Chapter Summaries

Su Qiu continued training with Wu Changkong and met Gu Yue, who challenged Xie Xie to prove she could enroll at Eastsea Academy. After Gu Yue displayed her elemental powers, Su Qiu suspected she had come because of the Holy Spear’s power.

• Su Qiu and Wu Changkong sparred daily with wooden swords, and Wu Changkong encouraged Su Qiu to pursue Sword Intent.
• Gu Yue arrived at Eastsea Academy seeking to enroll after missing the registration deadline, and Wu Changkong offered her a chance to qualify by defeating Xie Xie.
• Gu Yue asked to fight Su Qiu, but Su Qiu declined and Wu Changkong instead arranged a match between her and Xie Xie.
• Gu Yue effortlessly evaded Xie Xie and controlled multiple elements, while Su Qiu revealed his own wind, water, and fire powers.
• Gu Yue noticed Su Qiu’s elemental display and shifted away from Xie Xie’s attack, leading Su Qiu to suspect she had come for the Holy Spear’s power.

Gu Yue defeated Xie Xie with her elemental abilities and joined Wu Changkong's class, then spent the day behaving strangely around Su Qiu. After Mu Xi invited Su Qiu to her Level 3 Blacksmith assessment, Gu Yue returned home and examined her reflection in the mirror.

• Gu Yue overwhelmed Xie Xie with elemental attacks, and Wu Changkong accepted her into first grade Class Five after receiving her recommendation letter.
• Wu Changkong sent Gu Yue to learn about the academy from Su Qiu, who showed her around while she followed quietly.
• During theory class, Gu Yue took the desk in front of Su Qiu and repeatedly watched him, then avoided speaking whenever he tried to approach her.
• Mu Xi invited Su Qiu to attend her Level 3 Blacksmith assessment and mentioned that Whale Rubber had helped her complete Thousand Forging.
• Gu Yue watched Su Qiu and Mu Xi talking, studied Mu Xi, and later went home and examined her face in the mirror.

Gu Yue tried to win Su Qiu over so she could recruit him to the Soul Beasts' cause, but her plan to copy Na'er's advice left her confused about her appearance. After consulting Di Tian, she began copying the style of a girl Su Qiu had befriended, and he noticed her changing outfits over the following days.

• Gu Yue separated Na'er's memories and feelings from herself, then decided to make Su Qiu fall in love with her and serve the Soul Beasts.
• Gu Yue asked Di Tian whether her human appearance was beautiful, and he told her it looked ordinary.
• Gu Yue concluded that Na'er's advice was unreliable and decided to change her appearance gradually rather than risk suspicion.
• Gu Yue dressed herself in the style of a girl who had gotten along well with Su Qiu, while Di Tian warned the Fierce beasts not to interfere with her plans.
• The next day, Su Qiu noticed Gu Yue's new ponytail and outfit, and over the following days he saw her change clothes repeatedly until the weekend.

Mu Xi completed Thousand Forging at the Blacksmith Association and thanked Su Qiu, prompting her father Mu Chen to become jealous. Outside, Gu Yue invited Su Qiu to the movies, and he began wondering whether her recent efforts to impress him meant she liked him.

• Mu Xi completed Thousand Forging, and Mu Chen realized Su Qiu had likely encouraged her to use Whale Rubber.
• Mu Xi hugged Su Qiu to celebrate and thanked him, making Mu Chen jealous before Su Qiu left the Blacksmith Association.
• Gu Yue met Su Qiu outside and used an extra movie ticket to persuade him to go with her.
• As they walked, Gu Yue inwardly reflected on her experiments with outfits and her plan to win Su Qiu's heart.
• Gu Yue stopped at a dessert shop, and Su Qiu wondered whether she had been dressing for him before dismissing the idea.

Gu Yue spent the day sharing pastries and watching movies with Su Qiu, who came to understand her loneliness and accepted her as a friend. After parting, his Mental Power advanced, while Gu Yue mistakenly believed she had easily won his affection.

• Gu Yue shared pastries with Su Qiu and led him to the cinema, where she chose seats near the back after remembering his preference.
• Gu Yue asked Su Qiu to watch a second movie with her, and he agreed to set cultivation aside for the day.
• As they walked home, Su Qiu sensed Gu Yue's loneliness and decided he could be her friend.
• Gu Yue thanked Su Qiu and left, and his Mental Power broke through as he watched her go.
• Back in her bedroom, Gu Yue congratulated herself for winning Su Qiu over, unaware that he saw her as a friend.

Wu Changkong gathered Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Su Qiu to discuss the Class Promotion Tournament and begin evening special training. Su Qiu declined to compete, and the chapter ended with Wu Changkong testing the other three in combat.

• Wu Changkong invited Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, and Su Qiu to meet him after dinner.
• Wu Changkong explained the tournament and said only Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue would compete after Su Qiu refused to participate.
• Wu Changkong assessed each student's abilities and gave them advice for developing their combat skills.
• Wu Changkong announced that their special training would consist of actual combat and challenged the three students to attack him together without his Martial Soul or Soul Skills.
• Wu Changkong pressed Xie Xie with a wooden sword as Tang Wulin launched his hammer and Gu Yue attacked with wind, sinking ground, and ice spikes.

Su Qiu defeated Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue in a sparring match, while Wu Changkong used the fight to assess their weaknesses. Later, Su Wuyan asked Su Qiu to face a Soul King-level Evil Soul Master he had found in a neighboring city.

• Wu Changkong stopped his spar with Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue, then asked Su Qiu to fight them so he could observe their coordination.
• Su Qiu defeated Xie Xie with his Instant Light movement technique, disarmed Tang Wulin, and evaded Gu Yue’s elemental attacks without using his Martial Soul or Soul Skills.
• Wu Changkong ended training and decided Tang Wulin should focus on cultivating control over Blue Silver Grass instead of physical training.
• After several days of training, Su Qiu found Su Wuyan waiting on a bench near the dormitories.
• Su Wuyan told Su Qiu he had found a Soul King-level Evil Soul Master in a neighboring city and asked if Su Qiu wanted to test himself against him.

Su Qiu eagerly left with Su Wuyan to fight a Soul King Evil Soul Master, while Gu Yue ordered Di Tian to watch Tang Wulin after sensing the Golden Dragon King's aura in him. In Skysea City, Liu Jin prepared to use a Blood Sacrifice Ritual on a sleeping boy, but an unseen attacker interrupted him with a Golden Light Entwined Spear.

• Su Qiu agreed to go with Su Wuyan to face a Soul King Evil Soul Master, and the two left immediately.
• Gu Yue sensed Su Wuyan's powerful aura and learned from Di Tian that he had taken Su Qiu away.
• Gu Yue ordered Di Tian to monitor Tang Wulin, warning that he carried the aura of another King.
• Gu Yue connected Tang Wulin's name and Blue Silver Grass Martial Soul to Tang San and suspected a link to the God Realm and Tang Wutong.
• Liu Jin prepared to sacrifice a sleeping boy with the Blood Sacrifice Ritual to gain power.
• An unseen figure called out to Liu Jin and sent a Golden Light Entwined Spear plunging toward him.

Su Qiu defeated Liu Jin and found a Blood Sacrifice Method page, but Liu Jin’s shadowy backer confronted him and threatened to kill him. Su Qiu revealed a dragon sparrow’s eye overhead, leaving the attacker frozen in fear.

• Su Qiu pinned Liu Jin with the Holy Spear, suppressed his Soul Power, and listened as Liu Jin blamed others for his turn to evil.
• Su Qiu used the water around them to form a dragon that swallowed and crushed Liu Jin.
• Su Qiu caught a page labeled “Blood Sacrifice Method” and warned a young man to travel in crowded places.
• A hooded figure emerged from the shadows and demanded that Su Qiu return the page, then threatened to kill him.
• Su Qiu told the hooded figure to look behind him, and the figure saw a dragon sparrow’s eye in the sky and froze.

Su Wuyan rescued Su Qiu from an Evil Soul Master, then introduced him to Mu Ye, the Body Sect leader. After examining Su Qiu, Mu Ye was astonished by his extraordinary physical condition and struggled to believe he had no Body Martial Soul.

• An Evil Soul Master tried to seize Su Qiu as a hostage, but Su Wuyan used his Dragon Sparrow Martial Soul Avatar to destroy him.
• Su Wuyan praised Su Qiu's strength and explained that captured Evil Soul Masters revealed little information.
• Mu Ye arrived after diving for ingredients, and Su Wuyan introduced him to Su Qiu.
• Mu Ye examined Su Qiu and discovered his exceptional vitality, meridians, and physical coordination.
• Su Qiu summoned his sword and spear to confirm he had no Body Martial Soul, leaving Mu Ye bewildered by his unprecedented physical talent.
• Mu Ye stopped pacing and fixed Su Qiu with a bright, piercing gaze.

After Su Qiu became Mu Ye’s disciple and returned to Eastsea City, he and his classmates entered the Class Promotion Tournament. Gu Yue led Class Five to victory over Class Four, then took Su Qiu shopping in exchange for teaching him elemental control.

• Mu Ye sensed a hidden power in Su Qiu and persuaded him to become his disciple, while Su Wuyan agreed to leave the choice to Su Qiu.
• Su Qiu returned to Eastsea City with Su Wuyan, reviewed the night’s events, and continued cultivating until the tournament began with his Soul Power at rank thirty-four.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue represented Class Five against Class Four, while Su Qiu watched from the sidelines.
• Gu Yue dominated the match with her elemental control and won within a few moves.
• Gu Yue offered to teach Su Qiu elemental control if he went shopping with her, then led him toward the academy gates as the Golden Dragon King’s aura grew stronger.

Gu Yue took Su Qiu around the snack street and used their outing to teach him her understanding of elemental power. She argued that earth, wind, water, and fire form the true elemental paths, and left him considering the possibility that they could create all things.

• Gu Yue pulled Su Qiu through the snack street, buying candy and ceramic spoons before they ate freshly baked sweet cake together.
• Gu Yue asked Su Qiu how he understood the elements and taught him that earth, wind, water, and fire were the four true elemental powers.
• Gu Yue explained that ice was a form of water and that light, darkness, and space were derivatives or powers outside the elemental system.
• Gu Yue proposed that mastering the four elements might lead to the power to create all things, then laughed off the idea as a hypothesis.
• Gu Yue admired Su Qiu's elemental talent and believed he would master the earth element when he reached the Four-ring Soul Ancestor realm.

Tang Wulin and Xie Xie shared a meal at Uncle Li’s shop, where Xie Xie revealed his grief over his absent father. When Guang Long attacked the shop for protection money, Su Qiu intervened, forced him to pay for the damage and apologize, and decided to have him imprisoned.

• Xie Xie took Tang Wulin to his mother’s favorite beef shop, where he opened up about his father failing to visit his dying mother.
• Xie Xie and Tang Wulin found Guang Long and his lackeys wrecking Uncle Li’s shop and beating him over unpaid protection money.
• Tang Wulin restrained Guang Long with Blue Silver Grass while Xie Xie threatened him, but Guang Long’s hardened body resisted Xie Xie’s dagger.
• Su Qiu arrived, subdued Guang Long by striking a point on his arm, and made him pay Uncle Li and apologize.
• Uncle Li accepted the compensation, and Su Qiu assured him Guang Long would not return while deciding to send him to prison for life.

After dealing with Guang Long and ending their outing, Su Qiu's group continued the Class Promotion Tournament while Tang Wulin struggled with strange dragon roars during cultivation. He encountered Old Tang in a vision and learned that the Golden Dragon King's sealed power threatened his life, leaving him with only months to find the items needed to break the first seal.

• Su Qiu had Guang Long handed over to the administrator, and Gu Yue recorded the incident in her observation journal.
• Gu Yue supported her class in the next Class Promotion Tournament, while Su Wuyan's authority ensured Guang Biao did not obstruct them after school.
• Tang Wulin's growing restlessness prevented him from meditating, and a golden pattern on his body lit up as he entered a dark vision.
• Old Tang told Tang Wulin that the Golden Dragon King's essence was sealed inside him and that its power would eventually kill him unless he absorbed it seal by seal.
• Old Tang said Tang Wulin needed a Hundred Year Ice Crystal Fruit, a Hundred Year Red Flame Fruit, and ten drops of blood from a hundred-year Soul Beast with dragon bloodline to break the first seal before he turned ten.
• Tang Wulin questioned how he could find the nearly extinct Soul Beast blood, and Old Tang glanced toward a certain direction.

Tang Wulin gathered the spirit fruits and dragon blood needed to break the Golden Dragon King seal, then began the painful process in the forging workshop. As the transformation started, Di Tian attacked, and Tang San’s Divine Sense intervened—but had failed to detect the Silver Dragon King.

• Tang Wulin awoke from a vision of the figure of light and resolved to find the three required items.
• Su Qiu failed to reach Spirit Forging during practice, then sensed a terrifying presence approaching Eastsea City.
• Tang Wulin assembled the Hundred Year Red Flame Fruit, Hundred Year Ice Crystal Fruit, and dragon-type Soul Beast blood, and Old Tang instructed him to drink their mixture.
• Tang Wulin drank the mixture and began breaking the seal as golden patterns spread across his body and pain wracked him.
• Di Tian attacked Tang Wulin, and Tang San’s Divine Sense revealed that he had prepared for the ambush but had overlooked the Silver Dragon King.

Tang San's Divine Sense protected Tang Wulin as he absorbed the Golden Dragon King's seal, but Gu Yue revealed herself and disrupted the process. She and Di Tian weakened Tang San, leaving him stranded when his promised reinforcements failed to answer.

• Di Tian attacked Tang Wulin, but Tang San appeared and blocked the dragon claw with his trident.
• Tang San held off Di Tian's renewed assault while Tang Wulin endured the conflicting powers of the Red Flame Fruit, Ice Crystal Fruit, and Golden Dragon King's seal.
• Gu Yue appeared behind Tang Wulin and touched the seal with gray mist, causing it to run wild as she realized the Golden Dragon King was already dead.
• Tang San recognized Gu Yue as the Silver Dragon King, but she told him his Divine Sense was easy to defeat.
• Tang San called on his father for strength, but Tang Hao did not respond, and Gu Yue ordered Di Tian to attack.
• Di Tian struck Tang San with Gu Yuena's bestowed Dragon Might, weakening his Divine Sense, and Gu Yue dispersed his rainbow light.

Gu Yue withdrew after Tang Hao intervened to protect Tang San, then planned to use Na'er and her Golden Dragon Origin to reclaim the Golden Dragon King's essence. Tang Hao struggled against the revived Plane Consciousness, while Su Qiu sensed a divine power in Eastsea City.

• Tang Hao's intervention drove Gu Yue and Di Tian away, and Tang San returned to Tang Wulin's body after realizing something had gone wrong.
• Gu Yue suffered backlash from using too much of the Silver Dragon King's Origin and ordered Di Tian to summon Na'er so she could reclaim the Golden Dragon King's essence through her.
• Tang Hao discovered that a beam of light protected the Plane Consciousness and kept it connected to the Douluo Plane, preventing him from destroying it or completing his possession.
• Su Qiu sensed a powerful divine presence in Eastsea City that Mu Chen could not see, and suspected it was connected to Gu Yue or Tang Wulin's Divine Sense.

Su Qiu sensed a clash between Gu Yue and Tang San and worried about his own powerlessness before gods. After Class Five won the tournament, the academy selected him for Zero Class, and he joined the students questioning his own selection.

• Su Qiu left the Blacksmith Association to meditate after sensing the clash between Gu Yue and Tang San, and he hoped Gu Yue had won.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue defeated Class One in the final, while Su Qiu watched Tang Wulin's increased strength and Gu Yue's good mood.
• Long Hengxu announced rewards for the winning class and established Zero Class, selecting Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue, Su Qiu, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng.
• Su Qiu joined the students questioning his own selection, and the Dean explained that he was the year's only Three-Ring Soul Elder.
• Gu Yue approached Su Qiu and asked whether he really liked stirring up trouble.

The finalized Zero Class students settled into their new quarters and began lessons with Wu Changkong, who explained mecha, Battle Armor, and the need to choose a second profession. Su Qiu declined Wu Changkong’s offer to see real Battle Armor, having already seen some before.

• Yu Zhen gave the selected students agreements to sign, but said Su Qiu did not need one; Wei Xiaofeng withdrew from Zero Class because his family had other plans for him.
• Yu Zhen promised to focus the academy’s resources on Zero Class, and Su Qiu bluntly challenged his claim that the academy could rival Shrek Academy.
• The students moved into private rooms beside one another, and Zhang Yangzi switched rooms with Gu Yue after noticing her interest in his room key.
• Wu Changkong began Zero Class lessons with basic mecha theory before explaining Battle Armor and urging the students to choose a second profession before third grade.
• Tang Wulin asked when they would see real Battle Armor, and Wu Changkong offered to show some to Su Qiu, who declined because he had already seen Battle Armor.

Na'er left Spirit Pagoda Headquarters by train to find Su Qiu, while Gu Yue prepared to test herself against him in hand-to-hand combat. Su Qiu easily countered Gu Yue’s attack and pinned her to the ground.

• Na'er boarded a train to Eastsea City after Leng Yaozhu saw her off and agreed not to stop her.
• Na'er received a message from Gu Yue saying she had integrated the Golden Dragon's power into her body.
• Wu Changkong began combat training and praised Su Qiu’s unarmed fighting ability.
• Gu Yue asked to spar with Su Qiu, and Wu Changkong agreed.
• Gu Yue attacked Su Qiu with practiced footwork, but he dodged her strikes, disrupted her balance, and pinned her down.