Recaps

Ning Buhui finished a month of Soul Ancestor matches in Star Luo City, then traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest to hone his abilities through battles with Soul Beasts. After training in the rocky mountains, he discovered a giant python that was at least ten thousand years old and planned to challenge it.

• Ning Buhui fought ten Soul Ancestor matches over a month, winning eight and losing two before deciding he had achieved his goal of honing his Soul Skills.
• Ning Buhui settled his points, bought supplies, left Star Luo City, and traveled northeast to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ning Buhui entered the forest’s rocky mountains, where he fought a Rock Armor Lizard and began using his abilities freely in real battles.
• Ning Buhui defeated a six-thousand-year-old Giant Rock Ape through coordinated attacks, then let it escape after testing his skills.
• Ning Buhui spent several more days fighting Soul Beasts and developed a new tactical idea by using water inside Thunder Prison Imprisons Wind.
• Ning Buhui followed fresh claw marks to a hollow, found a giant python at least ten thousand years old, and retreated to rest before confronting it the next day.

Ning Buhui fought a ten-thousand-year giant python, survived its attacks, and broke through to level thirty-six before retreating. After strengthening his cultivation by battling other Soul Beasts, he found signs of a group nearby and disguised himself before planning to move elsewhere.

• Ning Buhui attacked the giant python, damaged its neck with Void Rending Slash, and narrowly escaped its counterattack after breaking through to level thirty-six.
• Ning Buhui recovered in the Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda and reviewed how poorly his abilities had worked against the ten-thousand-year Soul Beast.
• Ning Buhui spent over a month fighting Soul Beasts between eight and ten thousand years old, strengthening his level thirty-six foundation.
• Ning Buhui discovered a recent campfire and signs of several people in the rocky mountain area.
• Ning Buhui used the Thousand-Transformation Illusory Mask to disguise himself as an ordinary Soul Elder and planned to explore another part of the mountain.

Ning Buhui encountered a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect main-branch youth hunting a Gale Wolf and was reminded of the hardship that had shaped his life. He resolved to rely on himself and returned to the forest to continue hunting stronger Soul Beasts.

• Ning Buhui fought an eight-thousand-year Rock-Armored Pangolin, gained a slight advantage, and watched it flee.
• Ning Buhui discovered three Soul Ancestors protecting a young Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect heir as they hunted an eight-thousand-year Gale Wolf.
• The hunters noticed Ning Buhui, who revealed himself in disguise, claimed he was passing through, and left without looking back.
• Ning Buhui reflected on his parents’ fate, his difficult childhood, and the contrast between his struggles and the main-branch youth’s protection.
• Ning Buhui put on his disguise again and returned to hunting, determined to face stronger Soul Beasts and follow his own path.

Ning Buhui spent half a year fighting powerful Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest, improving his combat skills and advancing from level 36 to level 40. He left the forest and headed for Spirit City to obtain his fourth Soul Ring.

• Ning Buhui sent two brief messages to Spirit City saying he was safe and would return when he was ready, and Bibi Dong did not reply.
• Ning Buhui escalated his training from fighting 8,000-to-10,000-year Soul Beasts to repeatedly battling stronger Soul Beasts near the limits of his ability.
• Ning Buhui improved his reactions and combat techniques, then killed a thirteen-thousand-year Rock Armor Dire Bear after trapping and draining it.
• Ning Buhui entered Deep Meditation and reached level 38, then systematically recorded Soul Beasts' habits and reviewed his battles.
• Ning Buhui broke through to level 40 after fighting a fourteen-thousand-year Stone-Patterned Leopard and spent the night consolidating his strength.
• Ning Buhui left the Star Dou Great Forest and traveled toward Spirit City, planning his fourth Soul Ring and wondering how his friends had progressed.

Ning Buhui returned to Spirit City after nearly a year away, having reached level forty and spent more than half a year fighting Soul Beasts in the Star Dou Great Forest. After reuniting with his friends and reporting to Bibi Dong, he asked her for help choosing his fourth Soul Ring and finally rested at home.

• Ning Buhui entered Spirit City and surprised Zhou Qing and the other Spirit Hall members with his return.
• Ning Buhui reunited with Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue, learned they had all reached level forty-one or higher, and agreed to eat with them that night.
• Ning Buhui told Bibi Dong about his year away, including his Soul Fighting Arena matches and his battles in the Star Dou Great Forest, and revealed he had reached level forty.
• Ning Buhui asked Bibi Dong for advice on a fourth Soul Ring with a non-control negative-effect skill, and she promised to prepare a list of suitable Soul Beasts.
• Ning Buhui returned to his clean room, bathed, and fell asleep after finally relaxing at home.

Ning Buhui studied Bibi Dong’s list of candidate Soul Beasts and chose the Hell-Suppressing Bear for his fourth Soul Ring. After Spirit Hall confirmed a sighting of a roughly thirty-thousand-year-old bear in the Star Dou Great Forest, he prepared to depart within three days.

• Ning Buhui received Bibi Dong’s list of seven Soul Beasts and focused on the Hell-Suppressing Bear’s curse and hegemon body abilities.
• Ning Buhui researched Spirit Hall’s records and concluded the Hell-Suppressing Bear could strengthen his support abilities and help him weaken opponents.
• Ning Buhui told Bibi Dong he wanted a Hell-Suppressing Bear over thirty thousand years old, though he would accept one over twenty thousand years old.
• Bibi Dong sent the Intelligence Hall to investigate likely rocky mountain habitats in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Ning Buhui resumed training while waiting for news of a suitable Soul Beast.
• A deacon informed Ning Buhui that a roughly thirty-thousand-year-old Hell-Suppressing Bear had been sighted in the northern Star Dou Great Forest, and that they would depart within three days.

Ning Buhui traveled with Bibi Dong to the Star Dou Great Forest, killed a thirty-thousand-year Hell-Suppressing Bear, and absorbed its Soul Ring to reach level forty-two and gain two new Soul Skills. Back in Spirit City, he planned a mission with Xie Yue’s group before returning to the forest to pursue further growth ahead of the Soul Master Tournament.

• Bibi Dong led Ning Buhui into the rocky mountains of the Star Dou Great Forest and defeated the thirty-thousand-year Hell-Suppressing Bear.
• Ning Buhui killed the restrained bear and absorbed its Soul Ring, reaching level forty-two and gaining Bear Iron Wall and Bear Spirit Curse.
• Ning Buhui explained his new Soul Skills to Bibi Dong, who praised their uses and warned him that his Soul Power reserves limited how often he could use them.
• Ning Buhui returned to Spirit City with Bibi Dong and resolved to ask Xie Yue about a mission for their group.
• Ning Buhui planned to consolidate his cultivation after the mission, then return to the Star Dou Great Forest and fight fifteen-to-twenty-thousand-year Soul Beasts to reach around level forty-eight before the tournament.

Ning Buhui reunited with Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena after obtaining his fourth Soul Ring, then joined them in accepting an A-rank mission to hunt a twenty-thousand-year Jasper Flood Dragon. Before their departure the next morning, he prepared his supplies and began training to advance his Heart Separation Control technique.

• Ning Buhui told Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena that he had obtained a thirty-thousand-year Soul Ring but kept his new Soul Skill secret.
• The four discussed Spirit Hall’s new youth training program and decided to choose an A-rank mission.
• Xie Yue selected a mission to hunt a twenty-thousand-year Jasper Flood Dragon in Jade Pool Hidden Valley for its pearl and hide.
• Ning Buhui proposed using phoenix flowers to lure the amphibious dragon onto shore, and the four registered for the mission.
• The four agreed to depart the next morning, and Ning Buhui restocked supplies and organized his leather armor.
• Ning Buhui entered the Soul Suppressing Pagoda and practiced toward the Four-Aperture Constant Heart level of Heart Separation Control.

Ning Buhui broke through to the Four-Aperture Constant Heart, greatly improving his Soul Power control and endurance without raising his level. The next morning, he joined Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena as they set out for Jade Pool Hidden Valley to face the twenty-thousand-year Jasper Flood Dragon.

• Ning Buhui used his spiritual power to form a fourth Soul Power channel and mastered the Four-Aperture Constant Heart.
• He demonstrated precise control over four Soul Skill channels and realized the breakthrough would strengthen his chances against the Jasper Flood Dragon.
• Ning Buhui suppressed his active states and slept, awaiting the next day's departure.
• Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena noticed Ning Buhui's newly restrained presence and questioned the change, but he attributed it to insights from the previous battle.
• Ning Buhui, Xie Yue, Yan, and Hu Liena left Spirit City's training ground and headed for the carriages to begin their journey to Jade Pool Hidden Valley.

Hu Liena, Xie Yue, Yan, and Ning Buhui lured the Jasper Flood Dragon from its pool and attacked it, but its Weak Water Binding trapped the first three. Ning Buhui’s Bear Iron Wall freed them and doubled their attributes, leaving the team driving the dragon back while Ning Buhui sensed something was wrong.

• Hu Liena scattered Phoenix Flower petals from the pool to an ambush site, drawing the Jasper Flood Dragon out of the water.
• Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena launched a surprise attack while Ning Buhui strengthened and shielded them with his Soul Skills.
• The Jasper Flood Dragon used Weak Water Binding to slow and trap the three attackers, then prepared to strike them.
• Ning Buhui cast Bear Iron Wall on Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena, freeing them from the control effect and boosting their attributes.
• The strengthened trio unleashed their strongest attacks and forced the Jasper Flood Dragon backward, while Ning Buhui sensed that something was wrong.

Ning Buhui realized the Jasper Flood Dragon had lured the group into an ambush, and a stronger female dragon emerged to attack them from behind. As the poison weakened Yan and Xie Yue and Hu Liena struggled to support them, Ning Buhui decided to stop holding back and fight for a way out.

• Ning Buhui noticed the wounded Jasper Flood Dragon kept steering the fight away from the deep pool and warned Xie Yue that it was bait.
• The male Jasper Flood Dragon called forth a twenty-five-thousand-year female, trapping Ning Buhui, Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena between the two dragons.
• Xie Yue charged the female dragon but had to dodge her poisonous blast, while Yan was struck by the male dragon's venom and Hu Liena used her abilities to protect him.
• The dragons attacked simultaneously with Jade Scale Poison Flood Dragon Blasts, poisoning Yan and Xie Yue and leaving the group in worsening danger.
• Ning Buhui saw that he had half his Soul Power left and decided to stop holding back rather than abandon the others.

Ning Buhui revealed the full power of his Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda to turn the battle against the two Jasper Flood Dragons. After the group killed both dragons, Yan questioned Ning Buhui about his unfamiliar Soul Skills, but Ning Buhui said they would talk after they gathered their things and left the area.

• Ning Buhui decided not to abandon his teammates and used four Soul Skills to strengthen them, slow the Jasper Flood Dragons, bind them with chains, and curse them.
• Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena attacked the restrained dragons while Ning Buhui’s skills weakened them and redirected their poison blasts.
• Ning Buhui interrupted the dragons’ Bone-Eroding Water Waves with Butterfly Suppresses the Nether Spring.
• Xie Yue killed the female Jasper Flood Dragon, and Yan, Hu Liena, and Ning Buhui killed the male.
• After the exhausted group regrouped, Yan asked Ning Buhui about his unfamiliar Soul Skills, and Ning Buhui told them to gather their things before discussing them.

After returning to Spirit City from the Jasper Flood Dragon mission, Ning Buhui explained his unusual Martial Soul and hidden control abilities to Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena. His companions accepted his reasons for keeping them secret and agreed to protect his secret.

• During the four-day journey back, Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena reflected on how Ning Buhui's hidden abilities had helped them survive the Jasper Flood Dragons.
• The four reported the completed mission at Spirit City's mission hall, surrendered the dragons' materials, and received points and upgraded tokens.
• At dinner, Yan asked Ning Buhui how an Auxiliary System Soul Master had so many Control Soul Skills.
• Ning Buhui revealed that his Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda had mutated from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and granted him both support and control Soul Skills from each Soul Ring.
• Ning Buhui explained that he had revealed his abilities in Jade Pool Hidden Valley to protect his companions, and that he had kept them secret to avoid becoming a target.
• Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena thanked Ning Buhui and promised to keep his Martial Soul and abilities secret.

Ning Buhui decided to enter Spirit Hall Academy’s selection for the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament, aiming to compete as a support Soul Master while hiding some of his abilities. He studied the tournament rules and trained for the preliminary selection, which was soon to begin.

• Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena decided not to enter the upcoming tournament, while Ning Buhui said he would try to earn a place on the team.
• Ning Buhui planned to raise his Soul Power Level above 45 and return to the Star Dou Great Forest for combat training after a month of rest.
• Ning Buhui studied the tournament rules and learned he would need to pass Spirit Hall Academy’s selection, which was overseen by Pope Hall and Worship Hall.
• Bibi Dong gave Ning Buhui the selection plan and warned him that Golden Crocodile Douluo would be the chief examiner.
• Ning Buhui decided to compete as a support Soul Master, disguise his Soul Rings with the Thousand-Transformation Illusory Mask, and conceal his Wind Thunder Wings.
• Ning Buhui trained his Soul Skills, sparred with Yan and Xie Yue, and waited for the preliminary selection to begin.

Ning Buhui took part in Spirit Hall Academy’s preliminary selection, where he impressed the examiners with his four auxiliary Soul Skills and revealed that he was a nine-year-old Soul Ancestor. The individual tests ended without results being announced, and Hu Liena met him outside the grounds to go for a meal.

• Ning Buhui arrived at the selection grounds and saw Hu Liena watching, while Yan and Xie Yue were absent.
• The examiners explained the individual strength test and began evaluating the candidates’ Martial Souls and Soul Skills.
• Ning Buhui released his Nine Hell Soul-Suppressing Pagoda and demonstrated all four of his auxiliary Soul Skills.
• Ning Buhui told the examiner that his skills used about ten percent of his Soul Power and that he was nine years old, surprising the candidates nearby.
• The individual tests ended, and the examiners told everyone to wait for notice about the results.
• Hu Liena met Ning Buhui at the entrance and invited him to eat with her.

Ning Buhui led Team Two to victories in all three matches of the selection’s team battle, using his auxiliary skills and a powerful attack to defeat even the stronger Team One. After Golden Crocodile Douluo selected him, Ning Buhui declined invitations to form a team and left to head for the Star Dou Great Forest, with the seed selection battle still half a year away.

• Ning Buhui joined Team Two and explained his auxiliary skills to Zhao Yan, Lin Qing, and their other teammates before the first match.
• Ning Buhui’s boosts helped Zhao Yan and Lin Qing overwhelm Team Three, and Team Two won its opening match.
• When Team One gained the upper hand, Ning Buhui boosted himself, charged at its auxiliary, and pinned the opposing Defense System Soul Master beneath his enlarged pagoda, securing Team Two’s victory.
• Team Two easily defeated Team Four, and Golden Crocodile Douluo announced Ning Buhui among those selected.
• Ning Buhui declined invitations to form a team and left for the Star Dou Great Forest ahead of the seed selection battle in half a year.

Ning Buhui left Spirit City, sent Dugu Yan an anonymous letter describing the Immortal Herbs in the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and traveled to a dangerous valley in the Star Dou Great Forest to train through battle. After fighting four powerful Soul Beasts in one day, he rested inside his pagoda and reflected on his progress.

• Ning Buhui said farewell to Yan, Xie Yue, and Hu Liena, then left Spirit City after Bibi Dong reminded him about the selection in six months.
• Ning Buhui traveled to the Heaven Dou Royal Academy and paid a student to deliver Dugu Yan an unsigned letter about the Immortal Herbs and a favor tied to half a piece of yin-yang jade.
• Ning Buhui continued to the Star Dou Great Forest and entered a misty valley known for its unusually powerful Soul Beasts.
• Ning Buhui fought a twenty-thousand-year-old Stone Armor Rhinoceros with his soul skills and defeated it.
• Ning Buhui fought four Soul Beasts in one day, narrowly survived a Rock Python, and rested in his bamboo house inside the pagoda while reviewing the battles.

After months of slow cultivation in the Star Dou Great Forest, Ning Buhui discovered an ancient Supreme Sect secret realm and entered its eighty-one-stage combat trial, which promised a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone for a perfect record. The first stage began with him fighting a thirty-thousand-year-old Stone Armor Beast.

• Ning Buhui sent a letter to Spirit City and returned to the Star Dou Great Forest, reflecting that his Soul Power had advanced slowly from level forty-three.
• Ning Buhui followed a wounded Stone Armor Rhinoceros into a hidden hollow and found a stone platform and seven jade fragments bearing clues to an ancient trial.
• Ning Buhui assembled the fragments and was transported to the ruins of the Supreme Sect, where he discovered the entrance to its underground trial ground.
• Ning Buhui read that the trial required challengers to pass eighty-one stages and offered a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone to anyone who cleared them all perfectly.
• Ning Buhui opened the First Stage and fought a thirty-thousand-year-old Stone Armor Beast using his Soul Skills as the door closed behind him.

Ning Buhui fought his way through the secret realm’s increasingly difficult trials, learning to adapt to opponents tailored to his abilities and breaking through to level 44 during a desperate battle. After clearing the twenty-ninth trial, he delayed the thirtieth to train, knowing it might pit him against three mirror images, and began another simulated fight while preparing to continue.

• Ning Buhui defeated nine varied Soul Beast opponents and learned how the trials targeted his weaknesses.
• Ning Buhui tricked and defeated his mirror image in the tenth trial by making it attack him while he used Warp to get behind it.
• Ning Buhui broke through the level 43 bottleneck during the twentieth trial and narrowly defeated two mirror images.
• Ning Buhui recovered, then cleared the twenty-first through twenty-ninth trials over the next month against stronger Soul Beasts and Soul Masters.
• Ning Buhui stayed on the twenty-ninth floor to practice daily, postponing the thirtieth trial because he feared facing three mirror images.
• Ning Buhui released his Martial Soul to begin another simulated battle against the level 54 Soul King he had already defeated.

Ning Buhui completed Soul-Suppressing God-Devouring and defeated three mirror images to clear the thirtieth stage, earning the Soul-Devouring Divine Light manual. He realized Spirit Hall's tournament selection had likely passed, but resolved to keep advancing through the secret realm to obtain a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone.

• Ning Buhui perfected Soul-Suppressing God-Devouring and used it to defeat the Vajra Giant Ape Soul King image on the twenty-ninth stage.
• Ning Buhui entered the thirtieth stage and fought three coordinated mirror images that used his own abilities.
• Ning Buhui exploited the stone chambers to ambush and destroy Number Three, weakening the remaining images' teamwork.
• Ning Buhui used Soul-Suppressing God-Devouring to stun Number Two, then defeated Number One and cleared the stage.
• Ning Buhui claimed the Soul-Devouring Divine Light manual and pills, then reflected that he had missed Spirit Hall's tournament selection.
• Ning Buhui decided to continue clearing stages for a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone and fell asleep thinking of Bibi Dong, Hu Liena, Yan, and Xie Yue.

Spirit Hall Academy completed its seeded team selection and began training without Ning Buhui, who had vanished after leaving for the Star Dou Great Forest. Bibi Dong concluded that he was trapped in an ancient secret realm and told Hu Liena to wait for his return.

• Spirit Hall Academy selected nine tournament representatives without Ning Buhui after he failed to return or send further letters.
• Yan confronted a Soul Master who speculated that Ning Buhui might be dead, while Xie Yue and Hu Liena reasoned that Bibi Dong likely knew he was safe.
• The seeded team began intensive training with an ordinary support Soul Master, and Zhao Yan was quickly defeated after becoming isolated in a practice match.
• Bibi Dong showed Hu Liena a report about a sealed ancient formation in the northern Star Dou Great Forest and guessed that Ning Buhui had entered a secret realm.
• Bibi Dong told Hu Liena that Ning Buhui would return, and Hu Liena went to the training grounds as the tournament approached.

Ning Buhui spent over half a year clearing the trials from the thirtieth to the seventy-ninth, reaching Soul Power Level forty-eight and sharpening his combat skills. After surviving the increasingly difficult challenges, he stood before the eightieth trial, with only two trials and the Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone reward remaining.

• Ning Buhui turned ten and reflected on the forty trials that had honed his combat instincts and taught him Soul-Devouring Divine Light.
• Ning Buhui defeated seven weakened clones of himself in the seventieth trial by using traps, teleportation, and feints in a jungle.
• Ning Buhui quickly overcame two level fifty-nine Soul King mirrors in the seventy-first trial by interrupting one opponent and striking both with his soul-based techniques.
• Ning Buhui cleared increasingly difficult trials, including coordinated opponents, a weightless void, and a level-sixty Soul Emperor mirror in the seventy-ninth trial.
• Ning Buhui reached the stone door to the eightieth trial and sensed that the secret realm's central test was beginning.

Ning Buhui defeated the eight mirror clones on the eighty-first stage after struggling against their coordinated tactics and changing from ambushes to a desperate head-on fight. Exhausted and badly wounded, he watched the next gate appear, marked “Question the Heart.”

• Ning Buhui entered a desert stage and faced eight mirror clones who coordinated attacks to trap him.
• Ning Buhui used the dunes to ambush the clones, killing two before they adapted and began pursuing him in pairs.
• With his Soul Power dwindling, Ning Buhui fought head-on, killing an assault clone but suffering severe injuries.
• Ning Buhui killed the remaining clones despite their counterattacks, then collapsed in the sand with his Soul Power exhausted.
• Ning Buhui swallowed a medicinal pill as the desert vanished, and the gate to the next stage appeared with “Question the Heart” carved into it.

Ning Buhui passed the Supreme Sect’s final trial by confronting the hardships and resentment of his childhood and deciding to use his hatred as fuel rather than let it control him. He left the secret realm with powerful rewards and flew through the Star Dou Great Forest toward Spirit City, eager to see his friends again.

• Ning Buhui relived his childhood in Bluestone Town and watched the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect decide to abandon him and his family.
• Ning Buhui told his former self that he did not regret transmigrating and would use his hatred to pursue strength and control over his fate.
• Ning Buhui passed the final trial and received a 120,000-year-old Head Soul Bone, a Spirit Ascension Pill, and a map to another secret realm.
• Ning Buhui left the secret realm after learning it would close within a day, having reached Soul Power Level 48 and mastered two abilities.
• Ning Buhui headed south through the Star Dou Great Forest, thinking of his friends in Spirit City, then summoned his Wind Thunder Wings and flew home.

Ning Buhui safely fused the 120,000-year-old Time-Reversing Heavenly Secret Skull, gaining two spiritual abilities and reaching level forty-nine. He returned to Spirit City, reported his year away to Bibi Dong, and went to sleep after postponing his friends’ questions until the next day.

• Ning Buhui fused the Time-Reversing Heavenly Secret Skull, and the Domain-Suppressing Pagoda steadied his turbulent sea of consciousness.
• Ning Buhui gained Pupil of Illusion Breaking and Eye of the Future, expanded his spiritual perception, and advanced to level forty-nine.
• Ning Buhui returned to Spirit City and told Bibi Dong about his training, the Supreme Sect's secret realm trials, and the soul bone he obtained.
• Bibi Dong told Ning Buhui that Spirit Hall had won the Continental Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament and gave him the other academies' rankings.
• Ning Buhui met Yan and Xie Yue at the training ground, agreed to talk with them the next day, and went to bed after deciding to save the Spirit Ascension Pill for later.