Recaps

Gula and Tang San entered Nuoding Academy, where Gula developed his powers, awakened Celebi, and began turning his medicinal research into a source of income. The arc ended with Gula, Tang San, and Xiao Wu defeating bandits who attacked them on the road.

• Gula awakened his Groudon Martial Soul and Innate Full Soul Power, then joined Tang San at the Martial Soul ceremony and later captured him with a Great Ball.
• Tang Hao took Gula and Tang San to the Soul Hunting Forest, where Tang San gained a Lurantis Soul Ring and Gula absorbed a Thousand-Year Vigorous Vajra Bear Soul Ring to learn Gravity Control.
• Gula and Tang San trained together, and Gula defeated Tang San in a spar by using his Gravity Field against Blue Silver Grass.
• Gula’s thesis on physical conditioning and soul-ring limits earned him system rewards, while Yu Xiaogang wrote a paper advocating Poison Attribute Soul Rings for Plant Type soul masters.
• Gula and Tang San enrolled at Nuoding Academy, where Xiao Wu became Dormitory Seven’s boss and was captured by Gula’s Great Ball before choosing to live inside it.
• Gula awakened Spiritual Power with Xiao Wu’s guidance, connected with Douluo Star’s Plane Consciousness, and gained Celebi as his Second Martial Soul after entering Deep Meditation.
• Gula and Tang San developed Body Strengthening and Bone Tempering Paste, then traveled with Xiao Wu to sell the formula and collect Gula’s royalties.
• Gula obtained medicinal supplies from Boss Sun, but bandits ambushed the trio on the road, and Gula, Tang San, and Xiao Wu defeated and killed them.

Gula’s medicinal formula drew the attention of Spirit Hall and the continent’s great powers, while he sold herbs, strengthened himself, and helped Xiao Wu and Tang San prepare for their next Soul Rings. The trio became sworn siblings and hunted in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Gula absorbed a ten-thousand-year Flame Lord Soul Ring and gained the External Soul Bone Earth Core Blood.

• Gula and Tang San cleared the bandit stronghold, then returned to Nuoding Academy with Xiao Wu as Gula’s thesis on medicinal paste reached Yue Guan and Bibi Dong.
• Spirit Hall published Gula’s formula, triggering a rush for medicinal herbs and a continent-wide search for Da Mu.
• Gula sold the bandit herbs for ninety thousand gold coins and absorbed Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gelatin, then encountered Ning Rongrong and left her with a Great Ball and a promise to meet again in six years.
• Xiao Wu collected soul bones and Storage Soul Tools from the Bamboo Forest, told Gula that a powerful Soul Master had killed her mother, and learned Play Rough from him.
• Gula, Tang San, and Xiao Wu refined whale gelatin, left Nuoding Academy for the Star Dou Great Forest, and hunted a mutated sunflower for Tang San’s Second Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu revealed that she was a transformed spirit beast, and Tang San accepted her identity before the three became sworn siblings.
• Gula helped Xiao Wu hunt a Moonlight Worm, and she gained the Moon-Guiding Clone skill from its Purple Soul Ring.
• Gula lured a ten-thousand-year Flame Lord into a water-filled swamp, absorbed its Black Soul Ring, and gained the External Soul Bone Earth Core Blood.

Gula developed and published his Martial Soul Evolution Theory while training Zhu Zhuqing and helping Yu Xiaogang improve Luo Sanpao. After studying Dragon Transformation, he built a Mega Evolution Device and began testing it on Zhu Fugui.

• Gula and Tang San fought a Man Faced Demon Spider, then defeated the men searching for its Soul Bone with help from the Breaking Clan fighters.
• Gula invited Zhu Zhuqing to train with him, and she left the Breaking Clan group to join him at Nuoding Academy.
• Gula wrote his Martial Soul Evolution Theory, and Bibi Dong and Qian Daoliu arranged tests that showed some students’ Martial Souls could evolve.
• Spirit Hall forced Yu Yuanzhen to surrender the Dragon Transformation Secret Technique, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect withdrew into Sealed Mountain Seclusion.
• Gula strengthened his External Soul Bone into the Blaze Heart Armor and studied the Dragon Transformation method, identifying its risks and adapting its ideas for Mega Evolution.
• Gula created a Human-faced Demon Spider Evolution Device with Tang San’s help, then chose Zhu Fugui to test it.
• Gula brought Zhu Fugui to the garden and gave him the device, instructing him to activate it.

Gula’s Mega Evolution Devices reshaped training and drew rival powers toward the hunt for Soul Bones, while he helped Tang San, Xiao Wu, and their companions grow stronger. The group reunited with Liu Erlong in Heaven Dou City and reached the Soul Master Tournament, where the first matches began.

• Gula tested Mega Evolution Devices on Zhu Fugui and Zhu Zhuqing, while Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan and Gui Mei to find him and obtain his methods.
• Gula developed Tool Martial Soul training, and the growing demand for Soul Bones prompted Ning Fengzhi to warn Gu Rong and Chen Xin of a possible arms race.
• Flender brought Dai Mubai, Ma Hongjun, and Oscar to Nuoding Academy, where Zhu Zhuqing defeated Dai Mubai and Gula began special training for the newcomers.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Dai Mubai reached level thirty, and Flender led the group into the Star Dou Great Forest to hunt Soul Rings.
• The group fought alongside other factions against a Great Earth Demonic Bear and a Nether Frost Shadow Raven, and Gula gained the bear’s Soul Ring and right arm soul bone.
• Flender brought Gula and the others to Heaven Dou City, where he reunited with Liu Erlong and took over as dean of Blue Tyrant Academy.
• Qian Renxue learned that Gula and Tang San had Innate Full Soul Power and ordered Spine Dolphin Douluo to investigate Tang Hao’s presence discreetly.
• Gula declined Xue Qinghe’s invitation, then watched the tournament begin as Huoyan Shan used Mega Evolution to knock Lei Yu out of the arena.