Chapter Summaries

Guang Long spoke with his brother Guang Biao, who warned him about a captured Evil Soul Master and possible accomplices. That night, Tang Wulin encountered Tang San’s Divine Sense and learned he had to gather three items to survive, while Huo Yuhao discovered that Tang San had removed his Spiritual Beacon from Tang Wulin.

• Guang Long told Guang Biao he did not regret working for the Security Team, and Guang Biao warned him to avoid suspicious people after capturing an Evil Soul Master.
• Tang Wulin fell asleep and found himself facing an enormous golden dragon, where Tang San’s Divine Sense explained the Golden Dragon King Seal and the items needed to break it.
• Tang Wulin vowed to gather the items, but Tang San warned him not to seek help from major powers and sent him back to the dormitory.
• Tang San noticed and removed Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Beacon from Tang Wulin, alerting Huo Yuhao that Tang San had awakened.
• Huo Yuhao realized Tang San’s removal of the beacon had revealed his presence, while Tang San regretted losing the chance to trace whoever was targeting Wulin.

During Luo Yanglu’s history lesson, Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena secretly avoided listening, but Luo Yanglu reminded them that future leaders of the Spirit Pagoda needed to understand Federation history and keep a low profile. Gu Yuena agreed to pay attention, while Luo Yanglu wondered how she had learned Sound Transmission.

• Luo Yanglu used entertaining stories to teach the history of ten thousand years ago while Huo Yuhao secretly carved a Soul Tool Array under Simulation.
• Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao to include her in his Simulation, then discovered he was carving during class.
• Luo Yanglu questioned Gu Yuena about key dates in Federation history, and she admitted she did not know them.
• Luo Yanglu urged Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao to study Federation history and avoid acting too conspicuously, explaining how the Spirit Pagoda used its rankings to divert attention.
• Gu Yuena agreed to listen seriously, and Luo Yanglu realized she had communicated with him through Sound Transmission.

Huo Yuhao met Mu Xi at the Mecha Master Association and asked her to purify rare metals, while the academy students speculated about his ties to Gu Yuena and the Spirit Pagoda. The chapter ended with Gu Yuena waiting outside Huo Yuhao’s manufacturing room with a small hammer.

• Wei Xiaofeng, Xie Xie, and Wang Jinxi discussed Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena’s closeness and guessed that they were connected to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Huo Yuhao visited the Mecha Master Association and discovered that his assigned blacksmith collaborator was Mu Xi.
• Huo Yuhao asked Mu Xi to perform Hundred Forgings purification on three rare metals, and she agreed.
• Huo Yuhao wondered whether Tang Wulin was nearing the point of breaking the First Floor seal.
• Huo Yuhao saw Gu Yuena waiting outside his manufacturing room with a small hammer.

Gu Yuena tried to repay Huo Yuhao by learning blacksmithing, but he told her she did not owe him and revealed his plan to study a Dragon God Bloodline Soul Spirit. As he explained the principles of forging, Gu Yuena recognized that his method of extracting metal essence was the core technology behind Level 12 God-Slaying Grade Soul Tool Cannonballs.

• Gu Yuena decided to learn blacksmithing so she could help Huo Yuhao, but he found her holding a hammer before she could knock.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yuena that she did not need to repay him and said her Silver Dragon King Bloodline had already helped him.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether Gu Yuena would object to him taking a trace of Golden Dragon King Bloodline from Tang Wulin to research a Dragon God Bloodline Soul Spirit.
• Gu Yuena worried that Huo Yuhao might be in danger, then warned that his bloodline research would likely fail or reach a bottleneck.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated a Soul Tool Array that extracted silver liquid from Spirit-Forged Blue Pregnant Copper and explained the principles of metal essence extraction.
• Gu Yuena recognized that extracting metal essence was the core technology behind Level 12 God-Slaying Grade Soul Tool Cannonballs.

Huo Yuhao explained his Siphon Inscription Soul Tool Array for extracting metal essence and showed Gu Yuena how its principles related to forging. Gu Yuena realized her creation powers and control of elements could let her overcome forging’s usual bottlenecks, and she considered using Heaven and Earth Force for every stage.

• Gu Yuena recognized that Huo Yuhao had developed a technology resembling the metal-essence extraction used in God-Slaying Grade Soul Tool Cannonballs, and he explained that he had named it the Siphon Inscription Soul Tool Array.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated the array on Spirit Forged Blue Pregnant Copper, extracting its essence and leaving the metal flattened and stripped of its rare-metal properties.
• Huo Yuhao described how forging progressed from removing impurities to giving metal life, intelligence, and the power of elements, and Gu Yuena concluded she could perform each stage with her abilities.
• Huo Yuhao suggested that Gu Yuena could learn forging without a Forging Hammer by using her control of the elements, and she considered whether Heaven and Earth Force could serve every forging stage.

Gu Yuena decided to pursue forging after Huo Yuhao explained its different methods, while Cheng Yixuan questioned her about their relationship. On the way back to campus, Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena were ambushed by an Evil Soul Master, whom Huo Yuhao quickly defeated before Luo Ziyang took him into custody.

• Gu Yuena left the workshop convinced that she should learn forging and named the method she and Huo Yuhao had discussed Divine Forging.
• Cheng Yixuan asked Gu Yuena about Huo Yuhao and reassured herself that he would not take advantage of her feelings.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena left Li Yucheng and headed back to campus after Li and Huo Yuhao made progress on a level seven Soul Power Amplifier.
• Huo Yuhao used Mental Sharing to guide Gu Yuena into an alley, where a four-ring Evil Soul Master tried to capture them.
• Huo Yuhao struck the Evil Soul Master with Mental Shock, and Luo Ziyang seized the unconscious attacker and escorted Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena back to the Academy.

Hua Yichen captured an Evil Soul Master who revealed that Tang Ziran and his wife were targets, then alerted the Execution Department about a possible hideout in Skysea City. As he waited for an investigation, he reflected on how Soul Spirit contracts and the Execution Department helped supervise people at risk of becoming Evil Soul Masters and build trust between Soul Beasts and humanity.

• Hua Yichen questioned the captured Evil Soul Master, used his Soul Suppressing Song to subdue him, and learned that Tang Ziran and his wife were targets.
• Hua Yichen informed Guang Biao and contacted Dark Phoenix Douluo Leng Yulai about a possible Evil Soul Master base in Skysea City.
• Leng Yulai said she would arrange an investigation, and Hua Yichen waited for news from Skysea City's Execution Department.
• Hua Yichen recalled how Soul Spirits helped the Execution Department monitor Soul Masters who might become Evil Soul Masters through regular contract-based reviews.
• Hua Yichen reflected that Soul Spirit contracts were improving trust between humanity and Soul Beasts, bringing the Spirit Pagoda closer to its founding goal.

Huo Yuhao learned that the Spirit Pagoda’s Execution Department secretly relied on the Soul Suppressing Douluo, a Limit Douluo who gained strength by consuming Spiritual Energy through Spirit Ascension Pills. After discussing the Spirit Pagoda’s progress with Gu Yuena, they went to the forging room so she could try purifying metal with the Power of Elements.

• Gu Yuena told Huo Yuhao that the Execution Department had only two Title Douluo-level experts, including the Dark Phoenix Douluo and the secret Soul Suppressing Douluo.
• Gu Yuena explained that the Soul Suppressing Douluo devoured soul energy, had inspired the creation of Spirit Ascension Pills, and had consumed enough pills to become a Limit Douluo.
• Gu Yuena described how the Soul Suppressing Douluo could generate his own Soul Rings and how cultivating him had consumed vast Spirit Pagoda resources.
• Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao whether he was satisfied with the Spirit Pagoda’s progress, and he told her that she should decide for herself; she said she hoped the era would improve further.
• Huo Yuhao led Gu Yuena to a forging room and showed her how to begin purifying rare metal with the Power of Elements.

Tang Wulin’s parents settled in East Sea, but an Evil Soul Master attacked them before he arrived. As the enemy reached for Tang Wulin, a black Mecha suddenly descended, interrupting both the Evil Soul Master and Tang San’s plan to use the crisis to win Tang Wulin’s trust.

• Tang Wulin learned that Tang Ziran and Lang Yue had rented a home near Snack Street and hurried to visit them.
• A black-robed Evil Soul Master arrived at Tang Ziran and Lang Yue’s home, and Tang Ziran agreed to go with him to keep their son safe.
• Guang Long confronted the Evil Soul Master, but the enemy unleashed a plague that incapacitated Guang Long and Tang Wulin’s parents.
• Tang Wulin arrived, charged at the Evil Soul Master, and collapsed after entering the plague’s range.
• The Evil Soul Master reached for Tang Wulin as Tang San’s Divine Sense planned to use the attack to gain his trust, but a black Mecha suddenly landed nearby.

Guang Biao’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Spirit used the Black-grade Mecha to defeat the Evil Soul Master and rescue Tang Wulin’s family. At the Mecha Brigade’s base, Guang Biao learned that Tang Ziran and his wife had once worked as Federation researchers before going into seclusion, while Tang San’s Divine Sense grew uneasy about Wulin’s admiration for Guang Biao.

• The Evil Soul Master held Tang Ziran hostage, but Guang Biao’s Soul Spirit appeared behind him and struck him down before the Black-grade Mecha pummeled him unconscious.
• Tang San’s Divine Sense worried that Tang Wulin admired Guang Biao, then withdrew to conserve its power.
• Guang Biao brought Tang Wulin’s family to the Mecha Brigade base, handed the Evil Soul Master to his subordinates, and arranged treatment for the injured.
• A middle-aged man told Guang Biao that Tang Ziran and his wife had been Federation Mecha Designers and Medicine Researchers before resigning and going into seclusion.
• Guang Biao learned that Tang Ziran had come from the Star Luo Federation and had smuggled himself into the Federation.

After the Evil Soul Master attack, Tang Wulin’s family recovered in the hospital while Guang Biao investigated why they had been targeted. Determined to gain the strength to protect his parents, Tang Wulin went to the Spirit Pagoda and asked to join.

• Tang Wulin knelt to thank Guang Long for saving his parents, and Guang Long admitted he had envied their close family.
• Gong Lingyao examined Tang Ziran, Lang Yue, Tang Wulin, and Guang Long, then confirmed the Evil Soul Master had left them unharmed.
• Guang Biao questioned Tang Ziran and Lang Yue about the attack, learned about their Mecha blueprints and research on mind-related drugs, and warned them the attackers might return.
• Guang Biao told Tang Wulin not to waste his talent, and Tang Ziran reminded him that he had to rely on his own strength.
• Remembering the people who had encouraged him and wanting to protect his family, Tang Wulin went to the Spirit Pagoda and declared that he wanted to join.

Tang Wulin joined the Spirit Pagoda and learned that membership could provide his family with a safe home and him with work in the Forging Department. Meanwhile, Hua Yichen investigated why the Holy Spirit Cult’s higher-ups remained missing and wondered whether they had moved their operations beyond the Federation.

• Tang San's Divine Sense discovered that Tang Wulin had joined the Spirit Pagoda and worried about the forces available to defend the Douluo Plane.
• Tang Wulin received a Portable Soul Tool Light Screen, but found that the Spiritual Items he needed were still too expensive.
• The receptionist told Tang Wulin that his family could settle near the Spirit Pagoda and that he could work as an intern in its Forging Department.
• Hua Yichen received Guang Biao's message about an Evil Soul Master arrest and considered whether the Holy Spirit Cult was expanding into the ocean, Star Luo, or Heaven Dou.
• Hua Yichen recalled Tang Ziran's file and questioned whether the Holy Spirit Cult had targeted him only for his research ability.

After Gu Yuena exhausted herself forging, Huo Yuhao cared for her and later explained why he would treat Tang Wulin fairly unless they became enemies. While meditating, Huo Yuhao was brought into the Eternal Domain, where the Eternal Angel appeared to begin a trial.

• Huo Yuhao took Gu Yuena back to her room after her ninth forging attempt and went to fetch her three Grade A Meals.
• Gu Yuena browsed the Soul Tool Network for advice on growing closer to Huo Yuhao.
• Huo Yuhao told Ice Empress and Tian Meng that Tang Wulin was only his classmate and that he would not target a child over hatred he had not personally suffered.
• During Huo Yuhao's meditation, he entered the Eternal Domain with Tian Meng, Ice Empress, and Electrolux, who identified it as the inner space of the Eternal and Creation Divine Throne.
• The Eternal Angel appeared before Huo Yuhao, and Tian Meng's joking remark about dramatic entrances left her puzzled by his lack of nervousness.

Huo Yuhao began the Eternal and Creation Divine Throne trial, while Eternal Angel restricted both his resources and her own strength to set the challenge. The trial began with Eternal Angel using a Star Crown skill against him.

• Eternal Angel identified herself as the guardian of the Eternal Domain and asked Huo Yuhao to accept the trial.
• Huo Yuhao asked to use his companions and equipment, then prepared Level 9 Fixed Soul Tool Cannonballs with help from Electrolux.
• Eternal Angel forbade outside assistance and weapons, suppressed her cultivation to four rings, and adjusted her strength to one rank above Huo Yuhao's.
• Electrolux, Tian Meng, and the Ice Empress returned to Huo Yuhao, who charged at Eternal Angel with his three golden Soul Rings.
• Huo Yuhao dodged a ring of light and starlight chains, then recognized Eternal Angel's golden pillar and mist as a Star Crown soul skill.

Huo Yuhao defeated Eternal Angel in a battle using soul skills and ice techniques, forcing her to abandon her restrictions. After conceding, Eternal Angel let him keep her staff, which Tian Meng and Ice Empress suspected was a Divine Artifact.

• Huo Yuhao recognized that Eternal Angel could simulate Star Crown abilities and avoided her Starry Sky Chains before rushing in to attack.
• Huo Yuhao used a fake body to escape the Starry Sky Chains, then struck Eternal Angel in the face with Floating World Painting Frost.
• Huo Yuhao froze Eternal Angel with Emperor Sword, Ice Extreme Unrivaled and followed up with the Ice Explosion Technique.
• Eternal Angel restored her strength, admitted Huo Yuhao had won, and offered him her staff.
• Tian Meng and Ice Empress realized the staff was likely a Divine Artifact.

The Throne of Godly Seal brought Huo Yuhao into its Eternal Domain and granted him recognition of the Power of Stars, strengthening his foundation with a Divine Artifact and a new Soul Ring. After he finished absorbing the power, Gu Yuena found their connection restored and met him at his open door.

• Huo Yuhao questioned why the Lord of Eternity had brought him to the Eternal Domain, and the Lord explained that a person's changes to the world mattered most.
• The Eternal Angel described how she, the Sacred Giant Dragon, and King of Easton guarded the Eternal Domain and represented its three powers.
• The Eternal Angel granted Huo Yuhao recognition of the Power of Stars, and a staff merged into his brow as starlight formed a golden Soul Ring around his second Soul Ring.
• Tian Meng and the Ice Empress examined the new Divine Artifact in Huo Yuhao's Sea of Consciousness, while Electrolux moved it beside the Life Guardian Blade and the Eye of Life.
• Gu Yuena sensed that her contract connection to Huo Yuhao had returned, and she found him standing in the doorway with starlight in his eyes.

Huo Yuhao showed Gu Yuena the Divine Artifact Favor of the Stars and explained how it drew on stellar power and altered the Eye of Life. They tested their abilities in a spar, where Huo Yuhao’s star-infused soul skill briefly created an indestructible barrier and bound Gu Yuena with Star Chains.

• Huo Yuhao thanked Gu Yuena for withdrawing her Power of Elements and invited her to see what he had gained.
• Huo Yuhao revealed Favor of the Stars and explained its Star Realm Gate and its ability to draw on the Power of Stars through the Eye of Life.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena agreed to train together and revealed the true colors of their Soul Rings.
• Gu Yuena attacked with dual-element Ice Cones, and Huo Yuhao used his star-infused second soul skill to block them before dodging the remaining attacks.
• Huo Yuhao charged Gu Yuena, disrupted her attempt to use a soul skill, and caught her with Star Chains, but she escaped using the Space Element.

Huo Yuhao assessed the defensive, offensive, and control abilities of his Star Power Version of Divine Sculpting Myriad Forms, while Xu Xiaoyan reflected on how her mutated Martial Soul had made her the Xu Family heir against her wishes. At Eastsea Academy, Class Three defeated Class Five in the promotion tournament and prepared to challenge Class Two.

• Huo Yuhao concluded that his Star Power Version of Divine Sculpting Myriad Forms could provide one second of absolute defense, trap opponents, and support other abilities, though its uses still needed development.
• Huo Yuhao jokingly asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for more soul skills, and Sky Dream refused before Huo Yuhao used Favor of the Stars to cultivate.
• Xu Xiaoyan recalled that the Starry Sky Beast Ancestor had chosen her as the Xu Family heir after her Martial Soul mutated, despite her wish for gege to inherit the role.
• Xu Xiaoyan worried about her place in the Class Promotion Tournament and hoped gege would replace her as heir, then went to sleep before practical combat training.
• Class Three defeated Wu Changkong's Class Five in the promotion tournament, and Ye Yingrong praised Gu Tianri, Gu Tianyue, and Gu Tianming before telling them to challenge Class Two.

Luo Yanglu offered four students places in the academy’s planned Class Zero, then revealed a separate Spirit Pagoda agreement with powerful cultivation benefits. Xie Xie, Wang Jinxi, and Zhang Yangzi accepted, while Wei Xiaofeng declined, and the chapter ended with Xie Xie convinced his father had guided him well.

• Luo Yanglu selected Wang Jinxi, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wei Xiaofeng to discuss the Class Zero plan before drawing lots for the Class Promotion Tournament.
• Luo Yanglu explained that joining the academy’s plan meant staying through both divisions, and Wei Xiaofeng declined because his family expected him to attend Shrek Academy.
• Xie Xie recalled his father’s advice about the Spirit Pagoda and chose to join Class Zero, then Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi agreed as well.
• The lots selected Wang Jinxi, Zhang Yangzi, and Wei Xiaofeng for the tournament, while Xie Xie no longer cared about participating.
• Luo Yanglu showed the three students the Spirit Pagoda’s agreement, which offered a suitable Ten Thousand Year Soul Spirit and advanced cultivation facilities to those who met its terms.
• Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi marveled at the Spirit Pagoda’s resources, while Xie Xie silently concluded that his father had been right.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena watched Mu Xi forge so Gu Yuena could learn the fundamentals she needed to improve. On their way back, they discussed Soul Beast Saint Craftsmen and Gu Yuena’s future progress toward Heavenly Forging, while Gu Yuena reflected on her growing sense of security around Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao used Mental Sharing to help Mu Xi notice and correct flaws in her forging as Gu Yuena studied her technique.
• Mu Xi finished forging, and Gu Yuena realized where her own problem lay and planned to verify her insight.
• Zheng Tianlin came to ask Mu Xi for help with forging assignments, but backed down after she introduced Huo Yuhao as a Level 3 Mecha Manufacturer and her collaborator.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena left with the rare metal, and Gu Yuena explained that Di Tian and Xiong Jun were Saint Craftsmen who had not mastered Heavenly Forging.
• Huo Yuhao offered to help Gu Yuena if she became stuck at Heavenly Forging, and Gu Yuena watched Soul Masters and Soul Spirits before reflecting on why she felt secure around him.