Chapter Summaries

One month after returning to the academy, Xiao Wu offered Gula a Thousand Year Soul Bone as a gift, hoping to make him accept her as his little brother. Gula used the moment to push her to train harder and confront her reason for seeking strength, then placed a disc on her forehead.

• Xiao Wu returned to Dormitory Seven and called for Gula, who appeared behind her and teased her about thinking she could beat him.
• Xiao Wu led Gula to a secluded garden corner and showed him a Storage Ring containing a Thousand Year Soul Bone and medicinal herbs.
• Gula called Xiao Wu Sister Xiao Wu, then rejected her demands for unlimited Energy Cubes and suppressed her with his Gravity Field and telekinesis.
• Gula asked Xiao Wu why she wanted to become stronger, and she revealed that a powerful Soul Master had killed her mother.
• Gula urged Xiao Wu to cultivate and believe in herself, then slapped a disc onto her forehead.

Xiao Wu learned Gula’s Play Rough skill and reached a new level, while Gula processed her medicinal herbs and helped her and Tang San cultivate over the next year. After the three reached the time to hunt for second soul rings, Gula offered them Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gelatin to strengthen their bodies before setting out.

• Xiao Wu learned Play Rough from Gula, adapted to its soul power pathways, and realized it could help her complete her transformation earlier.
• Xiao Wu gave Gula her soul bones and medicinal herbs, then went off to cultivate; Gula processed the herbs and lamented their lost medicinal properties.
• Gula and Tang San each advanced eight levels over the year, while Xiao Wu broke through half a month before them.
• Gula explained why Xiao Wu’s planned charm soul skill might become ineffective against stronger spiritual power, and Xiao Wu agreed to join him and Tang San on a soul-hunting trip.
• Gula presented Tang San and Xiao Wu with Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gelatin, explaining that his Aromatherapy Soul Skill could help them endure its side effects and improve their physiques.

Gula helped Tang San and Xiao Wu refine Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gelatin, then the three set out from Nuoding Academy to hunt soul beasts. On the carriage, Tang San explained that he wanted a sunflower as his Second Soul Ring to gain a healing skill, despite Gula's warning that it could delay his bloodline awakening.

• Gula had Tang San and Xiao Wu refine Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Gelatin, and both emerged with their bodies strengthened.
• Gula began calculating a new medicine formula combining whale gelatin with Body Strengthening and Bone Tempering Paste.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu packed for soul hunting, obtained leave, and left Nuoding Academy with Gula as Yu Xiaogang and Flender watched them go.
• Yu Xiaogang told Flender that Gula had identified a solution to his martial soul defect and explained why he intended to teach Tang San.
• During the carriage ride toward the Star Dou Great Forest, Tang San revealed his plan to seek a sunflower Soul Beast for his Second Soul Ring, and Gula warned him that bloodline awakening mattered more.

Gula, Tang San, and Xiao Wu searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a Mutated Sunflower to serve as Tang San’s next Soul Ring. They reached a vast sunflower field and began carefully searching its edge.

• Gula agreed to read Yu Xiaogang’s books through Tang San so he could learn about Soul Beasts without giving up time for Energy Cubes.
• Gula proposed that a Soul Master’s willpower could influence the Soul Skills gained from Soul Rings, and Tang San said he would try it.
• Xiao Wu worried over whether she should hunt Soul Beasts to improve her own Soul Skills, despite knowing Gula would protect her.
• Five days later, Gula, Tang San, and Xiao Wu entered the Star Dou Great Forest and followed Xiao Wu’s guidance to a cliff covered in sunflowers.
• Gula warned the group that the sunflowers could combine their energy to repel threats, while Tang San explained how to identify Mutated Sunflowers and estimate their age.

Tang San and Gula helped Xiao Wu collect a mutated sunflower’s soul ring, then Gula discussed a plan to evolve Xiao Wu’s Martial Soul. The chapter left Gula considering a moonlight-based soul ring for Tang San as he planned to change his personality.

• Xiao Wu found a three-thousand-five-hundred-year mutated sunflower, and Tang San, Gula, and Xiao Wu stole it from the sunflower field without alerting the other flowers.
• The sunflower attacked Tang San after they escaped, so he destroyed it and absorbed its Purple Soul Ring while Gula and Xiao Wu guarded him.
• While Tang San meditated, Gula asked Xiao Wu to consider his plan to evolve her Soft Bone Rabbit Martial Soul and explained that Tang San’s father would not harm her.
• Xiao Wu asked what soul ring to seek, and Gula proposed a pure-blooded Moonlight Worm to help form a Great Yin Jade Rabbit of the Astral Attribute.
• Gula considered seeking a moonlight-using plant for Tang San’s Third Soul Ring, hoping its Light Attribute would help change Tang San’s personality.

Tang San gained the Blue Silver Energy Ring soul skill, and Xiao Wu revealed that she was a transformed spirit beast. The three became sworn siblings and headed toward the Laurel Tree Forest to seek Xiao Wu’s chosen soul ring.

• Tang San explained that his Blue Silver Grass could absorb sunlight and that Blue Silver Energy Ring stored energy for later use.
• Gula warned Tang San to keep the soul skill’s true effect secret and hinted that Xiao Wu’s chosen soul ring could suit his next ring.
• Xiao Wu told Tang San that she was a spirit beast transformed into human form, and Tang San accepted her identity.
• Tang San proposed that he, Xiao Wu, and Gula become sworn siblings, with Gula as the eldest and Xiao Wu as their younger sister.
• Tang Hao watched from the shadows, recalled his own siblings, and worried that the three might suffer the same fate.
• The three headed toward the Laurel Tree Forest while Xiao Wu settled on calling Tang San Third Brother.

Gula, Tang San, and Xiao Wu hunted a Moonlight Worm for Xiao Wu’s Third Soul Ring after discovering its connection to the Silver Ring Bees. Xiao Wu gained a Purple Soul Ring, while Gula explained the Moonlight Worm’s unusual path to restoring its powerful bloodline.

• Gula used his appraisal techniques to discover that the Moonlight Worms and Silver Ring Bees had a symbiotic relationship, and that a mutated seven-thousand-year Silver Ring Bee Queen had the Moonlight Attribute.
• Gula proposed waiting until morning to hunt a Moonlight Worm, and the three cultivated through the night while tracking where the worms hid.
• At dawn, Gula restrained a three-thousand-eight-hundred-year Moonlight Worm as Tang San used smoke bombs and scent agents to help them escape the bee swarm.
• Xiao Wu killed the Moonlight Worm and received a Purple Soul Ring, then questioned whether such a weak soul beast could help evolve her Martial Soul.
• Gula explained that Moonlight Worms accumulated power before reaching ten thousand years and could eventually purify their bloodline through repeated transformations.

Xiao Wu successfully copied a Moonlight Worm Soul Ring and gained the Moon-Guiding Clone skill, while Gula revealed that he planned to attempt a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. The group began discussing powerful Earth Element control skills as they considered Gula’s target.

• Gula watched Xiao Wu communicate with the Moonlight Worm Soul Ring and studied how she drew on her source to condense a Soul Ring.
• Xiao Wu gained the Moon-Guiding Clone skill, which let her cultivate faster under moonlight and create four clones that could use her Soul Skills.
• Gula and Tang San praised the skill, while Gula let Xiao Wu believe her good luck had secured its clone ability.
• Gula explained that he wanted an Earth Element control skill from a Magma Beast and planned to attempt a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Tang San and the hidden Tang Hao were shocked by Gula’s strength and confidence, and Tang San listed several Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts that might possess Element Control.

Gula used his foresight to prepare an artificial swamp near a volcano, intending to trap a ten-thousand-year Flame Lord and overcome its fire and earth abilities. He lured the enraged beast toward the trap, with Tang San and Xiao Wu ready to flood it once it was caught.

• Gula foresaw a future scene of himself gaining a black soul ring from a molten-rock soul beast and asked Xiao Wu to fill her Storage Soul Tools with water and river silt.
• Gula led Tang San and Xiao Wu to a volcanic area, where they made a waterlogged artificial swamp and covered it with grass.
• Gula instructed Tang San and Xiao Wu to flood the swamp if the soul beast fell in, preventing it from drying or escaping through earth control.
• Gula flew to a volcano and provoked a ten-thousand-year Flame Lord by dumping soul beast feces into its crater.
• The furious Flame Lord chased Gula toward the artificial swamp while Tang San recognized the powerful fire-and-earth soul beast.

Gula killed the Flame Lord by trapping it in a muddy swamp and using his Gravity Field, then absorbed its Black Soul Ring and chose Lava Undying Body. The fusion gave him an External Soul Bone he named Earth Core Blood.

• Gula, Tang San, and Xiao Wu trapped the Flame Lord in a water-filled swamp, and Gula increased the gravity until the beast died and left a Black Soul Ring.
• Gula recovered from the battle while Tang Hao watched from the shadows and praised his potential.
• Gula built a stone platform in the swamp, summoned his Groudon martial soul, and began absorbing the Flame Lord’s Soul Ring.
• Gula chose Lava Undying Body from the available Soul Skills and extinguished the Flame Lord’s lingering will in his Sea of Spirit.
• Gula gained a magma-like External Soul Bone with fire and earth abilities and named it Earth Core Blood.

After Gula gained a growth-type External Soul Bone, Tang Hao briefly showed greed and killing intent before deciding not to attack him. Gula resolved to publish his Martial Soul Evolution Theory early and chose to remain at Nuoding Academy rather than join Shrek Academy, leaving Tang San and Xiao Wu to follow his lead.

• Gula awakened a lava-like External Soul Bone, and Tang Hao briefly considered taking it before suppressing his greed.
• Gula recognized that he and Tang Hao were on different paths and decided to publish Martial Soul Evolution Theory early to strengthen Spirit Hall.
• Gula explained his External Soul Bone and Flame Lord Soul Skill to Tang San and Xiao Wu as they left the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gula proposed applying for Early Graduation, but Tang San explained that Tang Hao hoped they would attend Shrek Academy with Yu Xiaogang.
• Gula decided to stay at Nuoding Academy until normal graduation and expected Flender to arrange future Soul Ring hunts if he wanted to recruit them.

While Gula, Tang San, and Xiao Wu ate in the forest, a Five Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider ambushed them. Gula defeated it with his fire abilities, cleared the poison, and found a Left Arm Soul Bone in its corpse.

• Gula prepared Energy Cubes from Berries and medicinal herbs, and he, Tang San, and Xiao Wu ate beneath a tree.
• A Five Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider attacked with a poisonous web, but Gula pushed Tang San and Xiao Wu out of danger and burned the web away.
• Tang San used his Blue Silver Grass martial soul to heal Gula and warned the others about the poison in the air.
• Gula used Drought to expose the hidden spider, then trapped it with Eruption and gravity before killing it with Blast Burn.
• Gula used Aromatherapy to dispel the trio's poison, then searched the spider's corpse and found a Left Arm Soul Bone.

Gula, Tang San, and Xiao Wu found a Man Faced Demon Spider Soul Bone, but five black-clothed men hunting the Breaking Clan tracked them to the burned forest. The group launched a surprise attack, and Gula faced the five-ring Black-Clothed Leader as the fight began.

• Gula decided to sell the Man Faced Demon Spider's Left Arm Bone and exchange it for medicinal herbs, while Xiao Wu unsuccessfully asked him for more Energy Cubes.
• Five black-clothed men arrived, discovered signs that a Soul Bone had been taken, and began searching for the people from the Breaking Clan.
• Tang San signaled a surprise attack, and Xiao Wu prepared to use her Second Soul Skill to distract the men.
• Tang San killed the black panther soul master with a poisoned arrow, while Gula attacked with a Lava Giant Wave and Xiao Wu's clones charged from both sides.
• The Black-Clothed Leader revealed himself as a five-ring Soul King and struck Gula, whose Lava Undying Body let him survive the slash before he counterattacked with Flame Fist.

Gula and Tang San helped three Breaking Clan members defeat the black-clothed pursuers, then learned that the clan had been attacked over the profits from refining medicine. Gula recognized that the clan’s downfall stemmed from its weakness and greed, and asked about two girls traveling with them.

• The injured Soul King called for help after Gula’s attack, and three Breaking Clan fighters arrived to assist him.
• Tang San healed the Breaking Clan fighters while they and Gula fought the pursuers, killing the Soul King and defeating the remaining men in black.
• Yang Jingyun introduced himself, Yang Feng, and Yang Shuang, then explained that their clan had been attacked and enslaved after disputes over profits from medicine refining.
• Gula remarked that the Breaking Clan’s defeat was not Da Mu’s fault and that its weakness had left it vulnerable.
• Gula asked Yang Jingyun who the two girls with the group were.

Gula learned how Bai Chenxiang and Zhu Zhuqing had escaped the attack on the Breaking Clan, then offered to take them to Fanos Province. Zhu Zhuqing chose to travel with Gula, while Yang Jingyun and the others continued toward Heaven Dou City.

• Yang Jingyun explained that Bai Chenxiang had fled with the Breaking Clan after the Speed Clan and Breaking Clan leaders were besieged by Star Luo nobles.
• Yang Jingyun revealed that Zhu Zhuqing had been abandoned by her family after her fiancé, Dai Mubai, fled, and that Bai He had taken her from the battlefield.
• Xiao Wu and Tang San condemned Zhu Zhuqing's father for sacrificing her, while Tang Hao privately accepted the choice and blamed the Star Luo Empire.
• Gula invited the group to Fanos Province, but Yang Jingyun declined and said they were heading to Heaven Dou City.
• Gula warned Zhu Zhuqing that the Star Luo Empire might demand her return, and Zhu Zhuqing chose to go with Gula instead of the others.

After parting from Bai Chenxiang and the Breaking Clan, Gula welcomed Zhu Zhuqing into his group and offered to help her train. He caught her as a Pokémon, discovered her potential Ghost/Dark typing and possible evolution, and began planning her training.

• Bai Chenxiang said goodbye to Zhu Zhuqing, and Yang Jingyun gave Gula a Soul Tool containing ingredients for Body Strengthening and Bone Tempering Paste before leaving with Bai Chenxiang.
• Xiao Wu introduced herself to Zhu Zhuqing, who revealed her Hell Spirit Cat martial soul and explained her cultivation history.
• Gula told Zhu Zhuqing that he was close to her age and offered to help her train and assist with his martial soul research.
• Zhu Zhuqing accepted Gula's offer, and he gave her a Portable Mimicry Training Ball that absorbed her.
• Gula examined Zhu Zhuqing's information, identified her as a promising Ghost/Dark Pokémon with a possible Pseudo-Legendary evolution, and received the Shadow Claw Skill Learning Machine.

Gula returned to Nuoding Academy with Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Zhu Zhuqing, then spoke with Ning Rongrong and began writing a theory of Martial Soul mutation and evolution. He left the chapter preparing to develop the thesis, which he intended to use to challenge the standing of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Sect and the Clear Sky Sect.

• Gula planned how he could train Zhu Zhuqing, and she reluctantly accepted the Great Ball as a gift.
• Five days later, Xiao Wu welcomed Zhu Zhuqing to Nuoding Academy, while Tang San went to find Yu Xiaogang and ask about books and dragon blood.
• Gula called Ning Rongrong, revealed that she could call him Da Mu, and was disbelieved because she thought he was too young to be Grandmaster Da Mu.
• Gula considered using a clone to conceal his identity, rejected the idea, and recorded it in his notebook.
• Gula began polishing his Martial Soul Evolution Theory, describing how deficient attributes and bloodlines could be completed through nurturing and high-quality energy.

Gula continued his essay on Martial Soul classification and evolution, explaining how bloodlines, Soul Rings, attributes, and Martial Soul compatibility could shape a Soul Master’s potential. He ended by introducing the next topic: choosing Soul Rings and deciding between bloodline and energy evolution.

• Gula argued that the Golden Iron Triangle’s Horn of Wisdom was a failed Light Attribute dragon-type mutation and suggested suitable sub-dragon Soul Rings and dragon blood could have helped it evolve.
• He classified Martial Souls by potential and combat power, discussing the limitations of common and high-level types and naming examples of top-tier Martial Souls.
• Gula distinguished Super Martial Souls and God-level Martial Souls, described how Soul Rings could guide top Martial Souls toward evolution, and warned that unsuitable rings could damage a Super Martial Soul’s purity.
• Gula revealed that he had helped a Soul Master with Ultimate Earth and Half-Extreme Fire attributes stabilize their Martial Soul with a Secret Medicine and a First Thousand Year Ring.
• Gula proposed that Martial Soul evolution involved bloodline and energy, suggested an Astral Attribute path for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, and described Martial Soul Fusion Skills as evidence of compatibility and completion.
• Gula said he would next explain how to choose Soul Rings and select between bloodline and energy evolution.

Gula wrote a paper outlining paths for martial soul evolution, and Spirit Hall’s leaders convened to assess its claims. The meeting ended with the worship elders debating whether their own martial souls met the paper’s standards and Golden Crocodile Douluo asking whether anyone had tested its methods.

• Gula wrote theories on bloodline evolution, artistic conception, and nature-based cultivation, then arranged for his paper to be mailed from Nuoding City.
• Bibi Dong read the paper and ordered Yue Guan to send it to the Worship Hall and convene a council for evaluation.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo judged the paper credible, brought it to Qian Daoliu, and asked whether Spirit Hall should intercept its publication.
• Qian Daoliu recognized Da Mu as the researcher behind Body Strengthening and Bone Tempering Paste and ordered a meeting and vote on the paper.
• Bibi Dong asked the assembled elders to assess the theories, while Mighty Lion Douluo and Qing Luan Douluo questioned the paper’s classifications of Extreme Martial Souls.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo defended the paper’s insights and asked whether anyone had arranged to test its proposed methods.

Spirit Hall tested the article’s claims by arranging soul rings for seven students, and two youths demonstrated remarkable martial soul changes. The results convinced the gathered Douluo that soul rings could awaken elemental powers or evolve martial souls, while Qing Luan Douluo considered obtaining the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s bloodline-stimulation method.

• Qian Daoliu delayed the vote and sent Demon Bear Douluo and Ghost Leopard Douluo to find suitable Hundred-Year Soul Beasts for seven students.
• Ghost Leopard Douluo returned with Xue Lisheng and Wu Yong, reporting that both youths’ martial souls had changed.
• Xue Lisheng demonstrated that his Silver Wolf could use Spiritual Power to control Wind Element and form an autonomous defense after gaining a spiritual soul ring.
• Bibi Dong approved the academy’s support for Xue Lisheng and told him to consider his future soul-ring needs.
• Wu Yong explained that a Blazing Earth Dragon soul ring evolved his Blazing Lizard into a Flame Dragon Lizard and granted him Crimson Flame Dragon Transformation.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo regretted that Spirit Hall had overlooked weaker students, while Qing Luan Douluo wondered whether the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan would share its Dragon Transformation Secret Technique.