Recaps

Yu Tianheng used his newly acquired Fifth Soul Skill to slaughter most of the Giant Venomous Pythons, but the male leader ambushed him when his Soul Power ran out. Believing Yu Tianheng dead, the leader headed for Dugu Yan while Dugu Bo remained occupied with the female leader.

• Yu Tianheng unleashed Azure Lightning Heaven-Devouring Prison and killed thousands of Giant Venomous Pythons, exhausting nearly all his Soul Power in the process.
• The seventy-thousand-year male Giant Venomous Python leader revealed its plan to devour Dugu Yan and explained how it had lured Dugu Bo away and trapped her while she absorbed a Soul Ring.
• The male leader struck Yu Tianheng from behind when he was depleted, hurling him through several trees and leaving his fate unknown.
• Believing Yu Tianheng dead, the male leader crawled toward Dugu Yan as she absorbed her Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo continued facing the sixty-thousand-year female leader five li away to keep their fight from disturbing Dugu Yan.

Dugu Bo killed the female Giant Venomous Python leader, then hurried back after discovering a more powerful male was threatening Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan. Yu Tianheng survived the male’s attack and launched a lightning-charged spear strike at its tail.

• Dugu Bo froze the female Giant Venomous Python leader with his eighth Soul Skill and petrified it with Medusa’s Gaze, shattering it into stone.
• Dugu Bo heard a powerful roar and realized another, stronger Giant Venomous Python was attacking Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan, so he rushed back to them.
• Yu Tianheng rose after being struck by the male python’s tail, relying on his Innate Realm body cultivation to withstand the blow.
• Yu Tianheng summoned the Purple Lightning Spear, infused it with True Qi and lightning, and drove its tip into the male python’s tail.

Yu Tianheng killed the seventy-thousand-year Giant Venomous Python leader with the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning Prison Suppression Scripture and savage physical attacks. After Dugu Bo found him and went to check on Dugu Yan, Yu Tianheng learned that the python had dropped a Giant Venomous Python Left Arm Bone.

• Yu Tianheng pinned the Giant Venomous Python leader with his Purple Lightning Spear and struck it repeatedly with heavenly lightning.
• Yu Tianheng tore apart the python, killed it, and held up its severed head as Dugu Bo arrived.
• Dugu Bo asked if Yu Tianheng was all right, then hurried to check on Dugu Yan as Yu Tianheng collapsed from exhaustion.
• The system awarded Yu Tianheng seven thousand Heavenly Mandate Points and reported that the python had dropped a Giant Venomous Python Left Arm Bone.
• Yu Tianheng reacted with excitement upon learning he had obtained a Soul Bone.

Yu Tianheng found a seventy-thousand-year Soul Bone from the Giant Venomous Python and decided to give it to Dugu Yan, whose new fourth Soul Ring had raised her to level forty-one. Dugu Bo recognized the bone’s immense value and warned that powerful forces across the continent would fight to obtain it if its existence became known.

• Yu Tianheng found the Giant Venomous Python’s Left Arm Soul Bone and chose not to fuse with or sell it.
• Yu Tianheng decided to give the serpent-type Soul Bone to Dugu Yan because it suited her Martial Soul.
• Dugu Yan finished absorbing her fourth Soul Ring, reached level forty-one, and gained the Jade Scale Thrust skill.
• Yu Tianheng presented the Soul Bone to Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo identified it as a seventy-thousand-year Soul Bone.
• Dugu Bo realized that Spirit Hall, the empires, and major sects would compete fiercely for the Soul Bone if they learned of it.

Yu Tianheng persuaded Dugu Yan to accept the seventy-thousand-year Soul Bone from the Giant Venomous Python, which Dugu Bo also coveted but declined to take. Dugu Yan completed the painful fusion, and the chapter ended with venomous scales appearing on her left arm.

• Dugu Bo warned Yu Tianheng that the Soul Bone was exceptionally valuable and asked whether he truly wanted to give it to Dugu Yan.
• Yu Tianheng explained that the poison-type Soul Bone suited Dugu Yan better than his lightning-focused Martial Soul and urged her to absorb it.
• Dugu Yan initially refused, but accepted the Soul Bone after Yu Tianheng argued it would strengthen her and help her keep up with him.
• Dugu Bo refused Dugu Yan’s offer to give him the Soul Bone and suggested she treat it as a betrothal gift before she began absorbing it.
• Yu Tianheng and Dugu Bo guarded Dugu Yan as she endured the Soul Bone’s power and fused it with her left arm.
• Dugu Yan opened her eyes with diamond-shaped venomous scales on her left arm, and her fingertips left trails of green smoke.

Dugu Yan successfully fused with a seventy-thousand-year Soul Bone and learned its poison-enhancing effects and skill, while Dugu Bo warned her to keep it secret. After returning to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Yu Tianheng was appointed captain of its Imperial Fighting Team and revealed that he was a Level 51 Soul King.

• Dugu Yan fused with the Giant Venomous Python Left Arm Soul Bone, gaining stronger poison and the Myriad Poisons Strangulation skill.
• Dugu Bo warned Dugu Yan to hide her Soul Bone, and the three returned to his country residence before heading back to the academy a month later.
• Dugu Bo escorted Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan to Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then went to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to discuss their marriage with Yu Yuanzhen.
• Meng Shenji explained the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament and named Yu Tianheng captain of the Imperial Fighting Team.
• Yu Tianheng revealed his five Soul Rings and stated that his Soul Power Level was fifty-one.

Yu Tianheng revealed that he had reached Soul King and secured Dugu Yan’s place as vice captain of the Imperial Fighting Team. After the academy selected the team, he met its members at the training ground to begin preparing them for the tournament.

• Yu Tianheng showed the Education Committee his five Soul Rings, shocking its members with his Soul King strength.
• Yu Tianheng proposed Dugu Yan as vice captain, and Meng Shenji approved her inclusion on the team.
• The academy selected the Imperial Fighting Team, with Yu Tianheng as captain and Dugu Yan as vice captain alongside Shi Mo, Shi Mo, Yu Feng, Osler, and Ye Lingling.
• Yu Tianheng reviewed the roster with Dugu Yan and said they would assess the team before improving their strength and teamwork.
• Dugu Yan gathered the members at the training ground, where Yu Tianheng arrived dramatically on his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon.

Yu Tianheng set the Imperial Fighting Team’s sights on winning the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament and outlined a three-year training plan. He then traveled to the imperial palace to check on his disciple Mu Qing and meet Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, who expected him to bring glory to the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Yu Tianheng told the Imperial Fighting Team that their goal was to win the tournament and set a target of reaching at least level 45 Soul Power or the fourth ring within three years.
• Yu Tianheng taught the team the complete Innate Skill and planned to support their training with pills and one-on-one combat instruction.
• Yu Tianheng asked Dugu Yan to oversee the team’s training while he focused on raising his own Soul Power from level 51 toward becoming a Six-Ring Soul Emperor.
• Yu Tianheng left for the imperial palace to check on Mu Qing and bring him pills made from Immortal Herbs.
• Yu Tianheng met Crown Prince Xue Qinghe, who praised his tournament prospects, while Yu Tianheng warned that Spirit Hall Academy would be difficult to defeat.

Xue Qinghe dangled an earldom and a fief before Yu Tianheng to secure his ambition and loyalty, and Yu Tianheng resolved to win the Soul Master Tournament. Yu Tianheng visited Mu Qing, gave him powerful cultivation resources, and asked whether Xue Qinghe had tried to recruit him.

• Xue Qinghe told Yu Tianheng that winning the tournament could earn its captain an earldom, a fief, and the right to raise a private army.
• Yu Tianheng was tempted by the chance to build military strength and promised to do his best to win the championship.
• Yu Tianheng visited Mu Qing, who reported that the crown prince's guards had advanced in Martial Dao training and that he had reached the second level of Organ Refining.
• Yu Tianheng gave Mu Qing a supreme-grade cultivation pill and spiritual spring, saying the pill could help him enter the Innate Realm.
• Yu Tianheng asked Mu Qing whether Xue Qinghe had tried to recruit him with promises of high office and riches.

Mu Qing reaffirmed his loyalty to Yu Tianheng, who then investigated Tang San’s whereabouts and learned he had left Nuoding Academy with Tang Hao for the Star Luo Empire. Dugu Bo visited the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to arrange Dugu Yan’s marriage to Yu Tianheng, and Yu Xiaolong agreed to the match.

• Mu Qing told Yu Tianheng he would serve only him despite the crown prince’s efforts to recruit him, and Yu Tianheng praised his loyalty.
• Yu Tianheng asked Song Guan to investigate Tang San, and a messenger reported that Tang San had left Nuoding Academy with Tang Hao for the Star Luo Empire.
• Yu Tianheng decided not to pursue Tang San while Tang Hao protected him.
• Dugu Bo arrived at the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and asked to discuss Dugu Yan’s marriage to Yu Tianheng with acting clan leader Yu Xiaolong.
• Dugu Bo revealed that Yu Tianheng had become a Five-Ring Soul King, and Yu Xiaolong agreed to prepare gifts and formally propose the marriage.
• Dugu Bo warned Yu Xiaolong not to let Yu Tianheng mistreat Dugu Yan, and Yu Xiaolong promised to treat her as family.

Dugu Bo visited the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan to discuss Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng's marriage and a plan to preserve and develop the Jade Phosphorus Snake lineage. Yu Yuanzhen accepted the proposal in principle, though he cautioned that its implementation would depend on future circumstances.

• Dugu Bo asked Yu Xiaolong to arrange a face-to-face meeting with Yu Yuanzhen, explaining that his other matter could bring the clan good fortune.
• Yu Xiaolong informed Yu Yuanzhen of Dugu Bo's arrival, and Yu Yuanzhen left secluded cultivation to meet him.
• Yu Yuanzhen's powerful presence overwhelmed Dugu Bo, who judged that the clan head was likely at level 96 or 97.
• Dugu Bo explained Yu Tianheng's plan for their future children to inherit the Dugu surname and Jade Phosphorus Snake Martial Soul when appropriate, and for the lineage to grow into an allied clan.
• Yu Yuanzhen agreed to the plan in principle but warned Dugu Bo that its future depended on circumstances.

One year later, Yu Tianheng and the Imperial Fighting Team had grown stronger through cultivation and training as the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament approached. Yu Tianheng gave each teammate a Soul-Gathering Pill, and Dugu Yan began absorbing hers while the others hesitated.

• Yu Yuanzhen warned Dugu Bo that Yu Tianheng and Dugu Yan's child might inherit either Martial Soul or awaken a mutated one, then invited Dugu Bo to become a guest elder of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, and Dugu Bo accepted.
• Yu Yuanzhen continued cultivating the Nine Heavens Divine Lightning Prison Suppression Scripture after condensing a Lightning Pill and reaching level 97 Soul Power.
• Yu Tianheng devoted himself to cultivation for a year, reaching the Innate Realm Sixth Stage and level 53 Soul Power while the Imperial Fighting Team members also advanced.
• Yu Tianheng gathered Dugu Yan, Shi Mo, Shi Mo, Osler, Yu Feng, and Ye Lingling and gave them each a Soul-Gathering Pill to aid their cultivation.
• Dugu Yan swallowed her pill and began absorbing its medicinal power while the other members hesitated.

The Imperial Fighting Team took Yu Tianheng’s Soul-Gathering Pills and gained significant Soul Power, with several members reaching new levels. After dismissing the team, Yu Tianheng considered how Ye Lingling’s healing ability could make her crucial in the coming wars.

• Ye Lingling confirmed that the Soul-Gathering Pills contained beneficial herbs, then she and the other team members swallowed them.
• After absorbing the pills, Shi Mo and Shi Mo broke through to level 40, while Osler and Yu Feng reached level 39 and Ye Lingling rose from level 37 to level 39.
• Yu Tianheng told the team to consolidate their gains before seeking fourth Soul Rings, and Dugu Yan stayed behind to ask where he had obtained the pills.
• Yu Tianheng revealed that he had made the pills using herbs from Dugu Bo’s garden, and Dugu Yan left to cultivate.
• As he walked through Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Yu Tianheng decided that Ye Lingling’s Nine Star Flowering Crabapple could make her vital to his plans, especially in future wars where her healing could save large numbers of soldiers.

Yu Tianheng entered the Heaven Dou Auction House after remembering that a cat girl might be auctioned there, and the system gave him a quest to rescue her. After revealing his vast wealth, he secured a VIP seat and began asking the auction house steward about its rules and goods.

• Yu Tianheng decided to recruit Ye Lingling and recalled that Tang San and Xiao Wu had once encountered a cat girl at the Heaven Dou Auction House.
• The system gave Yu Tianheng a side quest to rescue the cat girl, rewarding him with Heavenly Mandate Points and a cultivation technique if he succeeded.
• Yu Tianheng entered the auction house and showed the staff a purple-gold bank card proving he had three and a half million Gold Soul Coins.
• The steward escorted Yu Tianheng to the red VIP section and gave him a mask.
• Yu Tianheng paid the steward to answer questions, and the steward explained that the auction house sold rare metals, medicinal herbs, Soul Bones, and Soul Tools.

Yu Tianheng attended the Heaven Dou Auction House, where he suspected Ning Fengzhi was present and bought a rare purple lingzhi. The auction continued with a powerful fire-protecting necklace, whose bidding had just begun.

• The manager told Yu Tianheng that the Heaven Dou Auction House secretly auctioned slaves because it had powerful backers.
• Yu Tianheng left the red section, found Ning Fengzhi in the white section, and sat beside him.
• Yu Tianheng outbid other guests and bought three hundred-year-old purple lingzhi mushrooms for 8,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• A powerful Soul Master bought the thousand-year Whale Rubber after its price climbed to 30,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• The auctioneer presented the Crimson Flame Heart necklace and opened bidding at 30,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• A middle-aged nobleman bid 35,000 Gold Soul Coins for the necklace.

Yu Tianheng bought a jeweled necklace for his fiancée, Dugu Yan, then joined a bidding contest for a catgirl at the auction. He outbid Ning Fengzhi at two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, leaving the masked bidder’s identity and the auction’s outcome uncertain.

• Yu Tianheng outbid Ning Fengzhi for a jeweled necklace, paying one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins so he could give it to Dugu Yan.
• The auctioneer unveiled a catgirl and opened bidding at one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Prince Xue Xing bid one hundred and seventy thousand Gold Soul Coins and silenced the other bidders.
• Ning Fengzhi bid one hundred and eighty thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Prince Xue Xing backed down when he recognized him.
• Yu Tianheng bid two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, and Ning Fengzhi frowned as the guests wondered who the masked bidder was.

Yu Tianheng won the cat girl at auction after persuading Ning Fengzhi to let him save her, earning a system reward for changing her fate. He freed her from her chains and began asking about her past, learning she came from a border city near the Star Luo Empire.

• Ning Fengzhi explained that he wanted to buy the cat girl to save her, and Yu Tianheng said he would teach her to defend herself; Ning Fengzhi withdrew from bidding.
• Yu Tianheng won the cat girl after the other auction guests chose not to compete.
• The system rewarded Yu Tianheng with 3,000 Heavenly Mandate Points and the earth-grade Startling Swan Sword Art.
• Yu Tianheng paid for his auction purchases and received the lingzhi mushrooms, Crimson Flame Heart necklace, and the cat girl locked in an iron chest.
• Yu Tianheng freed the frightened cat girl, covered her with a cloak, and asked about her origins; she said she came from a border city near the Star Luo Empire.

Yu Tianheng gave Yu Linglong the Startling Swan Sword Art so she could pursue strength and protect herself, then named her as his own. As they left, Prince Xue Xing demanded to buy her, but Yu Tianheng refused and stood between them.

• Yu Linglong told Yu Tianheng how her mutation left her unable to cultivate, and how hunters killed her parents and sold her at auction.
• Yu Tianheng decided to teach Yu Linglong the Startling Swan Sword Art, and used a secret spiritual technique to imprint it in her mind.
• Yu Tianheng named her Yu Linglong and led her out of the room.
• Prince Xue Xing confronted Yu Tianheng and demanded that he sell Yu Linglong to him.
• Yu Linglong clung fearfully to Yu Tianheng, who reassured her and refused Prince Xue Xing's demand.

Prince Xue Xing tried to force Yu Tianheng to give up the cat girl, but Yu Tianheng defeated his guards with lightning. When the auction house manager sided with the prince and demanded an apology, Yu Tianheng challenged him to justify the abuse of power.

• Prince Xue Xing threatened Yu Tianheng and demanded that he hand over the cat girl, while Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong watched from nearby.
• Yu Tianheng refused to sell the cat girl and paralyzed twelve of Prince Xue Xing's guards with lightning.
• Prince Xue Xing recoiled and claimed his imperial status would protect him, but Nangong Ling arrived with powerful Soul Masters and ordered the conflict moved outside.
• Prince Xue Xing accused Yu Tianheng of attacking his guards, and Nangong Ling promised to resolve the matter in the prince's favor.
• Nangong Ling offered to refund Yu Tianheng's bid if he handed over the cat girl and apologized, but Yu Tianheng refused and questioned whether he had to submit without powerful backing.

Yu Tianheng revealed his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan identity and Soul King strength to deter Prince Xue Xing from taking Yu Linglong. As Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong recognized his extraordinary potential, Ning Fengzhi stepped in to negotiate a peaceful end to the confrontation.

• Yu Tianheng identified himself as a direct descendant of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, but Prince Xue Xing insisted that the clan would not intervene over a minor dispute.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Gu Rong to be ready to save Yu Tianheng if the situation turned dangerous.
• Yu Tianheng released his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul and revealed that he was a level 53 Soul King with five Soul Rings, including two Ten Thousand Year rings.
• Prince Xue Xing realized that harming Yu Tianheng could provoke the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan and decided that the conflict was not worth the risk.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong assessed Yu Tianheng's exceptional talent, and Ning Fengzhi stepped between him and Prince Xue Xing to ask that the matter be dropped.

After Ning Fengzhi intervened in Yu Tianheng’s conflict with Prince Xue Xing, he learned more about Yu Tianheng’s family, strength, and tournament plans. Ning Fengzhi began cultivating ties with the young Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan heir, then asked whether Yu Tianheng resented his intervention.

• Prince Xue Xing warned Yu Tianheng to stay humble and protect his catgirl, then left after Yu Tianheng refused to back down.
• Ning Fengzhi confirmed Yu Tianheng was Yu Xiaolong’s son and Yu Yuanzhen’s grandson, and greeted him warmly as his worthy nephew.
• Ning Fengzhi and Yu Tianheng discussed cooperation between their sects and talked at length about Soul Master cultivation.
• Yu Tianheng told Ning Fengzhi he would captain the Imperial Fighting Team in the Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament two years later and said he was nineteen.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized Yu Tianheng’s potential and asked whether he blamed him for stepping in against Prince Xue Xing.

Yu Tianheng showed Ning Fengzhi the Crown Prince's Token and discussed future cooperation before bringing Yu Linglong to the Blue Lightning Martial Arts Hall and arranging for her care and cultivation. The next morning at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, he gave Dugu Yan a necklace he had bought for her.

• Yu Tianheng showed Ning Fengzhi the Crown Prince's Token and explained how it could have made Prince Xue Xing back down; Ning Fengzhi offered the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's help.
• Yu Tianheng brought Yu Linglong to the Blue Lightning Martial Arts Hall, gave her a mid-grade spirit sword, and asked Mu Zi to provide for her and look after her.
• Mu Zi showed Yu Linglong to her room in the rear courtyard and offered to help her.
• Yu Tianheng returned to Heaven Dou Royal Academy and joined the Imperial Fighting Team's training the next morning.
• Yu Tianheng called Dugu Yan over and offered her a necklace he had bought at the Heaven Dou Auction House.

Yu Tianheng gave Dugu Yan an expensive necklace before leaving to train, and she agreed to manage the Imperial Fighting Team while he was away. Over the next six months, he raised his Martial Dao cultivation through secluded practice and battles with Soul Beasts, then entered a major fight at a volcanic crater.

• Yu Tianheng gave Dugu Yan the Crimson Flame Heart necklace and asked her to look after the Imperial Fighting Team while he trained; she accepted and wished him well.
• Yu Tianheng set out the next morning to focus on Martial Dao cultivation, reasoning that his current strength was already enough for the coming Continental Advanced Soul Master Tournament if he avoided advancing his Soul Power too far.
• In the northern Heaven Dou Empire, Yu Tianheng killed a thirty-thousand-year Ice Soul Wolf, found an ancient ruin, and reached the Innate Realm Fourth Stage after three months of secluded cultivation.
• Yu Tianheng fought powerful Soul Beasts across the empire and raised his cultivation to the Innate Realm Sixth Stage over half a year.
• In the core of the Star Dou Great Forest, Yu Tianheng used cultivation pills and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well's spring essence to break through to the Innate Realm Seventh and Eighth Stages.
• At a volcanic crater, Yu Tianheng encountered a fifty-thousand-year Lava Earth Dragon and fought it.

Yu Tianheng trained through repeated battles with a powerful Lava Earth Dragon, then entered secluded cultivation in the Star Dou Great Forest to break through to the Heavenly Human Realm. Nearly a year later, his True Qi surged and shook the cave, leaving his breakthrough underway.

• Yu Tianheng repeatedly fought the Lava Earth Dragon, and the life-or-death battles raised his Martial Dao cultivation to the Innate Realm Ninth Stage Peak.
• Yu Tianheng decided to seek seclusion in the Star Dou Great Forest and followed a spirit herb’s fragrance to a spiritual cave.
• Seven Earthfire Rhinoceros Kings attacked Yu Tianheng in the cave, but he killed one, wounded their leader, and drove the rest away.
• Yu Tianheng secured the cave with Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison Array and began cultivating amid its spiritual Qi.
• Nearly a year later, Yu Tianheng’s True Qi tripled, and the pressure of his cultivation shook stalactites from the ceiling.

Yu Tianheng broke through to the Heavenly Human Realm after nearly a year of secluded cultivation, raising his Soul Power to Level 56. As he headed back toward Heaven Dou Royal Academy for the tournament, he sensed a familiar presence in the Star Dou Great Forest and wondered who could make his Martial Soul resonate.

• Yu Tianheng shattered the barrier to the Heavenly Human Realm, and his breakthrough raised his Soul Power to Level 56.
• Yu Tianheng left his cave, removed the poison formations, and decided to postpone condensing his Martial Dao Dharma Manifestation until after the tournament.
• Yu Tianheng learned to ride the wind, traveled several hundred li, and continued on foot after spending nearly twenty percent of his True Qi.
• Yu Tianheng sensed fighting several li away and concluded that Soul Masters were hunting Soul Beasts, but chose not to get involved.
• Yu Tianheng felt his Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul resonate with a familiar presence and wondered who besides a clan member could cause it.