Recaps

After more than a month of intense cultivation, Ning Buhui entered Deep Meditation and broke through to level thirty. Bibi Dong arranged an expedition to find the Wind Thunder Winged Tiger for his Third Soul Ring, and Ning Buhui prepared to leave with her.

• Ning Buhui cultivated obsessively until he entered Deep Meditation and unconsciously spent five days meditating.
• Ning Buhui awoke at level thirty, and the deacons told him Bibi Dong had ordered them to guard his room.
• Yan and Xie Yue met Ning Buhui, learned of his breakthrough, and took him to eat; Hu Liena then shared that her Soul Power had reached level thirty-eight.
• Ning Buhui told Bibi Dong about his Deep Meditation, and she explained that it had strengthened his foundation and saved him time refining his cultivation.
• Bibi Dong gave Ning Buhui intelligence about a Wind Thunder Winged Tiger in Sunset Forest and scheduled their departure for the day after tomorrow.
• Ning Buhui gathered supplies for the journey and hoped to obtain his Third Soul Ring smoothly.

Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong traveled to Sunset Forest to search for a Wind Thunder Winged Tiger for his Third Soul Ring, and Bibi Dong confirmed that his body could withstand a Soul Ring of up to about fifteen thousand years. A massive beast tide separated them, and Ning Buhui headed south alone while Bibi Dong prepared to hold off the most dangerous Soul Beasts.

• Ning Buhui felt that his breakthrough to level thirty had strengthened his body and estimated he could absorb a Soul Ring between thirteen and fifteen thousand years old.
• Bibi Dong examined Ning Buhui and confirmed his estimate, while warning that finding a suitable Wind Thunder Winged Tiger might prove difficult.
• On the third day, Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong entered Sunset Forest on foot and set out toward Thunderstorm Canyon.
• Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong sensed a beast tide approaching, and Bibi Dong judged that more than a dozen powerful Soul Beasts were among the herd.
• Bibi Dong summoned her Soul Devouring Spider Emperor Martial Soul and told Ning Buhui to head south alone and leave signals for her to follow.
• Ning Buhui promised not to disappoint Bibi Dong and ran south through the woods.

Ning Buhui struggled to survive as a beast tide swept through the forest, fighting off Soul Beasts while fleeing toward the south. Badly wounded and nearly out of Soul Power, he hid in a narrow rock crevice, cleaned up inside the Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda, and went to sleep until the tide passed.

• Ning Buhui used the Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda and his Soul Skills to fend off Soul Beasts as he ran from the beast tide.
• Ning Buhui was struck by a charging One-Horned Savage Bull, then disabled other attacking beasts and continued through the forest.
• Ning Buhui fell into a gully, killed a gray-black mastiff, and marked a nearby tree before staggering onward with an injured leg.
• Ning Buhui squeezed into a narrow crevice between two rocks as the beast tide rumbled past outside.
• Ning Buhui washed, changed clothes, ate dried meat, and went to sleep inside the Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda.

After surviving the beast tide, Ning Buhui waited in a hidden cave for Bibi Dong but was attacked by four mercenaries seeking his valuables. He defeated them and, at Bibi Dong’s command, killed them, leaving him to face his first killing.

• Ning Buhui recovered from his injuries, marked trees for Bibi Dong, and hid in a cave to wait for her.
• Four mercenaries searching for a Soul Ring found Ning Buhui and demanded his valuables.
• Ning Buhui revealed his Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda and defeated the four attackers with his Soul Skills.
• Bibi Dong emerged from the forest and told Ning Buhui to finish the mercenaries.
• Ning Buhui used Void Rending Slash to kill all four mercenaries.

Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong rested after surviving the beast tide, then discussed their battles and the powerful Soul Beasts involved. At daybreak, they reached Thunderstorm Canyon, where signs of Wind Thunder Winged Tigers lay across the scorched ground.

• Ning Buhui told Bibi Dong how he survived the beast tide and defeated four greedy attackers, and he explained how he had learned to use Butterfly Suppresses the Nether Spring to interrupt Soul Skills.
• Bibi Dong praised Ning Buhui and described fighting five Ferocious Beasts near the hundred-thousand-year level while guiding the beast tide north.
• Bibi Dong said she and Ning Buhui would rest overnight and head for Thunderstorm Canyon at daybreak.
• Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong traveled through the rocky, wind-lashed canyon approach as thunder and lightning grew louder and brighter.
• Bibi Dong and Ning Buhui reached Thunderstorm Canyon and found scorched ground, massive claw marks, and a tuft of blue-violet fur.

Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong pursued the Wind Thunder Winged Tiger through Thunderstorm Canyon, where it used traps to exhaust and nearly kill them. Ning Buhui lured it out with mint, and after Bibi Dong restrained it, Ning Buhui killed it and a black Soul Ring appeared.

• Ning Buhui and Bibi Dong followed the tiger’s tracks through several traps before a thunderstorm struck the grove and they barely escaped.
• Ning Buhui recalled that Wind Thunder Winged Tigers liked mint and persuaded Bibi Dong to use it as bait.
• Ning Buhui gathered mint, and he and Bibi Dong hid near bundles they placed along the tiger’s path.
• The Wind Thunder Winged Tiger emerged for the mint, and Bibi Dong trapped it with Spider Web Restraint.
• Ning Buhui killed the bound tiger with Void Rending Slash, and a black Soul Ring rose above its corpse.

Ning Buhui discovered that the Wind Thunder Winged Tiger had dropped an External Soul Bone and absorbed its fifteen-thousand-year Soul Ring, reaching level thirty-four. He then began absorbing the wing bone and, after six hours of intense pain, slowly sat up.

• Ning Buhui saw a pair of translucent wings emerge as an External Soul Bone beside the Wind Thunder Winged Tiger's corpse.
• Bibi Dong identified the wings as the tiger's External Soul Bone and told Ning Buhui to absorb the Soul Ring first.
• Ning Buhui absorbed the fifteen-thousand-year Soul Ring through his Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda and rose from level thirty to level thirty-four.
• Ning Buhui absorbed the wing bone, enduring severe pain as it grew from beneath his shoulder blades.
• After six hours, Ning Buhui's pain subsided, and he slowly sat up while Bibi Dong waited beside a fire.

Ning Buhui discovered that his new External Soul Bone had given him wings with flight, wind and lightning attacks, and short-range teleportation. He also explained his two new Soul Skills and improved abilities to Bibi Dong before sleeping, and they planned to return the next day.

• Ning Buhui tested his new wings, learned to fly, and discovered they could attack with wind and lightning and teleport up to thirty paces.
• Ning Buhui named the wings the Wind Thunder Wings and found that repeated spatial jumps rapidly consumed his Soul Power.
• Ning Buhui explained that Wind Thunder Wing Shadow enhanced a teammate while Thunder Prison Imprisons Wind trapped and suppressed enemies in an area.
• Ning Buhui reported that his first- and second-ring Soul Skills had grown stronger, and Bibi Dong told him to sleep before their return the next day.

Ning Buhui returned to Spirit City, tested his newly acquired Soul Skills and unlocked the tower’s third floor. After telling Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan about his journey and revealing his External Soul Bone, he convinced them to let him join a mission.

• Ning Buhui tested his Wind Thunder Wings and Thunder Prison Imprisons Wind on the journey back to Spirit City.
• Ning Buhui discovered that obtaining his Third Soul Ring had unlocked the tower’s third floor, but the concentrated Soul Power soon overwhelmed his meridians.
• Ning Buhui reunited with Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan at the training grounds and recounted the beast tide, bandits, and hunt for the Wind Thunder Winged Tiger.
• Ning Buhui told the three that his Third Soul Ring was fifteen thousand years old, then revealed his External Soul Bone and demonstrated its teleportation ability.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan agreed that Ning Buhui could join them on a carefully chosen mission, and the four headed to the mission hall.

Ning Buhui, Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue selected a B-rank mission to hunt a Mist-Hidden Shadow Wolf pack in the Mist Swamp Forest and prepared for their trip. They planned to leave the day after tomorrow, while Ning Buhui intended to speak with Bibi Dong before departing.

• Hu Liena rejected Yan’s proposal to hunt an eight-thousand-year Vigorous Vajra Ape and chose a mission for a forty-five-hundred-year Mist-Hidden Shadow Wolf and four young wolves.
• Xie Yue warned that the Mist Swamp Forest’s poor visibility and disrupted Spiritual Detection would favor the wolf pack, but the four agreed the mission would test their teamwork.
• Ning Buhui, Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue registered the mission and assigned roles, with Xie Yue holding off the pack leader, Yan guarding the front, and Hu Liena tracking enemies in the mist.
• Hu Liena set the departure for the day after tomorrow and reminded Ning Buhui to tell Bibi Dong about the mission.
• Ning Buhui adjusted his clothes to accommodate his Wind Thunder Wings, packed supplies, and fell asleep thinking about the hunt.

Ning Buhui discussed the Mist-Hidden Shadow Wolves mission with Bibi Dong, who advised him on combat, concealed abilities, and preserving the alpha’s materials. He set out with Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue, and the team began their journey toward the Mist Swamp Forest.

• Bibi Dong told Ning Buhui that the mission would provide real combat experience and advised him to keep his Control System Soul Skill and Wind Thunder Wings hidden unless needed.
• Bibi Dong instructed Ning Buhui to ensure the alpha’s shoulder bone and mane remained intact, and Ning Buhui relayed the instructions to Xie Yue.
• Ning Buhui advised Xie Yue to leave the younger wolves alive so the alpha would reveal itself, and Xie Yue agreed to follow his signal.
• Hu Liena, Yan, Xie Yue, and Ning Buhui left Spirit City and traveled west toward the Mist Swamp Forest, following Xie Yue’s planned route.
• At a roadside rest, merchants warned the group that hunters had vanished in the forest, and the team discussed the wolf king’s age and possible intelligence.

Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Yan, and Ning Buhui reached the Mist Swamp Forest, rested overnight, and entered at dawn to track the Mist-Hidden Shadow Wolves. They found the wolf den and confronted its nearly five-thousand-year-old alpha, which spotted Ning Buhui and howled for the young wolves as Xie Yue made his move.

• Xie Yue decided the group would camp outside the forest, and Ning Buhui cooked skewers that Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan enjoyed.
• At dawn, Xie Yue led the group into the forest, where Ning Buhui used his senses and knowledge of Soul Beasts to find a safe route and follow wolf tracks.
• Hu Liena used Fox Charm to distract the patrolling young wolves while the group passed them and reached the den.
• The group found the alpha wolf, and Ning Buhui used Butterfly Dance Flowing Radiance and Wind Thunder Wing Shadow to enhance Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena.
• The alpha wolf opened its eyes, fixed its gaze on Ning Buhui, and howled to summon the young wolves as Xie Yue moved.

Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Yan, and Ning Buhui fought a pack of mist wolves in the swamp forest, defeating the lead wolf and gathering materials from its corpse. They left the clearing after deciding that the wolf's Soul Ring was unsuitable for any of them and set out toward Spirit City.

• The lead wolf attacked Hu Liena, then used the mist to conceal itself as Xie Yue wounded its forepaw and four younger wolves surrounded the group.
• Yan, Hu Liena, and Xie Yue fought the younger wolves while Ning Buhui maintained support skills, but the lead wolf exploited the opening to charge him.
• Ning Buhui blocked the lead wolf with his tower and used Wind Thunder Wing Shadow to teleport clear, then Xie Yue and the others regrouped against the remaining wolf.
• The lead wolf howled and charged Xie Yue, but Static Counterattack halted its attack long enough for Xie Yue to strike it down with Shattered Moon Impact.
• Xie Yue collected the lead wolf's shoulder bone and mane, and the group left its unsuitable Soul Ring unclaimed before heading back toward Spirit City.

On the journey back, Ning Buhui and his teammates reviewed their mistakes and successes in the wolf battle, including how Ning Buhui’s support skills strengthened the group. They agreed to rest after completing the mission, then pursue a grade-A mission once Xie Yue obtained his Fourth Soul Ring.

• Yan broke the silence at the camp and prompted the team to discuss how their mistakes had nearly led to disaster.
• Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Ning Buhui, and Yan each acknowledged where they had failed to watch or protect their teammates during the fight.
• Hu Liena and Xie Yue noted that the team’s plan had drawn out the lead wolf and that Static Counterattack had briefly paralyzed it.
• Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena described how Ning Buhui’s support skills improved their strength, speed, and ability to fight.
• Xie Yue proposed taking an easier grade-A mission after he obtained his Fourth Soul Ring, and the team agreed to rest first.
• Ning Buhui memorized the lessons from their discussion before falling asleep by the fire.

After returning to Spirit City and turning in their mission, Ning Buhui entered the newly opened third floor of the Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda. He discovered a vast cultivation space filled with rare herbs and learned he could use its resources to advance his plans, while leaving the story with his intention to help Dugu Bo and find ways to share the herbs.

• Xie Yue, Hu Liena, Yan, and Ning Buhui turned in the Dusky Blue Wolf materials, completed their mission, and went their separate ways.
• Ning Buhui remembered that absorbing his Third Soul Ring had opened the pagoda's third floor and teleported there to explore it.
• Inherited memories revealed that the third floor held a fertile herb garden, a powerful cultivation array, and a cultivation speed adjustable up to ten times the normal rate.
• Ning Buhui discovered numerous rare plants, including the immature Chaos Azure Lotus, and found a furnished bamboo house with no sign of a previous owner.
• Ning Buhui decided to seek an opportunity to tell Dugu Bo about an herb that could benefit his poison arts and considered using the pagoda's herbs to strengthen his allies and secure future resources.

Ning Buhui examined the tower’s inherited memories and suspected its first two floors had once been prison cells, while the third floor served as its owner’s dwelling. Unable to uncover the tower’s history or his path back to Blue Star, he set those questions aside and resumed cultivating.

• Ning Buhui reconsidered the tower’s layout and concluded that its first two floors might have been prison cells controlled by the Heaven and Earth Yin Yang Grand Array.
• Ning Buhui recognized that many plants in the third-floor garden were unknown on Douluo Continent and speculated that the tower’s former owner had gathered them from other worlds.
• Ning Buhui wondered who had owned the tower, what it had once contained, and whether he could ever return to Blue Star.
• Ning Buhui decided to focus on becoming stronger and began his daily meditation in the bamboo house.

Ning Buhui celebrated his eighth birthday with Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue, then helped Xie Yue seek a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring suited to his Moon Blade. He researched the Illusory Moon Shadow Wolf and Crescent Moon Valley, finishing detailed notes and a map to give Xie Yue the next day.

• Hu Liena remembered Ning Buhui's eighth birthday and gave him osmanthus cakes, which he shared with Yan and Xie Yue at breakfast.
• Xie Yue explained that he wanted a fourth Soul Skill that could confuse enemies and create openings, rather than simply deliver a powerful attack.
• Ning Buhui recommended the ten-thousand-year Illusory Moon Shadow Wolf in Crescent Moon Valley as a match for Xie Yue's Moon Blade.
• Ning Buhui researched the wolf's habits and the valley's terrain, then prepared detailed hunting notes and a map for Xie Yue.
• Ning Buhui returned to his cold room and fell asleep thinking about the possibility of Xie Yue obtaining a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring.

Ning Buhui decided to leave Spirit Hall and train alone, traveling south and then east to gain experience among Soul Masters and Soul Beasts. After Bibi Dong gave him a disguise mask and signal flare, he slipped out of Spirit City in disguise and headed south.

• Ning Buhui realized he had finished his current tasks and decided to seek practical training outside Spirit Hall.
• Ning Buhui told Bibi Dong he wanted to travel alone, visit the Star Luo Empire, and explore the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Bibi Dong warned Ning Buhui about the dangers and gave him the Thousand-Transformation Illusory Mask and a signal flare.
• Ning Buhui left a letter for Bibi Dong and escaped Spirit City through a concealed passage and maintenance door.
• Ning Buhui used the mask to appear as an older, level 28 Soul Grandmaster with two yellow Soul Rings, then set off south.

Ning Buhui arrived in Star Luo City under a disguise and joined a mercenary group preparing to hunt Rock Wolves near the Star Dou Great Forest. After hearing reports that Soul Beasts were being driven toward the forest’s outskirts, he prepared to proceed cautiously on the expedition.

• Ning Buhui explored Star Luo City and went to the Mercenary Guild to find work.
• Ning Buhui demonstrated his control skills to a bald mercenary leader and agreed to join the group’s Rock Wolf hunt for two tenths of the proceeds, requesting a wolf pelt and fangs.
• Ning Buhui registered under the name A Hui and listened to mercenaries discuss the dangers and rewards of the city’s Soul Fighting Arenas.
• A female mercenary reported that Soul Beasts were crowding out of the Star Dou Great Forest and that a powerful Rock Wolf pack had been seen near its outskirts.
• Ning Buhui left the guild, booked an inn room, and entered the pagoda, planning to be cautious when he entered the forest the next day.

Ning Buhui traveled with a mercenary group to the Star Dou Great Forest, where they set out to hunt Rock Wolves. After the group began fighting a pack, a powerful six-thousand-year-old leader emerged from its den.

• Ning Buhui joined six other mercenaries, and the bald man led them along the main road toward the Star Dou Great Forest.
• After ten days of travel, the group entered the forest and followed signs toward the rocky hills where Rock Wolves made their dens.
• The short-haired woman found fresh droppings, and the group spotted ten Rock Wolves among the rocks.
• Ning Buhui bound three Rock Wolves with his chains while the bald man and the short-haired woman attacked others.
• The remaining wolves surrounded the group, and a massive Rock Wolf pack leader, estimated to be at least six thousand years old, emerged from its den.

Ning Buhui and his companions fought a pack of Rock Wolves, defeating the seven adults with his precise control. Their battle with the over-six-thousand-year-old lead wolf turned desperate, and Ning Buhui prepared to use his Third Soul Skill.

• The lead wolf emerged from its cave, and the bald man realized it was over six thousand years old rather than the four thousand stated in the report.
• The bald man and the short-haired woman attacked the lead wolf while Ning Buhui restrained the seven surrounding Rock Wolves.
• Ning Buhui coordinated his companions to kill all seven adult Rock Wolves in a short fight.
• The lead wolf unleashed a ground attack that pierced the bald man's leg, then hurled the longsword wielder into a rock wall when he shielded the others.
• Seeing two of the group's three Soul Elders incapacitated and the survivors unable to withstand the lead wolf, Ning Buhui began activating his Third Soul Ring.

Ning Buhui revealed his true strength to save a mercenary team, trapping and killing a six-thousand-year-old Rock Wolf leader. After sharing the spoils and returning to Star Luo City, he reflected on his new control skill and resumed meditation.

• Ning Buhui used Thunder Prison Imprisons Wind to trap the enraged Rock Wolf leader and strengthen himself with three soul skills.
• Ning Buhui struck the paralyzed wolf with Void Rending Slash, killing it in less than ten breaths.
• Ning Buhui revealed his three Soul Rings and identified himself as a passerby when the bald man asked who he was.
• Ning Buhui and the team divided the Rock Wolf's materials and traveled back toward Star Luo City together.
• Ten days later, Ning Buhui parted ways with the group outside Star Luo City's north gate and returned to his inn.
• Ning Buhui reviewed Thunder Prison Imprisons Wind's Soul Power cost, then began meditating in the tower.

Ning Buhui received his share of Baldy's money and decided to use the Star Luo Great Soul Arena to practice. After registering as A Hui, he watched several matches and prepared for his first Soul Elder bout the next afternoon.

• The short-haired woman delivered Baldy's generous payment and invited Ning Buhui to seek him out at the guild if he wanted to join a team.
• Ning Buhui moved to a new inn, divided his money, and chose the Star Luo Great Soul Arena as his next place to train.
• Ning Buhui registered as A Hui, a level thirty-four Control System Soul Elder, and received an Iron Soul Fighter badge and a match schedule.
• Ning Buhui watched two individual matches and a team battle, studying the fighters' tactics and considering how to improve his own use of Vine Locks the Nine Nether Regions.
• Ning Buhui learned that his first individual match would take place the following afternoon and planned to win thirty consecutive Soul Elder matches to reach Silver Soul Fighter rank.

Ning Buhui fought his way to thirty consecutive victories in the Soul Fighting Arena and earned the Silver Soul Fighter rank. He signed up to challenge Soul Ancestors and planned to train in the Star Dou Great Forest after adapting to stronger opponents.

• Ning Buhui won four Soul Elder matches in one day by using his pagoda, chains, lightning cage, and black butterfly to control opponents.
• He added two matches the following day and defeated a Water System Soul Elder by filling the arena with Thunder Prison Imprisons Wind and conducting electricity through the water.
• Over the next several days, Ning Buhui refined his chain techniques and overcame a level thirty-nine Soul Elder whose Overlord Body temporarily made him immune to control.
• After nine days and thirty consecutive wins, Ning Buhui received 1,000 points and advanced to Silver Soul Fighter.
• Ning Buhui signed up to challenge Soul Ancestors and planned to leave for the Star Dou Great Forest after half a month of preparation.

After reaching level thirty-five, Ning Buhui challenged a stronger opponent in the Soul Ancestor group and won by secretly draining Xiong Kuohai’s Soul Power. The exhausting victory left him considering how to develop a negative effect that could bypass resistance to control.

• Ning Buhui cultivated through a bottleneck and advanced to level thirty-five.
• Ning Buhui entered the Soul Ancestor group and prepared to face level forty-three Soul Ancestor Xiong Kuohai, whose Martial Soul was a Giant Bear.
• Xiong Kuohai broke Ning Buhui’s chains with his Tyrant Body and pressured him with powerful close-range attacks.
• Ning Buhui slipped a hair-thin chain through a gap in Xiong Kuohai’s armor and secretly drained his Soul Power while evading his attacks.
• Ning Buhui tightened the hidden chain and bound Xiong Kuohai with three more chains, forcing him to admit defeat.
• After the match, Ning Buhui recognized his limitations and resolved to consider a Soul Skill that could inflict a negative effect rather than rely on control.