Recaps

Dong Jian mastered the Divine Dragon Secret Realm’s trials, investigated the Eye of Liangyi with Li Man, and began training at Nuoding Academy alongside Tang San and Xiao Wu. After taking first place in a team assessment and defeating Xiao Chenyu’s group, he focused on reaching level ten and obtaining his First Soul Ring.

• Dong Jian awakened a panda-like Martial Soul with unusual black-and-white powers, and the Divine Dragon Secret Realm began testing him.
• Dong Jian completed the first two trials by mastering balance and redirecting force, while Li Man helped him stabilize his Martial Soul and investigate the Eye of Liangyi.
• Dong Jian and Li Man encountered Zhou Qian on the road to Nuoding City, where he revealed that someone at the academy was waiting for Dong Jian.
• At Nuoding Academy, Dong Jian met Yu Xiaogang, who warned him that choosing the wrong First Soul Ring could make his opposing Martial Soul powers unstable, while Li Man recognized her father’s marks in Yu Xiaogang’s records.
• Dong Jian joined Dorm Seven, fought Xiao Wu to a draw, and trained in the Hundred Battles Hall, overcoming trials that exposed his weaknesses and earned him Kung Fu Deconstruction.
• After Tang San and Xiao Wu obtained their First Soul Rings, Dong Jian used Kung Fu Deconstruction to break free of Tang San’s Blue Silver Entanglement and developed Light-Heavy Conversion.
• Dong Jian and Li Man won first place in the academy’s two-person assessment, then joined Tang San and Xiao Wu in defeating Xiao Chenyu’s group and securing an apology and medical costs for Wang Sheng.
• Dong Jian reached level nine and resolved to reach level ten so he could obtain his First Soul Ring.

Dong Jian and Li Man grow stronger through academy battles, dangerous missions, and experiments with their linked Martial Souls, while uncovering a contaminated key fragment connected to Dragon Spine Valley. The arc ends with their expedition reaching the valley, where its keeper identifies them by ominous names and reveals he has waited ten years for them.

• Dong Jian reached level ten, and he and Li Man began their Soul Hunt together after she helped subdue a Wind Blade Bamboo Weasel and reached level ten herself.
• Li Man gained Green Bamboo Binding Formation from a Green-Jointed Bamboo Snake, and Dong Jian gained Bear Astral Energy Body Protection from an Earth Savage Bear.
• Dong Jian and Li Man tested their new Soul Skills against Tang San and Xiao Wu, then developed coordinated attacks and fought bandits and a Mutated Soul Beast during academy missions.
• Li Man and Dong Jian competed in academy assessments and the Nuoding City Junior Two-Soul-Master Tournament, where their teamwork defeated the Gale Twins and won the championship.
• Dong Jian began the Divine Dragon Secret Realm’s Hundred Battles trial, while Li Man’s Green Jade Bamboo revealed a route to Dragon Spine Valley and a connection to her Martial Soul.
• After they reached level eighteen, Dong Jian and Li Man refined their techniques and responded to a Soul Beast migration, during which Dong Jian received a contaminated foreign key fragment sealed by the secret realm.
• The fragments’ growing resonance disrupted Dong Jian’s weight control and Li Man’s formation during an ambush, prompting them to disclose the danger and develop the Meridian Suppression Formation together.
• Dong Jian and Li Man reached level twenty, agreed to share information about their fragments, and set out for Dragon Spine Valley with Gao Yan, Yan Feng, and Lin He.
• At Dragon Spine Valley, the gray-robed keeper recognized Dong Jian as “Number Zero” and Li Man as “Green Bamboo Key,” and said he had waited ten years for them.

Dong Jian and Li Man refined their abilities, earned places on the Imperial Fighting Team, and advanced their shared techniques while investigating the secrets tied to their Martial Souls. In Soto, they faced Tang San and the Shrek Seven Devils, and the match left both teams pressing toward a decisive clash.

• Dong Jian and Li Man uncovered the Dragon Spine Valley seal, defeated the guardians without fully opening its locks, and learned that Gu Jiu connected the sealed threat to Tang San and Number Zero.
• At Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Dong Jian and Li Man joined the Imperial Fighting Team, improved their coordination through palace trials and exchanges with rival academies, and reached level thirty to gain their Third Soul Rings.
• The team traveled to Soto City, where Dong Jian and Li Man recognized Tang San and Xiao Wu among the Shrek Seven Devils and were selected to face them.
• Tang San and Dong Jian exchanged words before the match, and both teams released their Martial Souls as the Soul Fight began.
• Li Man and Dong Jian disrupted Shrek’s aerial assault with their formation, but Tang San revealed his Eight Spider Lances, broke through Li Man’s control, and opened the Imperial Fighting Team’s formation.
• Tang San disrupted the Imperial Fighting Team’s coordination while the other fighters clashed, and Ma Hongjun’s flames burned away Li Man’s bamboo roots and redirected Dugu Yan’s poison.
• Dong Jian and Li Man formed the embryonic Mountain-Suppressing Dragon Bamboo fusion, slowing Shrek for six breaths and breaking the Blue Silver Grass link between Ning Rongrong and Dai Mubai.
• The fusion ended as the Imperial Fighting Team advanced toward Shrek’s rear line, and Tang San steadied himself and aimed his concealed Hidden Weapons at them.

After the Imperial Fighting Team defeated Shrek, Dugu Yan’s worsening poison led Dong Jian and Li Man to help Dugu Bo find a way to manage it at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. Dong Jian and Li Man evolved their Martial Souls, then assessed and gathered tailored Immortal Herbs for the team, whose members began adapting to their new strength.

• The Imperial Fighting Team defeated Shrek after Tang San surrendered, and Qin Ming later shifted the team toward rotating lineups that used all nine members.
• Dugu Yan’s poison backlash worsened during training, so Dugu Bo examined her condition and Dong Jian and Li Man helped draw some poison into a Jade Poison Jade.
• At the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, Li Man helped separate Dugu Yan’s hot and cold poisons, while Dong Jian studied the valley’s dangerous herbs and opposing energies.
• Dong Jian swallowed the extreme cold and hot herbs and entered the well, where his Martial Soul evolved into the Yin-Yang Iron-Eating Beast and his Soul Power rose to level thirty-six.
• Dong Jian refined his new abilities and developed Force Observation, while Li Man absorbed the Aromatic Silk Beauty and evolved her Martial Soul into the Green Jade Dragon Bamboo.
• Dong Jian and Li Man returned to the academy, assessed the Imperial Fighting Team, and selected medicines suited to each member’s condition before Dugu Bo brought the herbs back.
• Yu Tianheng, Ye Lingling, Yu Feng, Osler, and the Shi Brothers absorbed their selected herbs, improving their abilities as the team struggled to coordinate its newly changed members.