Chapter Summaries

After reaching Soul Saint, Gula rejoined Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and their companion, then used his account of fighting the Holy Spirit Cult to demand compensation from Jing Hongchen. Xu Tianran approved Gula’s demands, while growing suspicious that Gula knew of his ties to the Evil Soul Masters.

• Gula stabilized his cultivation at rank seventy-two and used his forest authority to locate the injured Huo Yuhao, Ju Zi, and their companion.
• Gula claimed he had killed three Evil Soul Master Title Douluo and refined their power, then healed the group and returned with them to Radiant City.
• Gula confronted Jing Hongchen, presented damaged Ninth-level defensive Soul Tools and resentful soul bones, and demanded Rare Metals and access to Mingde Hall’s Soul Tool designs.
• Jing Hongchen realized Gula had implicated Xu Tianran and sought approval from the emperor and the crown prince.
• Xu Tianran reluctantly agreed to provide fifty thousand jin of Rare Metals and Mingde Hall access, then ordered a secret investigation into how Gula knew of his contact with the Evil Soul Masters.

After the Body Sect destroyed Mingde Hall in a tunnel assault, Gula saved students while secretly plundering rare metals, and the Snow Empress’s soul escaped before apparently self-destructing. Jing Hongchen shielded Gula from an imperial inspection, but the chapter ended with Mingde Hall ruined and Gula’s haul undiscovered.

• Gula received fifty thousand jin of rare metals and planned to use them for stronger Soul Tools and clone battle armor.
• Gu Tong warned Huo Yuhao that the Body Sect would attack Mingde Hall, and Huo Yuhao learned he had to remain there without exposing his ties to the sect.
• The Body Sect, led by Du Busi, blasted open tunnels beneath Mingde Hall and launched a destructive assault while Huo Yuhao disappeared amid the chaos.
• Gula secretly sent clones to steal hardware, then saved fourteen students after Jing Hongchen offered him rare metals for each person rescued.
• The Snow Empress’s soul burst from the Godsealing Altar and self-destructed after Jing Hongchen and Du Busi joined forces against her, while her core soul had already entered Huo Yuhao.
• Jing Hongchen stopped Officer Xu from arresting Gula, who left his stolen materials undiscovered as the ruined Mingde Hall faced a long recovery.

Gula, Huo Yuhao, and Nana destroyed a Holy Spirit Cult outpost before Gula joined Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, and Xiao Xiao on their journey to the Clear Sky Sect. Along the way, they rescued Ju Zi from an army, and the group arrived at Clear Sky Fort.

• Jing Hongchen held an exchange tournament where Huo Yuhao defeated Ji Juechen after breaking through with his fist intent.
• Huo Yuhao asked Gula to help Nana destroy a Holy Spirit Cult outpost, and Gula killed its leader and wiped out the Evil Soul Masters there.
• Nana joined the Tang Sect, while Gula continued researching soul tools until the academy vacation began.
• Wang Dong and Xiao Xiao visited Huo Yuhao and Gula, and the four set out for the Clear Sky Sect after Fan Yu approved their leave.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Xiao Xiao, and Gula intervened when an army attacked Ju Zi's unit, defeated Zhao Yang, and continued to Clear Sky Fort.

At the Clear Sky Sect, Huo Yuhao’s cultivation triggered the Snow Empress’s sealed origin, forcing Electrolux to sacrifice himself to stabilize her as a soul spirit. Gula harvested the energy released and used it to create Ming Baixue, who planned for Gula and his avatars to enter the next Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament as a seven-person team.

• Huo Yuhao comprehended Tang San’s stele outside the Clear Sky Sect, and Wang Dong brought him, Gula, and Xiao Xiao inside.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan questioned Wang Dong about Huo Yuhao’s hidden Soul Ring and Gula’s power, mistaking his battle armor for a complete set of soul bones.
• The Ten Thousand Year Cold Ice Jade Marrow Bed triggered the Snow Empress’s origin, and Electrolux sacrificed himself to stabilize her as a soul spirit while Gula’s clone gathered the leaking energy.
• Gula’s clone collected the Snow Empress’s source power and fragments of Electrolux’s divine sense in the Underworld Flower Seed, then Huo Yuhao emerged alive as Wang Dong and the others waited anxiously.
• The seed transformed in Gula’s Forest Sea Demiplane and produced Ming Baixue, a Six-Ring Soul Emperor with the Eye of the Underworld martial soul.
• Ming Baixue proposed a seven-person team made up of Gula and his avatars for the next tournament, and Gula sent her with a clone to arrange their entry.

Gula returned to an ancient era to obtain a Fire- and Earth-attribute soul ring, but transformed the nearly dead Lava Sky-Piercing Python Yan Jun into an artificial Soul Spirit and evolved his First Martial Soul into Origin Groudon. After surviving a month of adjustment beneath an erupting volcano, he gained a divine-level seventh soul ring and returned to the Peerless Tang Sect Timeline.

• Gula left the Clear Sky Sect with Huo Yuhao, then spent a year and a half studying at Mingde Hall before traveling 150,000 years into the past to find Yan Jun.
• Gula tried to persuade Yan Jun to become his Soul Spirit, but Yan Jun attacked, so Gula trapped it in an illusion and nearly killed it with power borrowed from Origin Groudon.
• Gula reshaped Yan Jun’s soul and origin with Groudon’s power, creating an unstable artificial Soul Spirit embryonic form.
• Gula plunged into the volcano with the embryonic Soul Spirit, triggering an eruption that reshaped the western region while he underwent a month of evolution and recovery.
• Gula awakened with the Origin Groudon Magma Martial Soul, a divine-level seventh soul ring, and Soul Power at level seventy-four, then opened a tunnel and returned to the Peerless Tang Sect Timeline.

Gula returned from the exchange and, after bidding farewell to Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy, faced an ambush by Zhang Peng and Long Xiaoyao. He provoked Long Xiaoyao with revelations about Ye Xishui and her son, then persuaded him to raid the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Guidance Army warehouse in exchange for the son’s identity.

• Gula told Ye Guyi the exchange would end in two months, and she chose to wait for him to return during the tournament rather than risk being smuggled away.
• Gula created a Class 8 soul tool spear based on Yun Ming’s spear intent, then left Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy with Huo Yuhao after their exchange ended.
• Jing Hongchen gave Gula and Huo Yuhao marked dragon scales, and Gula discovered they could be used to track them.
• Zhang Peng ambushed Gula, Huo Yuhao, Yan Shaozhe, and Xian Lin'er, while Long Xiaoyao appeared to stop them.
• Gula detonated an Evil Bane No. 8 and taunted Long Xiaoyao with claims that Ye Xishui had a son by him, breaking through Long Xiaoyao’s resolve.
• Gula demanded rare metals worth one hundred million Gold Soul Coins for the son’s identity, and Long Xiaoyao flew off to raid the Sun Moon Empire’s Soul Guidance Army warehouse while Zhang Peng fled.

Gula revealed to Yan Shaozhe and Long Xiaoyao that Ye Xishui was Yan Shaozhe’s mother and had secretly loved Long Xiaoyao, unsettling all three of them. Long Xiaoyao massacred a Sun Moon Empire force, then returned to the Holy Spirit Cult hoping to confront Ye Xishui, only to learn she was in seclusion.

• After Long Xiaoyao and Zhang Peng fled, Gula told Yan Shaozhe that Ye Xishui’s Bright Phoenix martial soul meant she was his birth mother, leaving Yan Shaozhe shaken.
• Gula’s clone stayed behind and, after Long Xiaoyao returned with rare metals, revealed that Yan Shaozhe was his son and that Ye Xishui had secretly loved him.
• Gula’s clone told Long Xiaoyao that Ye Xishui had manipulated the rivalry between him and Mu En, then vanished and left Long Xiaoyao reeling.
• When Sun Moon Empire soul engineers arrived, Long Xiaoyao attacked them and survived their Level 8 Fixed Soul Tool Cannon barrage, leaving the battlefield in ruins.
• Long Xiaoyao headed to the Holy Spirit Cult to confront Ye Xishui, but learned she was in seclusion crafting the Tower of the God of Death and could not be disturbed.

Gula attended Shrek Academy’s Sea God Affinity Blind Date Convention with Xiao Xiao, where he stunned the crowd by revealing his seven-ring Soul Saint cultivation and Rank 8 Soul Engineer status. Xiao Xiao pulled him away from the event, but they sneaked back to watch Wang Dong’er reveal herself to Huo Yuhao before leaving together for the night.

• Gula reunited with Xiao Xiao at the convention and removed her bamboo hat, while Xu Sanshi failed to win any girls’ lights and was carried away on a sinking Water Lily.
• During his introduction, Gula revealed four ten-thousand-year soul rings, three Hundred Thousand Year soul rings, and his Rank 8 Soul Engineer rank, shocking the crowd and the Sea God Pavilion elders.
• Xiao Xiao flew to Gula, grabbed his hand, and hurried him away from the convention as the crowd’s attention turned toward him.
• Gula told Xiao Xiao that Wang Dong was a girl, and they secretly returned to watch Wang Dong’er reveal her identity to Huo Yuhao.
• Gula and Xiao Xiao left Shrek Academy together, and Xiao Xiao quietly agreed when he suggested they not return to the dorm that night.

Gula comforted Xiao Xiao, revealed his second martial soul and his plan to strengthen both martial souls, then explained his abilities to the Sea God Pavilion Elders. The Elders assigned him to represent Shrek Academy in the upcoming tournament and planned a Star Dou Great Forest trip to train and hunt for soul rings.

• Gula brought Xiao Xiao breakfast, told her he had a second martial soul, and explained how he intended to raise the Angel Martial Soul’s soul ring years by hunting Evil Soul Masters before cultivating his second martial soul.
• Xiao Xiao cried after believing Gula had sacrificed his own essence blood to help her martial soul evolve, and Gula reassured her and promised to protect himself.
• Gula met Xu Sanshi and Bei Bei on his way back to Shrek Academy, then went with Yan Shaozhe to report to the Sea God Pavilion Elders.
• Gula explained that killing Evil Soul Masters increased his cultivation and soul ring years, and he displayed his seven-ring configuration of four black and three red rings.
• Xuan Zi announced that Huo Yuhao and six others would represent Tang Sect, while Gula would captain a Shrek Academy team in the upcoming tournament.
• Cai Mei'er proposed a trip to the Star Dou Great Forest for soul rings and combat training, and Gula agreed before leaving to meet his assigned team members.

Gula became captain of Shrek Academy’s team, equipped and trained its members, then led them with Cai Mei’er and others to the Star Dou Great Forest. On their first night in camp, Gula and Zhang Lexuan sensed a large number of creatures approaching.

• Gula told the seven team members he had been appointed captain and briefed them on the Tang Sect Team’s strength and the tournament’s challenges.
• Gula offered the team his soul tools, assigned equipment to each member, and put them through two days of intense training.
• Cai Mei’er arrived with Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er, and the group set out for the Star Dou Great Forest alongside Mo Xuan, Zhang Lexuan, Han Ruoruo, and Li Yongle.
• The group entered the forest, made camp, and shared Huo Yuhao’s grilled fish before Zhang Lexuan and Gula took the first watch.
• Gula studied the spear intent in his Heavenly Azure spear while Zhang Lexuan reflected on her past, until both sensed many creatures approaching through the forest.

Gula completed a voluntary Destiny Reception with the Three-Eyed Golden Lion, opening a second sea of consciousness and gaining the Eye of Destiny while blocking Tang San’s attempt to interfere. He returned to camp as the group postponed their search for Huo Yuhao’s soul beast until the next day.

• Huo Yuhao detected Ink Leopards pursuing Cloud-Treading Deer toward camp, and Zhang Lexuan organized the disciples to fight after Li Yongle requested an Ink Leopard Soul Ring.
• Gula assigned Ning Tian, Wu Feng, Xie Huanyue, Lan Susu, Lan Luoluo, Zhou Sichen, and Cao Jinxuan their roles, then left a clone to watch over them while he went to find the Three-Eyed Golden Lion.
• The Three-Eyed Golden Lion sensed Gula and willingly joined him in a Destiny Reception, allowing him to open a second sea of consciousness and form the Eye of Destiny.
• Tang San tried to check the situation but Groudon’s power obstructed him; by the time Tang San broke through, Gula and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion had completed the Destiny Reception.
• Di Tian chose not to pursue Gula after sensing danger from his black-robed clone, while Gula tested his new Eye of Destiny and returned to camp.
• Cai Mei'er ordered the group to remain at camp overnight and delay their search for Huo Yuhao’s soul beast after they sensed strange energy and life fluctuations from the Core Area.

The group secured the students’ soul rings, but Huo Yuhao’s fifth ring granted a team-support skill rather than the personal power he wanted. After Gula killed three Evil Soul Douluo, he traded their teleportation soul bones to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er for Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit contract method and gave the remaining bone to Xiao Xiao.

• Huo Yuhao absorbed the fifty-thousand-year Blood Red Baboon King’s soul ring and gained Battle Intent Boiling, which strengthened his teammates’ battle instincts and Spiritual Power.
• Zhong Li Tian, Zhong Li Di, and Zhong Li Ren recognized Gula and attacked, but Gula killed them with his Solar Nuclear Fusion Burst and recovered three matching teleportation soul bones.
• Gula traded two of the soul bones to Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’er in exchange for Huo Yuhao’s Soul Spirit contract method.
• After the group returned to Shrek Academy, Gula gave the third teleportation soul bone to Xiao Xiao to improve her mobility.

Gula defeated Huo Yuhao and the Tang Sect team, then established his main body at the Natural Gate before returning to find Wang Dong'er unconscious. Huo Yuhao failed to find the healing herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, and Tang San began devising another way to save her.

• Gula used his Eye of Destiny to counter Huo Yuhao's strongest attack, defeated him, and swept all seven Tang Sect fighters.
• Gula left Shrek Academy to meet Ming Baixue at the Natural Gate, brought six incarnations there, and returned to Shrek.
• Gula learned Wang Dong'er had fallen unconscious after a seal failed, while Huo Yuhao set out to find the immortal herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Huo Yuhao found the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well stripped of its herbs, then went to the Clear Sky Sect and told Niu Tian and Tai Tan that the Lovesick Heartbreak Red was gone.
• Niu Tian contacted Tang San, who discovered his divine sense at the well had vanished and began planning another way to save Wang Dong'er.

Niu Tian proposed transferring Hundred Thousand Year soul bone power from Huo Yuhao to the unconscious Wang Dong'er, and Huo Yuhao agreed despite the risk of permanent injury. The first transfer succeeded, but Huo Yuhao was left badly weakened as the treatment continued.

• Niu Tian told Huo Yuhao that Wang Dong'er needed the power of multiple Hundred Thousand Year soul bones and proposed using Huo Yuhao to transfer their power to her.
• Huo Yuhao returned Wang Dong'er to Shrek Academy with Tai Tan, while Niu Tian went to retrieve three Hundred Thousand Year soul bones.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan began the treatment under Xuan Zi's watch, first forcibly removing Huo Yuhao's original right leg soul bone.
• Huo Yuhao endured the fusion of a Hundred Thousand Year right leg soul bone and a right arm soul bone while using his Soul Power to control their energy.
• Niu Tian stripped most of the new right leg soul bone's source power from Huo Yuhao and guided it into Wang Dong'er, whose face regained a faint flush.
• Huo Yuhao remained conscious but lay severely weakened, and the left leg soul bone transplant still awaited him.

Huo Yuhao endured the fusion and removal of three Hundred Thousand Year soul bones, saving Wang Dong'er, who awakened with her cultivation at rank seventy. After five days of recovery, he reunited with her, while Gula postponed awakening his Third Martial Soul to prepare for the approaching tournament and dangers in Radiant City.

• Niu Tian transferred the final Left Leg Bone from Huo Yuhao to Wang Dong'er, leaving Huo Yuhao gravely depleted but stabilizing her condition.
• Healing Soul Masters treated Huo Yuhao's wounds, and Xuan Zi reported that both he and Wang Dong'er were out of danger.
• Wang Dong'er awakened and reached rank seventy, then watched over the unconscious Huo Yuhao with worry and gratitude.
• Gula reassured Xiao Xiao that he would protect her, while she shared news about her growing responsibilities in the Tang Sect.
• After sleeping for five days, Huo Yuhao met Gula by Seagod Lake while Wang Dong'er pushed his wheelchair.
• Gula postponed awakening his completed Red Mech as his Third Martial Soul and prepared for the tournament and the coming dangers in Radiant City.

Huo Yuhao helped the Tang Sect prepare for the tournament and discovered that the Holy Spirit Cult had arrived in Radiant City with Tang Ya under its control. Meanwhile, Gula's disguised Natural Gate team registered for the competition, and he confidently prepared to face the threats ahead.

• Huo Yuhao demonstrated a spiritual attack powered by emotion, and Gula recognized its connection to Huo Yuhao's love for Wang Dong'er.
• Gula traveled with his seven incarnations as the Natural Gate team and registered them for the tournament in Radiant City.
• Huo Yuhao detected an unknown team with four Soul Saints among its competitors and asked Bei Bei to seek information from Princess Xu Jiujiu.
• Bei Bei found Tang Ya in the hotel corridor, but she struck him while standing beside Scorpion Tiger Douluo Zhang Peng; Huo Yuhao recognized the Holy Spirit Cult's involvement and brought Bei Bei back to their room.
• Huo Yuhao warned Xu Jiujiu about the Holy Spirit Cult, prompting her to alert the Star Luo Empire and order Tang Sect Zhuge Divine Crossbow Cannons.
• Gula's clone reassured Zhang Lexuan that he could overcome the tournament's powerful opponents.

The tournament opened with Shrek Academy facing Dragon Slaying Sect in the first match, where Wu Feng and Zhou Sichen secured an overwhelming victory while displaying the team’s use of Soul Tools. Shrek won eleven points, and the tournament continued amid growing attention to Soul Tool-equipped soul masters.

• The tournament rules established Individual Matches and Team Matches, and the teams gathered outside Radiant City for the opening ceremony.
• Ju Zi announced the tournament’s opening, and the draw matched defending champion Shrek Academy against Dragon Slaying Sect.
• Wu Feng defeated three Dragon Slaying Sect Soul Kings in succession before exhausting her strength and withdrawing.
• Zhou Sichen summoned five soul beasts and used a Milk Bottle to sustain them as they eliminated Dragon Slaying Sect’s remaining fighters.
• Shrek Academy won the Individual Match seven to one, skipped the Team Match, and earned eleven points.

Liu Niandao represented Natural Gate in the tournament and defeated Fierce Beast Academy’s first two fighters with overwhelming skill, revealing six black Soul Rings and a powerful saber array. He left his abilities on display as the Holy Spirit Cult leader Zhong Liwu took a keen interest in him.

• After Shrek Academy’s victory with Soul Tools, Xu Tianran, Ju Zi, Xu Jiujiu, and other observers recognized the threat posed by Shrek’s growing Soul Tool expertise.
• Liu Niandao volunteered to represent Natural Gate, concealed his teammates’ unusual abilities, and flew to the arena on his Nine-Leaf Flying Dagger Martial Soul.
• Liu Niandao revealed six black Soul Rings and used his Heavenly Gang Earthly Fiend Saber Array to defeat Fierce Beast Academy’s Griffin Soul King without killing him.
• After Fierce Beast Academy’s next fighter challenged Liu Niandao’s maintained soul skill, Ju Zi ruled that continuous field skills had to be withdrawn once after every two opponents.
• Liu Niandao pierced through the burly Great Earth Demonic Bear Soul King’s defenses, inflicted one hundred and eight nonfatal wounds, and withdrew his saber array.
• Zhong Liwu watched Liu Niandao and admired his precise, emotionless fighting, deciding he was a promising candidate to become an Evil Soul Master.

Natural Gate swept Fierce Beast Academy, and Ming Baixue publicly exposed Huo Yuhao’s covert scouting while accusing Tang Sect of exploiting compassion and profiting from war. Later, Gula revealed his overwhelming strength in Shrek Academy’s team match, provoking Holy Spirit Cult and drawing the attention of Regent Xu Tianran.

• Liu Niandao defeated all seven Fierce Beast Academy opponents with his flying daggers, earning Natural Gate twelve points despite the academy’s protest.
• Huo Yuhao swept Earth Dragon Gate and won Nan Qiuqiu for Tang Sect through a wager, while Ming Baixue accused him of spying on teams and denounced Tang Sect before the crowd.
• Huo Yuhao worried that Ming Baixue’s accusations would damage Tang Sect’s reputation and wondered how she had detected his Spirit Detection; Nan Shui Shui then left Nan Qiuqiu with Tang Sect.
• Holy Spirit Sect’s fighter killed Tiandu Team’s captain with his Bug Martial Soul, and Tiandu Academy withdrew after its protest failed.
• Gula led Shrek Academy to defeat Tianjia Sect’s seven-in-one shield combination with his seven Soul Rings and Saint Sun Angel Soul Spirit, shocking the tournament audience.
• Xu Tianran questioned Ju Zi and Zhong Liwu about Gula, and Zhong Liwu claimed Gula had gained strength by killing Holy Spirit Cult experts.

Gula’s clone infiltrated Radiant City’s underground Soul Engineer Tournament while Tang Sect and Shrek faced pivotal matches against Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy. After Zhou Sichen defeated Ye Cangshang and publicly insulted the Sun Moon Empire, Xiao Hongchen’s team was left demoralized and unsure whether to continue facing Gula.

• Gula sent a clone to the Green Hotel, where it crafted a Soul Guidance Fragment Grenade from the competition table and passed the underground tournament’s first round.
• Gula’s death aura alerted Huo Yuhao, and the clone’s spiritual counterattack hurt him; Huo Yuhao began to suspect the mysterious entrant was connected to the Natural Gate.
• Tang Sect drew Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy twice, then Wang Dong’er won three individual matches, revealing her Soul Sage strength and forcing Xiao Hongchen to concede the team match.
• At the start of Shrek Academy’s match against Sun Moon Royal Soul Tool Academy, Xiao Hongchen sent Ye Cangshang to wear down Gula with Invincible Shields, but Gula chose Zhou Sichen to fight instead.
• Zhou Sichen used summoned beasts and soul tools to defeat Ye Cangshang, then loudly disparaged Sun Moon soul tools, enraging the audience and leaving Xiao Hongchen’s team fearful of facing Gula.