Chapter Summaries

Tang Wulin’s group entered the Spirit Ascension Platform, where Gu You’s overwhelming strength let them rapidly hunt hundred-year Soul Beasts and gather spirit ascension energy. After the group rested, Zhang Yangzi spotted three older soul masters approaching, leaving their next encounter imminent.

• Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, Zhang Yangzi, Gu You, and Xie Xie released their martial souls and entered the Spirit Ascension Platform while Wu Changkong watched from the observation room.
• Tang Wulin led the group cautiously through the bushes, and they encountered a hundred-year Iron Arm Ape.
• Gu You swiftly defeated the Iron Arm Ape and asked the others to share the spirit ascension energy evenly, making a request in return.
• Led by Gu You, the group hunted more hundred-year Soul Beasts until he called for a rest.
• Zhang Yangzi spotted three people approaching: two men and one woman, with one showing three rings and the other two showing two rings.

Gu You led the group through the Spirit Ascension Platform, killing Mu Xi and her companions before defeating a Man Faced Demon Spider. As he prepared to fight another powerful Soul Beast, a mysterious Soul Elder killed it first and appeared with a young girl.

• Mu Xi attacked the group, but Gu You killed her and her two companions with Purple Gold Annihilation Kill despite Tang Wulin's protest.
• Gu You argued that they needed to seize energy to obtain a Thousand-year Soul Ring, and the group absorbed the energy before moving on.
• A Man Faced Demon Spider destroyed Zhang Yangzi's Black Eagle Spirit Soul, but Gu You subdued the beast and captured it with a Milk Bottle.
• A Six-armed Fire Serpent appeared, but a white-haired youth killed it with Ice Wheels before Gu You could attack.
• The youth revealed himself as a Soul Elder and stood alongside a frightened young girl carrying an ice staff.

Gu You dominated the Spirit Ascension Platform, earning the highest evaluation and being excused from the next part of the Final Exam. Wu Changkong reached out to Zhuo Shi, while Xu Xiaoyu and Xu Xiaoyan discussed their disastrous visit to the platform and the students who had driven them out.

• Gu You struck down a young man who demanded the group's energy halos, frightened off the man's companion, and later charged alone at a pack of Flame Demon Lions, taking the surviving beasts into his mental world.
• Gu You woke from the Spirit Ascension Platform and received ninety-nine points from Wu Changkong, while Wu warned Tang Wulin that the Spirit Pagoda's influence extended across continents and was powerful enough to concern the Federation.
• Wu Changkong told Gu You he could skip the second part of the Final Exam, then called Zhuo Shi, who smashed his communicator after hearing Wu's voice and set out to borrow another device to call him back.
• Xu Xiaoyu lamented that Gu You had ended his and Xu Xiaoyan's Spirit Ascension Platform visit, and suspected that Gu You and the others were students from Eastsea Academy.
• Xu Xiaoyan learned that she might meet the students who defeated her brother as upperclassmen, while the narration revealed her rare Starwheel phenomenon and the Xu family's hopes for her.

Zhuo Shi told Cai Yuer and Yun Ming that Gu You had convinced Wu Changkong to return to contact, and Wu Changkong challenged Gu You to a battle as his Final Exam. Gu You’s Extreme Ice overcame Wu Changkong’s ice-based attacks, leaving Wu Changkong to make one last attempt with his fifth Soul Skill.

• Xu Xiaoyu vowed to make the person who had defeated him pay, though he still did not know who it was.
• Zhuo Shi told Cai Yuer and Yun Ming that Wu Changkong had called him back and credited Gu You with persuading Wu Changkong to reconnect.
• Wu Changkong woke Gu You and offered to let him pass the Final Exam if he won their battle while Wu Changkong fought at peak five-ring cultivation.
• Gu You and Wu Changkong fought in the academy trial hall as Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and the others watched.
• Gu You used Dragon God's Wrath and Extreme Ice to nullify Wu Changkong’s Frost Slash, prompting Wu Changkong to activate his fifth Soul Ring.

After defeating Wu Changkong in their match, Gu You spent the break planning a faction before returning to Eastsea Academy for the new semester. Xu Xiaoyan joined Class Zero on a trial basis, and the academy began arranging a public test for the class.

• Gu You defeated Wu Changkong, who conceded that he had won.
• During the break, Gu You applied for Federation approval to establish a faction, reached the peak of rank 34, and learned that footage of the Blood God Military Exercise had leaked.
• Wu Changkong agreed to give Xu Xiaoyan one month to earn his and Class Zero's approval before he would accept her as a student.
• Long Hengxu called the principal and proposed sending Class Zero on a public assignment to demonstrate the academy's teaching ability.
• Wu Changkong brought Xu Xiaoyan to a well-appointed dorm room beside Gu You's, where she found a hole in the wall and plugged it with cloth.

Wu Changkong assessed Class Zero and acknowledged Xu Xiaoyan, while Long Hengxu announced that the class would compete in the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition. After training and forging practice, Wu Changkong told Gu You to prepare for their departure to Skysea City.

• Gu You met Gu Yue and Xu Xiaoyan in the corridor and returned to class with them.
• Wu Changkong tested the students, found Gu You's abilities exceptional, and acknowledged Xu Xiaoyan after the group fought him.
• Long Hengxu discussed improving the students' meals with Wu Changkong and said Class Zero would enter the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition.
• The students trained with Wu Changkong while Gu You practiced forging and prepared to make his One-Word Battle Armor.
• Wu Changkong entered Gu You's dormitory and told him they would leave for Skysea City the next day.

Gu You joined Eastsea Academy’s delegation for the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition and traveled to Tianhai City. The chapter ended with him admiring the sea and imagining a future at the highest peak.

• Gu You signed up for the forging competition at the Tianhai Grand Competition.
• Wu Changkong and Long Hengxu led Eastsea Academy’s students to Central Eastsea Square, where they boarded Bus Number Six for the competition.
• Xu Xiaoyu argued with Xu Xiaoyan about their chances in the team event, while Gu You learned that Eastsea Academy had a poor competition record.
• Gu You found Gu Yue seated beside him on the bus, and she said he was different from the others.
• After four hours on the coastal highway, the delegation reached Tianhai City, whose harbor and naval presence impressed Gu You.

Gu You arrived at the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition and befriended the hungry Xu Lizhi by offering him food and inviting him to a seafood feast. When Ye Xinglan came to collect Xu Lizhi, she warned him about strangers, and Gu You angrily snapped back at her.

• Gu You learned the youth blacksmithing competition had three rounds, beginning with a Hundred Refinements screening and narrowing the field to sixty-four contestants.
• Delegations gathered at Tianhai Stadium for the opening ceremony and event drawings as the Grand Competition began.
• Gu You gave Xu Lizhi an energy bar, learned his name, and invited him to eat at his hotel after the competition.
• Ye Xinglan arrived and told Xu Lizhi not to accept food from strangers, prompting Gu You to angrily challenge her attitude.

At the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition, Shrek Academy’s junior team overwhelmed the older Tianhai champions in under a minute. Ye Xinglan publicly challenged Gu You, who accepted and burst from Class Zero’s section to confront her beneath the stage.

• Gu You and Ye Xinglan traded barbs before the Grand Competition’s opening match began.
• The seven Tianhai Academy champions faced Shrek Academy’s junior team, and the Shrek students defeated them in under a minute.
• Ye Xinglan announced her name to the crowd and challenged Gu You over their past humiliation.
• Tianhai officials learned Gu You’s identity, while Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Wu Changkong watched to see how he would respond.
• Gu You accepted Ye Xinglan’s challenge, broke through the glass from Class Zero’s section, and landed beneath the stage.
• Ye Xinglan declared that she would repay Gu You’s humiliation a hundredfold.

Gu You challenged Shrek Academy’s seven students to fight him together, and Shen Yi approved the match. As both sides revealed their Martial Souls, Long Yuan displayed his Abyss Demon Dragon King while Gu You’s hundred-thousand-year Soul Ring stunned the arena; Long Yuan then unleashed his domain, obscuring the battle from view.

• Gu You demanded that all seven Shrek students fight him at once, and Shen Yi approved the unusual match.
• Ye Xinglan and Long Yuan confronted Gu You, while Xu Lizhi hesitated to join the fight.
• The Shrek students summoned their Martial Souls, and Xu Lizhi distributed buns to support them after Gu You asked him to treat everyone fairly.
• Long Yuan transformed through his Abyss Demon Dragon King Martial Soul, revealing four Soul Rings and overwhelming Dragon Might.
• Gu You summoned his Soul Rings, including a hundred-thousand-year ring, and suppressed Long Yuan’s Dragon Might.
• Long Yuan activated the Abyss Thunder King Domain, filling the arena with lightning and leaving the spectators unable to see the fight.

Gu You overwhelmed Ye Xinglan and Long Yuan during the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition, forcing Long Yuan to reveal his Battle Armor. After overpowering Long Yuan’s attacks, Gu You broke into the Shrek Academy formation and threw out its Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda support, while Long Yuan prepared to retaliate.

• Gu You unleashed the second stage of Purple Gold Annihilation Kill, and Ye Xinglan’s starlight attack failed to stop the dragon phantom.
• A woman in black and a little girl watching the livestream discussed Gu You’s threat to the Demon Emperor Plan and his powerful backing.
• Long Yuan’s Battle Armor appeared and amplified his Deep Dragon Abyss Slash, but Gu You countered with Purple Gold Dreadclaw.
• A Shrek student used Earth Escape to disrupt Gu You’s footing, but Gu You tore up the ground and continued his attack.
• Gu You charged into the Shrek team’s formation and threw its Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda support out of the arena.
• Long Yuan recovered and lit his ten-thousand-year Soul Ring in anger.

Gu You transformed into a Giant Dragon and defeated Long Yuan in a spectacular battle, ending Shrek Academy’s undefeated record. After apologizing to Ye Xinglan, he used the match’s publicity to announce plans for a new organization and invite people to join.

• Long Yuan and Gu You both underwent complete Dragon Transformation, prompting officials to clear the arena and raise a level-seven barrier.
• Gu You struck Long Yuan down and blasted him with a powerful attack, leaving Long Yuan unconscious and badly injured.
• The crowd cheered Gu You’s victory as the referee and medical staff carried Long Yuan away.
• Shen Yi reprimanded Ye Xinglan, who regretted her earlier arrogance and accepted the defeat as a lesson.
• Gu You apologized to Ye Xinglan, then announced that he planned to form an organization and invited the crowd to sign up using his Soul Guidance number.
• Xu Lizhi checked on Ye Xinglan, who insisted that nothing could happen to her.

Gu You entered the blacksmith competition and stunned the venue by completing a hundred-refinement purification of Blue Pregnant Copper in three minutes. The judges praised his work, and the silver-haired old man asked who had taught him, but Gu You refused to reveal his master.

• Gu You asked Gu Yue to record volunteers for his future organization and set a requirement that they become Soul Kings before age twenty.
• Gu You arrived at the blacksmith competition, where Tang Wulin and Zheng Tianlin prepared to compete alongside him.
• Gu You finished purifying Blue Pregnant Copper in three minutes, leaving Zheng Tianlin, Tang Wulin, and Mu Xi astonished.
• The judges examined Gu You's finished metal and recognized it as top-grade Blue Pregnant Copper.
• The silver-haired old man asked Gu You who his master was, and Gu You said he could not reveal the answer.

Gu You left the competition after hearing that something had happened at the Tianhai Orphanage. Xin Ya told him that everyone there had vanished without a trace, leaving Gu You furious and determined to find out who was responsible.

• Gu You returned to Tianhai Stadium, where Gu Yue showed him a list of potential members for his future force, including people recommended by Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi.
• Gu You met Ye Xinglan near the stadium exit, accepted her apology, and later ate grilled fish with her and Gu Yue.
• Xu Xiaoyan told Gu You that Xin Ya had reported a serious incident involving the orphanage, so Gu You left the competition and called him.
• Xin Ya told Gu You that everyone at Tianhai Orphanage had disappeared, and Gu You resolved to find whoever had harmed his family.

Gu You discovered a message challenging him to battle at the Far North Plateau and accepted, realizing Yue Zi had survived and grown much stronger. He then entered the East Sea Spirit Ascension Platform to search for a treasure, heading deeper into the connected platforms.

• Gu You reunited with Xin Ya in Tianhai City and found no trace of the missing people through ordinary investigation.
• Gu You used Divine Power to reveal a baleful message at the orphanage challenging him to fight at the Far North Plateau, then accepted.
• Gu You suspected Yue Zi had survived and gained great strength, and told Xin Ya to keep the discovery secret.
• Gu You obtained another entry card and entered the East Sea Spirit Ascension Platform during a forced Riot Period activation.
• Gu You ran deeper into the forest, learning that the Spirit Ascension Platforms connected to higher-level areas beyond barriers guarded by powerful Soul Beasts.

Gu You entered the territory of a powerful Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear and defeated it in a physical fight. He condensed the thousand-year Soul Beast into his spiritual world and absorbed the Soul Bone it dropped into his left arm.

• Gu You noticed the forest had grown quiet and prepared for the powerful Soul Beast whose territory he had entered.
• The Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear appeared, and Gu You charged at it after activating Martial Soul Possession.
• Gu You damaged the bear’s claws, then struck its neck and beat it unconscious with a flurry of punches.
• Gu You used the Milk Bottle to condense the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear into his spiritual world.
• Gu You picked up the bear’s left palm Soul Bone and absorbed it into his left arm.

Gu You withdrew from the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition and sought Zhen Hua’s help to make battle armor so he could become strong enough to face a powerful opponent. He obtained ore for two sets, but learned that the work could take at least two months, leaving his preparations—and his response to the danger facing his teachers—delayed.

• Gu You called Zhen Hua and asked for dragon-attribute ores to make battle armor, saying he wanted every additional attribute to enhance his offense.
• Zhen Hua agreed to hire an eighth-rank array inscription master and search for suitable ores, then warned Gu You about drawing attention during the competition.
• Gu You told Zhen Hua he had withdrawn from the Tianhai Alliance Grand Competition and was already in Heaven Dou, so he needed the armor urgently.
• Zhen Hua found Dragon Whisker Crystal and Long Yuan Meteorite Ore, and Gu You decided to make one set for his human form and another for his Dragon Transformation form.
• Zhen Hua explained that the battle armor would take at least two months, while Gu You said he would handle the forging and asked him only to hire an array master.

Gu You completed two sets of battle armor, broke through to Rank 36, and sought help preparing to confront Yue Zi. After receiving a powerful hidden weapon from Chen Shilin, he went to the Heavenly Spirit Tower to raise his first two Soul Rings to the ten-thousand-year level.

• Gu You named his purple-gold and blue battle armor Dragon and God after finishing his forging, and his Soul Power reached Rank 36.
• Gu You told Chen Shilin that Yue Zi had kidnapped someone from Tianhai Orphanage and asked for a weapon to use against her.
• Chen Shilin gave Gu You the Mother-Child Twin Ring Sealing Needles, which could suppress the soul and body and seal even powerful Douluo.
• Gu You traveled to the Heavenly Spirit Tower, where Leng Yaozhu noticed that his Spiritual Power had reached the Spirit Abyss Realm.
• Leng Yaozhu explained that Soul Ascension Pills were forbidden, then learned Gu You wanted to raise his first two Soul Rings to ten-thousand-year level.

Leng Yaozhu took Gu You into the Advanced Spirit Ascension Platform and displayed the Sky Phoenix’s power, allowing him to absorb its energy and gain a red third soul ring. Gu You then went to the Golden Ancient Tree with Yun Ming to break through to level 40, where the plane’s power both resisted him and flowed into him.

• Leng Yaozhu brought Gu You to the Advanced Spirit Ascension Platform while Qingu Dongfeng decided not to oppose her and hoped to befriend Gu You.
• Leng Yaozhu summoned her Sky Phoenix Martial Soul and used World Fire to burn away the forest, leaving energy for Gu You to absorb.
• Gu You emerged with three soul rings: black, black, and red.
• Gu You met Yun Ming in Shrek City, confirmed that she was not dead, and said he needed to break through to level 40.
• Yun Ming brought Gu You inside the Golden Ancient Tree, where its powerful life force entered him despite the place seeming to reject him.

Gu You meditated beneath the Golden Ancient Tree and was chosen by the Seed of Life, becoming the Child of Life as a powerful life phenomenon erupted. His Soul Power surged to rank 49, and a vast green soul ring formed around him, leaving Shrek’s elders and residents stunned.

• Gu You absorbed the life energy around him and encountered the Seed of Life, which fused into his mind.
• The Seed of Life took root in Gu You’s Sea of Consciousness, where he protected it from a golden little ice snake and ordered the Soul Beasts to guard the Tree of Life.
• Gu You considered raising Soul Beasts in his spiritual world and saw a future path for helping their race survive.
• A beam of green light burst from the Golden Ancient Tree, drawing Long Yueye and the Sea God Pavilion elders to Gu You.
• Yun Ming identified Gu You as the Child of Life, and the Golden Ancient Tree clarified that the Seed of Life—not the plane—had chosen him.
• Gu You’s Soul Power rose to rank 49 as a huge green soul ring descended and a Life Tide spread through Shrek City.