Chapter Summaries

Wu Changkong announced that Class Zero would receive weekly access to the Spirit Ascension Platform, prompting Gu You to explain how it worked and how rare its entry slots were. Tang Wulin grew eager to use it to raise his spirit soul, and the group arrived at the East Sea Spirit Controlling Tower.

• Wu Changkong told the students that the academy had secured them one day each week to cultivate in the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Gu You explained that the platform let soul masters battle Soul Beasts and could sometimes increase a spirit soul’s cultivation age.
• Tang Wulin realized that raising his ten-year spirit soul could strengthen his Blue Silver Grass and potentially grant him another Soul Skill.
• Gu Yue explained that entry required both substantial fees and scarce slots, while Xie Xie praised the academy for securing access.
• Xie Xie challenged Zhang Yangzi to fight in the platform, but Wang Jinxi stopped Zhang Yangzi from responding.
• The students reached the East Sea Spirit Controlling Tower, also called the Sea Tower, a landmark more than a hundred stories tall.

Gu You and the others traveled with Wu Changkong to Skysea City's Spirit Pagoda, where they learned about Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao from the murals. The group then followed Long Hengxu underground toward the Beginner Spirit Ascension Platform, which Wu Changkong and Long Hengxu would monitor from outside.

• Xie Xie teased Gu You and Gu Yue about sharing a surname, and Gu Yue threatened to beat him again.
• Gu You reflected on the future threat of God King Tang and resolved to grow stronger so he could change what was coming.
• Long Hengxu greeted Wu Changkong and led the students into the Spirit Pagoda, where Wu Changkong explained the murals of Spirit Ice Douluo Huo Yuhao and his battle with Beast God Di Tian.
• Tang Wulin noticed Dragon Butterfly Douluo Tang Wutong in the mural and felt an unexplained closeness to her, while Gu Yue remarked on their similar names and eyes.
• Wu Changkong told the students that only Soul Masters below the fourth ring could enter the Beginner Spirit Ascension Platform and warned them to withdraw if they faced danger.
• Long Hengxu and Wu Changkong led the students into an elevator that descended toward the Spirit Ascension Platform.

Gu You joined Class Zero on its visit to the Spirit Ascension Platform, where the academy had provided only five entry slots for six students. Wu Changkong supplied an extra card so Gu You could enter, and the group began learning about the platform.

• A staff member recognized Gu You as the exemplary young man from the news, revealing why the academy had failed to account for him when distributing the five entry slots.
• Gu You offered to wait or find another entry card, but Wu Changkong produced one he had bought at auction and gave it to him.
• Xie Xie asked Gu You about the news, but Gu You refused to explain and told him to ask around outside.
• Gu Yue warned Tang Wulin that Gu You had a strange aura and that they should avoid him, but Gu You overheard and introduced himself to Tang Wulin as a good person.
• A staff member silenced the group and explained that the Spirit Ascension Platform was partly virtual and partly real, while the Beginner Spirit Ascension Platform was a purely virtual section where their lives would not be endangered.

Gu You entered the Beginner Spirit Ascension Platform and cleared a path through the forest as he considered how to reach its deeper regions and find powerful Soul Beasts. Gu Yue explored peacefully until a huge bear suddenly attacked her.

• A staff member explained the Spirit Ascension Platform’s survival rules, and Gu You and the others entered the capsules to connect their brainwaves.
• Gu You emerged in a lush forest, released his martial soul, and used Dragon Claw to clear his way through the undergrowth.
• Long Hengxu and Wu Changkong watched Tang Wulin sit beneath a tree and sensed that he was comprehending the forest through his Blue Silver Grass.
• Gu You wondered whether he could reach the forest’s depths and encounter a hundred-thousand-year Soul Beast, then complained that the Spirit Pagoda provided no map.
• Gu Yue walked deeper into the forest, sparing the weak Soul Beasts she encountered, until a huge bear appeared and lunged at her.

Gu Yue escaped a Thousand-year Crystal Bear while Wu Changkong and Long Hengxu watched the students’ Spirit Ascension Platform trials. The staff discovered that Soul Beasts fled from Gu You wherever he went, and Fu Kao left to investigate; Tang Wulin and Xie Xie also killed a Two-legged Unicorn Dragon.

• Gu Yue used Elemental Tide, wind, and spatial teleportation to evade a Thousand-year Crystal Bear and escape through the forest.
• Wu Changkong and Long Hengxu praised Gu Yue’s calm, quick judgment as she avoided fighting the stronger Soul Beast directly.
• Gu You complained that he could not find any Soul Beasts, while the staff reported that Wang Jinxi had suffered severe mental trauma from a Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Fu Kao discovered that Soul Beasts within a hundred meters of Gu You fled, even when staff simulated a Hundred-year Man Faced Demon Spider, and left to investigate Gu You’s records.
• Long Hengxu reported that Tang Wulin and Xie Xie had killed a Hundred-year Two-legged Unicorn Dragon.

Gu Yue led a berserk Thousand-year Crystal Bear to Gu You, who refused to help until she called him big brother. After she did, he shielded her from the bear and prepared to defeat it.

• Gu Yue escaped the Crystal Bear and found Gu You, explaining that she had tracked him rather than risk leading the beast to Tang Wulin and Xie Xie.
• As the Crystal Bear charged, Gu You grabbed Gu Yue and demanded that she call him big brother before he would fight.
• With the bear only a few meters away and crystal spreading over them, Gu Yue called Gu You big brother.
• Gu You dispelled the crystallization with his aura, covered his arms in purple dragon scales, and blocked the Crystal Bear's paw before pulling Gu Yue to safety.
• Gu You revealed his dragon-like vertical pupils and prepared to finish the Crystal Bear as it entered a berserk state.

Gu You defeated the Thousand-year Crystal Bear and discovered that he could bring even an energy phantom into the world in his mind. The Crystal Bear began to take shape in the forest region, leaving Gu You exhausted but confirming that his inner world could shelter Soul Beasts from the Spirit Ascension Platform.

• Gu You knocked the Crystal Bear down with a single punch, and Gu Yue left the Spirit Ascension Platform after becoming embarrassed by his teasing.
• Fu Kao returned with Gu You's basic records, revealing that his Martial Soul was labeled “Unparalleled in Ten Thousand Ages,” while its classified attributes remained inaccessible.
• Gu Yue snapped at Long Hengxu and demanded that he call her sis, and Wu Changkong dragged him away before he could argue further.
• Gu You touched the Crystal Bear's forehead and drew its energy toward his mind, where he found a world divided into snowy land, plains, forest, and ocean.
• Gu You used his Soul Power to form the Crystal Bear within the forest region and confirmed that energy-form Soul Beasts could reside in his inner world.

Gu You passed out after exhausting his soul power while absorbing a thousand-year Crystal Bear, so Wu Changkong had him withdrawn from the Spirit Ascension Platform and treated. A painful injection triggered Gu You’s martial soul and exposed his Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring to everyone present, leaving him trying to silence the witnesses.

• Gu You failed to maintain the Crystal Bear’s integration in his mindscape, collapsed, and lost the energy he had absorbed as it returned to the beast.
• Wu Changkong agreed to withdraw Gu You, and staff diagnosed him with a coma from soul power overdraft and minor mental trauma.
• The staff injected Gu You with a Soul Power Recharge Needle, waking him with a painful jab that triggered his Dragon Transformation and soul rings.
• Gu You’s red soul ring and ferocious-beast aura stunned everyone, while Gu Yue silently stared at the ring.
• Gu You asked everyone to keep what they had seen secret, and the staff trembled as they promised not to speak.

Gu You revealed a terrifying dragon aura, prompting Gu Yue and Di Tian to discuss its possible connection to the Purple Emperor Sky-Destroying Dragon and their Soul Beast revival plan. Tang Wulin and Xie Xie found and absorbed the energy Gu You had tried to gather, then returned from the Spirit Ascension Platform as the staff marveled at the children’s talent.

• Gu You reassured the frightened staff, and Wu Changkong realized he was not simply a prodigy of the Eastsea Blacksmith Association.
• Gu Yue privately asked Di Tian about Gu You’s aura, and they considered whether it came from the Purple Emperor Sky-Destroying Dragon while deciding to watch him closely.
• Tang Wulin found the scattered energy Gu You had gathered, and he and Xie Xie absorbed it inside the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie activated their distress signal and returned, where Long Hengxu and the Spirit Pagoda staff reacted with astonishment at their abilities and age.

After the Spirit Ascension Platform battle, Wu Changkong assigned Tang Wulin to lead a combat squad and discovered that Tang Wulin’s soul spirit was evolving. Later, Gu You revealed his connection to Shrek and explained that he had recognized Wu Changkong from stories told by an old man.

• Wu Changkong named Tang Wulin captain and Xie Xie vice-captain of a new combat squad, while making separate arrangements for Gu You.
• The six students reflected on their performance in the Spirit Ascension Platform as Tang Wulin felt warmth spread through his body and grew drowsy.
• Wu Changkong examined Tang Wulin and carried him, explaining that his soul spirit had evolved after he absorbed energy from the Crystal Bear Gu You had defeated.
• Wu Changkong took Tang Wulin to his dormitory for observation and summoned Gu You to speak with him.
• Gu You acknowledged Wu Changkong’s guess that he was from Shrek and said he had left because he did not want to stay there.
• Gu You told Wu Changkong that an old man from Shrek had told him stories about Wu Changkong and that he had recognized him after their conversations.

Wu Changkong saw Tang Wulin’s Blue Silver Grass and Golden Light evolve under the influence of his bloodline, while Old Tang warned Tang Wulin to stay away from Gu You. Tang Wulin fell asleep after the Soul Spirit Evolution, leaving Wu Changkong hopeful about the future of his Martial Soul.

• Wu Changkong respected Gu You’s secrets and promised to teach him, then sent him back to the dormitory for special training the next day.
• Wu Changkong observed Tang Wulin’s mutated Blue Silver Grass and saw that Golden Light had evolved into a Hundred Year Soul Spirit.
• Old Tang warned Tang Wulin not to interact with Gu You, but Tang Wulin did not understand why.
• Wu Changkong concluded that Tang Wulin’s bloodline was strengthening his Martial Soul and considered its potential for further growth.
• Golden Light returned to Tang Wulin’s body, and Tang Wulin fell asleep as the effects of Soul Spirit Evolution took hold.

Gu You discovered that his song had received over thirty million views and accepted the Sun Moon Federation’s one-hundred-million-coin bid for its rights. Meanwhile, Tang Wulin learned that Little Golden Light had evolved into a Hundred Year Soul Spirit, and Wu Changkong began questioning Class Zero about their Spirit Ascension Platform experience.

• Gu You found the song’s huge view count and saw that the Sun Moon Federation had outbid the Spirit Pagoda, Shrek, and the Tang Sect with an offer of one hundred million Federation Coins.
• Gu You signed and sent the Federation’s contract, agreeing to give up his future use of the song in exchange for the payment.
• Wu Changkong woke Tang Wulin and told him that his Soul Spirit had evolved, and Tang Wulin saw that Little Golden Light had become a Hundred Year Soul Spirit.
• Gu You celebrated the expected payment by rushing from his dormitory early in the morning and eating breakfast before class.
• Wu Changkong asked the six Class Zero students to describe their Spirit Ascension Platform experiences and called on Zhang Yangzi to speak first.

Wu Changkong reviewed the students’ Spirit Ascension Platform trial, hearing their accounts of their mistakes, fears, and combat experiences. Gu You revealed that he had killed the Thousand-year Crystal Bear before collapsing while trying to take its energy into his Sea of Consciousness, but Wu Changkong gave him only three points, leaving the class surprised.

• Zhang Yangzi admitted that he had climbed a tree without assessing the danger and promised to be more careful next time.
• Wang Jinxi described his terror of the Man Faced Demon Spider, and Wu Changkong advised him to use his Rescue Signal Device if he encountered one again.
• Gu Yue said she liked the Spirit Ascension Platform but admitted she was wrong to withdraw early after her conflict with Gu You.
• Xie Xie and Tang Wulin praised the forest’s realism and said they needed to improve their teamwork against stronger Soul Beasts.
• Gu You explained that he had killed the Thousand-year Crystal Bear and collapsed while attempting to absorb its energy into his Sea of Consciousness; Tang Wulin and Xie Xie realized they had benefited from his kill.
• Wu Changkong scored Xie Xie and Tang Wulin five points each and Gu You three, surprising the students.

After Wu Changkong urged Gu You to study Soul Beasts, Tang Wulin invited him to eat and ended up spending his savings and going into debt as Gu You devoured the cafeteria’s Grade A Meals. The chapter ended with Gu You finally too full to continue, Tang Wulin sprawled on the floor, and the students reporting the academy’s depleted food supply to the director.

• Wu Changkong told Gu You to improve his knowledge of Soul Beasts and explained how that knowledge could help him survive the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Tang Wulin invited Gu You to a meal to thank him for helping the group absorb the thousand-year Crystal Bear’s energy, and Xie Xie offered to help pay.
• Gu You chose Grade A Meals in the cafeteria, while Tang Wulin and Xie Xie struggled to bring over more than a dozen boxes and Gu Yue carried dishes for him.
• Gu You rapidly ate more than a hundred Grade A Meals, while Tang Wulin realized that his hard-earned savings were disappearing and Xie Xie ran away.
• Gu You became too full to eat another bite after consuming 108 meals, the surrounding students reported the depleted supply to the director, and Tang Wulin collapsed on the floor after going into debt.

Gu You’s overeating causes chaos in the cafeteria, while Tang Wulin continues his forging studies and Class Zero trains in the Spirit Ascension Platform. Wu Changkong announces that their Final Exam will take place in the dangerous Riot Spirit Ascension Platform, where they must survive together and may compete with other Soul Masters for spiritual energy.

• Long Hengxu pats Gu You’s swollen belly, causing him to vomit across the cafeteria and cover Tang Wulin in the mess.
• Yu Zhen dismisses Long Hengxu’s complaint and orders the cafeteria to prepare special premium meals for Gu You.
• Mu Chen tells Tang Wulin that Gu You has strong forging talent and suggests Tang Wulin learn from him.
• Class Zero continues its weekly Spirit Ascension Platform training as Gu You explores deeper into the forest and improves his combat ability.
• Wu Changkong tells the students that their Final Exam requires surviving for an hour in the Riot Spirit Ascension Platform as a team of five.
• Wu Changkong explains that the Riot Spirit Ascension Platform contains more active Soul Beasts and allows nearby Soul Masters to absorb spiritual energy left behind by kills.

Wu Changkong gave Class Zero three days off before their Final Exam, which included an entry into the Spirit Ascension Platform. Tang Wulin explained that the academy might be preparing them to evolve their Soul Spirits, while the group considered Spiritual Power realms and their future potential.

• Wu Changkong announced that the students would have three days off before entering the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Gu You considered using the break to explore auctions, but Xie Xie and Zhang Yangzi invited him to go out instead.
• Xie Xie reminded the group that the Final Exam had a second part besides the Spirit Ascension Platform, though no one knew what it was.
• Wang Jinxi worried that the Riot Spirit Ascension Platform would be fiercely competitive, and Tang Wulin suggested the academy wanted them to evolve their Soul Spirits to a thousand years before graduation.
• Tang Wulin explained how Spiritual Power realms determined the number and grades of Soul Spirits a Soul Master could fuse with.
• The group learned that Tang Wulin had reached the Spirit Connection Realm, while Gu You's Spiritual Power remained unknown and Gu Yue was expected to have the best chance of reaching the Spirit Sea Realm.

Luo Xing visited the hidden Blood God Legion and delivered a Federation gift and news that the legion could emerge publicly while keeping its mission secret. Zhang Huanyun reacted with disbelief but considered how the Federation could preserve the legion’s secrecy.

• Xue Er welcomed Luo Xing to the Blood God Legion’s secret base and escorted him to Long Tianwu.
• Luo Xing delivered an audio chip and told Long Tianwu that the Federation and citizens remembered the legion’s sacrifices.
• Luo Xing announced that the Blood God Legion could emerge into the world, though its mission and history had to remain confidential.
• Long Tianwu excitedly accepted the news and said the legion no longer needed to exchange its marked mechas.
• Luo Xing instructed the legion to broadcast the music to every officer and soldier.
• Zhang Huanyun was astonished by the news and considered how the Federation could keep the legion’s secret.

Zhang Huanyun prepared the Blood God Legion to emerge before the continent and ordered Long Tianwu to review the troops using the Divine Division. A Federation song reached the soldiers and made them feel that their sacrifices had not been forgotten.

• Zhang Huanyun ordered Long Tianwu to review the troops, while keeping the Blood Division on the front lines.
• Long Tianwu told Zhang Huanyun that Xu Weitao had heard the news but remained worried about the Abyss Plane's recent unrest.
• Zhang Huanyun assigned Long Tianwu to lead the review and played the Federation's musical gift over the military broadcast.
• The song stirred the soldiers throughout the Blood God Legion, and Xu Weitao wept as he realized the world had not forgotten them.

The Blood God Legion announced that the Federation would officially reveal its existence, though its deeds would remain classified. The Third Regiment of the Divine Division then staged a military review to display the legion’s strength, while a Blood Division soldier watched and hoped to take part someday.

• Long Tianwu announced to the Divine Division that the Blood God Legion would emerge publicly, prompting the soldiers to cheer and raise its emblem.
• Huiye Yi warned that the legion’s work would remain secret and ordered the Third Regiment to demonstrate its ferocity in a military review.
• Huiye Yi released his nine Soul Rings as drones filmed the legion’s first public military exercise.
• The Third Regiment displayed Black Grade Mechas, advanced fighter jets, heavy weapons, six hundred Soul Kings, and three of the Nine Blood Gods.
• A few days later, a Blood Division soldier watched the exercise and wished he could appear in it, and another soldier reassured him that his day would come.

After returning from their holiday, Gu You reached Rank 33 and joined Class Zero for the Riot Period Spirit Ascension Platform exam. The group entered together and formed up in a forest, with Gu You watching from above as Tang Wulin led the team.

• Gu You, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue discussed choosing second professions, with Gu You and Wang Jinxi choosing forging, Xie Xie choosing mecha manufacturing, and Gu Yue choosing mecha repair.
• Gu You returned to his dormitory, cultivated, and broke through to Rank 33.
• Wu Changkong warned Class Zero that they had to survive the crowded Riot Period Spirit Ascension Platform or lose their holiday, and told Gu You he could decide whether to fight.
• The six students entered the Spirit Ascension Platform together using the academy’s entry cards.
• Tang Wulin arranged the group into formation while Gu Yue used wind control to lighten the others, and Gu You climbed a tree to scout the area.