Recaps

Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu built their strength, entered contracts with new allies, and traveled toward Heaven Dou City while Qian Renxue tried to draw them into her circle. They enrolled at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Xiao Wu’s unusual Soul Ring impressed the officials, and the arc ended with Xue Beng confronting them.

• Xiao Yao formed a contract with Xiao Wu, learned her secret, and helped her grow stronger while concealing her identity.
• Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu entered the New Soul tournament for Nuoding City, won their matches, and later left the city to seek further advancement.
• Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu encountered Qian Renxue after she formed a fifth Soul Ring, and Xiao Yao sealed a pair of Holy Wing of Light souls inside the Heavenly Book.
• Qian Renxue followed Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu to Vajra Canyon, where she saved them from a Wild Vajra Ape before inviting them to visit her in Heaven Dou City.
• Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu reached Heaven Dou City, reunited with Gu Yihan and Gu Sanshui, and Xiao Yao formed a contract with Shui Bing'er.
• Xiao Yao and Xiao Wu used the Crown Prince's token to enroll at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, where Xiao Wu's Soul Ring astonished Meng Shenji and the other officials.
• Xiao Wu chose a courtyard with a vegetable garden, but the students who had confronted her returned with Xue Beng.

Xiao Yao infiltrated Skywater Academy as Shui Lingji, grew close to Shui Bing’er, and helped her obtain a new Soul Ring while surviving bandits and a disastrous sea voyage. After returning to Heaven Dou City, he reunited with Xiao Wu and accepted Qian Renxue’s offer to join the academy’s reserve team, where Yu Tianheng confronted him.

• Xiao Yao drove off Xue Beng’s lackeys at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then disguised himself as Yan Lingji to enroll at Skywater Academy and impressed its teachers with his age, cultivation, and Soul Rings.
• Shui Wuyang chose Xiao Yao as her personal disciple after he demonstrated his command of water and perceived through her illusion, while Shui Bing’er recognized him during their meditation training.
• Xiao Yao and Shui Bing’er grew closer as they traveled with Qiu Wanxi toward the sea, and the group wiped out Wolf Bandits who had attacked a village.
• Xiao Yao and Shui Bing’er battled Sea Soul Beasts together, and Shui Bing’er evolved her Martial Soul into Ultimate Ice after transforming into a mermaid to pursue a Disc Water Spirit Jellyfish.
• A whirlpool forced Xiao Yao to reveal his true appearance and transform to protect Shui Bing’er, whose intimacy with him reached 80 and who awakened the Ice and Fire Love Song Martial Soul Fusion Skill with him.
• After the ship was battered by a storm and the group became stranded on an island, Qiu Wanxi held back a volcanic eruption, then froze the sailors who tried to assault her and the others.
• Xiao Yao, Shui Bing’er, and Qiu Wanxi returned to the mainland with Bai Dachun, and Xiao Yao fought Xiao Wu after returning to Heaven Dou Royal Academy three and a half months late.
• Xiao Yao grew closer to Shui Bing’er, reached rank thirty, and accepted Qian Renxue’s offer to join the second team’s reserves before recognizing Yu Tianheng among the students who challenged him.