Recaps

Kong Deming defeated Xuan Zi and vanished, leaving Shrek and the Star Luo Empire uncertain about Xuan Zi’s fate. Meanwhile, Tai Tan revealed himself as the Clear Sky Sect’s second sect master after abducting Kong Xuan, who suspected that Tang San had ordered the capture.

• Kong Deming trapped Xuan Zi, then disappeared through space, leaving Xuan Zi’s fate unknown.
• Xu Jiawei, Huang Jinxu, Cheng Gang, and Dai Hao discussed Kong Deming’s power and the threat to the Star Luo Empire.
• Wang Yan steadied the Shrek students and told them to treat the wounded and wait for Kong Deming’s return.
• Tai Tan brought Kong Xuan to a secluded valley and revealed his identity as the Clear Sky Sect’s second sect master.
• Kong Xuan guessed that Tang San had issued a divine decree for his capture, and Tai Tan reacted with surprise.

Tai Tan tried to invade Kong Xuan’s consciousness, but Yun Ming and Electrolux helped Kong Xuan repel him. Tai Tan unleashed divine power, only for Kong Xuan’s own golden power to frighten him into contacting Tang San for help.

• Tai Tan launched a powerful spiritual assault on Kong Xuan, but Yun Ming and Electrolux bolstered Kong Xuan’s spiritual power and stopped it.
• Kong Xuan asked why the person behind Tai Tan’s mission had not come in person, making Tai Tan suspect that something was unusual about Kong Xuan’s spiritual power.
• Tai Tan broke through to Level 99 and continued drawing on divine power, surpassing Yun Ming’s former strength and overwhelming Kong Xuan’s defenses.
• A pure golden power erupted from Kong Xuan and dissolved Tai Tan’s spiritual assault, leaving Tai Tan terrified and guessing that Kong Xuan was tied to a Divine Realm faction.
• Tai Tan contacted Tang San in the Divine Realm, who heard Er Ming cry, “Tang San, save me!”

Kong Xuan unleashed the Ruyi Golden Cudgel’s divine power against Tai Tan, forcing Tang San to descend through Tai Tan and confront him. Kong Xuan’s strike crushed Tang San’s divine sense and obliterated the valley, leaving Kong Xuan wary of the devastation his power could cause.

• Er Ming pleaded with Tang San for help, and Tang San realized Kong Xuan was likely connected to the changes on the Douluo Continent.
• Kong Xuan drew on the Ruyi Golden Cudgel’s origin divine power and overwhelmed Tai Tan’s defenses.
• Tang San possessed Tai Tan through Divine Descent, judged Kong Xuan an anomaly, and declared that he must be slain.
• Kong Xuan pressed down with the Ruyi Golden Cudgel’s power and struck Tai Tan, shattering his defenses and dispersing Tang San’s divine sense.
• The strike erased the valley, destroyed the surrounding terrain, and left Kong Xuan reflecting on the danger of using such power carelessly.

The God of Destruction confronted Tang San after Tang San’s divine sense was destroyed in the lower realm, then revealed he knew Tang San’s secret origins and warned him not to interfere. Back in his own temple, the God of Destruction considered contacting the powerful outsider on the Douluo Continent.

• The God of Destruction confronted Tang San for using the Divine Realm Core to monitor and influence the lower realm, then noticed Tang San’s Divine Power was in disarray.
• Tang San spat golden blood and revealed that an unknown force in the lower realm had destroyed his divine sense.
• The God of Destruction dismissed Tang San’s demand for intervention and suggested that he himself was not originally from the Douluo Continent.
• The God of Destruction explained that the previous Sea God had discovered Tang San’s secret during the Divine Examination and threatened to strip him of his enforcer position if he interfered again.
• The God of Destruction returned to his temple, revealed his appearance, and wondered whether he should contact the outsider on the Douluo Continent.

Kong Deming found Kong Xuan alive after witnessing the devastating strike that had ended his danger, and Kong Xuan explained that the Clear Sky Sect had abducted him because of conflicts involving gods. Back at Star Luo Plaza, Medicine Immortal Douluo Wang Xian'er treated the injured students, while Dai Yueheng asked what had happened to Xuan Zi.

• Kong Deming sensed godlike powers clashing, saw a giant staff strike devastate the landscape, and rushed to find Kong Xuan.
• Kong Deming found Kong Xuan unharmed, and Kong Xuan identified the Clear Sky Sect as his abductors and said their motives involved conflicts in the Divine Realm.
• Kong Xuan reassured Kong Deming that there would likely be no immediate further trouble, then resolved to grow stronger and remain wary of Tang San.
• Wang Xian'er treated Dai Yueheng, reattached Tang Mingxuan's arm, and stabilized Ma Xiaotao, though she could not cure her Evil Fire.
• Dai Yueheng asked Dai Hao what had happened to Xuan Zi, prompting the others to seek the White Tiger Duke's view.

Kong Deming returned with Kong Xuan safe and revealed that he had captured Xuan Zi, demanding that Shrek Academy send decision-makers to negotiate his release and a student exchange. After Shrek agreed to discuss the terms, Kong Deming appeared before Xu Jiawei, who asked why he had come.

• Kong Xuan returned safely to the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, reassured Kong Ling and Meng Hongchen, and concealed what had happened.
• Wang Yan asked Kong Deming about Xuan Zi, and Kong Deming said he had taken Xuan Zi prisoner for attacking a teacher and threatening Kong Xuan.
• Kong Deming told Wang Yan that Shrek representatives must come to negotiate Xuan Zi's ransom and discuss a student exchange; Wang Yan agreed to relay the demand.
• Kong Deming warned that Shrek must send someone empowered to make decisions, then said Xuan Zi would be fine despite going hungry for a few days.
• Kong Deming appeared before Xu Jiawei on the imperial city's wall, and Xu Jiawei asked what had brought him there.

Kong Deming offered the Star Luo Empire Battle Armor, which could raise a Soul King’s power to Soul Saint level, while secretly planning to use the sale to divide the original Douluo Three Kingdoms. As the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s party headed home, Kong Deming revealed that the armor would contain safeguards and that the Star Luo Empire could not reproduce it.

• Kong Deming demonstrated Battle Armor’s power to Xu Jiawei and offered to discuss selling it to the Star Luo Empire.
• Xu Jiawei consulted Giant Strength Douluo Cheng Gang and the prime minister, then ordered the prime minister to prepare a plan to investigate the offer while guarding against hidden risks.
• After the eighteen-day tournament ended, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy’s party departed for the Sun Moon Empire under Kong Deming’s protection.
• Ma Sheng questioned Kong Deming about selling Battle Armor to an enemy, and Kong Deming explained that safeguards would make the armor dangerous to use against the Sun Moon Empire.
• Kong Deming told Ma Sheng that strengthening the Star Luo Empire would provoke suspicion among the other two kingdoms, and that their Soul Tool Technology could not reproduce Battle Armor.

The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy celebrated Kong Xuan and his teammates for winning the tournament, and Crown Prince Xu Tianran promised them imperial rewards. The next morning, Jing Hongchen led them to the Sun Moon Bright Light Tower to choose treasures, where two Titled Douluo emerged to guard the imperial treasury.

• Jing Hongchen welcomed the returning team at the academy and praised them for winning the tournament championship.
• Xu Tianran congratulated the team, celebrated their defeat of Shrek Academy, and promised each participant a chance to choose a treasure from the imperial treasury.
• The team traveled to the imperial palace the next morning with Jing Hongchen and arrived at the Sun Moon Bright Light Tower.
• Two elderly guards emerged from the tower, and Yun Ming told Kong Xuan that both were Titled Douluo.

After the tournament victory, Kong Xuan and the other students received imperial rewards and entered the Sun Moon Bright Light Tower to choose one treasure from their assigned floors. Kong Xuan explored the ninth floor alone and found many rare items, including Soul Bones, but had not yet chosen his reward.

• Lin Feng and Xu Hui welcomed the tournament students, gave them numbered cards, and explained that each card allowed its holder to enter a matching tower floor and take one item.
• The students rode the Soul Tool elevator to their assigned floors, with Kong Xuan alone heading to the ninth floor.
• Kong Xuan entered the ninth-floor collection and read the information displayed for its rare metals and powerful Soul Tools.
• Kong Xuan continued examining the treasures and spotted items that could benefit traditional Soul Masters, including spiritual liquid and Soul Bones.

Kong Xuan chose an unknown Soul Bone from the Sun Moon Empire’s imperial treasury after Yun Ming and Electrolux sensed that it held powerful healing and life energy. Meanwhile, Shrek Academy convened another Sea God Pavilion Meeting to address Xuan Zi’s capture and the Sun Moon Empire’s formidable Soul Engineer.

• Kong Xuan considered several rare Soul Bones, but Yun Ming directed him to examine an unidentified one, and Electrolux sensed its concealed life energy was exceptionally powerful.
• Kong Xuan used his silver card to disable the Soul Bone’s protective field, stored the bone, and left the tower as the first student to claim a reward.
• Shrek Academy’s Sea God Pavilion elders gathered after the tournament defeat, with Wang Yan attending to explain what had happened during the competition.
• Wang Yan had kept Xuan Zi’s capture by Kong Deming secret from everyone except the tournament participants and Sea God Pavilion members.
• The elders faced news that a Super Douluo-level Soul Engineer had defeated the Level 98 Xuan Zi in a single move.

Mu En confronted Yan Shaozhe for sending additional competitors to the tournament, then asked the Sea God Pavilion elders who would go to Mingdu to negotiate Xuan Zi’s release. When no one volunteered and Mu En considered going himself, Xian Lin'er offered to make the trip.

• Mu En reprimanded Yan Shaozhe for defying his order to send no further support to the tournament, and Yan Shaozhe defended his decision as an effort to protect the reserve students.
• Mu En asked Wang Yan to explain the Sun Moon Empire’s demands: Shrek had to send a decision-maker to discuss Xuan Zi’s ransom and an exchange between the academies.
• An elder proposed attacking Mingdu to rescue Xuan Zi, but others warned that the capital’s defenses and Kong Deming’s strength made an assault too dangerous.
• Mu En asked who would go to Mingdu, but the elders remained silent until he asked whether he would have to make the trip himself.
• Yan Shaozhe and the elders urged Mu En not to go, and Xian Lin'er volunteered to travel to Sun Moon.

Xian Lin'er accepted responsibility for negotiating Xuan Zi's return from Sun Moon, while Mu En worried over Shrek Academy's decline and reconsidered his plans. At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Electrolux awakened Kong Xuan's seemingly lifeless Soul Bone with life energy, revealing a powerful head soul bone.

• Xian Lin'er volunteered to negotiate for Xuan Zi's return, and Mu En gave her authority and academy resources for the mission.
• After the Sea God Pavilion Meeting, Mu En reflected on the elders' reluctance to act and worried that Shrek Academy's strength and spirit were fading.
• Kong Xuan tried to fuse with the deadwood Soul Bone but could not make his Soul Power penetrate it.
• Electrolux used life energy from the gold of life to peel away the Soul Bone's dead outer shell and reveal its emerald, life-filled form.
• Yun Ming recognized the awakened Soul Bone as a head soul bone.

Kong Xuan learned that his transformed Head Soul Bone came from an extinct, hundred-thousand-year-old Ancient Tree of Life and began fusing with it after promising Yun Ming to help prevent Soul Beasts from being hunted for Soul Spirits. Meanwhile, Xian Lin'er traveled alone to Mingdu and, shocked by the Sun Moon Empire's advanced everyday use of Soul Tools, headed for the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

• Yun Ming identified Kong Xuan's Soul Bone as a Head Soul Bone from an Ancient Tree of Life and described how the Spirit Pagoda had turned from easing human-Soul Beast conflict to hunting Soul Beasts.
• Kong Xuan promised to improve Electrolux's Soul Spirit System to help prevent history from repeating itself, then began fusing with the Soul Bone.
• After the Sea God Pavilion Meeting, Xian Lin'er chose to travel without academy personnel and left Shrek Academy for the Sun Moon Empire.
• Xian Lin'er crossed the Ming Dou Mountain Range and arrived in Mingdu, where she saw the vast, unwalled city and its widespread Soul Tool technology.
• Xian Lin'er recognized how far Shrek and the original Douluo Three Kingdoms lagged behind in Soul Tool development and set her sights on the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy.

Xian Lin'er arrived alone at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy to negotiate with Jing Hongchen about the exchange between the academies and Xuan Zi. Their meeting was interrupted by a pillar of exceptionally pure life energy rising from the advanced cultivation area, leaving Xian Lin'er wondering whether it could save Mu En.

• Xu Wei met Xian Lin'er at the academy gates and offered to guide her to Dean Jing Hongchen.
• Xian Lin'er told Jing Hongchen she had full authority over the exchange and the matter concerning Xuan Zi.
• Jing Hongchen sent a long-range communication Soul Tool to notify Kong Deming that he needed to discuss the specifics with Xian Lin'er.
• A brilliant emerald-green pillar of immense life energy erupted from the advanced cultivation area, astonishing Jing Hongchen and Xian Lin'er.
• Xian Lin'er wondered whether the life energy could restore Mu En, then dismissed the hope because the Sun Moon Empire was unlikely to help him.

Kong Xuan fused with an eight-hundred-thousand-year Ancient Tree of Life Head Soul Bone, whose sudden release of life energy swept across the academy and nearly drained him of Soul Power. After recovering with Yun Ming’s help, he explained the Soul Bone’s powerful healing skills to his teacher, then faced Jing Hongchen and an unfamiliar Xian Lin'er.

• The newly fused Head Soul Bone released an emerald halo across the academy, rapidly growing plants and soothing or healing students.
• Kong Xuan nearly collapsed when the Soul Bone drained his Soul Power, but Yun Ming replenished it from Kong Xuan’s Sea of Consciousness.
• Kong Xuan learned that the Head Soul Bone came from an eight-hundred-thousand-year Ancient Tree of Life and granted Divine Light of Spiritual Healing and the domain skill Life Prayer.
• Jing Hongchen and Xian Lin'er arrived after the life-energy phenomenon ended, and Jing Hongchen asked Kong Xuan if he had caused it.
• Kong Xuan acknowledged the commotion and asked Jing Hongchen who the unfamiliar woman with him was.

Xian Lin'er met with Kong Deming and Jing Hongchen to negotiate Xuan Zi's release, offering a student exchange program and apologizing to Kong Xuan and Ren Jun for Xuan Zi's attack. The talks ended with Xian Lin'er asking Kong Deming to name his conditions for returning Xuan Zi.

• Kong Xuan insisted on joining the negotiations because Xuan Zi had attacked him, and Jing Hongchen allowed him to come along.
• Kong Deming convened Jing Hongchen, Kong Xuan, Ren Jun, and Xian Lin'er to discuss the price Shrek Academy would pay to ransom Xuan Zi.
• Xian Lin'er proposed a long-term student exchange arrangement, and Jing Hongchen agreed in principle while leaving details for later discussion.
• Xian Lin'er apologized to Kong Xuan and Ren Jun on Shrek's behalf, but Kong Xuan said Xuan Zi should apologize in person.
• Xian Lin'er said Xuan Zi would be punished upon his return and asked Kong Deming to state his conditions for releasing him.

Xian Lin'er negotiated with Kong Deming to ransom Xuan Zi, ultimately agreeing to provide four valuable Soul Bones despite Shrek Academy’s lack of the two hundred-thousand-year bones he demanded. Kong Deming then brought Xuan Zi into the conference room, where Xian Lin'er saw that he was alive but severely diminished and dazed.

• Kong Deming demanded two Soul Bones over fifty thousand years old and two over a hundred thousand years old in exchange for Xuan Zi.
• Xian Lin'er rejected the terms and offered two fifty-thousand-year, one seventy-thousand-year, and one eighty-thousand-year Soul Bone, but Kong Deming refused and threatened to take Xuan Zi’s own bones.
• Xian Lin'er recognized Shrek Academy’s vulnerability and agreed to obtain the four Soul Bones, then asked to see Xuan Zi.
• Kong Deming used his power to bring Xuan Zi into the conference room, and Xian Lin'er saw him looking weak, disheveled, and hollow-eyed.
• Kong Deming said he had not tortured Xuan Zi and that Xuan Zi had brought his condition upon himself.

Xian Lin'er came to Sun Moon to secure Xuan Zi’s release, while Kong Deming used the threat of renewed imprisonment to keep him in check. Kong Deming let them return to Shrek but demanded the promised Soul Bones and revealed he had recorded their ransom negotiations as leverage.

• Xuan Zi erupted in fury at Kong Deming, but his threat to imprison him again made Xuan Zi’s fighting spirit collapse.
• Xian Lin'er told Xuan Zi that Mu En had ordered the academy to bring him back at any cost, and Xuan Zi fell silent.
• Kong Deming told Xian Lin'er she could take Xuan Zi back to Shrek, provided the academy sent the promised Soul Bones.
• Kong Deming played a recording of their ransom negotiations and warned that he could expose it if Shrek failed to deliver the Soul Bones.
• As Xian Lin'er prepared to leave with Xuan Zi, a sudden change occurred and altered everyone’s expressions.

The Body Sect’s Du Busi arrived at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy with more than twenty experts to take Huo Yuhao, prompting Kong Deming to confront him. As Xuan Zi considered joining Du Busi against Kong Deming, Xian Lin'er resolved to stop him if he attacked.

• Du Busi called for Jing Hongchen, and Kong Deming led the academy’s group outside to meet the unexpected visitors.
• Kong Xuan told Kong Deming that he had previously stopped Lang Ya and Yu Tao from taking Huo Yuhao to the Body Sect.
• Du Busi announced that he had come to take Huo Yuhao, while academy Soul Engineers raised their soul tools in response.
• Kong Deming appeared beside Jing Hongchen and declared that Huo Yuhao was his disciple.
• Xuan Zi considered attacking Kong Deming alongside Du Busi, but Xian Lin'er warned him and decided she would stop him if he tried.

Kong Deming defeated Du Busi and imprisoned him and his companions with the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield after Du Busi tried to take Huo Yuhao by force. Xian Lin'er agreed to return to Shrek Academy and bring Kong Deming the Soul Bones.

• Du Busi confirmed Kong Deming’s identity but insisted on settling whether he could take Huo Yuhao with a fight.
• Du Busi transformed into a giant and attacked Kong Deming with a powerful punch, which Kong Deming blocked with a spatial shield.
• Kong Deming activated the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield, trapping Du Busi and the twenty-odd powerhouses accompanying him.
• The silver barrier shrank until it vanished, and Kong Deming reappeared beside Kong Xuan at the academy.
• Kong Deming ordered Xian Lin'er to return to Shrek Academy for the Soul Bones, and she set out with Xuan Zi.

After Kong Deming captured the Body Sect members, Kong Xuan reassured Huo Yuhao and discussed the upcoming student exchange at Shrek Academy with his classmates. Kong Xuan then visited Kong Deming and asked about two more people caught sneaking into the Worship Hall.

• Kong Deming said he would detain the captured Body Sect members for a few days, while Jing Hongchen celebrated his strength and status.
• Kong Xuan told Huo Yuhao that Kong Deming was unharmed and urged him to focus on cultivation.
• Kong Xuan told the students they would likely join an exchange visit to Shrek Academy and reassured them that powerful escorts would protect them.
• Gu Yuena promised that her clan's elders would help if Shrek attacked, while privately weighing whether to send Di Tian or Xiong Jun.
• Kong Xuan visited Kong Deming in the Worship Hall and asked about two people caught trying to sneak inside.

Kong Deming released Du Busi from the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield and negotiated an agreement for Huo Yuhao to join the Body Sect while continuing to learn Soul Tools. Du Busi accepted, and Kong Deming promised to free the other Body Sect members before raising another matter.

• Kong Deming explained to Kong Xuan that he had eliminated the intruders who tried to breach the Worship Hall’s core.
• Kong Deming used his spatial power to bring the weakened Du Busi out of the Silver Moon Divine Light Shield.
• Du Busi demanded a fair fight, but Kong Deming calmly invited him to attack and then offered to talk.
• Kong Xuan and Kong Deming told Du Busi that Huo Yuhao could join the Body Sect later while remaining Kong Deming’s disciple and studying Soul Tools.
• Du Busi agreed to take Huo Yuhao as his disciple and asked for his sect members to be released.
• Kong Deming promised to free the Body Sect members and said he had one more matter to discuss.

Kong Deming and Kong Xuan tried to persuade Du Busi to cooperate with the Sun Moon Empire by providing Battle Armor to the Body Sect. Du Busi weighed the offer and its risks, while Kong Deming suddenly looked toward the sky outside the Worship Hall.

• Kong Xuan suggested that Body Martial Soul users could become Soul Engineers, but Du Busi angrily refused to let the Sun Moon Empire take over the Body Sect.
• Kong Deming calmed Du Busi and proposed cooperation, then introduced him to the power of Battle Armor.
• Du Busi became tempted by Battle Armor and asked what the Body Sect would have to provide in return.
• Kong Deming explained that he wanted the Body Sect to protect Battle Armor's secrets, while Kong Xuan warned that the sect risked being left behind if it refused.
• Du Busi considered the offer, and Kong Deming suddenly looked toward the sky outside the Worship Hall.

Niu Tian confronted Kong Deming and Du Busi in the sky above Mingdu, demanding to know what had happened to his younger brother Tai Tan. Kong Xuan confirmed that Tai Tan was dead, leaving Niu Tian facing the news of his brother’s death.

• Kong Deming and Du Busi went to meet a newly arrived Limit Douluo, and Kong Xuan followed them into the sky.
• The visitor fixed his attention on Kong Xuan, whose teacher Yun Ming helped him withstand the man’s pressure.
• Kong Xuan recognized the visitor as Niu Tian, chief sect master of the Clear Sky Sect, and Niu Tian asked what had happened to Tai Tan.
• Kong Xuan noted that Niu Tian had come without a divine decree, revealing that Tai Tan had sought him under one.
• Niu Tian demanded an explanation, and Kong Xuan told him that Tai Tan was dead.

Kong Xuan told Niu Tian that Tai Tan was dead and warned him not to attack, revealing confidence that he could withstand even divine power. As Niu Tian began drawing on power from the Divine Realm, the story shifted to Tang San, who had learned that the God of Destruction knew his greatest secret and considered him a dangerous enemy.

• Kong Xuan told Niu Tian that Tai Tan had died, and Niu Tian struggled to believe that Kong Xuan and Kong Deming could have killed him.
• Kong Xuan defended Tai Tan's death as the consequence of his attack and warned Niu Tian that those who killed would themselves be killed.
• Niu Tian revealed his azure dragon form, but Kong Xuan urged him to consult the person behind him before attacking.
• Niu Tian halted his attack and began radiating golden power, while Kong Xuan assured Kong Deming that he could handle power borrowed from a god.
• Tang San learned that the God of Destruction knew his greatest secret and regarded him as his greatest opponent.