Chapter Summaries

Gula explained how he and Tang San could sell a weakened version of their Bone Strengthening Paste while keeping its best effects for themselves. After Xiao Wu ate some of the paste, its medicinal power took effect, and Tang San told her she would need to train to use it up.

• Gula told Tang San that removing a harmonizing ingredient would weaken the paste and make its impurities take longer to leave the body, while preserving the full formula for their own use.
• Tang San collected the clean upper layer of paste and discarded the impure residue as Xiao Wu questioned why they were experimenting on rabbits.
• Xiao Wu persuaded Tang San to give her some paste, and Gula teased him for giving in to her.
• Gula decided to teach Tang San dating advice, while Tang San briefly sensed something strange and looked around.
• After eating three fingerfuls, Xiao Wu felt hot as the paste took effect, and Tang San told her to train for fifteen minutes to exhaust its medicinal power.

Gula tested the effects of his medicinal paste, then traveled to Xinya City to collect royalties and arrange a medicine stockpile. He disguised himself to enter Spirit Hall, but switched places with his clone and escaped outside before meeting the elder waiting for him.

• Xiao Wu became overwhelmed by the medicinal paste and challenged Tang San to a fight, while Gula recorded his observations.
• Three days later, Gula convinced Tang San and Xiao Wu to travel with him to Xinya City, where they would contact medicine merchants as he collected his royalties.
• Gula disguised himself as an imposing adult and entered Spirit Hall, persuading a deacon that he was Senior Ooki.
• Gula swapped places with his Shadow Clone on the stairs, then used his Celebi Martial Soul and Time-Space Travel to appear on the street outside Spirit Hall.

Gula’s clone collected payment from Spirit Hall and left behind a thesis that drove the local bishop to rush to Spirit City. Meanwhile, Gula joined Tang San and Xiao Wu to negotiate for Bone Jade Bamboo, where a merchant’s connection to the Seven Treasures Merchant Guild opened an unexpected opportunity.

• Spirit Hall’s Purple Clothed Bishop gave Gula’s clone a ten-thousand-gold reward and invited him to join, but Gula refused and warned that future theses would go to the Upper Three Sects if Spirit Hall investigated him.
• After reading Gula’s thesis on Body Strengthening and Bone Tempering Paste, the Purple Clothed Bishop hurried to Spirit City to report its contents.
• Gula’s Shadow Clone escaped Spirit Hall’s pursuit, leaving the Gold Cards in an alley for Gula to retrieve.
• Gula found Tang San and Xiao Wu negotiating with Boss Sun for Bone Jade Bamboo, and he pressured the merchant and his Soul Master guards with increased gravity.
• Boss Sun revealed he was registered with the Seven Treasures Merchant Guild and offered one hundred sets of medicinal herbs for free, along with future supplies at cost price.

Gula, Tang San, and Xiao Wu left Xinya City with medicinal herbs after Gula foresaw a bandit ambush linked to Boss Sun. The bandits surrounded their carriage outside the city and attacked, unaware that Gula was the Soul Master they had expected.

• Gula paid Boss Sun fifteen thousand Gold Soul Coins for seven thousand portions of medicinal herbs, which he stored in his Great Ball before leaving with Tang San and Xiao Wu.
• After the trio departed, Boss Sun’s guard questioned why he had not warned them about bandits, and Boss Sun revealed nothing about his own ties to the bandits.
• Gula sensed malice and used his Celebi Martial Soul to see that robbers connected to Boss Sun would attack them; he told Tang San to protect Xiao Wu.
• More than ten kilometers outside the city, the carriage stopped in a wooded area as over thirty bandits surrounded it.
• The bandit leader, confused that he could not see the Soul Master he expected, ordered his men to capture Gula, Tang San, and Xiao Wu for ransom.

Gula used Gravity Field and Mud Shot to trap and kill Black-faced Fiend while Tang San and Xiao Wu fought the other bandits. After learning the bandits were villains who chose to prey on others, the three finished wiping out the group.

• Gula gave Tang San permission to fight the bandits without holding back, and Tang San killed the first attacker with his Sleeve Arrows.
• Xiao Wu attacked a Wolf Bandit on the flank but hesitated to approach him because he carried a saber.
• Gula used Gravity Field and Scary Face to slow Black-faced Fiend, then covered him in mud with repeated Mud Shots until he was trapped.
• Gula sensed Black-faced Fiend beneath the mud and killed him by stabbing him in the heart with a long blade.
• Gula joined Tang San and Xiao Wu in defeating the remaining bandits, and interrogation confirmed they had chosen to commit evil rather than being driven to crime by hardship.
• The three removed the bandits completely, while Gula's Base Stats were listed at the end.

After defeating the bandits, Gula and Tang San raided their mountain stronghold for stolen goods and supplies. They found the bandit leader’s collection of rare medicinal herbs, which turned out to be mostly aphrodisiacs and tonics.

• Xiao Wu questioned how people could commit such cruel crimes, and Tang San and Gula told her that killing the bandits was necessary for self-protection.
• Gula found Black-faced Fiend’s Storage Soul Tool and used his Celebi Martial Soul to view its past, recoiling after seeing the bandit leader’s sordid activities.
• Gula led Tang San and Xiao Wu to the bandit stronghold, where he put the guards to sleep with Sleep Powder and left Xiao Wu to stand watch.
• Gula and Tang San quietly took down the bandits inside the stronghold, with Tang San finishing off the enemies Gula incapacitated.
• Gula found the bandit leader’s collection, and Tang San recognized the rare herbs as medicines for strengthening yang and enriching blood.

Tang San and Gula destroyed a mountain bandits’ hideout before returning to Nuoding Academy with Xiao Wu. Meanwhile, Lu Hongwen brought Gula’s thesis on Bone Jade Bamboo to Yue Guan, whose successful experiment confirmed its potential.

• Tang San and Gula burned down the mountain bandits’ den after Tang San found a transformed Mimosa Grass Soul Beast in a cave.
• Gula, Tang San, and Xiao Wu returned to Nuoding Academy, where Gula sorted the medicinal herbs and Tang San discussed how to use them.
• Lu Hongwen reviewed Gula’s thesis and decided to ask Yue Guan to verify its claims about Bone Jade Bamboo.
• Yue Guan studied the thesis, praised its medicinal principles, and gathered the listed herbs to prepare a batch of medicinal paste.
• Yue Guan tasted the paste and felt its effects as his Soul Power refined it, while Lu Hongwen watched him in admiration.

Yue Guan reported Da Mu’s Body Strengthening and Bone Tempering Paste thesis to Bibi Dong, who recognized its potential to strengthen Spirit Hall’s Soul Masters. She ordered Yue Guan to maintain contact with Da Mu, publish the thesis, and promote the medicine to attract recruits.

• Yue Guan examined the paste’s effects and considered how higher-year medicinal herbs might improve it, but realized the formula’s common main ingredient was rare at high years.
• Yue Guan learned that Da Mu had refused to join Spirit Hall and threatened to send future theses to the Upper Three Sects if Spirit Hall withheld publication or searched for him.
• Yue Guan brought Da Mu’s thesis and the paste to Bibi Dong and explained the medicine’s potential benefits, costs, and implications for Soul Ring absorption.
• Bibi Dong ordered Yue Guan to find Da Mu and bring him to Spirit Hall, then accepted Yue Guan’s suggestion to keep contact and consider Da Mu’s requests.
• Bibi Dong tasked Yue Guan with buying medicinal herbs, publishing the thesis, and using the medicine to attract Soul Masters into Spirit Hall.

At Nuoding Academy, Gula trained Tang San and Xiao Wu, earning system points through their progress and meals. He examined Celebi’s Time Flower and planned to obtain Grassy Terrain and upgrade the equipment while balancing his physical and Psychic Power training.

• Gula trained in the Gravity Field with Tang San and Xiao Wu while Tang San’s Soul Skill helped prevent hidden injuries.
• Xiao Wu left the field after reaching her limit, and Tang San followed half an hour later; Gula earned points for their training.
• Gula fed Tang San and Xiao Wu customized Energy Cubes, earning additional points.
• Gula examined the Time Flower’s effects and considered how Grassy Terrain could support his training and Celebi’s recovery.
• Gula planned to save points for Grassy Terrain and prioritize upgrading the Time Flower, then finished lunch and began meditating.

After Spirit Hall published Da Mu’s Body Tempering Formula, soul masters across the continent tested it and major forces recognized its value. As they began searching for Da Mu and considering how to control or recruit him, the continent’s factions stirred into action.

• Spirit Hall published Gula’s thesis in the Spirit Report, and soul masters rapidly verified the formula’s effects as medicinal herb prices soared.
• Yu Luomian reported that the formula worked and was cheaper than the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect’s medicinal bath, while Yu Yuanzhen ordered tests to see whether the two methods could be combined.
• Ning Fengzhi bought herbs for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and planned to have Ning Rongrong train with the formula to improve her chances of evolving her martial soul.
• Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Sword Douluo discussed recruiting Da Mu, with Sword Douluo offering to bring him back by force if needed.
• The continent’s major powers verified the formula and sent Soul Masters to search for Da Mu.

Gula told Xiao Wu and Tang San a story that prompted Yu Xiaogang to discuss self-created soul skills and the decline of shared knowledge among soul masters. He then invited Tang San to test a newly unsealed healing skill called Synthesis.

• Gula told Xiao Wu and Tang San his modified story about Xiao Yan, using it to guide their outlook and train his Psychic Power.
• Yu Xiaogang praised the ideas behind the story and described a Kamaitachi soul master's wind-based abilities as an example of a self-created soul skill.
• Gula argued that Fire Blowing Palm had limited usefulness at higher levels and that techniques involving Martial Soul Origin had greater potential.
• Gula asked Tang San to test Synthesis, a self-created skill that converted Light Attribute energy into Life Force to heal the user.

Gula taught Tang San the Synthesis Soul Skill, whose sunlight-powered conversion restored Life Force with extraordinary efficiency, then advised Xiao Wu to evolve her Soft Bone Rabbit into a stronger Agility Attack Type Martial Soul. He explained that Energy Evolution was the only practical path for her, leaving her to consider his proposal.

• Gula guided Tang San through Synthesis, and Tang San memorized its complicated Soul Power route and converted Soul Power into Life Force at a one-to-two ratio.
• Tang San thanked Gula, who warned that Synthesis recovered less Life Force in darkness and that mastering it would reduce its cost.
• Gula questioned Xiao Wu's choice of Waist Bow as her First Soul Skill and recommended an Agility Attack Type path instead of mental charm.
• Gula said Xiao Wu needed her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul to evolve so it could deliver sufficiently powerful attacks.
• Gula explained that Xiao Wu's high bloodline potential made Bloodline Evolution difficult and concluded that Energy Evolution was her only viable route.

Gula explained that Luo Sanpao’s failed mutation left it with an incomplete Light Attribute dragon bloodline, which caused Yu Xiaogang’s level-twenty-nine bottleneck. He offered ways to strengthen the bloodline, leaving Yu Xiaogang determined to pursue them and Xiao Wu wondering whether Gula knew her identity.

• Gula examined Luo Sanpao and told Yu Xiaogang that the Golden Holy Dragon’s Light Attribute came from Luo Sanpao’s dragon bloodline.
• Yu Xiaogang realized Luo Sanpao’s incomplete mutation explained his inability to break through level twenty-nine and asked Gula for help.
• Gula advised Yu Xiaogang to feed Luo Sanpao and himself dragon blood, revealing that Yu Xiaogang had been feeding Luo Sanpao white radish.
• Gula urged Yu Xiaogang to draw dragon blood without needlessly killing soul beasts and asked him to save some blood for Gula’s experiments.
• Gula suggested that a Dragon Race soul bone could supplement the bloodline, and Yu Xiaogang agreed to keep looking for one.
• Xiao Wu wondered if Gula had discovered her identity and was discouraging soul-beast hunting for her sake.

Gula outlined how Xiao Wu could evolve her Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul through moon-aligned energy, while Tang San gained confidence in evolving his Blue Silver Grass. After Xiao Wu left the academy for a visit home, Gula and Tang San decided to sell some of their medicinal herbs as prices soared.

• Gula explained that Xiao Wu could use moon-aligned energy and suitable Soul Rings to evolve her Soft Bone Rabbit martial soul, and Xiao Wu asked whether it would keep its name.
• Yu Xiaogang returned to his dormitory to write to Flender, while Tang San began cultivating under sunlight to help his Blue Silver Grass evolve.
• Xiao Wu privately asked Gula when he had discovered her secret, then said she was going home and asked what he wanted her to bring back.
• The next day, Tang San told Gula medicinal herb prices had surged as empires and major sects hoarded supplies, and Gula said they should sell some herbs rather than risk holding them.
• Gula decided to sell herbs seized from bandits to nobles seeking remedies for frailty, while Tang San warned that selling medicinal products under Da Mu's name could harm Gula's reputation.

Gula traveled to Sacred Wood City to sell medicinal herbs for Body Strengthening and Bone Tempering Paste, choosing the Seven Saints Merchant Guild as a potential buyer. The guild offered eleven gold coins per portion, and Gula had yet to accept.

• Gula gave Tang San a set of sleeve arrows and left to sell the medicinal herbs, while Tang San went to request leave for him.
• Gula arrived in Sacred Wood City and used Psychic Power to question a passerby about trustworthy herb buyers and their prices.
• Gula chose the Seven Saints Merchant Guild and found its shop near the Great Soul Arena.
• Gula offered enough herbs to make roughly six thousand portions of medicinal paste.
• The guild's waitress offered eleven gold coins per portion, above the agreed purchase price of ten gold coins.

Gula sold medicinal herbs to the Seven Saints Merchant Guild, then bought several pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gelatin from the merchant guilds in Sacred Wood City. He swallowed a piece nearly thirty thousand years old to strengthen himself, and its effects began to surge through his body.

• Gula negotiated a price of fifteen gold coins per portion and sold his medicinal herbs to the Seven Saints Merchant Guild for ninety thousand gold coins.
• Gula bought both pieces of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gelatin from the Seven Saints Merchant Guild, then purchased three more pieces from the other three great merchant guilds.
• Gula left Sacred Wood City and went to a ruined village to prepare the whale gelatin, summoning the Groudon Martial Soul for Martial Soul Possession.
• Gula melted a piece of nearly thirty-thousand-year-old Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gelatin with Eruption and swallowed it while protecting himself with Soul Power.
• Gula's skin turned bright red, his Soul Power came under intense pressure, and the fortune bestowed by the Plane Consciousness surged around him.

Ning Rongrong sneaked away from her sect’s supervision and wandered into Gula’s courtyard, where the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gelatin’s side effects left her acting dazed and affectionate toward him. After Gula used Aromatherapy to wake her, they argued, and he realized who she was.

• Ning Fengzhi let Ning Rongrong explore outside Sacred Wood City while disciples secretly followed her.
• Ning Rongrong tried to catch a wild rabbit, then slipped away while the disciples chased it.
• Drawn by a fragrant scent, Ning Rongrong entered Gula’s courtyard as he absorbed the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gelatin.
• Ning Rongrong approached Gula under the gelatin’s effects, and Gula used his Celebi Martial Soul’s Aromatherapy to clear them.
• Ning Rongrong accused Gula of being a pervert, and Gula teased her before realizing her identity.

Gula captured Ning Rongrong in a Great Ball, kissed her, and escaped before the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect could catch him. Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo took Ning Rongrong home, unaware of what the strange ball was or who Gula had been.

• Ning Rongrong accused Gula of causing the fragrance, but Gula threw a Great Ball at her and captured her while she was too weak to resist.
• Gula released Ning Rongrong, gave her the Great Ball and other items, kissed her, and vanished through space after saying they would meet again in Suotuo City six years later.
• Ning Rongrong searched the courtyard for Gula, then told Ning Fengzhi she was hungry instead of explaining what had happened; Sword Douluo questioned the disciples about the ball.
• Gula rested in a forest, checked Ning Rongrong's Pokémon information, obtained a Protect Move Disc, and learned Protect at the cost of much of his Soul Power.
• Ning Fengzhi and Sword Douluo took Ning Rongrong back to the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Ning Rongrong refused to explain who she had met and the sect continued investigating the strange fragrance.

Gula spoke with Ning Rongrong over a Walkie-Talkie and urged her to keep their connection secret. In the Star Dou Great Forest, Da Ming tested Xiao Wu’s medicinal formula on Er Ming and decided to gather more herbs for her.

• Gula called Ning Rongrong, reassured himself that she had not told her family about him, and asked her to keep their conversations secret.
• Ning Rongrong complained that Gula had ended the call, then began her meditation.
• Xiao Wu returned to the Core Area and gave Da Ming the Body Strengthening and Bone Tempering Paste formula from the Spirit Report.
• Da Ming had Er Ming collect herbs, prepared the paste, and watched Er Ming drink it.
• Er Ming felt a brief boost in strength, and Da Ming decided to gather more herbs to help Xiao Wu strengthen her human body.

Xiao Wu visited the Bamboo Forest with Er Ming to find Storage Soul Tools for carrying herbs, and discovered that the bodies of dead Soul Masters had left behind many soul bones and storage items. She collected them to sell and planned to give the soul bones to Gula, then returned home with Er Ming.

• Er Ming gathered a huge stack of medicinal herbs for Xiao Wu, who asked him to take her to the Bamboo Forest where Soul Masters’ bodies had been discarded.
• Xiao Wu and Er Ming searched among the Bone Jade Bamboo, and Xiao Wu found a Storage Ring and a Thousand Year Soul Bone.
• Xiao Wu realized that soul bones could help her find more Storage Soul Tools and asked Er Ming to sense their Soul Power Fluctuations.
• Xiao Wu collected three Ten Thousand Year soul bones, over a dozen Thousand Year soul bones, and more than thirty Storage Soul Tools, planning to give the soul bones to Gula and sell the storage items.
• After Er Ming could sense no more soul bones, Xiao Wu put the items away and went home with him.