Chapter Summaries

Tang Wulin met Green Aunt in a strange forest while unconscious from a fever, and she explained the evil power and blessing within him. After Green Aunt used her remaining strength to transform his Martial Soul, Tang Wulin woke cured and discovered that his Blue Silver Grass radiated Green Light.

• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue worried over Tang Wulin's sudden illness, and Tang Ziran left to buy medicine.
• Tang Wulin awoke in an emerald forest where the trees guided him to a towering tree and Green Aunt.
• Green Aunt told Tang Wulin that her blessing had helped resist the evil power in his body and that the power had now disappeared.
• Green Aunt used her remaining life energy to transform Tang Wulin's Martial Soul and give it new power.
• Tang Wulin woke from the encounter with his fever gone and saw Green Light radiating from his Blue Silver Grass.

Herta became famous at Eastsea Academy for her overwhelming talent and fearless behavior, leaving Mu Xi amazed by how much her little sister had changed. The chapter ended with Herta, Mu Xi, and Ouyang Zixin entering the cafeteria together as the academy’s celebrated “Goddess Dormitory.”

• Herta left class with Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin after another uneventful day at Eastsea Academy.
• Students explained that Herta had defeated four girls without being hit and had challenged teachers in class without facing punishment.
• Herta’s talent and boldness made her famous across the academy, while Mu Xi realized she might need to protect Herta less than she had expected.
• Herta asked Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin what they wanted to eat, and all three chose pork cutlet rice after training class.
• Herta, Mu Xi, and Ouyang Zixin entered the cafeteria together and drew the attention of students who admired the three girls as the “Goddess Dormitory.”

Herta studied independently at Eastsea Academy while developing her soul skills, and the academy eventually arranged a special class with one-on-one instruction from a senior teacher. She guessed that Wu Zhangkong would be her instructor.

• Herta chose to stay at Eastsea Academy rather than rush to Shrek Academy and focused on developing her own soul skills.
• Eastsea Academy let Herta study independently after teachers found they could not guide her, and her classmates stopped challenging her special treatment.
• Herta developed Synaptic Resonance and Brain in a Vat, drawing on her Martial Soul Nous and Bai Ze’s two thousand-year soul rings.
• Eastsea Academy informed Herta that she had completed the Intermediate Division curriculum and would receive one-on-one instruction from a senior teacher.
• Herta guessed that Wu Zhangkong would be her new instructor.

Eastsea Academy's Dean Yu and Director Long decided Wu Zhangkong was their only hope of guiding Herta, whose abilities exceeded the academy's resources. When Wu arrived to teach her, he saw her cultivating in Enlightenment and understood why she troubled the academy.

• Director Long told Dean Yu about Herta's exceptional talents and the difficulties she had caused at Eastsea Academy.
• Dean Yu decided Wu Zhangkong was the academy's only teacher capable of guiding Herta, and Director Long worried that even Wu might fail.
• Dean Yu warned that if Wu could not guide Herta, Eastsea Academy's future would be at risk.
• Herta received the academy's notice and entered a state of Enlightenment while waiting alone in the classroom.
• Wu Zhangkong arrived as the bell rang and recognized why Herta was such a difficult student for the academy.

Wu Zhangkong met Herta at Eastsea Academy and discovered she could enter and leave Enlightenment at will. After Herta declared that she wanted to become a god, he began testing her in combat, where her opening move surprised him.

• Wu Zhangkong arrived to teach Herta and found her in Enlightenment, which she ended and resumed at will.
• Herta introduced herself as a level-twenty-eight Soul Master with the Martial Soul Nous and said she wanted to become a god.
• Wu Zhangkong took Herta to the training grounds and challenged her to fight while he suppressed his Soul Power and avoided using his Martial Soul or Soul Skills.
• Herta summoned a massive hammer, deflected Wu Zhangkong's attempt to disarm her, and shouted, "Spin, spin—!" as she attacked.

Herta defeated Wu Zhangkong with her self-invented Spinning Hammer Technique, then revealed that she had reached level five in every auxiliary profession through self-study. Wu Zhangkong discussed her future and the Tang Sect, while Herta confirmed she belonged to the Spirit Pagoda and hoped to attend Shrek Academy.

• Wu Zhangkong recognized that Herta's hammer technique differed from the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and conceded after her attack forced him to use Soul Power beyond level forty.
• Herta named the technique the Spinning Hammer Technique and told Wu Zhangkong she had taught herself forging and other auxiliary professions to level five.
• Wu Zhangkong praised Herta's talent and asked whether she would join the Tang Sect, but Herta said she was affiliated with Leng Yaozhu from the Spirit Pagoda.
• Herta said she planned to attend Shrek Academy, and Wu Zhangkong explained that its enrollment had ended and she would have to wait three years.
• Wu Zhangkong promised to teach Herta useful knowledge and techniques, and she challenged him to keep up with her in their future training.

Wu Zhangkong honored Yuan Bao'er’s request to give Herta an ordinary childhood, but her extraordinary combat talent made him question whether he could keep her training restrained. After their third spar, he realized he would need to revise her lessons yet again.

• Wu Zhangkong recalled that Yuan Bao'er had asked him to let Herta grow up at Eastsea Academy like an ordinary child before pursuing exceptional training.
• Herta accepted the slower pace of her lessons and enjoyed time with her family and friends, though she believed she needed strength to protect what mattered to her.
• During their third spar, Wu Zhangkong used his Skyfrost Sword and found that Herta could easily counter his attacks, despite the gap between their Soul Power ranks.
• Wu Zhangkong ended the spar when Mu Xi and Ouyang Zixin arrived, then realized he needed to revise Herta’s teaching plan again.
• Wu Zhangkong worried that his limited abilities would make it difficult to fulfill Yuan Bao'er's request.

Herta entered the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform with Wu Zhangkong to raise her Soul Spirit and Soul Ring age. In the Star Dou Great Forest, she annihilated a pack of Moon Shadow Wolves with chained hammer attacks, leaving Wu Zhangkong stunned by her strength.

• Wu Zhangkong noticed Herta was nearing level thirty and agreed to accompany her to the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Herta used Heavenly Phoenix Douluo's token to enter the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform instead of the safer Primary platform.
• Herta and Wu Zhangkong arrived in the Star Dou Great Forest, where Herta explained she wanted to kill one powerful beast rather than many weaker ones.
• A pack of Moon Shadow Wolves surrounded Herta and Wu Zhangkong, and Wu Zhangkong stepped back to let Herta fight.
• Herta used her soul skills and hammer techniques to strike the Wolf King and batter every wolf in the pack until they vanished into Spiritual Power.

Herta hunted through the Spirit Ascension Platform to raise Bai Ze’s age enough for three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, while Wu Zhangkong watched in astonishment. After Herta lured out a Ten Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider, she gained three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.

• Wu Zhangkong observed that Herta’s soul skill could overwhelm large groups of enemies and wondered how much Mental Power she had.
• Herta decided to raise Bai Ze beyond thirty thousand years so she could obtain three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Herta continued hunting and absorbing Spiritual Power while Wu Zhangkong watched her defeat high-age soul beasts without helping.
• After eight hours, Herta’s Soul Spirit had reached twenty-nine thousand years, and she called out to lure a Ten Thousand Year Soul Beast.
• A Ten Thousand Year Man Faced Demon Spider charged at Herta, and she gained three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings.

After reaching level thirty-one with three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings, Herta began using her scientific and forging skills to create metal Herta Puppets. The chapter ended with her recording her body measurements as a blueprint for making lifelike copies.

• Herta’s growth left Wu Zhangkong relying on level sixty Soul Power and wondering whether he would soon need Battle Armor to spar with her.
• Herta mastered the four secondary professions and requested more than thirty kinds of rare metal from Mu Chen at the Forging Association.
• Herta revealed her three Ten Thousand Year Soul Rings to Mu Chen, who arranged for the metals and warned everyone away from her forging room.
• Yao Lan explained that Herta planned to make metal Herta Puppets so she could explore and do more things at once.
• Herta removed her purple dress and carefully measured her body to prepare a blueprint for lifelike Herta Puppets.

Herta created a lifelike metal puppet of herself and considered turning puppet-making into a business, but Yao Lan’s discomfort led her to abandon the idea. Ten thousand years later, Emerald appeared on a broadcast to explain the Douluo Peace Company’s humble origins and warn people spreading false stories about it.

• Herta finished a one-to-one metal puppet of herself, complete with realistic details and texture.
• Yao Lan imagined using puppet-making to establish Winterfire Hall and eventually expand it into the Douluo Peace Company.
• Herta considered adding protections to the puppet, but she and Yao Lan rejected the idea of making such a perfect copy of themselves.
• Herta kept the completed puppet as a memento and decided future Herta Puppets would have joints and omit key body parts.
• Ten thousand years later, Emerald told viewers that the Douluo Peace Company had grown from a small shop through its employees’ work and customers’ support, and warned that its legal department would pursue people who tarnished its reputation.

Na'er entered Star Dou Great Forest with Soul Spirit Na'er to investigate the Soul Beasts and test the waters for Yao Lan’s plans. She found the forest empty and the Lake of Life gone, learned Gu Yue had taken Di Tian and the forest’s foundation away, then fled when the Spirit Pagoda detected her aura.

• Na'er traveled to Star Dou Great Forest with Soul Spirit Na'er, the new Soul Spirit created from her former self.
• Na'er searched the forest and released her aura, but detected no humans, Soul Beasts, or signs of life.
• Na'er found the Lake of Life drained and its surroundings withering.
• Na'er inferred that Gu Yue had taken Di Tian, the other Soul Beasts, and the forest’s foundation away after discovering something.
• When a signal suggested the Spirit Pagoda had detected her, Na'er and Soul Spirit Na'er escaped using spatial power.

Gu Yue and Di Tian visited the Demon Empress, the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and Gu Yue revealed that she was the Silver Dragon King. Gu Yue offered to join forces against humanity, but the Demon Empress considered absorbing her instead.

• Gu Yue and Di Tian entered the Demon Empress’s underwater cavern to seek her cooperation.
• The Demon Empress recognized Di Tian and demanded to know who Gu Yue was.
• Gu Yue revealed that she was the Silver Dragon King, sovereign of all Soul Beasts.
• The Demon Empress blamed Gu Yue for failing to protect Soul Beasts and for her husband’s death, while Gu Yue explained that the Divine Realm had kept her from acting.
• Gu Yue offered to help the Demon Empress take revenge on humanity, but the Demon Empress said she would rather absorb Gu Yue to increase her own power.

Gu Yue and Demon Empress formed an alliance to unite the soul beasts against humanity, though both remained wary of the other's intentions. After Gu Yue left, Demon Empress considered using the power of the Abyss to devour the Silver Dragon King, but feared the cost of letting a certain man control her.

• Demon Empress attacked Gu Yue, and their clash was interrupted when Di Tian rushed in to protect his lord.
• Demon Empress overpowered Di Tian and revealed that she had advanced farther than other Demigods toward the realm of a True God.
• Gu Yue and Demon Empress agreed to cooperate against humanity and planned to keep their alliance secret until the soul beasts could launch a counterattack.
• After leaving with Gu Yue, Di Tian warned that Demon Empress still harbored ill intentions, and Gu Yue agreed that she wanted to devour her.
• Alone, Demon Empress considered borrowing a certain man's power to defeat Gu Yue but hesitated to use the dangerous power of the Abyss.

After learning that Herta had left Eastsea Academy, Mu Xi returned home in distress and learned that Herta had graduated early to pursue her exceptional forging talent. Herta was traveling with Mu Chen to study Heaven Refinement under Zhen Hua, while Mu Xi struggled with the gulf between their abilities.

• Mu Xi returned home and asked Yuan Bao'er why Herta had left Eastsea Academy, then collapsed when she learned Herta and Mu Chen had already departed.
• Yuan Bao'er recalled that Wu Zhangkong had told her and Mu Chen that Herta had outgrown Eastsea Academy and could stand against him despite their great difference in Soul Power.
• Wu Zhangkong offered Herta direct entry to Shrek Academy or early graduation with a recommendation and a later enrollment; Herta chose to spend her free time researching, improving her Soul Power, and learning Heaven Refinement.
• Mu Chen agreed to take Herta to study under his senior brother, the God Craftsman Zhen Hua, and Herta graduated from Eastsea Academy after only three months.
• After Yuan Bao'er explained what had happened, Mu Xi realized how far Herta had surpassed her, and Yuan Bao'er embraced her to comfort her.

After more than two and a half years studying and experimenting with Zhen Hua, Herta returned to Eastsea Academy to obtain a recommendation letter for Shrek Academy. She revealed to Wu Zhangkong that her resurrection research could revive dead soul beasts, leaving him stunned and hopeful.

• Herta mastered forging quickly under Zhen Hua, lost interest after seeing Heaven Refinement, and developed Assembly-Line Spirit Refinement machines that shocked the forging profession.
• Herta reached Soul Sage and became a Three-Word Battle Armor Master before leaving Zhen Hua to return to Eastsea Academy.
• Herta reunited with Wu Zhangkong and told him she had reached rank seventy and become a Three-Word Battle Armor Master.
• Herta told Wu Zhangkong that her resurrection experiment could revive dead soul beasts, and he silently considered the possibility that she might one day revive humans.

Herta visited Wu Zhangkong and then watched Tang Wulin duel Xie Xie at Eastsea Academy, where Tang Wulin revealed a dramatically changed Blue Silver Grass. Herta realized that divine power from the Goddess of Life had surfaced in him and decided she needed to get close to him.

• Herta left Wu Zhangkong after discussing Long Bing and headed toward the Advanced Division to look for Mu Xi and Zi Xin.
• Herta spotted Tang Wulin arriving at Eastsea Academy with Xie Xie and stopped to watch their duel.
• Xie Xie charged Tang Wulin, who released green light and bound him with tough, rapidly healing Blue Silver Grass.
• Herta sensed that Tang Wulin had reached level twenty and recognized the higher-level power within him as divine power with a life attribute.
• Herta concluded that the Goddess of Life's blessing had awakened after Yao Lan removed the Golden Dragon King and decided to get close to Tang Wulin.

Yao Lan prepared a clone to observe Tang Wulin and collect traces of his divine power, while a girl named Liu Ying arrived at Eastsea Academy with a recommendation from Herta. Wu Zhangkong tested Liu Ying against Tang Wulin, and she transformed amid green light and flames as the fight began.

• Yao Lan decided to send her third clone to study Tang Wulin's power while Herta continued on to Shrek Academy.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie were assigned to Wu Zhangkong's Class Five and made to run weighted laps.
• Liu Ying asked Wu Zhangkong to let her enroll after arriving too late for the admissions period.
• Wu Zhangkong recognized Herta's letter recommending Liu Ying and arranged a test match against Tang Wulin.
• Wu Zhangkong promised Tang Wulin a month of Grade A Meals if he won, then started the match.
• Liu Ying waited until Tang Wulin charged before green light and flames surrounded her, and she shouted, “Henshin!”

Sam fought Tang Wulin at Wu Zhangkong’s test, showing off her fiery armor and matching his attacks. She won by knocking Tang Wulin unconscious from behind, then told Wu Zhangkong that she had won.

• Sam appeared in silver armor, and Tang Wulin paused to admire it before preparing to fight.
• Sam used fiery Rider attacks, while Tang Wulin blocked with Blue Silver Grass and dodged her aerial strike.
• Sam transformed into Firefly Mark IV, and Tang Wulin used Blue Silver Domain to entangle her with grass.
• Sam unleashed Dead Star Overload, and the clash ended with Tang Wulin and Sam grappling for strength.
• A silver-haired girl struck Tang Wulin from behind with a piece of hard silver metal, knocking him out as Sam dissolved into flames.
• The silver-haired girl told Wu Zhangkong that she had won.

Liu Ying revealed that her Martial Soul was the growth-capable Firefly Armor 'Sam,' and Wu Zhangkong enrolled her at Eastsea Academy. He began special training for Liu Ying, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie ahead of the Promotion Tournament, then kept Liu Ying behind to ask about Sam.

• Liu Ying showed Wu Zhangkong that her Martial Soul was Firefly Armor 'Sam,' which could wield flames and powerful firepower.
• Wu Zhangkong accepted Liu Ying into Eastsea Academy and ordered her, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie to run extra laps.
• Wu Zhangkong started three months of combat training for the trio, beating Tang Wulin and Xie Xie while Sam shielded Liu Ying from his strikes.
• Wu Zhangkong kept Liu Ying behind and learned that Sam could absorb high-grade metals to grow stronger.