Recaps

After Xue Ye fell gravely ill, Lin Yuan and Spirit Hall revealed their control of the palace and confronted him. Qian Renxue shed her Xue Qinghe disguise, and Dugu Bo poisoned Xue Ye to death as Spirit Hall prepared to take over his court.

• Xue Ye became gravely ill, and Xue Qinghe summoned Ye Lingqiu and Dugu Bo to the crown prince's residence, where six Titled Douluo revealed Spirit Hall's power.
• Ye Lingqiu realized she had chosen Spirit Hall's side and agreed to help save Xue Ye, then accompanied Xue Qinghe and Dugu Bo to the palace.
• Guang Ling confronted Xue Ye in his bedchamber, while Dugu Bo revealed that he had poisoned the emperor.
• Xue Qinghe removed her disguise and revealed herself as Qian Renxue, then Lin Yuan accused Xue Ye of knowingly allowing the Hall of Relief to exploit and kill people.
• Dugu Bo forced a poison pill into Xue Ye, killing him, and Qian Renxue left the rest of the takeover to Qian Jun and Jiang Mo.

Xue Ye launched a sweeping purge of the Hall of Relief and the Medicine King Holy Church in Heaven Dou City, with Spirit Hall Titled Douluos helping seal the city and capture suspects. As arrests exposed powerful Soul Masters, Dugu Bo led a force toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to arrest its grand elder, Ning Qianshan.

• Ye Lingqiu told Xue Xing and Ning Fengzhi that Xue Ye was out of danger but needed several days of rest.
• Xue Ye summoned the court, declared the Hall of Relief a front for the Medicine King Holy Church, and ordered a full investigation with Snake Lance Douluo assisting.
• Guards from the crown prince's residence arrested listed ministers and nobles, and Xue Ye ordered Heaven Dou City sealed against anyone leaving.
• Mixed teams of crown prince's guards and Spirit Hall Soul Masters raided Hall of Relief branches, while Guang Ling and other Titled Douluos watched for powerful suspects.
• Guang Ling shot a pill from the hand of a cornered Soul Douluo, and Spirit Hall forces captured him before he could swallow it.
• Dugu Bo led dozens of Soul Masters out of Heaven Dou City toward the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to arrest Ning Qianshan.

Dugu Bo exposed Ning Qianshan’s role in the Hall of Relief and arrested him after the elder began mutating from taking its pills. An explosion in Heaven Dou City revealed the Medicine King Holy Church’s Yao Kurong and a giant Ebon Deer of Abundance, leaving Lin Yuan stunned at the creature’s appearance.

• Dugu Bo brought evidence of Ning Qianshan’s dealings with the Hall of Relief and Medicine King Holy Church to Ning Fengzhi.
• Ning Qianshan admitted he had used commoners to extend his lifespan, then began growing branches from his body after taking too many pills.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered Gu Rong to isolate sect members who had taken the pills, while Dugu Bo and Chen Xin headed for Heaven Dou City with Ning Qianshan.
• Guang Ling, Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, Snake Lance, and Pufferfish confronted Yao Kurong and the giant Ebon Deer of Abundance amid the city’s ruins.
• Lin Yuan arrived, recognized the Ebon Deer of Abundance, and reacted with shock.

Yao Kurong unleashed the Ebon Deer of Abundance on Heaven Dou City, causing rampant plant growth and horrific mutations among its people. Lin Yuan identified the deer as the source, Chen Xin joined the fight, and Qian Renxue ordered Spirit Hall forces to defend the city as five Titled Douluos unleashed their Martial Soul Avatars.

• Yao Kurong commanded the Ebon Deer of Abundance to stamp the ground, spreading strange plants and life energy through Heaven Dou City.
• The plants caused civilians and people who had taken Medicine King pills to mutate, while Guang Ling and the other Spirit Hall Titled Douluos realized the attack was a disaster.
• Lin Yuan told Guang Ling that killing the Ebon Deer was the only way to stop the mutations.
• Chen Xin arrived, agreed to help fight the deer, and demanded that Spirit Hall explain what had happened afterward.
• Qian Renxue ordered Spirit Hall Soul Masters to evacuate civilians, isolate the infected, and hold their positions as Guang Ling, Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, Snake Lance, and Pufferfish activated their Martial Soul Avatars.

Lin Yuan and the Titled Douluos launched a coordinated assault on the Ebon Deer of Abundance after Snake Lance Douluo knocked Yao Kurong away and broke their link. As five powerful attacks struck the beast, Lin Yuan drew his Imperial Bow and prepared to fire his Heavenfall Arrow.

• Chen Xin summoned his Seven Kill True Body, but Lin Yuan told the others to separate Yao Kurong from the Ebon Deer because their linked presences let them heal each other.
• Snake Lance Douluo struck Yao Kurong off the Ebon Deer's head and sent him crashing into a distant building.
• Guang Ling fired his Terminus arrow, freezing the Ebon Deer and nearly half of Heaven Dou City, though the beast began recovering.
• Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, Chen Xin, and Porcupinefish Douluo unleashed their powerful attacks on the Ebon Deer.
• Lin Yuan drew his Imperial Bow and charged his Fourth Soul Skill, Heavenfall Arrow, while the other attacks descended.

The Ebon Deer of Abundance survived the Titled Douluos’ attacks by rapidly regenerating, then began draining nearby plants to restore itself. As Lin Yuan’s arrow gathered starlight and a mysterious bow-bearing phantom appeared behind him, the others destroyed the Abundance plants to cut off the deer’s supply of life force.

• Chen Xin and the other Titled Douluos struck the Ebon Deer of Abundance, but it healed its grievous wounds almost immediately.
• Yao Kurong declared that the sacred deer could not die, and Snake Lance knocked him through a ruined house.
• Starlight gathered around Lin Yuan’s arrow, and a towering phantom holding a bow appeared behind him as the Ebon Deer sensed the threat and cried out in fear.
• The Ebon Deer drew vitality from the Abundance plants, restoring its wounds and growing stronger.
• Guang Ling, Chen Xin, Qian Jun, Jiang Mo, and Pufferfish attacked the plants to stop them from supplying the deer with life force.

Lin Yuan used the Imperial Bow to kill the Ebon Deer of Abundance, ending the spread of its plants across Heaven Dou City. The mutations it had caused remained, and Lin Yuan ordered everyone affected to be quarantined.

• Guang Ling froze the Ebon Deer while Chen Xin trapped it in a sword formation, giving Lin Yuan time to draw the Imperial Bow.
• Lin Yuan fired an arrow empowered by The Hunt, piercing the Ebon Deer and continuing beyond the continent as Di Tian watched it pass the Star Dou Great Forest.
• The Ebon Deer collapsed and disintegrated, and its Abundance plants vanished while mutations in affected people stopped growing but remained.
• Qian Renxue checked Lin Yuan after his Soul Power was depleted, and he told her to quarantine everyone who had mutated, regardless of status.

After the Ebon Deer of Abundance fell, Snake Lance Douluo and Chen Xin captured Yao Kurong while Lin Yuan recovered. Chen Xin left for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to report what had happened and ask Lin Yuan for an explanation later.

• Lin Yuan ordered Yao Kurong taken prisoner as Snake Lance Douluo continued to overwhelm him.
• Yao Kurong tried to flee, but Chen Xin trapped him in a sword formation and Snake Lance subdued and sealed his Soul Power.
• Snake Lance dislocated Yao Kurong's jaw, searched him for hidden items, and sent him to solitary confinement.
• Chen Xin asked Lin Yuan to recover and then visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to explain the day's events.
• Chen Xin flew back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to inform Ning Fengzhi about the battle, the Medicine King Holy Church, the Ebon Deer of Abundance, and Lin Yuan's arrow.

After the Ebon Deer of Abundance fell, Lin Yuan ordered Qian Renxue to quarantine mutated people, seize the Hall of Relief’s medicines and records, and trace its entire network through Heaven Dou City. The Hall of Relief was rooted out, but Lin Yuan warned that the Medicine King Holy Church still remained.

• Lin Yuan told Qian Renxue to seal the Hall of Relief, register its medicines and ledgers, and isolate mutated people and long-term medicine users.
• When a nobleman resisted quarantine, Snake Lance revealed his Titled Douluo pressure and forced him to be taken away.
• Lin Yuan ordered the arrest of everyone in charge of the Hall of Relief, a temporary closure of the city gates, and an investigation into everyone connected to its medicine trade.
• Guang Ling scolded Lin Yuan for spending his Soul Power on the final arrow, then praised the shot that killed the Ebon Deer of Abundance.
• As Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters sealed the Hall of Relief and detained its associates, Lin Yuan said the Medicine King Holy Church was still active.

After Heaven Dou City was sealed off, the empire outlawed the Medicine King Holy Church, joined forces with Spirit Hall, and replaced entrenched officials with people of humble birth. Lin Yuan cured the mutated commoners and pressured Yao Kurong into revealing the Church’s hideouts, leaving a realm-wide purge underway.

• Xue Ye issued decrees outlawing the Medicine King Holy Church, closing its Halls of Relief, and coordinating with Spirit Hall to hunt its followers, then stripped Xue Xing of his authority and appointed officials from humble backgrounds.
• Lin Yuan used the Power of The Hunt to remove the Abundance mutations from commoners in the quarantine zone, reassuring them that they could be cured.
• Lin Yuan questioned the imprisoned Yao Kurong, who initially refused to cooperate and insisted that the Medicine King and Abundance were eternal.
• Lin Yuan told Yao Kurong that the empire and Spirit Hall were hunting the Church across the realm, and Yao Kurong finally wrote down the locations of its hideouts.
• Lin Yuan gave the list to Snake Lance, who sent orders to Spirit Hall Branches as the empire’s purge of the Medicine King Holy Church began.

Lin Yuan explained the threat posed by Abundance and negotiated a partnership between Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. He offered a future Aromatic Silk Beauty that could evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda, then left to retrieve it.

• Lin Yuan explained that Abundance caused uncontrolled growth and that The Hunt pursued its Abominations, confirming the Hall of Relief's medicine had infected Ning Qianshan.
• Lin Yuan proposed that Spirit Hall and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect share intelligence and cooperate against the Medicine King Holy Church and Abominations of Abundance without interfering in each other's affairs.
• Lin Yuan offered to find an Aromatic Silk Beauty that could evolve the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda into a Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and break its rank seventy-nine limit.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would not initiate hostilities against Spirit Hall and would cooperate against the Medicine King Holy Church and Abundance, provided Spirit Hall did not attack first.
• Ning Rongrong demanded her Aromatic Silk Beauty, but Lin Yuan said he did not have it yet and left to retrieve it.

Lin Yuan and Guang Ling confronted the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan with evidence that Yu Tianshan and others had aided the Hall of Relief and its human experiments. Yu Yuanzhen ordered the implicated clanspeople arrested, then learned that the Medicine King Holy Church had infiltrated his clan.

• Lin Yuan and Guang Ling arrived at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, where Guang Ling warned the gate guards and Yu Yuanzhen received them.
• Lin Yuan presented records and confessions linking Yu Tianshan, Yu Luohai, Yu Qian, and Yu Qingyue to the Hall of Relief.
• Lin Yuan revealed that Yu Tianshan had helped transport seventeen civilians, including children, to the Hall of Relief as medicinal catalysts.
• Yu Tianshan tried to flee, but Guang Ling shot him down, and Yu Yuanzhen ordered everyone on Lin Yuan's list arrested.
• Lin Yuan showed Yu Yuanzhen a vial bearing the Ebon Deer of Abundance's presence, revealing that the Medicine King Holy Church had reached into the clan.

Lin Yuan and Guang Ling witnessed Yu Luohai transform after taking a pill from the Hall of Relief, and helped Yu Yuanzhen destroy the immortal monster. Yu Yuanzhen then began purging the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and agreed to share intelligence and resources with Lin Yuan against the Medicine King Holy Church.

• Yu Luohai swallowed a golden-green pill and mutated into a regenerating dragon monster, then attacked Lin Yuan.
• Guang Ling blasted off Yu Luohai's arm, but it regenerated, and Yu Yuanzhen's attacks failed to kill him permanently.
• Lin Yuan shot Yu Luohai's scattered flesh with the Imperial Bow, burning away the golden-green power and leaving only ash.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered a clan-wide search for Hall of Relief pills, stripped the listed members of their posts, and ordered the execution of those involved in trafficking and killing.
• Lin Yuan secured Yu Yuanzhen's agreement to share intelligence on Abundance, provide manpower, and hand over implicated trade routes to Spirit Hall.
• Yu Yuanzhen announced a thorough investigation and threatened expulsion or punishment for anyone keeping the pills or serving the Medicine King Holy Church.

Lin Yuan brought Yue Guan to Dugu Bo’s herb garden, where Yue Guan identified its rare plants and discovered several immortal herbs. Lin Yuan harvested the Aromatic Silk Beauty for Ning Rongrong, intending to trade it for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support.

• Dugu Bo and Yue Guan argued until Lin Yuan reminded Dugu Bo that the herb garden belonged to Spirit Hall and ordered Yue Guan to identify the plants.
• Yue Guan was amazed by the garden’s rare herbs, including the Octagonal mysterious ice grass and Infernal delicate apricot, and recognized an immortal Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Lin Yuan told Yue Guan that the herbs might be distributed according to performance, and Yue Guan eagerly offered his services.
• Yue Guan identified the Aromatic Silk Beauty as an immortal herb suited to gemstone-type Martial Souls, and Lin Yuan said he would give it to Ning Rongrong in exchange for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support.
• Yue Guan carefully harvested the Aromatic Silk Beauty into a jade box, and Lin Yuan took it.

Lin Yuan brought the Aromatic Silk Beauty to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Rongrong used it to evolve her Martial Soul into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda. Ning Fengzhi pledged the sect’s support to Spirit Hall, while Lin Yuan left Rongrong with the challenge of growing stronger.

• Lin Yuan arrived at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with Dugu Bo and presented Ning Fengzhi with the Aromatic Silk Beauty.
• Ning Rongrong arrived and, following Lin Yuan’s instructions, absorbed the Immortal Herb’s medicinal power.
• Ning Rongrong’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda gained an eighth story and then transformed into the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi bowed to Lin Yuan and pledged that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would not oppose Spirit Hall unless Spirit Hall attacked first.
• Lin Yuan reminded Ning Rongrong that the Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda was only the beginning, and she vowed to become the continent’s number one support Soul Master.

Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue left Heaven Dou City hand in hand, with Qian Renxue finally free to travel without pretending to be Xue Qinghe. They set off without a plan, ready to go wherever the road took them.

• Qian Renxue left the crown prince's residence in her own appearance, and she and Lin Yuan walked through the city holding hands.
• Heaven Dou City's residents recognized Lin Yuan and thanked him for saving them, while Qian Renxue introduced herself as his girlfriend.
• Qian Renxue enjoyed exploring the streets as herself and shared a skewer of candied hawthorn with Lin Yuan.
• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue queued at the south city gate and left Heaven Dou City without special treatment.
• Qian Renxue looked back at the city where she had lived as Xue Qinghe, then joined Lin Yuan on an unplanned journey down the road.

Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue traveled south from Heaven Dou City, where Qian Renxue saw ordinary village life firsthand and stood up for people being bullied. At their campsite, they promised to stay together wherever Lin Yuan went, while a pair of scarlet eyes opened nearby in the darkness.

• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue walked through farmland, and Qian Renxue asked him about the work and objects she saw along the road.
• At a roadside tea stall, Qian Renxue confronted a mercenary who was refusing to pay, and Lin Yuan helped drive the group away after they paid the old owner.
• Qian Renxue accepted the villagers’ thanks, shared noodles and an egg with Lin Yuan, and later gave candy to a little girl who called her pretty.
• As they continued through a village, Qian Renxue said she would make anyone who dismissed village deaths come and see the people for themselves.
• At their campsite, Lin Yuan promised to take Qian Renxue with him if he left the Douluo Continent, and they agreed to go wherever the other went as scarlet eyes opened nearby.

Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue fought off nine Borisin who attacked their camp, then Lin Yuan revealed they were an off-world race and followers of Abundance. Their arrival, following the Ebon Deer of Abundance, suggested that something beyond the Douluo Continent had turned its attention toward it.

• Qian Renxue spotted figures in the dark, and Lin Yuan identified them as Borisin and warned her to stay alert.
• The Borisin attacked, and Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue fought together to kill eight of them.
• The lead Borisin challenged Qian Renxue, but she and Lin Yuan trapped it and killed it with a coordinated strike.
• Lin Yuan examined the Borisin's armor and told Qian Renxue that they were not Soul Beasts but a race from the sea of stars and followers of Abundance.
• Lin Yuan connected the Borisin's arrival to the earlier appearance of the Ebon Deer of Abundance and realized something beyond the Douluo Continent had noticed their world.

Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue followed the Borisin’s trail through the mountains, uncovering attacks on Soul Beasts, villagers, and a mercenary team. After learning the Borisin had approached a village twice, they chose to wait there for the organized hunters to appear.

• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue found signs that the nine Borisin they had killed were part of a larger group and followed their tracks south.
• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue discovered mutilated Soul Beast corpses and learned from villagers that people had gone missing nearby.
• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue found a wounded mercenary and a destroyed campsite, concluding that the Borisin were organized and taking people away.
• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue reached a guarded village and learned that six people had disappeared, including one taken near the village the previous night.
• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue examined fresh claw marks outside the village and decided to wait for the Borisin to return instead of pursuing them further.

Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue discovered that Yaoshi Zhou’s healing sprig carried the power of Abundance and that the Borisin were tracking its presence. They left the sprig in the medicine hut as bait and planned to ambush the Borisin that night.

• Lin Yuan recognized the Abundance in Yaoshi Zhou’s sprig when the physician used it to stabilize an injured villager.
• Yaoshi Zhou explained that his master had passed down the sprig and taught him to heal injuries without prolonging life or altering fate.
• Lin Yuan learned that Yaoshi Zhou had recently treated people from other villages and concluded that the Borisin were tracking the Abundance concentrated there.
• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue told Yaoshi Zhou that Borisin had taken villagers and asked him to keep using the sprig while the villagers gathered in the village center.
• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue decided to use the sprig as bait in the medicine hut, while scarlet eyes began appearing in the distant forest.

Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue used a golden sprig to lure the Borisin into the village, evacuating the villagers and lying in wait. Fourteen Borisin entered and converged on the apothecary, and Lin Yuan prepared to attack as they closed in.

• Lin Yuan placed the golden sprig in the apothecary, and he and Qian Renxue decided to evacuate the villagers before nightfall.
• Qian Renxue showed the village chief her Crown Prince token, and he gathered the villagers in the ancestral hall and nearby stone houses.
• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue waited on a rooftop through the night, watching the apothecary and talking as they kept the village dark.
• Fourteen Borisin entered the village, guarded the area, and moved toward the apothecary in search of the sprig.
• The lead Borisin opened the apothecary door and reacted to the sprig, while Lin Yuan drew his Imperial Bow and waited for them to come closer.

Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue ambushed a Borisin scouting party that had come for the pale golden sprig, killing all but one and deliberately letting that survivor escape. They followed its trail into the mountain forest to find the Borisin lair.

• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue attacked the Borisin at the medicine hut and killed most of the scouts.
• Lin Yuan deliberately missed the final fleeing Borisin so he could track it back to whoever it would meet.
• Qian Renxue killed the wounded Borisin that burst out of the medicine hut, while Yaoshi Zhou confirmed the pale golden sprig remained intact.
• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue told the village chief to keep everyone safe, then followed the surviving Borisin into the forest.

Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue tracked a wounded Borisin to a hidden camp, where they found captives being tortured and Soul Beasts being held for study. They decided to wait for the Borisin to attack the village, then rescue the prisoners and destroy the camp, including its captain.

• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue followed the wounded Borisin through the forest and climbed to a concealed overlook above its camp.
• They saw dozens of Borisin, captive hunters and Soul Masters, wounded Soul Beasts, and a bound Soul Master forced to reveal his Martial Soul.
• The wounded scout returned and reported that Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue had killed the other scouts; the camp captain ordered an attack on the village the next day to seize the Abundance power.
• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue chose to scout the camp overnight and let the Borisin split their forces by going to the village.
• Lin Yuan planned to rescue the captives, wipe out the camp, and ensure the captain did not escape.

Lin Yuan evacuated the village and used its medicinal sprig as bait to draw the Borisin vanguard away from its valley camp. With Qian Renxue and six Spirit Hall Branch fighters, he prepared to attack the weakened camp and rescue its captives.

• Lin Yuan ordered the village chief to evacuate the villagers to a Spirit Hall Branch and left the medicinal sprig in the empty village as bait.
• Lin Yuan recruited six Spirit Hall Branch fighters and led them with Qian Renxue to watch the Borisin camp from a cliff.
• The Borisin captain led more than twenty elites toward the village, leaving fewer than twenty Borisin to guard the camp.
• Lin Yuan waited until the vanguard had gone far enough, then ordered his group to kill the sentries and rescue the captives.

Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue led a surprise assault on a Borisin squad hidden in the Star Dou Great Forest, wiping out the camp before its members could mount an organized defense. After the battle, Lin Yuan sensed that the Hunt’s influence was continuing to reach their world.

• Lin Yuan and Qian Renxue located the Borisin camp, and Lin Yuan began the attack with arrows from the Imperial Bow.
• The arrows killed several Borisin and prevented the survivors from healing as the camp raised its alarm.
• Lin Yuan unleashed a rain of arrows that devastated the camp while Qian Renxue and the Spirit Hall Soul Masters attacked the wounded Borisin.
• Lin Yuan shot down Borisin attempting to escape, and the battle ended with the camp destroyed.
• Qian Renxue remarked on Lin Yuan’s growing skill with the Imperial Bow, and Lin Yuan sensed a distant gaze as the Hunt continued.