Recaps

Qian Renxue consolidated her hold over Spirit Hall and went to Shrek Academy, where she confronted its leaders and students over their treatment of applicants. After killing several defenders and overpowering the students, she faced Tang Hao, who arrived to protect Tang San.

• Qian Renxue revealed that Bibi Dong was her mother and had Yu Xiaogang killed after learning that he had insulted her father and Spirit Hall.
• Qian Renxue won the support of Spirit Hall’s elders and assigned them to attack the Lower Four Sects while she prepared to deal with a rural academy.
• With Qian Daoliu’s encouragement, Qian Renxue disguised herself as a child and went to Shrek Academy, where its refusal to refund her fee confirmed her decision to shut it down.
• Qian Renxue revealed her identity and condemned Shrek Academy, then defeated its instructors and killed Zhao Wuji, Flender, and Li Yusong.
• Qian Renxue injured Dai Mubai and fought Tang San and the other students, overcoming their attacks and breaking Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing’s Hell White Tiger fusion.
• Tang San’s Hidden Arrow pierced Qian Renxue’s barrier, but she caught the arrows with Juque Sword as her holy power drained Tang San’s Soul Power.
• Tang Hao arrived, revealed his nine Soul Rings, and attacked Qian Renxue with his Clear Sky Hammer as Golden Crocodile Douluo challenged him.

Ling Feng killed Tang Hao after Tang Hao used the Great Sumeru Hammer, then sent Qian Renxue to compete in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament as Xiao Xue. She crushed the Imperial Dou Second Team and drew the attention of Xue Qinghe and Xue Beng, whose political ambitions began to surface.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo injured Xiao Wu, and Tang Hao fought him while teaching Tang San the Nine Absolute Skills of Clear Sky before using Explode Ring to gain the upper hand.
• Qian Renxue blocked Tang Hao’s eighty-first hammer strike, revealed she was Ling Feng’s disciple, and summoned Ling Feng with a jade talisman.
• Ling Feng reversed Tang Hao’s ninth soul skill and killed him after Tang Hao detonated all nine rings and launched his final attack.
• Ling Feng found that Tang San and Xiao Wu had escaped, took Tang Hao’s corpse for use against the Clear Sky Sect, and encouraged Qian Renxue to enter the tournament as Xiao Xue.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu returned to Mirror Lake, where Tang San grieved for his father and decided to wait for Yu Xiaogang and the Twin Martial Souls cultivation method.
• At the tournament, Qian Renxue recruited six spectators to fill her roster, but the Imperial Dou Second Team quickly eliminated them before she defeated its attackers with Sword Qi.
• Xue Beng plotted to use Qian Renxue and secretly arrange Xue Ye’s poisoning, while Xue Qinghe approached her and tried to win her favor.
• Qian Renxue mocked Xue Qinghe’s judgment and pointed out Xue Beng, who had come over to prevent his brother from courting her.

Qian Renxue defeats Skywater Academy and exposes Xue Qinghe’s attempt to drug and claim her, while Ling Feng kills Xue Ye and the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s leaders. The arc ends with Qian Renxue disguised as Xue Qinghe and Ling Feng questioning her, while worrying that Tang San could threaten his plans.

• Xue Beng and Xue Qinghe discussed the tournament, and Xue Qinghe warned Xue Beng not to pursue Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue challenged Skywater Academy alone, evaded Shui Bing’er’s Ice Seal with Sword Qi Afterimage, and defeated the team’s Frost Phoenix with Po Jun Sword Light.
• Bibi Dong completed her resurrection and told Hu Liena that she planned to sacrifice Spirit City to pass the Rakshasa Ninth Trial and take revenge on Ling Feng.
• Xue Beng plotted to poison Xue Ye, while Ling Feng confronted the emperor and killed him after Xue Ye admitted planning to harm Hidden Sword Peak.
• Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong challenged Ling Feng over Ning Rongrong, but Ling Feng defeated them and killed them after their combined attacks failed.
• Xue Qinghe drugged Qian Renxue’s pastries and tried to make her submit, but Qian Renxue resisted the drug, revealed her identity, and killed him.
• Qian Renxue burned Xue Qinghe’s corpse, disguised herself as him with the Angel Spirit Bone’s Cloud Illusion, and ordered her allies to accelerate their plan to take the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Ling Feng recognized Qian Renxue beneath her disguise, worried about Tang San’s influence, and asked why she had become Xue Qinghe.

Qian Renxue helped establish the Angel Empire, gained the Sea God’s inheritance and mastered his halberd techniques while pursuing her own divine trials. After reaching Soul Douluo, she gained a second martial soul through Sky Dream Ice Silkworm’s sacrifice, and Ling Feng considered how to give it a compatible first soul ring.

• Ling Feng revealed that he had killed Xue Ye and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s leaders, then gave Qian Renxue the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud as she prepared to seize control of the Heaven Dou Empire.
• Qian Renxue revealed her Six-Winged Angel Spirit and won the tournament, while Ling Feng killed Xue Beng and helped Prince Xue Xing establish the Angel Empire.
• Qian Renxue rejected Poseidon’s offer to replace her Angel inheritance with the Sea God’s, but agreed to pursue both divine seats after Poseidon promised to preserve Qian Daoliu’s soul.
• Qian Renxue learned Poseidon’s three halberd forms, tested them against Snake Lance Douluo and Stingray Douluo, and broke through to become a Soul Douluo.
• Qian Renxue chose Sky Dream Ice Silkworm as her eighth-ring target, and he willingly sacrificed himself to become her Million-Year Soul Ring.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm revealed that his sacrifice had given Qian Renxue a second martial soul rather than a soul bone, and he proposed using the Method of Balance to reconcile its attributes with her Angel Spirit.
• Ling Feng concluded that the Method of Balance might work and focused on finding a first soul ring for Qian Renxue’s second martial soul.