Recaps

Lin Chen warned Tai Nuo against confronting Tang San at Shrek Academy, explaining the risks posed by the academy’s Soul Saints, Tang San’s hidden weapons, and the lack of honor in beating a younger opponent. Tai Nuo hesitated over whether to let the matter go after hearing the case against seeking revenge.

• Tai Nuo ordered the Strength Clan to begin training in the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, while Lin Chen and Xiao Wu went clothes shopping in Heaven Dou City the next morning.
• Lin Chen gave Tai Nuo written instructions for the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and learned that Tai Nuo planned to confront Tang San on Tai Long’s behalf.
• Lin Chen warned Tai Nuo that Shrek Academy’s powerful Soul Saints could intervene and that Tang San’s poisoned hidden weapons made him dangerous.
• Lin Chen argued that even a victory over the much younger Tang San would damage Tai Nuo’s reputation, leaving Tai Nuo unsure whether to abandon his plan.

Lin Chen agreed to become Tai Long’s sworn brother and go to Shrek Academy to challenge Tang San on Tai Long’s behalf. At the academy, the group found Ma Hongjun harassing Jiang Zhu, and Lin Chen stopped Tai Nuo from intervening while Tai Long confronted Ma Hongjun.

• Lin Chen offered to spar with Tang San as Tai Long’s sworn brother, and Tai Long eagerly accepted the bond.
• Lin Chen, Xiao Wu, Tai Long, and Tai Nuo traveled to Shrek Academy to settle the score with Tang San.
• Ma Hongjun tried to force Jiang Zhu to accept his flowers and held her wrist when she refused.
• Tai Long yanked Ma Hongjun away from Jiang Zhu and warned him to stop pestering her.
• Tai Nuo released his Soul King pressure against Ma Hongjun, but Lin Chen urged him to let the younger students handle the dispute.
• Ma Hongjun recognized Lin Chen and demanded that he leave Shrek Academy, despite his growing fear.

Lin Chen intervened when Ma Hongjun harassed Jiang Zhu, leading Tai Long and Ma Hongjun to fight. After Tang San stopped them, Lin Chen challenged him to a spar to settle the score for Tai Long, and Tang San accepted.

• Jiang Zhu shyly greeted Lin Chen, while Xiao Wu and Tai Long defended her from Ma Hongjun's unwanted advances.
• Ma Hongjun refused to apologize and challenged Tai Long, so both released their Martial Souls and fought among the rose bushes.
• Tang San arrived with Oscar and Ning Rongrong and used Blue Silver Grass to separate the fighters.
• Tang San questioned Lin Chen's involvement, and Lin Chen said he had come to defend his friend Jiang Zhu and avenge Tai Long.
• Lin Chen challenged Tang San to a spar, and Tang San accepted.

Lin Chen rejected Tang San’s wager involving Jiang Zhu and set terms that protected her wishes and Tai Long. Tang San accepted the revised terms, and the two prepared to spar as their Soul Rings revealed the gap in their strength.

• Tang San proposed that a sparring match decide whether he apologized to Tai Long and whether Ma Hongjun could continue pursuing Jiang Zhu.
• Xiao Wu criticized Tang San for treating Jiang Zhu’s wishes as a wager, and Lin Chen asked Jiang Zhu whether she disliked Ma Hongjun’s harassment.
• Jiang Zhu said she disliked Ma Hongjun pestering her and was a little scared, so Lin Chen required Ma Hongjun to apologize and leave her alone regardless of the match’s outcome.
• Lin Chen said Tang San would have to apologize to Tai Long and stop provoking him and the Strength Clan if Lin Chen won.
• Tang San accepted Lin Chen’s terms and challenged him to fight.
• Tang San revealed three Soul Rings as a thirty-seventh-level Soul Elder, while Lin Chen revealed four Soul Rings as a forty-third-level Soul Ancestor, stunning Tang San.

Lin Chen revealed that his Soul Rings had increased in age and fought Tang San in another sparring match. Tang San struggled under Lin Chen’s concentrated Chaos Prison Suppression domain, leaving the fight heavily in Lin Chen’s favor.

• Tang San, Ma Hongjun, Ning Rongrong, and Jiang Zhu were shocked to see Lin Chen’s three black Soul Rings and wondered how their ages had increased.
• Tang San attacked Lin Chen with Blue Silver Grass, but Lin Chen’s Chaos Shield repelled the vines.
• Tang San used Purple Demon Eye and Ghost Shadow Perplexing Track to close in, while Lin Chen withdrew his shield and activated Chaos Prison Suppression.
• Lin Chen concentrated the domain around himself and Tang San, suppressing Tang San’s movement, Soul Power, and Blue Silver Grass.
• Tang San forced himself forward through the domain, but Tai Nuo judged that trying to outlast Lin Chen was the wrong strategy.

Tang San broke free of Lin Chen’s Chaos Prison Suppression and fought him in close quarters, but Lin Chen blocked his Dragon Whisker Needles with the Chaos Shield. Tang San obscured the battlefield with Blue Silver Grass, leaving Lin Chen sensing a new, dangerous attack behind the grass curtains.

• Tang San burned through his Mysterious Heaven Skill and wrapped himself in Blue Silver Grass to force his way out of Lin Chen’s domain.
• Lin Chen pursued Tang San immediately and struck him before he could recover, then fought him to a standstill in close combat.
• Tang San attacked Lin Chen with three Dragon Whisker Needles, but Lin Chen’s Chaos Shield deflected them.
• Tang San raised curtains of Blue Silver Grass that blocked sight and disrupted Soul Power sensing.
• Lin Chen sensed a dangerous presence approaching from behind the grass curtains.

Tang San used a deadly Hidden Weapon during his spar with Lin Chen, but Lin Chen contained the blast and emerged unharmed. The others condemned Tang San for endangering everyone at Shrek Academy, while Xiao Wu angrily confronted him.

• Tang San launched the Mother-Child Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Orb at Lin Chen, risking the people gathered around them.
• Lin Chen expanded his Chaos Shield to contain the exploding weapon and its poison fog and needles.
• Lin Chen repelled the needles and neutralized the poison fog, emerging without injury.
• Tang San stared in disbelief, and Lin Chen criticized him for treating the spar like a fight to the death.
• Tai Long and Tai Nuo condemned Tang San for endangering the students, and Xiao Wu angrily accused him of trying to poison everyone in the garden.

Lin Chen overwhelmed Tang San in their spar, leaving him battered and unable to continue. Tang San admitted defeat and began recovering with Oscar’s sausages.

• Xiao Wu condemned Tang San for using lethal attacks, while Lin Chen asked Oscar to prepare Recovery Sausages for Tang San.
• Lin Chen activated the Void Divine Eye and used Void Shift to strike Tang San faster than he could defend or counterattack.
• Tang San’s attempts to fight back failed as Lin Chen’s spatially edged blows weakened him and damaged his meridians.
• Lin Chen stopped after Tang San fell and said he had sought justice for his brother.
• Tang San admitted he had lost, and Oscar gave him Recovery Big Sausages to restore his strength.

Lin Chen defeated Tang San in a spar and stood up to Yu Xiaogang when he accused him of going too far. Afterward, Lin Chen visited Iron Hammer Valley and taught Tai Nuo and the smiths how to perform the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.

• Tang San apologized for hitting Tai Long too hard, and Ma Hongjun apologized to Jiang Zhu for pestering her.
• Tang San admitted defeat to Lin Chen and asked how he had obtained his Soul Rings; Lin Chen refused to explain and said he hoped to fight him again at the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Yu Xiaogang arrived, heard Ning Rongrong’s account, and accused Lin Chen of injuring Tang San excessively.
• Tai Long, Tai Nuo, Lin Chen, and Xiao Wu challenged Yu Xiaogang’s criticism, and Lin Chen offered to spar with him; Yu Xiaogang avoided the challenge and left with Tang San and the others.
• Tai Nuo invited Lin Chen and Xiao Wu to eat and then brought them to Iron Hammer Valley, where Lin Chen demonstrated the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and answered the smiths’ forging questions.

Lin Chen and Xiao Wu left Tai Nuo’s valley and shared a playful, intimate journey back to the lakeside dormitory. Xiao Wu found Dugu Bo waiting in the courtyard, where he had apparently seen Lin Chen carry her home.

• Lin Chen declined Tai Nuo’s invitation to stay for dinner and left the valley with Xiao Wu.
• On the road, Lin Chen joked that an old man in a dream had taught him smithing, then teased Xiao Wu by hinting she was the girl in his dreams.
• Lin Chen carried Xiao Wu at great speed through the moonlit fields and told her she was the only girl who could appear in his dreams.
• At the dormitory, Xiao Wu blushed after saying she would never need to walk again, then hurried inside.
• Xiao Wu found Dugu Bo in the courtyard; he said he had been watching the moon for more than half a shichen and glanced toward the gate where Lin Chen had left her.

Dugu Bo told Lin Chen that he had spent over two weeks in the imperial palace investigating Emperor Xue Ye’s mysterious illness but had found no clear source. He warned Lin Chen to stay out of the dangerous imperial struggle and focus on cultivating.

• Dugu Bo teased Lin Chen about returning with a trail of excitement, then joined him for tea.
• Dugu Bo explained that Prince Xue Xing had asked him to examine the ailing Emperor Xue Ye, but his investigation had uncovered only a faint possible trace of poison.
• Lin Chen offered to use his Martial Soul to help, but Dugu Bo firmly refused and warned him about the dangers of palace politics.
• Dugu Bo revealed that Prince Xue Xing had once saved his life by driving off Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo, which was why he had agreed to serve as a guest elder.
• Dugu Bo advised Lin Chen to avoid the investigation and concentrate on cultivation, and Lin Chen accepted his guidance.

Lin Chen explained his findings about the Moon-Eroding Nether Poison, and Dugu Bo began recounting how he first encountered the Nether Blood Moon Clan ten years earlier. His story ended as someone emerged from Sinking Moon Valley, just after the clan members shrugged off his poison.

• Lin Chen told Dugu Bo that the Moon Curse was a blood poison inherited from the Blood Moon Devil Lotus and linked to the Nether Blood Moon Clan.
• Dugu Bo began explaining that, ten years earlier, he had been stuck at level eighty-nine and traveled in search of poisons or herbs to overcome his cultivation bottleneck.
• After hearing of a poisonous miasma in the Hidden Bone Mountain Range, Dugu Bo ventured alone into the mountains and found Sinking Moon Valley.
• A patrol of six Nether Blood Moon Clan members surrounded Dugu Bo near the valley entrance.
• Dugu Bo released Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor poison, but the patrol barely reacted, and someone then walked out of the valley.

Dugu Bo recounted how he entered Sinking Moon Valley and learned that the Nether Blood Moon Clan suffered from a hereditary poison that made them lose control under the full moon. He explained that the poison was bound to the clan’s bloodline and resisted ordinary cures, leaving its true remedy unresolved.

• Dugu Bo recalled meeting Ye Mingshang, who recognized the poison in Dugu Bo’s body and invited him into Sinking Moon Valley.
• Dugu Bo described the valley’s dark, isolated surroundings and said he stayed there for half a year to temper his poison.
• During a full moon, clan members went berserk, and deacons used Nether Pills to suppress their attacks temporarily.
• Ye Mingshang told Dugu Bo that the Moon-Eroding Nether Poison came from Blood Moon Devil Lotus seeds swallowed by the clan’s ancestors and had become entwined with their bloodline.
• Dugu Bo studied the poison and Nether Pill, finding that the poison could not be separated from the clan’s bloodline without causing a fatal backlash.

Lin Chen, Dugu Bo, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan set out in disguise for the Star Luo Empire, where Dugu Bo said Lin Chen would learn about an opportunity tied to the Nether Blood Moon Clan. They traveled southwest from Heaven Dou Royal Academy, with their destination still unrevealed.

• Dugu Bo told Lin Chen they would travel to Sinking Moon Valley to meet Ye Mingshang and said the opportunity would depend on Lin Chen's abilities.
• Dugu Bo disguised himself as a carriage driver and set out with Lin Chen and Xiao Wu to avoid Spirit Hall's attention near the border.
• Dugu Yan confronted Dugu Bo and insisted on joining the journey, so Dugu Bo reluctantly agreed after Lin Chen and Xiao Wu supported her.
• The group left Heaven Dou Royal Academy in a blue-cloth carriage and traveled southwest, with Dugu Bo watching the road while the girls shared snacks.
• Xiao Wu spotted Jialing Pass as the carriage continued along the imperial road.

Lin Chen, Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo traveled through Jialing Pass and reached Silves City, where they stopped for the night. At the hotel, Xiao Wu asked to share Lin Chen’s room, explaining that she was used to sleeping beside him.

• The group crossed Jialing Pass after guards inspected their caravan.
• Lin Chen explained that Silves was a vassal kingdom and a hub where several powers kept watch over trade.
• The travelers arrived in Silves City and checked into the Stuart Hotel for the night.
• Xiao Wu asked to stay in Lin Chen’s room, saying she could only sleep soundly when he was beside her.
• Dugu Yan teased Xiao Wu, and Dugu Bo told everyone to eat and get to bed before their morning departure.

Lin Chen and Xiao Wu shared dinner at an inn in Silves City, where Xiao Wu drank most of the red date wine and fell asleep. The next morning, Dugu Bo hurried everyone downstairs, but Xiao Wu refused to wake, leaving Lin Chen to decide to go ahead with his master.

• An attendant brought Lin Chen and Xiao Wu dinner and introduced the inn's Soul Power-infused red date wine.
• Xiao Wu eagerly drank most of the wine pot while eating, then became sleepy and asked Lin Chen to help her to bed.
• Lin Chen carried Xiao Wu to bed, tucked her in, and sat quietly beside her before going to sleep.
• At dawn, Dugu Bo woke Dugu Yan and ordered her to get ready for breakfast quickly.
• Lin Chen tried to wake Xiao Wu, but she burrowed under the blanket and asked to sleep longer, so he said he and his master would go ahead.

Dugu Bo took Lin Chen, Xiao Wu, and Dugu Yan southwest through the Silves hinterlands toward the Balak Kingdom, choosing a discreet route into the Star Luo Empire to avoid Spirit Hall checkpoints. As the carriage traveled along rough mountain roads, Lin Chen quietly trained his Void Divine Eye and expanded his spiritual perception.

• Dugu Bo hurried Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, and Lin Chen through breakfast before they left the inn by carriage.
• Dugu Bo explained that they would cross the Silves hinterlands into the Balak Kingdom, then use the border mountains to enter the Star Luo Empire and avoid Spirit Hall surveillance.
• Dugu Yan asked about Balak's underground Soul Fighting Arenas, and Dugu Bo told her to focus on their business.
• Dugu Yan and Xiao Wu whispered about visiting an arena on their return, while Lin Chen smiled and left the possibility open.
• As the carriage crossed from the official road onto rough mountain tracks, Lin Chen trained his Void Divine Eye and sensed the surroundings for several li.

Lin Chen, Xiao Wu, Dugu Yan, and Dugu Bo traveled from Deer Cry City to Lanxi Town and arrived at the Moon Spring Inn. They secured rooms and medicinal hot spring baths for the night.

• Dugu Bo stopped the carriage at Deer Cry City, where the group rested, ate, and fed the horses.
• Dugu Bo explained Deer Cry City's name and said they needed to reach Lanxi Town before dark.
• The group traveled through increasingly dense woodland and arrived in Lanxi Town after nightfall.
• Dugu Bo booked three rooms, medicinal baths, and late-night food at the Moon Spring Inn.
• The inn attendant led them to a quiet bamboo courtyard beside the separate men's and women's bathing pools.

During a nighttime soak, Lin Chen told Dugu Bo he lacked confidence in curing the Moon-Eroding Nether Poison without studying the Nether Blood Moon Clan and the Blood Moon Devil Lotus. In the women's bath, Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan teased each other about their feelings for Lin Chen and Yu Tianheng, leaving Dugu Yan admitting she cared for Yu Tianheng but was waiting for him to speak first.

• Lin Chen and Dugu Bo went to the men's bath while Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan went to the women's bath.
• Dugu Bo asked Lin Chen how confident he was about treating the Moon-Eroding Nether Poison, and Lin Chen said he needed to examine the Nether Blood Moon Clan and the Blood Moon Devil Lotus first.
• Dugu Bo assured Lin Chen that their trip would not be for nothing.
• Dugu Yan questioned Xiao Wu about her relationship with Lin Chen, and Xiao Wu said they had been together since they met and that he had cared for her since she was little.
• Xiao Wu pointed out Yu Tianheng's attentiveness to Dugu Yan, and Dugu Yan admitted she knew he treated her well but would not make the first move.

Xiao Wu and Dugu Yan splashed and teased each other in the women’s bath, while Lin Chen and Dugu Bo overheard them from the men’s bath. After Dugu Bo left, Xiao Wu found Lin Chen in his room and asked where he had gone.

• Xiao Wu teased Dugu Yan about Yu Tianheng, and Dugu Yan pinched her cheeks before the two began a water fight.
• Xiao Wu kept joking about Dugu Yan’s feelings for Yu Tianheng, and Dugu Yan chased her through the bath.
• Lin Chen tried to reassure Dugu Bo as they overheard the girls’ noisy play, but Dugu Bo grew increasingly irritated.
• Dugu Bo left the bath and returned to his room, while Lin Chen finished bathing and went back to the courtyard.
• Xiao Wu visited Lin Chen after her bath and asked where Dugu Bo was, and Lin Chen told her he had returned to his room.

Xiao Wu and Lin Chen shared a late-night meal at the inn before setting out with Dugu Bo toward Suotuo City the next morning. Meanwhile, Tai Nuo arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy with weapons for Lin Chen, only to learn that Lin Chen was away training.

• Xiao Wu teased Lin Chen about his flushed face, then ate medicinal dishes with him before falling asleep beside him.
• Lin Chen cultivated with the Void Divine Eye and later lay awake when Xiao Wu rolled against him in her sleep.
• Dugu Bo woke Lin Chen and Xiao Wu, and the four left the inn to travel through the Balak Kingdom toward Suotuo City.
• Tai Nuo and two Strength Clan members arrived at Heaven Dou Royal Academy carrying a heavy chest and bundles for Lin Chen.
• A student told Tai Nuo that Lin Chen had left to train with Dugu Bo and had been gone for several days.

Tai Nuo inspected the Strength Clan’s first batch of Lin Chen’s Hidden Weapons and found them well made, then Tai Tan returned and questioned him about Lin Chen and the new designs. After hearing that Lin Chen had taught Tai Nuo the Chaotic Cloak Hammer, Tai Tan went to the forge to see it in action.

• Tai Nuo received Lin Chen’s letter authorizing the Strength Clan to begin mass production if the weapons met their standards.
• Tai Nuo inspected the Silent Sleeve Arrows and spring mechanisms, approved their quality, and left word for Lin Chen.
• Tai Tan returned from Gulei, examined the weapons, and asked Tai Nuo to explain how the clan had begun working with Lin Chen.
• Tai Nuo described the three Hidden Weapon designs, the first batch’s successes and failures, and Lin Chen’s lesson in the Chaotic Cloak Hammer.
• Tai Tan entered Iron Hammer Valley and watched a smith strike a white-hot billet with successive hammer blows.

Tai Tan recognized Lin Chen’s hammer method as resembling the Clear Sky Sect’s secret technique, but decided Iron Hammer Valley would practice it discreetly and seek a meeting with Lin Chen. In Suotuo City, Lin Chen and his companions witnessed Young Master Ma threaten an old tailor and his granddaughter over their shop.

• Tai Tan watched a smith use Lin Chen’s eighty-one-blow hammer method and recognized its resemblance to the Clear Sky Sect’s Chaotic Cloak.
• Tai Tan decided Iron Hammer Valley would practice the method only inside its sheds, mass-produce the Sleeve Arrows, and ask Lin Chen to meet him.
• Dugu Bo stopped with Dugu Yan, Xiao Wu, and Lin Chen in Suotuo City for half an hour to rest and feed the horses.
• Lin Chen noticed an old tailor and his granddaughter working in their small shop across the street.
• Young Master Ma kicked the tailor’s cloth rack and threatened to tear down the shop unless the family moved out that day.

Lin Chen and his companions intervened when the Ma family attacked Chen Chunya and her grandfather over their tailor shop. After Lin Chen and the others defeated the thugs, the old tailor explained that the Ma family had tried to buy the valuable property for one Gold Soul Coin.

• A young man from the Ma family assaulted Chen Chunya and her grandfather, demanded their shop, and ordered his thugs to search for the deed.
• Dugu Yan and Xiao Wu wanted to step in, but Dugu Bo told them to watch as Lin Chen went down to the street.
• Lin Chen lifted and threw the young man aside, then helped the old tailor and gave him medicine while Xiao Wu tended to Chunya.
• Four thugs attacked Lin Chen, Dugu Yan tripped another, and Xiao Wu kicked one away, leaving five of the seven thugs down.
• The old tailor told Lin Chen that the Ma residence had offered one Gold Soul Coin for his street-front shop, which he said was worth at least one or two hundred coins.

Lin Chen and his companions rescued Chunya and her grandfather from the Ma family’s land grab, then helped them flee Suotuo City before the family could retaliate. The old tailor and Chunya left for Geli Town while the group continued on its way.

• Lin Chen confirmed that the old tailor held the land deed and challenged the young man to produce paperwork for the Ma family’s claim.
• The young man threatened to have the city gates guarded and fled with his thugs.
• Dugu Bo warned Lin Chen and the others that the Ma family would retaliate against the old tailor and Chunya after they left.
• Lin Chen gave the old tailor about a hundred Gold Soul Coins and urged him to leave for Geli Town with Chunya.
• Dugu Bo drove the old tailor and Chunya through the south gate, and they parted from the group at a fork in the road.