Chapter Summaries

Gu You investigated Tang San’s Rooting Soul Skill and found that its earth-sourced vitality could restore others or sustain Tang San’s own strength and Soul Power. After an attempt to amplify combat ability proved limited and risky, Gu You turned to choosing a Soul Ring for Tang San.

• Gu You compared Tang San’s Rooting with other Support Soul Skills and determined that Blue Silver Grass could draw energy from the earth and transmit converted vitality.
• Gu You found that Tang San could retain vitality and convert it into physical strength and Soul Power, though much of it dissipated in the process.
• Gu You tested whether vitality could greatly enhance Tang San’s combat ability, but Tang San’s young body could not withstand excessive amplification.
• Gu You tested the vitality on himself and found that it boosted basic attributes only modestly, with an even smaller improvement to neural reflexes.
• Gu You decided to rely on Soul Rings for a combat enhancement and asked Tang San to choose between Aromatic Rosemary and Lockdown Cactus.

Tang San weighed two possible Second Soul Skills for his Blue Silver Grass while Gu You challenged the accepted limits of Soul Ring absorption with historical records. The group was left waiting as Tang San struggled to choose between the two Soul Beasts.

• Tang San said the Aromatic Rosemary and Lockdown Cactus both offered suitable Soul Skills, but he needed time to decide.
• Xiao Wu read the Aromatic Rosemary document, which described its ally-enhancing fragrance and possible healing abilities, and asked whether its age was too close to the absorption limit.
• Gu You argued that Yu Xiaogang’s Soul Ring Absorption Age theory was wrong and used historical records to explain how optimal Soul Ring combinations had grown stronger over time.
• Gu You predicted that future Soul Masters would eventually be able to absorb even more powerful Soul Rings, then redirected everyone to the Lockdown Cactus document.
• Xiao Wu read that the Lockdown Cactus could provide explosive attacks, spike-like Blue Silver Grass, or Flame resistance, leaving her and Lanta troubled by the choice.
• Tang San remained unable to choose between the two Soul Beasts while the others waited.

Tang San chose a Soul Ring option, and Gu You discussed the weaknesses of his Martial Soul before asking Lanta to identify his next target. Lanta correctly picked the Jade Bead Beast, whose rare Pure Energy State made it Gu You’s choice.

• Tang San chose one of Gu You’s proposed Soul Ring options after weighing stronger support against direct damage.
• Gu You asked Lanta to analyze the weaknesses of his Ultimate Conductor Tyranno and explained that he could not yet control its First Soul Skill.
• Gu You concluded that he needed versatile Soul Skills and higher base attributes while he worked to master Survival Instinct.
• After comparing three Soul Beast documents with Gu You’s recorded training data, Lanta selected the Jade Bead Beast because it could raise his energy attribute.
• Gu You described the Jade Bead Beast’s Life Attribute, combat abilities, and rare Pure Energy State.

Gu You explained the Pure Energy State, an attribute-less energy state that could promote fundamental evolution, and connected it to his theory that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass could evolve into a Blue Silver King. The chapter left Tang San reflecting on his mother’s legacy and Gu You’s conviction that vitality would guide the Blue Silver Grass’s evolution.

• Gu You described several attribute-related Soul Beast states and explained that Tang San and he had developed a Berserk Soul Skill with severe side effects.
• Gu You said tests showed that his Ultimate Conductor Tyranno possessed completely attribute-less energy, which he called the Pure Energy State.
• Gu You explained that this state could enhance a life-form at a fundamental level, as it had done for the Jade Bead Beast, and hinted that it could even evolve a Martial Soul.
• Tang San remembered Gu You’s theory that his Blue Silver Grass had once been a Blue Silver King before the Clear Sky Hammer suppressed it.
• Tang San recalled feeling joy at the thought that his mother’s Martial Soul had protected him, while Gu You believed the Blue Silver Grass needed vitality-focused Soul Skills to evolve.

Gu You theorized that Martial Souls could evolve through deliberate effort and resolved to push the Ultimate Conductor Tyranno beyond its limits. He planned a trip to obtain Soul Rings, though Tang San worried about relying on unfamiliar people for protection.

• Gu You considered examples of Martial Soul evolution and concluded that suitable Soul Rings and Spirit Bones could strengthen a Martial Soul.
• Gu You recalled the Transcendent Dragon and vowed to evolve the Ultimate Conductor Tyranno beyond its current limits.
• Gu You startled Xiao Wu with his glowing golden eyes, then announced that they would prepare for a trip once they reached Level 20.
• Gu You explained that Brother Tao could help obtain his second Soul Ring, while Xiao San would need a different Spirit Beast Forest outside Nuoding City's jurisdiction.
• Gu You showed the group a Level Three token marked with the character "Ghost" and planned to use it, along with a letter from Grandpa Ma Xiunuo, to arrange Soul Hunting.
• Tang San questioned whether it was too dangerous to entrust their safety to strangers.

Gu You argued that the Douluo Continent was relatively peaceful for talented Soul Masters and urged Tang San to trust the people around him. As Gu You, Tang San, and Xiao Wu prepared to leave for their second Soul Rings, they reassured Lanta that she would be cared for while they were away.

• Gu You listed dangers Tang San had faced and argued that most could have been avoided, while Spirit Hall’s influence kept the continent comparatively peaceful.
• Gu You reminded Tang San that he had friends and family now, but Tang San still planned to prepare poisoned Hidden Weapons, poison gas, and antidotes.
• Gu You warned Xiao Wu to stay safe when she returned to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Gu You told Lanta to keep training and seek help from Si Si or Ma Xiunuo if she had trouble at school.
• Tang San gave Lanta herbs for a cold and promised to ask Si Si to check on her while the three of them went to obtain their second Soul Rings.

Gu You and Tang San traveled with Su Yuntao to a swamp-based Spirit Beast Forest, where Su warned them about its unique dangers and they decided to spend three days preparing in town. They set out for the swamp to hunt Gu You’s Second Soul Ring.

• Su Yuntao warned Gu You and Tang San that swamps held dangerous Spirit Beasts, poisonous plants, insects, and environmental hazards, recounting how a Soul Master lost his left hand after failing to prepare for Misty Wetland.
• Gu You and Tang San asked Su Yuntao to give them time to gather information and supplies, and he agreed they would enter the Spirit Beast Forest on the fourth day.
• Gu You and Tang San arrived in a foul-smelling town near the forest and chose to stay there rather than at the local Spirit Hall.
• Gu You questioned people in taverns about the area and deterred a would-be thief by revealing his Martial Soul and yellow Hundred-Year Soul Ring.
• Tang San bought medicinal herbs and collection tools, then spent the next three days making detoxification pills.
• After three days, Gu You, Tang San, and Su Yuntao headed toward the swamp to hunt for Gu You’s Second Soul Ring.

Gu You and Tang San entered the Venomous Grudge Swamp with Su Yuntao and Xie Sen to hunt a Hundred-Year Jade Bead Beast. Gu You defeated an eight-hundred-year Jade Bead Beast with help from the soul of Ultimate Conductor Tyranno and began absorbing its Soul Ring.

• Su Yuntao introduced Gu You and Tang San to his friend Xie Sen, who guided them through the swamp and warned them about its dangers.
• Tang San used Blue Silver Grass to draw moisture from the mud and create a safe path across the swamp.
• The group camped near the swamp lake and waited until Gu You spotted a Jade Bead Beast with roughly eight hundred years of cultivation.
• Gu You attacked the Jade Bead Beast, but it entered its second phase and proved far more durable than his War Stomp could handle.
• Yugi Muto and Yuma Tsukumo possessed Gu You, and Ultimate Conductor Tyranno forced open the beast's jaws and killed it with Hyper Beam.
• Tang San restored Gu You's stamina and Soul Power, and Gu You sat down to absorb the Jade Bead Beast's yellow Soul Ring.

Gu You discovered that his second Soul Skill, Burst Mode, comprehensively enhanced his abilities and tested its effects before the group escaped the Venomous Grudge Swamp. They reached the Spirit Hall and rested, while Tang San noticed that Gu You’s furnace core still held flickering lightning.

• Gu You awakened after absorbing the Jade Bead Beast’s Soul Ring and explained that its Soul Skill activated his body’s energy for a comprehensive enhancement.
• Gu You transformed into a powerful Ultimate Conductor Tyranno-like form, and Xie Sen admired his intimidating appearance.
• Gu You activated Burst Mode, which strengthened his abilities, and demonstrated its force by crushing a thick tree trunk with a slow grip.
• Gu You ended Burst Mode, but Tang San noticed that the furnace core in his chest still flickered with lightning.
• Tang San led the group along a path of grass out of the Venomous Grudge Swamp, and Xie Sen helped them enter the Spirit Hall to clean up and sleep.

Gu You and Tang San traveled south to a Spirit Beast Forest so Tang San could hunt for a suitable Soul Ring. Along the way, Gu You discovered that his Second Soul Skill seemed to be passively improving his body, and the chapter ended with the pair discussing the forest’s dangers as an old woman and a young girl passed behind them.

• Gu You and Tang San persuaded Su Yuntao to let them leave and set out alone toward a distant Spirit Beast Forest.
• Tang San asked Gu You about Burst Mode, and Gu You explained that he did not understand the Second Soul Skill’s true essence.
• Gu You told Tang San that an energy unlike Soul Power kept circulating through his body and gradually improving his physical abilities even after Martial Soul Possession ended.
• Tang San suggested returning to Nuoding City to examine the effect, but Gu You declined and promised to report any problems.
• Gu You and Tang San reached a town near the forest, gathered information separately, and learned that it mostly housed Plant Type Soul Beasts and herbivores.
• An old woman with a young girl walked past Gu You and Tang San as they discussed the forest, and the woman told the girl, “Yiran, let’s go.”

Gu You and Tang San entered Fragrant Garden to search for Aromatic Rosemary, discussed alternatives to hunting Soul Beasts for Soul Rings, and collected plants along the way. At their camp, they met Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran, and Gu You recognized them with surprise.

• A guard reassured Gu You and Tang San that Fragrant Garden was a safe forest dominated by plant and herbivorous Soul Beasts.
• Gu You explained how fragrances could provide Soul Skill effects and praised Tang San's potential as a Support System Soul Master.
• Gu You and Tang San explored Fragrant Garden, collected plant seeds, and camped by a stream after finding no serious dangers.
• Tang San wondered whether cultivation required killing Soul Beasts, and Gu You said he was researching ways to replace Soul Rings.
• Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran arrived at the camp seeking a place to rest, and Gu You recognized their names, prompting Chao Tianxiang to ask if he knew her.

Gu You revealed that he and Tang San were unusually young cultivators seeking Tang San’s second Soul Ring, prompting Meng Yiran to challenge him. Tang San defeated her initial attacks and prepared to fight in earnest as she used her poisoned Tongue Blade.

• Gu You and Tang San recognized Serpent Granny Chao Tianxiang, and Gu You praised her past battle with the Martial Soul Hall Team.
• After weighing the risks, Gu You told Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran that he was a Two-Ring Soul Grandmaster and Tang San had reached level twenty.
• Meng Yiran, shocked that Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass had advanced as far as her own cultivation, attacked him with her Snake Head Cane.
• Tang San dodged Meng Yiran’s strikes and knocked her down with two punches, but she rose and launched her Tongue Blade.
• Tang San used the Purple Demon Eye to evade the poisoned blade and summoned his yellow Soul Ring, ready to fight at full strength.

Tang San defeated Meng Yiran, and Gu You advised her to reconsider her Soul Master path and Soul Ring choices. The chapter left Gu You about to recommend a specific snake-type Soul Beast for her Serpent Cane.

• Tang San used his enhanced Mysterious Jade Hand to seize Meng Yiran's Tongue Blade, tripped her, and bound her with Myriad Manifestations until Chao Tianxiang freed her.
• Meng Yiran accepted her defeat to Tang San, and he introduced himself as a level 20 Comprehensive Buff Support Soul Master.
• Meng Yiran identified herself as an Agility Attack System Soul Master, prompting Tang San and Gu You to question her build before she explained her classification.
• Chao Tianxiang asked Gu You what Soul Skill Meng Yiran should seek from a roughly seven-hundred-year-old Rouge Soft-Muscle Python.
• Gu You suggested Meng Yiran switch to the Control System and explained that her Serpent Cane could become a Half-Field Debuff Control System Martial Soul.
• Gu You proposed several snake-type Soul Beasts and began introducing the one he recommended most.

Gu You persuaded Chao Tianxiang that Meng Yiran should seek a Snake-Head Guardian for a chance at the rare Erasure Soul Skill, earning a favor and one hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins. After Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran left, Gu You gave Meng Yiran a letter to open before Soul Hunting and continued searching for Aromatic Rosemary with Tang San.

• Gu You explained the Snake-Head Guardian’s poison and its rare Erasure ability, which could cancel Soul Skills regardless of cultivation.
• Chao Tianxiang accepted that Meng Yiran might be better suited to the Control System and agreed she should hunt a Snake-Head Guardian.
• Gu You recounted a travelogue about Li Mang obtaining Erasure from a Snake-Head Guardian and reasoned that the ability was exceptionally difficult to acquire.
• When Chao Tianxiang offered repayment, Gu You asked for Gold Soul Coins and received a Martial Soul Card containing one hundred thousand.
• The next morning, Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran prepared to leave, and Gu You gave Meng Yiran a letter to open before Soul Hunting.

Gu You explained why Meng Yiran’s Erasure Soul Skill was powerful but risky, then proposed that the group develop Martial Soul Fusion Skills through compatibility and coordination. As Gu You and Tang San searched for Aromatic Rosemary, they located a snake-type Soul Beast guarding the plant and prepared to face it.

• Gu You explained to Tang San that Erasure could only be used once over a long period and needed to turn the battle at a crucial moment, so the group could bait Meng Yiran into wasting it.
• Gu You refused to give up a Blue Silver Grass Soul Skill for Erasure and proposed that the four companions try to develop Martial Soul Fusion Skills themselves.
• Gu You argued that Martial Soul Fusion Skills depended on complementary abilities and close bonds, citing Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo as an example.
• Tang San resumed searching for Aromatic Rosemary, and he and Gu You followed its scent until they heard a snake-type Soul Beast nearby.
• Gu You located the snake behind bushes about thirty meters away, while Tang San determined that the Aromatic Rosemary lay ahead to the left and was likely guarded by the Soul Beast.

Gu You fought the Rouge Soft-Muscle Python while Tang San waited to obtain a Soul Ring from the Aromatic Rosemary. After the strange plant absorbed flowers from several aromatic species, Tang San absorbed its Soul Ring, then saw an unfamiliar face in his reflection.

• Gu You rejected the Rouge Soft-Muscle Python as a candidate for Tang San’s Soul Ring and attacked it, breaking free from its coils with Explosive Armor and wounding it with Five-Finger Piercing Hand.
• The Aromatic Rosemary released a fragrance that healed the python, so Gu You fought it again, knocked it unconscious, and let Tang San restore its vitality.
• The python left, but the Aromatic Rosemary began releasing its fragrance again as flowers from several aromatic plants drifted over and merged with it.
• Gu You urged Tang San to proceed, and Tang San snapped the transformed plant in half and began absorbing its yellow Soul Ring while Gu You kept watch.
• After half an hour, Tang San finished absorbing the Soul Ring, looked in Gu You’s mirror, and asked who the person in his reflection was.

Before Gu You left to hunt Soul Beasts, his new articles reached Bibi Dong, who reviewed one on combat tactics and ordered it used to guide Yan’s next Soul Ring. His second article provoked a furious reaction, and Bibi Dong ordered Ghost Douluo to retrieve every source listed in its bibliography.

• Gu You gave Ma Xiunuo two sealed letters, which Ma Xiunuo quickly delivered to the woman assigned to carry Gu You’s work to Spirit City.
• Bibi Dong heard reports about the northern cold current and political developments in the Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empires, then ordered the Ninth Elder to lead an operation protecting civilians from possible Soul Beast attacks.
• Ghost Douluo Gui Mei brought Bibi Dong Gu You’s latest articles and reported that Nightingale had been assigned to protect him, though Gu You had already reached level 20 and missed her escort before his Soul Beast hunt.
• Bibi Dong read Gu You’s article on Power Attack System Soul Master tactics and directed Yue Guan to have Yang Shan select Yan’s Third Soul Ring according to its recommendations.
• Bibi Dong read Gu You’s article about the feasibility of the Soul Ring maximum-year theory, erupted with Soul Power, and ordered Gui Mei to bring her all the books listed in its bibliography.

Qian Renxue investigated the missing author Gu You while posing as Xue Qinghe, then prepared to act through Elder Chi Xue. In Xingluo City, Dai Mubai lost a brutal contest to Dai Weisi, and the chapter left him alone with his fury before he attacked a palace maid.

• Prince Xue Xing admitted he had failed to find Gu You and stormed out after losing his temper in front of Xue Qinghe.
• After Xue Xing left, Qian Renxue revealed her identity to Elder Chi Xue and learned that the woman connected to Gu You still refused to disclose what she knew.
• Qian Renxue considered Spirit Hall’s limited information and Xue Xing’s failure, then asked Elder Chi Xue whether he was ready.
• In Xingluo City, Dai Gaole watched Dai Weisi defeat Dai Mubai and regarded either prince’s victory as a path to ruling the Star Luo Empire.
• After Dai Gaole and Dai Weisi left, a palace maid healed Dai Mubai, who then tore off her clothes and lunged at her.

Yu Tianheng argued that tactics and attribute counters would shape future Soul Master battles, while Yu Tianxin dismissed his warnings. As the Clear Sky Sect continued to ignore the abandoned Speed Clan, Bai He decided to ask the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s representative to carry a message to Ning.

• Yu Tianheng explained to Yu Tianxin how tactics and poison had helped the Martial Soul Hall Team defeat the Elephant Armor Academy Team, but Yu Tianxin insisted the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon could overcome any opponent through strength.
• Yu Tianheng warned Yu Tianxin that powerful rivals such as Sword Douluo, Bone Douluo, and the Hell White Tiger could require tactical solutions, but Yu Tianxin claimed he would defeat them once he reached Title Douluo.
• Yu Luomian watched the cousins from outside the classroom and gradually made a decision.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect discovered that items, including ingredients prepared for guests and a valuable painting, had gone missing from the Eldest Young Miss’s room.
• The Clear Sky Sect’s Seventh Elder rallied a large group to train and promised they would repay Spirit Hall for its humiliation.
• After half a year of waiting for the Clear Sky Sect to contact the Speed Clan, Bai He grew furious and sorrowful, then summoned the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s representative to carry a message to Sect Master Ning.

Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran told Meng Shu about the Snake-Head Guardian and the chance to obtain the Soul Skill Erasure, while clues linked Gu You to a published article. After Meng Yiran read Gu You and Tang San’s letter, she burned it without revealing what it said.

• Chao Tianxiang returned to the Dragon Serpent Family with Meng Yiran and told Meng Shu that Gu You had explained how to obtain Erasure from a Snake-Head Guardian.
• Chao Tianxiang showed Meng Shu a book by Newt that recorded the Snake-Head Guardian but did not mention Erasure as one of its Soul Skills.
• Chao Tianxiang and Meng Yiran described Tang San and Gu You’s abilities, and Meng Shu recognized Gu You as the apparent author of a newspaper article.
• Meng Yiran resolved to cultivate so she could beat Gu You and Tang San next time, then returned to her room.
• Meng Yiran opened Gu You and Tang San’s letter early, read it, and threw it into the furnace.