Recaps

Chen Xin and Dugu Bo led the group into the Star Dou Great Forest to find Soul Rings, and Zhu Zhuqing successfully absorbed a five-thousand-year-old Shadow Leopard ring. The group then headed toward Confusion Hills to seek a Pink Lady for Oscar, entering an area filled with a strange, frenzy-inducing scent.

• Dugu Bo concealed Yan Zu’s role in his transformation, and Chen Xin briefed the group before leading them into the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Yan Zu used the Gazetteer of Mountains and Rivers to guide the group to Shadow Canyon, where Chen Xin, Dugu Bo, and Liu Erlong trapped a five-thousand-year-old Shadow Leopard.
• Yan Zu coordinated the group’s fight, and Zhu Zhuqing killed the Shadow Leopard with Netherworld Hundred Claws.
• Zhu Zhuqing absorbed the leopard’s Soul Ring with Yan Zu’s help, reached level 38, and gained the Third Soul Skill Shadow Assault.
• Yan Zu identified a Pink Lady in Confusion Hills as a possible Soul Ring target for Oscar and warned the group to guard against the area’s strange scent and poison mist.

Oscar contracted the Pink Lady as his Soul Spirit and gained a powerful Fourth Soul Skill before the group made camp. Later, Dugu Yan was attacked by a fifteen-thousand-year Shadow Demon Leopard, and Oscar joined the fight to protect her.

• Yan Zu and the others subdued the Pink Lady’s hostility, and Oscar formed an equal Soul Spirit Contract with her, gaining a twelve-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring and reaching level 43.
• Oscar revealed that his Excited Pink Sausage boosted every base attribute by 35% for five minutes and could stack with other support effects; he named the Pink Lady Soul Spirit Little Red.
• The group camped for the night, and Dugu Yan left the camp alone to think about her separation from Yu Tianheng.
• A Shadow Demon Leopard ambushed Dugu Yan in the forest, and she struck back with Poison Dragon’s Wrath before the beast dodged and attacked again.
• Oscar rushed to Dugu Yan’s aid with Thousand Illusions Clone Sausage, then gave her a Recovery Big Sausage; Dugu Yan summoned Little Jade Green, and Oscar summoned Little Red as the fight continued.

Dugu Yan and Oscar defeated a Ten-Thousand-Year Shadow Demon Leopard with their combined attacks before Dugu Bo intervened and praised Oscar for protecting her. The group later reached a giant rock basin, where they found the Ten-Thousand-Year Black Armor Dragon Turtle chosen as a possible Fourth Soul Ring for Ning Rongrong.

• Pink Lady's interference and Oscar's Excited Pink Sausage helped Dugu Yan poison and badly wound the Shadow Demon Leopard.
• The Shadow Demon Leopard tried to make a final attack, but Dugu Bo arrived, trapped it in poison mist, and killed it.
• Dugu Bo scolded Dugu Yan for entering the forest recklessly, then praised Oscar for rushing to her aid.
• Dugu Yan and Oscar showed mutual concern the next morning, while Ning Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing noticed their awkwardness.
• Yan Zu and Chen Xin led the group southwest to seek a Black Armor Dragon Turtle for Ning Rongrong's Fourth Soul Ring.
• The group reached the giant rock basin and spotted a colossal Ten-Thousand-Year Black Armor Dragon Turtle.

Yan Zu and his companions defeated the Cave Demon Spider swarm, allowing Ning Rongrong to form an equal Soul Spirit Contract with Xuanjia and gain her fourth Soul Ring. They then challenged the proud Lava Earth Core Python for Liu Erlong’s eighth Soul Ring, and the battle began with Yan Zu and Liu Erlong fighting together.

• Yan Zu persuaded Xuanjia to consider a contract with Ning Rongrong by promising to protect its clan from the Cave Demon Spiders.
• Sword Douluo Chen Xin killed the thirty-thousand-year spider king while Dugu Bo and the others held back the swarm, ending the threat to Xuanjia’s clan.
• Xuanjia honored its agreement and formed an equal Soul Spirit Contract with Ning Rongrong, who gained a ten-thousand-year Soul Ring, reached level 46, and obtained her fourth Soul Skill, Defense.
• The group found a seventy-five-thousand-year Lava Earth Core Python for Liu Erlong, but it demanded that she defeat it alone before agreeing to a contract.
• Yan Zu challenged the Earth Core Python to face him and Liu Erlong together, and it accepted on the condition that the group leave if they lost.
• The Earth Core Python attacked with Lava Tail Whip, and Liu Erlong met it with Fire Dragon’s Fury and Fire Dragon’s Claw.

Liu Erlong and Yan Zu defeated the seventy-five-thousand-year Lava Earth Core Python through their coordinated attacks and support, and Liu Erlong accepted its equal Soul Spirit Contract. As she absorbed its Soul Ring, the contract also granted her a Torso Bone that began strengthening her body.

• Yan Zu linked Liu Erlong to the Lava Earth Core Python with Pact of Protection, while his healing, defenses, and buffs helped her fight the python in its Lava Domain.
• Liu Erlong and Yan Zu combined their strongest powers to withstand the python's Earthcore Dragon Flame Blast, leaving all three badly injured and the python gravely wounded.
• The Lava Earth Core Python acknowledged Liu Erlong and offered an equal Soul Spirit Contract, which she accepted before beginning to absorb its seventy-five-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• A gold-red beam emerged during the contract's fusion, and Chen Xin identified it as a Soul Bone entering Liu Erlong's torso.
• Yan Zu recognized the gift as the python's Torso Bone, and its power resonated with Liu Erlong's Soul Spirit as it strengthened her body.

Liu Erlong reached rank eighty-seven after gaining a Soul Spirit, an Eighth Soul Ring, and a Torso Soul Bone that greatly strengthened her abilities. As the group returned from the Star Dou Great Forest, Oscar’s sincere attention left Dugu Yan torn between her feelings for him and memories of Yu Tianheng.

• Liu Erlong awakened as a rank eighty-seven Soul Douluo and summoned Earthcore, who explained how the Soul Spirit could support her in battle.
• Liu Erlong revealed her Eighth Soul Skill, Dragon Flame Heaven-Burning Array, and her Soul Bone’s Earth Core Dragon Armor.
• Yan Zu, Chen Xin, and Dugu Bo praised Liu Erlong’s gains, and the group began their journey home from the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Oscar repeatedly cared for Dugu Yan during the journey, offering help and Recovery Sausages while openly showing his affection.
• Dugu Yan compared Oscar’s gentle attentiveness with her competitive relationship with Yu Tianheng and felt drawn to Oscar but afraid of being hurt again.

Dugu Bo advised Dugu Yan to consider Oscar at her own pace, while Yan Zu assessed whether Ye Lingling’s resilience and loyalty merited help with the Nine Heart Begonia’s inheritance flaw. The chapter left Ye Lingling quietly enduring her anxiety and working hard, as Yan Zu’s observations convinced him of her strength of character.

• Dugu Bo told Dugu Yan he would not choose for her, but praised Oscar’s character and compatibility as she weighed beginning a new relationship.
• The group returned to Blue Tyrant Academy and resumed training with their new Soul Rings and Soul Skills.
• Dugu Yan asked Yan Zu to help Ye Lingling, whose progress seemed to lag behind the rest of the team.
• Yan Zu said he had ideas for addressing the Nine Heart Begonia’s flaw but wanted to see how Ye Lingling handled adversity before committing his support.
• Yan Zu observed Ye Lingling training diligently, celebrating her companions’ progress, and healing Zhu Zhuqing quickly during a coordination exercise.
• Yan Zu saw that Ye Lingling concealed her loneliness and anxiety while continuing to care for her teammates and strengthen her healing skills.

Yan Zu helped Oscar and Dugu Yan grow closer by having Oscar teach her two cultivation techniques, while he decided to begin preparing to help Ye Lingling overcome the Nine Heart Begonia’s limits. Liu Erlong then set out with Yan Zu and Dugu Bo to confront Tai Tan, and they arrived at the Strength Clan’s residence.

• Yan Zu asked Oscar to teach Dugu Yan the Nine Yin Manual and the Six Meridian Divine Sword to improve her cultivation and help her manage her poison.
• Dugu Yan accepted Oscar’s offer, and the two grew closer through days of patient instruction and practice.
• Yan Zu watched Oscar and Dugu Yan’s relationship develop and decided Ye Lingling’s observation period had ended.
• Liu Erlong told Yan Zu she planned to settle her grudge with Tai Tan, who had injured her and threatened Yan Zu and Xiao Wu.
• Yan Zu arranged for Dugu Bo to accompany them, and the three traveled to the Strength Clan’s residence in Heaven Dou City.
• Liu Erlong announced herself to the guards and demanded that they tell Tai Tan she had come.

Liu Erlong confronted Tai Tan at the Strength Clan residence, with Dugu Bo backing her up after Tai Tan insulted him. Dugu Bo badly injured Tai Tan, and Liu Erlong continued the fight, activating her eighth Soul Skill as she sought to make the Strength Clan pay for his past attack.

• Tai Tan mocked Liu Erlong and insulted Dugu Bo, mistaking him for a pretty-boy lover.
• Dugu Bo revealed his identity as the Poison Douluo and struck Tai Tan with a poisoned palm, badly injuring him.
• Dugu Bo told Liu Erlong to handle Tai Tan while he guarded her, and Liu Erlong challenged Tai Tan over his earlier attack on her.
• Liu Erlong used her Soul Skills to overwhelm the poisoned Tai Tan, leaving him gravely wounded and pleading for her to stop.
• Liu Erlong declared she would make Tai Tan suffer as she had and activated her Eighth Soul Skill, Dragon Flame Heaven-Burning Array.

Liu Erlong defeated Tai Tan and warned the Strength Clan never to threaten Blue Tyrant Academy again. Yan Zu then began helping Ye Lingling address the Nine Heart Begonia’s flaws, and after three days of rest she completed the first stage of his treatment, tempering her body with an Ice and Fire pill.

• Liu Erlong’s flame dragons shattered Tai Tan’s defense and left him gravely injured, with his cultivation damaged.
• Liu Erlong warned the Strength Clan against harming Blue Tyrant Academy or its students, then departed with Yan Zu and Dugu Bo.
• Yan Zu reassured Ye Lingling that her Nine Heart Begonia’s problems might be solved and asked her to rest for three days before a surprise.
• Ye Lingling rested while Yan Zu prepared pills and gathered their friends to support her treatment.
• Ye Lingling swallowed the Ice and Fire Body-Tempering Pill, endured its painful effects for a day, and emerged with a stronger presence and a tougher constitution.

Yan Zu’s pills helped Ye Lingling break the Nine Heart Begonia family’s inherited limits and evolve her Martial Soul into the Sacred Heart Begonia. After receiving a hidden reward that gave him an External Soul Bone in the form of a golden tear mole, Yan Zu learned that Ye Lingling’s mother wanted to thank him in person.

• Ye Lingling recovered from the first pill’s body refinement, then took the Life-Creation Pill and Universe Mind-Calming Pill, reaching level 40 and strengthening her Martial Soul and spiritual power.
• Ye Lingling took the Universe Creation Pill, and her Nine Heart Begonia evolved into the Sacred Heart Begonia, though she still needed a Fourth Soul Ring to fully stabilize its power.
• Yan Zu received the External Soul Bone-Exiled Immortal Tear Mole, whose abilities included soothing allies, unsettling a target, and reviving someone who had died within ten minutes.
• Ye Lingling thanked Yan Zu and her companions for helping her, then returned home and showed her evolved Martial Soul to her mother, Ye Qinghe.
• Ye Qinghe learned that Ye Lingling’s Martial Soul had evolved and asked her to take her to the academy the next morning so she could thank Yan Zu in person.

Ye Qinghe visited Blue Tyrant Academy to thank Yan Zu for saving her daughter from the Ye family’s inheritance curse. After Ye Lingling stabilized her evolved Sacred Heart Begonia, Yan Zu and Liu Erlong helped her form a contract with a Thousand-Thread Spirit Banyan in Sunset Forest, leaving her with a powerful new Soul Spirit and Fourth Soul Skill.

• Ye Qinghe thanked Yan Zu for giving Ye Lingling and the Ye family hope, and Yan Zu asked her to call him A-Zu.
• After seven days, Yan Zu advised Ye Lingling to seek a Soul Beast that could strengthen her defenses and control abilities.
• Yan Zu, Ye Lingling, and Liu Erlong found a twelve-thousand-year-old Thousand-Thread Spirit Banyan in Sunset Forest.
• Liu Erlong suppressed the Spirit Banyan while Ye Lingling, aided by Little Jade, persuaded it to accept a contract and merge with her Sacred Heart Begonia.
• Ye Lingling absorbed the Spirit Banyan’s black Soul Ring, reached level forty-five, and gained the Fourth Soul Skill Spirit Banyan Barrier.
• The group returned to Blue Tyrant Academy, where Ye Lingling spent several days learning to use her new Soul Spirit and abilities.

Yan Zu taught Ye Lingling the Nine Yin Manual and Six Meridian Divine Sword while she quietly developed feelings for him amid the academy’s peaceful daily life. After Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong pressed him to continue Battle Through the Heavens, he wrote more of the story and left the next installment unfinished.

• Yan Zu taught Ye Lingling cultivation techniques, and her control, coordination, and spiritual perception improved as she struggled to contain her growing affection for him.
• Xiao Wu and Ning Rongrong squabbled over Yan Zu in the courtyard while Zhu Zhuqing quietly brought him tea and Ye Lingling practiced with her Spirit Banyan Soul Spirit.
• Yan Zu shared fruit with the girls, then later agreed to continue Battle Through the Heavens after Xiao Wu, Ning Rongrong, and Zhu Zhuqing asked about the story.
• Yan Zu wrote the events surrounding Xiao Yan’s three-year duel, adapting details for Soul Masters, while the girls watched and suggested characters and battle details.
• Yan Zu said Xiao Yan won but exposed Yao Lao’s existence and drew the Hall of Souls’ attention; afterward, he asked Ah Yin what she thought of the story, and she praised it.

Yan Zu organized intensive cultivation at the Secluded Bamboo Pavilion, using medicinal meals and training to strengthen his companions while continuing to tell them Battle Through the Heavens. As Ning Fengzhi deflected Xue Qinghe’s attempt to recruit the elusive Wen Yansheng, Bibi Dong began reading The Song of Roland in Spirit City.

• Yan Zu prepared medicinal meals and set a goal for the group to reach Soul King before the Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.
• Yan Zu established a daily cultivation routine, and the group’s Soul Power and abilities improved rapidly.
• Yan Zu continued telling Battle Through the Heavens as the group reacted to Xiao Yan’s victory and Yao Lao’s deep sleep.
• Xue Qinghe praised Wen Yansheng’s works and innovations, then asked Ning Fengzhi to reveal his whereabouts.
• Ning Fengzhi told Xue Qinghe that Wen Yansheng had departed on his travels and concealed that Yan Zu was staying with the group.
• Bibi Dong sat in the Pope’s Palace reading The Song of Roland.

Bibi Dong and several young Soul Masters reacted to Wen Yansheng’s influential books, while Yan Zu realized the attention around his hidden identity was growing and prepared to advance his plans and his companions’ tournament tactics. After half a month of cultivation, Yan Zu’s Xuanyuan Sword reached 18% unsealing progress.

• Gui Mei reported that Wen Yansheng was a mysterious scholar connected to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and Bibi Dong wondered if he was Xiao Gang.
• Hu Liena, Xie Yue, and Yan discussed The Legend of King Arthur, and Hu Liena began questioning the belief that strength alone ruled the Soul Master world.
• Huo Wu praised The Song of Roland, while Shui Bing'er and the girls at Skywater Academy discussed the ideas in Wen Yansheng’s books and his Soul Guidance Lamps.
• Yan Zu reassured Ah Yin that Wen Yansheng was still a concealed identity, then drafted basic civilian Soul Tool guides and combat tactics for his companions.
• After half a month of cultivation, Yan Zu saw that the Xuanyuan Sword’s unsealing progress had reached 18%.

Yan Zu realized that civilization’s growing influence was accelerating the Xuanyuan Sword’s unsealing, while Little Jade’s domain continued to expand. At Blue Tyrant Academy, Dugu Yan rejected Yu Tianheng, defended Oscar when he attacked, and recognized her feelings for Oscar as the two began a relationship.

• Yan Zu observed Little Jade’s growth and understood that civilization’s spread was nourishing the Xuanyuan Sword’s unsealing.
• Yu Tianheng came to Blue Tyrant Academy to apologize and win Dugu Yan back, but she firmly rejected him.
• Yu Tianheng attacked Oscar when Oscar stood between them, and Oscar evaded the blow with the Nine Spiral Shadows technique.
• Dugu Yan unleashed her poison and defeated Yu Tianheng, then warned him to leave her and those close to her alone.
• Dugu Yan realized how much she cared about Oscar, took his hand, and walked back to Secluded Bamboo Pavilion with him.
• Yan Zu, Xiao Wu, and the others saw Dugu Yan and Oscar leave hand in hand and smiled at them.