to let Elder Nether Scorpion go if he stayed quiet during their escape, then stuffed him into a bag and carried him out of Mingdu.
• Toji brought Elder Nether Scorpion into the Jingyang Mountain Range and pulled him from the bag in a clearing.
• Toji cut his wrist and spread his energy-rich blood over Elder Nether Scorpion to draw nearby Soul Beasts toward them.
• Elder Nether Scorpion realized Toji had led him into danger and demanded that Toji honor his promise, but Toji began explaining that he had not said how he would let him go.

Toji let the Soul Beasts devour Elder Nether Scorpion, then returned to Mingdu with Di Qiu'er and purified the Spirit Devouring Fierce Blade. As he absorbed the blade's life energy, his body began to change and his cultivation seemed poised to improve.

• Toji refused Elder Nether Scorpion's offer of information and concealed his presence, allowing a wolf pack to devour him.
• Di Qiu'er found Toji in the Jingyang Mountain Range and said she had killed the other four Evil Soul Masters.
• Toji and Di Qiu'er recognized the pack's Silvermoon Wolf King as the Soul Beast Huo Yuhao was destined to hunt for his Fourth Soul Ring.
• Toji dismissed the possibility of helping Huo Yuhao and returned to his Mingdu residence with Di Qiu'er to purify the Spirit Devouring Fierce Blade.
• Toji purified the blade with his Qi and blood, then absorbed its life energy as golden markings appeared on his skin and nearby plants grew rapidly.

After absorbing the gold of life, Toji broke through to level fifty-five and transformed his weapon into the Blade of Life's Watch. He and Di Qiu'er planned to weaken the Xishui Alliance while preparing to hunt down another Evil Soul Master, and Toji offered to train her with Soul Tools.

• Toji absorbed the gold of life, broke through to level fifty-five, and greatly increased his physical strength and regeneration.
• Toji transformed the Spirit Devouring Fierce Blade into the life-infused Blade of Life's Watch, which Di Qiu'er said might eventually become a divine weapon.
• Toji told Di Qiu'er that Elder Nether Scorpion's death had delayed their chance to approach Xu Tianran by about a year.
• Toji explained that they needed to gather intelligence before confronting the powerful Evil Soul Master with the Ghoul Martial Soul.
• Toji proposed using the Aodu Chamber of Commerce and the Ordinary Alliance to weaken the Xishui Alliance and help locate the Evil Soul Master.
• Toji offered to train Di Qiu'er with Soul Tools and equip her with Level 7 gear, but demanded payment before handing over her Flying Soul Tool.

Mingdu’s Soul Engineers were terrorized by a killer who murdered victims from Level 6 through Level 8 without triggering their Soul Tools or leaving clues. At a meeting of the empire’s Level 9 Soul Engineers, Jing Hongchen warned that the killer might wield an unknown power that countered their technology, and even they could be targets.

• The Soul Engineer Killer murdered dozens of Level 6 and Level 7 Soul Engineers over the course of a year, spreading fear throughout Mingdu.
• The killer assassinated a Level 8 Soul Engineer from the Illustrious Virtue Hall, prompting Mingdu to declare an emergency and strengthen its defenses.
• Kong Deming gathered nine Level 9 Soul Engineers in the imperial palace and asked Jing Hongchen for leads on the killings.
• Jing Hongchen reported that the victims showed no Soul Power fluctuations, had precise single-cut wounds, and had not detected their killer, even with detection Soul Tools.
• Jing Hongchen suggested that a traitor or an unknown power system might explain the murders and warned that the killer could eventually target Level 9 Soul Engineers.

After a Soul Engineer Killer murdered a Level 8 Soul Engineer and escaped, Kong Deming ordered the Sun Moon Empire to treat him as its most dangerous opponent. An Litong and Shangguan Wei'er realized they could not safely betray the killer, who had warned An Litong in person.

• Kong Deming took the deaths of increasingly powerful Soul Engineers seriously and ordered a nationwide hunt for the killer.
• The Sun Moon Empire intensified its search, alarming the Aodu Chamber of Commerce and its president, An Litong.
• Shangguan Wei'er, leader of the Ordinary Alliance, visited An Litong and proposed giving the killer's location to the authorities.
• An Litong refused, explaining that the killer had threatened him and that betraying him would likely cost them their lives.

Shangguan Wei'er and An Litong agreed to keep working with the mysterious assassin and help destroy the Xishui Alliance. At Toji’s underground base, Di Qiu'er challenged him, and he blocked her Golden Dragon claw with Playful Cloud, revealing that he was fighting seriously.

• An Litong warned Shangguan Wei'er that the assassin could bypass every security measure and urged her to keep his identity secret, plant false intelligence, and continue working with him.
• Shangguan Wei'er accepted the terms that she and An Litong would divide the Xishui Alliance’s property after it was destroyed, then left the office.
• At the underground base, Toji continued training Di Qiu'er to use ranged Soul Tools while she complained that they did not improve her fighting strength.
• Toji challenged Di Qiu'er to a fight, promising to go all out and claiming Soul Tools would let him crush her.
• Di Qiu'er attacked with her Golden Dragon Martial Soul, but Toji blocked her claw with Playful Cloud and forced her back three steps.

Toji used his Level 7 Soul Tools to raise his Bloodline Power to the level of a Seven-Ring Soul Sage and challenged Di Qiu'er to fight him. After Toji overwhelmed her with Soul Tools and Playful Cloud, Di Qiu'er refused to surrender and activated her Seventh Soul Ring.

• Toji activated his Soul Tools, boosting his Bloodline Power and explaining that their Core Arrays raised his cultivation to the level of a Seven-Ring Soul Sage.
• Di Qiu'er strengthened herself with her Golden Dragon Soul Skills and charged Toji, but he blocked her attack and knocked her backward.
• Di Qiu'er used Golden Dragon Bloodlust and Golden Dragon Roar to break through Toji's shields, then shattered his Invincible Shield with a punch.
• Toji countered with Playful Cloud and a whipping kick, sending Di Qiu'er through three alloy walls and making her cough blood.
• Toji urged Di Qiu'er to use her Martial Soul Avatar or admit defeat, but she refused and lit her Seventh Soul Ring.

Toji defeated Di Qiu'er before she could complete her Martial Soul Avatar, then explained how he had exploited the opening in her technique. Di Qiu'er accepted her loss and agreed to listen to him, while resolving to grow stronger and beat him next time.

• Toji teleported in front of Di Qiu'er and struck her with Playful Cloud, smashing her into a crater before she could use her Martial Soul Avatar.
• Toji explained that he had seized the windup of Di Qiu'er's Soul Skill and said he could assassinate an Eight-Ring Soul Douluo despite not matching one head-on.
• Di Qiu'er admitted defeat and promised to listen to Toji, but vowed she would not give him the same chance in their next full-strength spar.
• Toji helped Di Qiu'er out of the crater, told her to study combat rhythm, and said he would continue teaching her about Soul Tools the next day.
• After Toji left, Di Qiu'er resolved to surpass him by mastering the complete power of the Golden Dragon King and winning their next fight.

Toji negotiated with Di Qiu'er over teaching her his Qi and Blood cultivation technique and set three conditions in exchange. After demanding a piece of Gold of Life for his Blade of Life's Watch, he prepared to name his remaining conditions.

• Di Qiu'er asked Toji to teach her his Qi and Blood cultivation technique, and he insisted she offer something in exchange.
• Toji teased Di Qiu'er about becoming his woman, making her flustered and angry.
• A young nobleman approached Di Qiu'er, but she frightened him away with her draconic pressure.
• Toji asked Di Qiu'er to provide three benefits in exchange for the technique and requested the Gold of Life hidden in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Di Qiu'er agreed to obtain the Gold of Life and asked Toji to name his second condition.

Toji and Di Qiu'er agreed that he would teach her his cultivation method after deciding on two more conditions, and they sought to draw out the Ordinary Alliance's leader by causing a scene. After Toji killed the attackers who came for Di Qiu'er, the Alliance's Soul Saint arrived and Toji struck him before he could use his Martial Soul Avatar.

• Di Qiu'er accepted Toji's conditions, and Toji said he would teach her the cultivation method when he had time.
• Toji explained that he wanted to provoke the Ordinary Alliance into sending its leader, and a noble youth returned to the restaurant with more than a dozen Soul Masters to seize Di Qiu'er.
• Toji killed the Six-Ring Soul Emperor and overpowered the other Soul Masters, then killed the noble youth after asking whether he was a good person.
• A Soul Saint leading dozens of Ordinary Alliance figures arrived and demanded to know who Toji was, so Toji teleported in front of him and punched him in the abdomen.

Toji slaughtered the Ordinary Alliance’s Soul Saint defenders after killing one with a punch and surviving a barrage of high-explosive shells. As he prepared to kill the last Level 7 Soul Engineer, a woman shouted for him to stop.

• Toji killed a Soul Saint with one punch, sending his body through the street and into a wall.
• Seven Level 7 Soul Engineers arrived with Soul Tools and attacked Toji, but he shattered one engineer’s shields and killed him with another punch.
• The Soul Engineers fired a barrage of high-explosive shells at Toji, who emerged unharmed from the smoke.
• Toji killed four more Level 7 Soul Engineers, using one man’s severed head to knock the others away.
• Toji approached the last Soul Engineer and prepared to kill him, but a woman shouted, “Stop!”

Toji confronted Shanggong Wei'er, leader of the Ordinary Alliance, after wrecking her territory and killing her subordinates. Recognizing him as the Soul Engineer Killer, she sent everyone away and led Toji and Di Qiu'er somewhere private to talk.

• Toji stopped before killing the last Soul Engineer when Shanggong Wei'er arrived with her followers, and a Level 8 Soul Engineer challenged him.
• Shanggong Wei'er revealed her eight Soul Rings, restrained her subordinate, and asked Toji to explain the destruction and deaths.
• Toji asked whether she had received An Litong's note, and Shanggong Wei'er recognized him as the Soul Engineer Killer and ordered her people to stand down.
• Di Qiu'er used Martial Soul Possession to counter Shanggong Wei'er's pressure and insisted they talk where they were.
• Toji agreed to go somewhere quieter, and Shanggong Wei'er led him and Di Qiu'er away while leaving cleanup to the Level 8 Soul Engineer.

Toji met with Shanggong Wei'er at the Ordinary Alliance headquarters, verified her loyalty, and received intelligence about Xu Tianran's planned meeting with the Xishui Alliance. After Toji left, Shanggong Wei'er was overwhelmed by an unusual attraction to his scent.

• Shanggong Wei'er gave Toji information that Xu Tianran would meet Xishui Alliance members in seven days and said her source was reliable.
• Toji tested Shanggong Wei'er's loyalty by threatening her with the Blade of Life's Watch, then accepted her explanation and continued their partnership.
• Shanggong Wei'er told Toji that war had broken out between the Sun Moon Empire and the Star Luo Empire and that people suspected his involvement in Mingdu.
• Toji left with Di Qiu'er after telling Shanggong Wei'er to recover and warning that he would visit again.
• After Toji left, Shanggong Wei'er collapsed in her office, disturbed by her intense reaction to his scent, and ordered her maid to keep everyone out.

Toji infiltrated Xu Tianran’s alliance with the Holy Spirit Cult and learned that they planned to kill the emperor and his family so Xu Tianran’s father could take the throne. The group reached the emperor’s bedchamber and prepared to attack.

• Toji told Di Qiu'er that killing Xu Tianran would not change the Sun Moon Empire’s eventual rise, then left her behind to meet him.
• Toji killed an Evil Soul Master, disguised himself in the man’s robe, and secretly joined the group led by the Zhongli brothers.
• Xu Tianran and Zhongli Tian agreed to overthrow the emperor, with the Holy Spirit Cult expecting to become the Sun Moon Empire’s divine guardian cult.
• Xu Tianran explained that his father would take the throne first, giving Xu Tianran the strongest claim to become crown prince and later emperor.
• Xu Tianran, his father, and the Evil Soul Masters reached the emperor’s bedchamber, where Xu Tianran’s father ordered them to attack.

Toji infiltrated the imperial palace during the massacre of Xu Tianran’s family, then detonated hidden Fixed Soul Tools and ambushed the Zhongli brothers. After the brothers escaped, Xu Tianran recognized Toji as the feared “Soul Engineer Killer.”

• Toji joined the Evil Soul Masters as they stormed the emperor’s bedchamber and slaughtered the imperial family.
• Toji noticed a concealed passage behind the empress’s corpse and planted Fixed Soul Tools beneath the bodies.
• Zhongli Ren suspected Toji and probed him, prompting Toji to detonate the buried soul tools and attack the three Zhongli brothers.
• Toji wounded Zhongli Tian, Zhongli Di, and Zhongli Ren, but Zhongli Tian led his brothers in escaping with an Evil Soul Master secret technique.
• Toji confronted Xu Tianran, who recognized him as the “Soul Engineer Killer.”

Toji killed the surviving Evil Soul Masters and forced Xu Tianran to grant him a high-ranking position and access to the Sun Moon Empire's leadership. He escaped before Xu Tianran's father arrived, leaving Xu Tianran to conceal their encounter and deal with the ruined Holy Spirit Cult alliance.

• Toji killed the wounded Evil Soul Masters while Xu Tianran watched.
• Toji demanded a legitimate high-ranking position and offered Xu Tianran assassination services and valuable intelligence in return.
• Toji threatened Xu Tianran with future assassination attempts, and Xu Tianran agreed to his terms as his father's team approached.
• Toji gave Xu Tianran a note and escaped with his Level 7 Flying Soul Tool.
• Xu Tianran's father arrived, and Xu Tianran hid the note and claimed he had silenced the dead men to keep them from revealing what happened.

Toji and Di Qiu'er found Xu He, the surviving crown prince of the Sun Moon Empire, and recruited him by offering to help him become a Level 9 Soul Engineer. They left with Xu He before Teacher Fan Yu could find him, changing his path from the one that would have led him to Shrek Academy and Huo Yuhao.

• Toji told Di Qiu'er that Xu Tianran had agreed to let him use the Sun Moon Empire's resources, and the pair left Mingdu to find Xu He.
• Toji and Di Qiu'er caught up with Xu He near the Heaven Dou Empire border after he escaped the massacre and crossed the empire on his own.
• Toji gave the injured Xu He food and revealed that Xu Tianran had taken his crown prince title and slaughtered his family.
• Xu He vowed to become a Level 9 Soul Engineer and take revenge on Xu Tianran, and Toji offered to help him in exchange for future benefits.
• Toji and Di Qiu'er left with Xu He, and Teacher Fan Yu passed through afterward without finding him.

Toji brought Xu He to the Heaven Dou Empire to study Soul Tools, where he took the name He Caitou, then met his teacher Du Busi on the way back. After receiving the Body Sect’s Secret of the Body, Toji asked Di Qiu'er to help him find Ju Zi and her parents before the war changed their lives.

• Toji brought Xu He to Liang Wu, who arranged for him to study Soul Tools under the name He Caitou.
• Di Qiu'er sensed something was wrong, and the Scarlet King warned that a powerful human expert was approaching.
• Du Busi appeared, praised Toji’s cultivation progress, and gave him an annotated copy of the Secret of the Body and several Storage Soul Tools.
• Du Busi offered to help Toji obtain his Sixth Soul Ring when he reached level sixty, prompting the Scarlet King’s killing intent before Di Qiu'er stopped him.
• Toji told Di Qiu'er he wanted to find Ju Zi and save her parents, and she said she could trace their fortune if they reached Ju Zi first.
• Toji and Di Qiu'er set out to find Ju Zi, hoping to finish the search within a month.

On the road to the Star Luo Empire, Toji pushed his body to its limits by dragging an uprooted mountain, breaking through to level fifty-eight before collapsing. Di Qiu'er healed him and kept watch, while a border patrol later discovered the mountain in its new location.

• Toji tried to drag a nearly hundred-meter mountain with chains attached to his body as Di Qiu'er questioned his dangerous training.
• Toji endured severe injuries and summoned a golden blast that snapped the chains and dropped the mountain.
• Toji's golden bones regenerated, and he broke through to level fifty-eight before losing consciousness.
• Di Qiu'er caught Toji, carried him to a resting place, and used her golden light to heal his wounds.
• Twelve Star Luo Empire border patrol soldiers found a huge trench and the uprooted mountain, leaving their captain stunned.

Toji recovered from an extreme body-tempering breakthrough while Di Qiu'er cared for him, then the two continued searching the Star Luo Empire border for Ju Zi's father. Di Qiu'er spotted a woman with powerful fortune and wondered if she was the person they were seeking.

• Di Qiu'er noticed that Toji's blood and Qi had advanced after his body-tempering breakthrough and watched over him as he slept.
• Toji woke with his head on Di Qiu'er's thigh and explained that the breakthrough had left him unable to move, though his physical defense was formidable.
• Di Qiu'er teased Toji into asking politely before she took a healing pill from his Storage Soul Tool and fed it to him.
• Nearly a month later, Toji and Di Qiu'er searched the wheat fields near a town on the Star Luo Empire border for Ju Zi's father.
• Di Qiu'er sensed a woman with very strong fortune and pointed her out as a possible person of interest.

Toji and Di Qiu'er encountered four Clear Sky Sect members searching for someone powerful, while Toji approached a mother and daughter they suspected might be Ju Zi and her family. Di Qiu'er was left to face the sect members, who demanded to see her Martial Soul and threatened force when she refused.

• Toji and Di Qiu'er overheard four gray-robed Clear Sky Sect members discussing their search and clues pointing to someone with Titled Douluo-level strength.
• Toji explained that they would confirm whether the little girl was Ju Zi and save her father to gain a chance to negotiate with her.
• The Clear Sky Sect members confronted Di Qiu'er, and Toji slipped away to speak with the mother and daughter.
• The gray-robed leader asked Di Qiu'er to reveal her Martial Soul, then summoned his hammer and Soul Rings when she refused.
• All four Clear Sky Sect members revealed their Martial Souls and Soul Rings and threatened to use force unless Di Qiu'er cooperated.

Toji and Di Qiu'er confronted four Clear Sky Sect men searching for a golden-haired woman with a Golden Dragon Martial Soul and a gifted male Soul Master. Di Qiu'er revealed her power while Toji killed two of the men, leaving the remaining pair in her hands.

• Toji interrupted the four men in gray and learned they were searching for Di Qiu'er and a gifted male Soul Master.
• After the men demanded that Di Qiu'er reveal her Martial Soul, Toji silently told her to kill them.
• Di Qiu'er transformed and revealed seven black ten-thousand-year Soul Rings, confirming she was the woman they sought.
• Toji killed two men in gray with punches while the other two activated Clear Sky True Body and attacked him.
• Toji dodged their hammer strike and left the remaining men to Di Qiu'er, who approached them from behind.

Toji and Di Qiu'er fought a team of Clear Sky Hammer Soul Saints, and Toji revealed that his rank-fifty-eight strength could withstand even their most destructive attacks. The last gray-clad man sacrificed his Soul Rings and transformed into a giant hammer to keep attacking Toji.

• Di Qiu'er crushed one gray-clad man's neck, and Toji stopped the captain from calling for reinforcements by crushing his token.
• The captain struck Toji with his Clear Sky Hammer, but Toji took the blow without injury.
• The captain detonated his first four Soul Rings and swung an enormous hammer at Di Qiu'er, but Toji stepped in and shattered it with one punch.
• The captain tried to flee, then detonated his remaining Soul Rings and transformed into a giant Clear Sky Hammer.
• The transformed captain battered Toji with repeated attacks, while Toji noted that his improved strength let him withstand the blows.

Toji killed a gray-robed Clear Sky Sect Soul Saint and helped erase the evidence, then learned that Ju Zi’s family was connected to the mother and daughter he had encountered. Days later, Clear Sky Sect investigators discovered signs of a devastating battle and summoned an elder, setting the sect on the trail of the killer.

• Toji shattered the gray-robed man's Clear Sky Hammer and killed him with a punch, then remarked that he was nearing his sixth awakening.
• Toji and Di Qiu'er destroyed the bodies and disturbed the ground to conceal the battle, while Toji revealed that he had evacuated the town and identified the mother and daughter as Ju Zi's family.
• Toji told Di Qiu'er that they had gathered the clues they needed and would go find Ju Zi's father.
• Several days later, a gray-robed Soul Saint and five Clear Sky Sect disciples examined the battlefield and found traces suggesting the Clear Sky Hammers and their Martial Soul Avatars had been shattered.
• The middle-aged investigator crushed a token to summon an elder and vowed that the person who killed Clear Sky Sect disciples would pay.

Toji and Di Qiu'er found Ju Zi’s father amid the battle between the Star Luo Empire and the Sun Moon Empire, and Toji abducted him from the battlefield. He escaped the pursuing Star Luo forces with his captive, leaving the empire’s Titled Douluo to abandon the chase.

• Toji and Di Qiu’er arrived at the battlefield and saw the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Engineer legions overwhelm the Star Luo Empire’s troops.
• Di Qiu’er spotted Ju Zi’s father in the Star Luo formation, and Toji decided to take him without joining the war.
• Toji raced through the gunfire, grabbed Ju Zi’s father, and told him to come quietly if he wanted to see his daughter.
• Toji used Playful Cloud to defeat three Soul Saints who tried to stop him, then faced an attack from the Star Luo Empire’s Titled Douluo.
• Toji equipped a Class 7 Flying Soul Tool and escaped with Ju Zi’s father as the Star Luo Titled Douluo were ordered to return to their lines.