Chapter Summaries

After the Spirit Pagoda offered Bai Xu exceptional support for joining, he accepted and went with Bai Tao to test his spiritual power and choose his first spirit soul. Bai Xu began fusing with a Thousand-Year Sacred Illusion Demon Ape spirit soul.

• Two Spirit Transmitters visited Bai Xu's home and offered him a place in the Spirit Pagoda with elite training and the chance to study under a Titled Douluo.
• Bai Xu accepted the offer, and Bai Ying urged him to cultivate diligently as he left with the Spirit Transmitters' certificate for a free first spirit soul.
• Bai Tao brought Bai Xu to the East Sea Spirit Transmission Tower, where Bai Xu's spiritual power measured 456 in the high-stage Spirit Connection Realm.
• Bai Tao concealed the true test result and printed a certificate showing early-stage Spirit Connection Realm spiritual power.
• Bai Xu chose a Thousand-Year Sacred Illusion Demon Ape spirit soul from the Spirit Pagoda's selection machine.
• Bai Xu began meditating to fuse with the purple Sacred Illusion Demon Ape spirit soul.

Bai Xu refined a thousand-year spirit soul, began cultivating the Five Elements within his body, and joined Spirit Pagoda Academy under Leng Jiuming’s guidance. After years of training made him East Sea Spirit Pagoda’s top genius, Leng Jiuming sent him alone into the Spirit Ascension Platform to gain life-and-death experience.

• Bai Xu refined the Thousand-Year Spirit Soul and gained the first soul skill, Spirit Amplification, then began cultivating Spleen Earth.
• Leng Jiuming visited Bai Xu’s family, took him to Spirit Pagoda Academy, and warned him about the Spirit Pagoda’s power struggles while recommending Shrek Academy.
• Bai Xu tested at roughly one hundred kilograms of strength and asked Leng Jiuming how he could earn money for heavenly treasures.
• Bai Xu focused on Soul Power and body cultivation, bought spiritual fruits, and advanced over three years to level twenty-nine with completed Essence of Earth and late-stage Essence of Metal.
• Bai Xu defeated his peers in genius competitions and earned the title of East Sea Spirit Pagoda’s Number One Genius.
• Leng Jiuming judged Bai Xu’s combat skills ready and told him to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform alone; Bai Xu arrived there the next day.

Bai Xu met Leng Yaozhu and Gu Yue at the East Sea Spirit Transmission Tower before entering the Junior Spirit Ascension Platform to hunt Soul Beasts with his spiritual attacks. After quickly killing many weaker targets, he sought out a Thousand-Year Soul Beast and prepared to fight an Earth Dragon.

• Leng Jiuming took Bai Xu to meet Leng Yaozhu, who praised his talent and told him to report to Spirit Pagoda Headquarters if he passed the branch tower assessment at twelve.
• Leng Yaozhu asked Gu Yue whether she could defeat Bai Xu, and Gu Yue promised that she would win.
• Bai Xu entered the Junior Spirit Ascension Platform and used spiritual threads to kill a wolf pack and other low-level Soul Beasts, increasing his soul spirit's age.
• Bai Xu decided to hunt Thousand-Year Soul Beasts and searched for one near a cave beneath a cliff.
• A Thousand-Year Earth Dragon burst from underground and attacked Bai Xu, who evaded its earth-element strikes and readied himself to fight.

Bai Xu tested his elemental abilities in the Spirit Ascension Platform, then revealed the Human Body Secret Arts to Leng Jiuming. Leng Jiuming brought him to Eastsea Academy to challenge Gu Yue, and the chapter ended as Bai Xu faced her and the other students before the exchange match.

• Bai Xu used Rock Hardening to fight an Earth Dragon, then killed it with a Golden Sword and killed a Man Faced Demon Spider with Mental Attack.
• Leng Jiuming ordered the Spirit Pagoda staff to erase all recordings of Bai Xu's seven days of battles.
• Bai Xu told Leng Jiuming that he had cultivated the human-body manual and gained his Earth Element Ability from his spleen, but Leng Jiuming could not unlock the same mysteries.
• Leng Jiuming told Bai Xu about Gu Yue and arranged for him to challenge her at Eastsea Academy, giving him Thousand-Year Golden Spirit Grass to aid his cultivation.
• Leng Jiuming and Bai Xu arrived at Eastsea Academy, where Wu Changkong introduced Bai Xu as the students' opponent in an exchange match.

Bai Xu defeated Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi with his physical prowess before facing Tang Wulin. Tang Wulin forced Bai Xu to reveal a Golden Sword as a second Martial Soul, but Bai Xu won, leaving Gu Yue as the only person Wu Changkong thought could surpass him.

• Leng Jiuming started the matches without settling on formal rules, and Wu Changkong chose one-on-one battles.
• Bai Xu defeated Xie Xie by outpacing him, then knocked out Zhang Yangzi and Wang Jinxi with his strength and counterattacks.
• Wu Changkong sent Tang Wulin to fight Bai Xu, and the two introduced their levels and Martial Souls.
• Tang Wulin used his senses, Blue Silver Grass, and Tungsten Steel Hammer to catch Bai Xu off guard, but Bai Xu broke free and revealed a Golden Sword.
• Tang Wulin blocked Bai Xu's sword with his Golden Dragon Claw, but Bai Xu eventually pointed the Golden Sword at his waist and won the match.

Bai Xu defeated Gu Yue with a refined mental attack, then reached Rank 30 and acquired a new Spirit Soul. Leng Jiuming arranged further training for him, including a visit to witness an Evil Soul Master and entry to the Spirit Ascension Platform, where staff were ordered to erase recordings of his sessions.

• Leng Jiuming called an intermission so Bai Xu could recover before facing Gu Yue, and Gu Yue explained what she knew about his abilities.
• Bai Xu's Spiritual Threads pierced Gu Yue's defenses, and after another painful attack she conceded the match.
• Gu Yue and Bai Xu separately wondered about the unusual quality of his mental power, while Bai Xu decided to study escape techniques.
• Bai Xu reached Rank 30, demonstrated a Golden Sword technique, and Leng Jiuming helped him acquire a five-thousand-year Puppet Empress Spirit Soul.
• Leng Jiuming told Bai Xu to prepare to witness an Evil Soul Master and gave him a ticket for the Spirit Ascension Platform's riot period.
• Bai Xu began spending days training in the Spirit Ascension Platform, where staff followed Leng Jiuming's order to delete recordings of his sessions.

Bai Xu survived the Spirit Ascension Platform’s riot phase by killing a powerful Centipede and escaping a pack of Soul Beasts, then joined forces with Tang Wulin’s Team and the Ice Staff Siblings to defeat three more beasts. With the enemies dead and everyone exhausted, Bai Xu asked the others to honor his offer to divide the spiritual energy evenly.

• Bai Xu killed a Four-Thousand-Year Centipede, then found himself surrounded by a Man Faced Demon Spider, a Unicorn Giant Rhinoceros, and a Great Vajra Ape.
• Bai Xu escaped the beasts’ encirclement by cutting through the spider webs, then led them through the forest until he encountered Tang Wulin’s Team and the Ice Staff Siblings.
• Bai Xu asked the others to help him fight the beasts and promised to split the spiritual energy evenly; Tang Wulin’s Team agreed to help.
• Gu Yue blinded the beasts, and Bai Xu used his giant Golden Sword to split the Unicorn Giant Rhinoceros in two.
• Bai Xu weakened the Great Vajra Ape with a Mental Attack, allowing the Ice Staff Youth to kill it, while Tang Wulin’s Team killed the Man Faced Demon Spider.
• Bai Xu proposed dividing the spiritual energy evenly, and the Ice Staff Youth agreed while watching Tang Wulin’s group warily.

After leaving the Spirit Ascension Platform, Bai Xu joined Leng Jiuming and Gu Yue on a mission to investigate an Evil Soul Master in an Outer Sea fishing village. They found the Spirit Transmitter dead from Blue Ringed Jellyfish venom, and the village chief began to confess what he had concealed.

• Bai Xu, Xu Xiaoyu, and Tang Wulin's group shared the spiritual power released by the spirit beasts, and Xu Xiaoyu introduced himself before leaving the platform with Xu Xiaoyan.
• Bai Xu was forced out of the Spirit Ascension Platform after spirit beasts overwhelmed him, but his soul spirit gained two thousand years of age and his Mental Domination proved useful.
• Leng Jiuming agreed to guide Gu Yue after receiving a message from Leng Yaozhu, while Gu Yue questioned Bai Xu about his Mental Attack and he concealed what he knew.
• Leng Jiuming took Bai Xu and Gu Yue to an Outer Sea village to investigate the disappearance of a six-year-old Evil Soul Master and the killing of Spirit Transmitter Zhang Xiao.
• Bai Xu identified the blue spots and tiny wound on Zhang Xiao's corpse as signs of Blue Ringed Jellyfish venom, and the village chief admitted that Blue Ringed Jellyfish had recently appeared nearby.
• Leng Jiuming challenged the village chief about the suspicious circumstances, and the old man began to confess as Bai Xu watched the villagers.

Bai Xu doubted the village chief’s account of Zhang Wa and uncovered that an Evil Soul Master was controlling him. The Soul Emperor revealed himself and cornered Bai Xu and Gu Yue while Leng Jiuming fought a Blue Ringed Jellyfish offshore.

• The village chief said Zhang Wa’s mother, a six-ringed Soul Emperor, had killed the Spirit Transmitter before fleeing with her son, and Leng Jiuming was ordered to kill the Evil Soul Master.
• Bai Xu noticed gaps in the village chief’s story, and he and Gu Yue found that the villagers avoided them while Leng Jiuming discovered Blue Ringed Jellyfish off the island.
• Bai Xu proposed using Mental Domination on the village chief, but Leng Jiuming refused and warned him against risking harm to a human’s Spirit Sea.
• While following the village chief around the island, Bai Xu used Mental Domination and discovered that a strand of Black Qi controlled him after his Spirit Sea had dried up.
• A battle erupted offshore between Leng Jiuming and a massive Blue Ringed Jellyfish, while Bai Xu’s attack exposed the hidden Soul Emperor controlling the village chief’s avatar.
• The six-ringed Evil Soul Master confronted Bai Xu and Gu Yue, and Bai Xu warned him that Leng Jiuming would return within a minute.

Bai Xu and Leng Jiuming exposed an Evil Soul Master's role in the village tragedy and learned that Zhang Wa's mother was a transformed hundred-thousand-year Blue Ringed Jellyfish. Leng Jiuming agreed to take Zhang Wa into human society, but Bai Xu suspected the mother had chosen them for a reason and wondered whether a hidden force was manipulating events.

• Gu Yue rescued Bai Xu from the Evil Soul Master's attack, and Leng Jiuming captured and crippled the fleeing Soul Emperor.
• Leng Jiuming fed Bai Xu a Soul Spirit Fruit, which restored him, and revealed that Zhang Wa and his mother were with the Blue Ringed Jellyfish swarm.
• Zhang Wa's mother revealed that she was a transformed hundred-thousand-year Blue Ringed Jellyfish and explained how the village tragedy and the Evil Soul Master's actions had endangered her son.
• Bai Xu used Mental Domination to confirm the Evil Soul Master's confession, while Zhang Wa's mother explained why she wanted her son to live among humans.
• Leng Jiuming promised to protect Zhang Wa in the human world, and the boy's mother returned to the sea with her clan.
• Bai Xu questioned why Zhang Wa's mother had entrusted her son to them, suspecting she knew they would spare her or that a hidden force was influencing events.

The remnant Spirit of the Douluo Plane revealed that it had summoned Bai Xu to save the world from Tang Hao’s control, and it urged him to strengthen his Soul Power and ally with the soul beasts. Bai Xu refused to trust the soul beasts with his secrets, but recognized that their support might be his only path to resources as he returned to Eastsea City to cultivate.

• The Spirit of the Douluo Plane contacted Bai Xu and Gu Yue, asking whether she wanted the soul beasts to survive.
• The Spirit told Bai Xu that Tang Hao had replaced it, thrown Douluo Star out of balance, and that it had summoned Bai Xu as a potential destroyer or rebuilder.
• Gu Yue identified Bai Xu’s unusual elemental abilities and decided to investigate him through Leng Jiuming.
• Leng Jiuming took Bai Xu, Gu Yue, and Zhang Wa back to Eastsea City, then left with Zhang Wa to arrange his identity.
• Bai Xu and Gu Yue both went to the Spirit Pagoda, where Gu Yue questioned Bai Xu about his powers and he directed her to ask Leng Jiuming.
• The Spirit warned Bai Xu that his low Soul Power left him vulnerable to discovery by Tang Hao and proposed an alliance with the soul beasts in exchange for their resources; Bai Xu remained wary of them.

Bai Xu agreed to ally with Gu Yue and the soul beasts after learning that Tang Hao was consuming the Spirit of the Plane. He warned them that the God Realm might be manipulating their future and Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King Core, leaving Gu Yue resolved to investigate Tang Wulin.

• The Spirit of the Plane told Bai Xu it might disappear within a few years, so Bai Xu asked it to secretly contact Gu Yue and arrange an alliance.
• The Spirit of the Plane persuaded Gu Yue and the fierce beasts to sign a Soul Contract with Bai Xu, then Bai Xu emerged before them and revealed that Tang Hao was devouring the plane’s origin.
• Bai Xu warned Gu Yue that Tang Hao might guide soul beasts into dependence on humans, and argued that the God Realm could be orchestrating their fate.
• Bai Xu revealed that the Golden Dragon King Core had appeared in Tang Wulin, suggesting the God Realm had allowed or arranged it; Gu Yue decided to make contact with Tang Wulin.

Bai Xu secured Gu Yue’s cooperation by revealing what he knew about Tang Wulin and the Dragon God Core, then showed her his body-cultivation method. After winter break, he advanced to Soul Power level 32 and prepared for the Sky Sea Alliance Competition while Gu Yue became more emotionally detached around Tang Wulin and their friends.

• Bai Xu told Gu Yue that Tang Wulin was Tang San’s son and that the Dragon God Core was in Dragon Valley, convincing her to cooperate in exchange for resources and help finding the soul beasts a place to live.
• Bai Xu warned Gu Yue to commit to her position as the soul beasts’ leader, and the next day she visited him with a Sea Essence Grass to observe his cultivation.
• Gu Yue failed to sense her own essence, qi, and spirit through Bai Xu’s method, then proposed testing whether Tang Wulin was protected by a god; Bai Xu warned her against risking anyone’s life.
• Bai Xu cultivated through winter break and reached level 32, while Leng Jiuming urged him to compete in the Sky Sea Alliance Competition and aim for a top-five finish.
• Xu Xiaoyan passed her probation and joined Class Zero, while Gu Yue grew less possessive of Tang Wulin and practiced keeping a rational distance from her friends.
• During a spar, Gu Yue praised Tang Wulin and Xie Xie’s teamwork and helped the exhausted Xu Xiaoyan to her feet.

Bai Xu asked Gu Yue for permission to cultivate in the Star Dou Great Forest’s core region and obtain Life Gold, while warning her to keep observing Tang Wulin without becoming emotionally involved. As the Eastsea Academy group traveled to the Sky Sea Alliance Competition, Gu Yue reflected on Tang Wulin’s bloodline and wondered what Bai Xu’s mysterious influence might mean for the future.

• After Wu Changkong ended training, Bai Xu asked Gu Yue to arrange access to the Star Dou Great Forest’s core region and some Life Gold, and she agreed to consult Di Tian.
• Gu Yue told Bai Xu that his warning had helped her feel clearer, while Tang Wulin grew troubled by the distance between them and could not sleep that night.
• On the bus to the Sky Sea Alliance Competition, Leng Jiuming advised Bai Xu to conceal his human-body cultivation method and avoid drawing attention, and Bai Xu declined a proposed trip to Shrek City.
• Leng Jiuming reminded Bai Xu that he owed him 66,530,000 Federal Coin, and Bai Xu promised to repay the debt.
• As Eastsea Academy traveled to Skysea City, Gu Yue considered Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King bloodline and wondered whether he and the Silver Dragon King might one day have a child capable of becoming the Dragon God.

Gu Yue asked Bai Xu how to face the emotions that might overwhelm her when she merged with Na'er, and his advice strengthened her resolve to shoulder the Silver Dragon King's responsibility. The next morning, the Sky Sea Alliance Competition began with a Shrek Academy team defeating its opponents, while Bai Xu watched and considered how he would fare against them.

• Gu Yue recalled her growing affection for Xu Xiaoyan and told Bai Xu she feared Na'er's emotions would change her and make her hesitate to kill Tang Wulin.
• Bai Xu explained that emotions developed through experience and urged Gu Yue to stay true to her convictions and shoulder her duty as the Silver Dragon King.
• Gu Yue left more determined to restore soul beasts to glory, while Bai Xu said his own path lay elsewhere and joked that she should give him more Life Gold.
• At the Sky Sea Alliance Competition's opening, a Shrek Academy team defeated the Skysea Alliance Youth Division champions in a single strike.
• Leng Jiuming praised Shrek's strength and asked how Bai Xu would fare against its students, and Bai Xu claimed they would be evenly matched.

Bai Xu won his Individual Competition matches against a local student and Gu Yue, while Leng Jiuming intervened when Gu Yue was endangered during the team event. After Bai Xu was eliminated in the semifinals, Class Zero disappeared, and Bai Xu left Leng Jiuming a note saying he was taking a year away to travel.

• Bai Xu defeated his first Individual Competition opponent in seconds with Spirit Shock.
• Bai Xu watched Ye Xinglan eliminate Tang Wulin, then beat Gu Yue after she unleashed a massive Elemental Tornado.
• Leng Jiuming rescued Gu Yue and Tang Wulin when Zhou Hanyou and Zhou Tian'er's Ice and Snow Forest threatened Gu Yue during the team match.
• Bai Xu fell in the semifinals to a three-ring Control System Battle Soul Master, and Class Zero later vanished from Eastsea Academy.
• Bai Xu left Leng Jiuming a letter saying he would travel Douluo Continent and return in a year and a half.

Bai Xu traveled with Gu Yue to Shrek City, where Di Tian took him to the core area of Star Dou Forest to cultivate. Gu Yue and Na'er discussed Gu Yue’s feelings and her determination to kill Tang Wulin, while Bai Xu arrived at the Lake of Life and settled into the house prepared for him.

• Bai Xu traveled with Gu Yue to Shrek City, and the Spirit of the Plane told him that Gu Yue could not cultivate his method because she lacked “spirit.”
• Gu Yue leaned against Bai Xu on the train, and she later admitted to Na'er that Bai Xu had helped her find a path forward for herself and the soul beasts.
• Na'er concluded that Gu Yue no longer loved Tang Wulin and left sadly, believing Gu Yue had decided to kill him because of his Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• Di Tian escorted Bai Xu toward Star Dou Fortress and discussed how Spirit Pagoda confined soul beasts while selling humans access to them.
• Di Tian took Bai Xu into the core area of Star Dou Forest, showed him the house prepared beside the Lake of Life, and warned him not to leave the guarded area.
• Bai Xu jumped into the Lake of Life to cultivate after Di Tian explained the arrangements.

Bai Xu cultivated Wood Element at Lake of Life using the Life Gold while Gu Yue observed and questioned him about his abilities and plans. After they reaffirmed their alliance and discussed the threat surrounding Tang Wulin, Gu Yue asked whether they were betting everything on the future, leaving their next move unresolved.

• Bai Xu retrieved the enormous Life Gold from Lake of Life, raised it to the surface, and cultivated Wood Element there for a month.
• Gu Yue arrived to observe Bai Xu's cultivation, which filled the area with life and awakened plants and trees into soul beasts.
• Bai Xu told Gu Yue that the Five Elements were only the foundation of his cultivation and that his method could let him contend against dragons; he denied being able to see the past and future.
• Gu Yue explained that she had tested Bai Xu because she feared his supposed foresight, apologized, and agreed to let him use the Dragon God Core once as compensation.
• Bai Xu said he had come to Douluo Continent to pursue immortality, and Gu Yue admitted that Di Tian's attempts to kill Tang Wulin had failed because something seemed to protect him.
• Gu Yue asked whether they would simply let Tang Wulin absorb the Golden Dragon Core and whether they were betting everything on the future; Bai Xu advised them to proceed with their plans while he continued cultivating.

After Bai Xu left the Lake of Life, he cultivated the Water Element in a fishing village and reached rank 40, while Gu Yue reflected on her responsibilities and made her own choice about love and the revival of soul beasts. The Spirit of the Plane gave Bai Xu a fourth soul ring, and Leng Jiuming summoned him back to enroll at Shrek Academy.

• Bai Xu asked Gu Yue whether she had feelings for him, then warned her to preserve her independence and consider her responsibility to the soul beasts before choosing a partner.
• Bai Xu left the core area with Life Gold, while Gu Yue spent half a month questioning her purpose and resolved to pursue the revival of soul beasts on her own terms.
• Bai Xu returned in disguise to the fishing village near Eastsea City and spent a year and a half cultivating the Water Element and fighting sea soul beasts.
• After Bai Xu reached rank 40, the Spirit of the Plane appeared, gave him a ten-thousand-year fourth soul ring with the skill Good Luck, and agreed to stay with him as Da Huang.
• Leng Jiuming called Bai Xu and told him to return for Shrek Academy's enrollment, while reminding him that he owed over sixty million and would need to support himself as a work-study student.

Bai Xu passed Leng Jiuming’s final test by killing the Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear in the Junior Spirit Ascension Platform, graduating from his teacher’s training. He arrived in Shrek City, committed to studying at Shrek Academy, and joined the enrollment line, where Gu Yue appeared behind him.

• Leng Jiuming tested Bai Xu by sending him into the Junior Spirit Ascension Platform to kill its Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, and Bai Xu defeated the beast with his physical strength and Spirit Shock.
• Bai Xu accidentally crushed the bear’s thousand-year External Soul Bone, then exited the platform and received Leng Jiuming’s congratulations and graduation.
• Leng Jiuming and Bai Xu went to Shrek City, where Leng Yaozhu approved Bai Xu’s choice to study at Shrek and reminded him that he must return to work for the Spirit Pagoda.
• On Shrek Academy’s enrollment day, Bai Xu queued for the entrance assessment after Leng Jiuming left, and Gu Yue appeared behind him.