Chapter Summaries

Wu Zhangkong’s class battle tests continued as Tang Wulin overpowered Zhou Changxi, Xie Xie faced Wu Zhangkong, and Xu Mengqing defeated Yun Xiao. Xu Mengqing advanced, while Yun Xiao was left with advice to prepare for the cooldown of his space-switching Spirit Skill.

• Tang Wulin beat Zhou Changxi in a contest of strength, and Wu Zhangkong eliminated Zhou Changxi while warning Tang Wulin to fight without holding back.
• Wu Zhangkong made Xie Xie take one strike from his belt, sending him flying and leaving the class stunned by the teacher’s strength.
• Xu Mengqing used Blue Silver Diamond Transformation to attack Yun Xiao, who evaded with Space Displacement.
• Xu Mengqing adapted after Yun Xiao’s position switch, bound him with metallic Blue Silver Grass, and held a spear to his throat.
• Wu Zhangkong advanced Xu Mengqing and advised Yun Xiao to prepare a backup plan for his Spirit Skill’s cooldown.

Tang Wulin won his second-round bout against Li Chushui by using Blue Silver Grass to block her attacks and bind her. Han Lan then defeated Tao Liufan by trapping him in a Mu Jin prison.

• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie watched Xu Mengqing's victory as Wu Zhangkong assessed the students' abilities.
• Wu Zhangkong paired Tang Wulin with Li Chushui, who released her cat Martial Soul and attacked with her speed and claws.
• Tang Wulin maintained a Blue Silver Grass net until Li Chushui ran out of energy, then bound her and won without striking her.
• Han Lan trapped Tao Liufan inside a Mu Jin prison, winning their match when he could not escape.

Tang Wulin and Xu Mengqing advanced through the class tournament and began their showdown, but Xu Mengqing gained the upper hand. When Tang Wulin was driven back, the Golden Dragon King Bloodline suddenly awakened, leaving Xu Mengqing and the others stunned.

• Tang Wulin, Xu Mengqing, and Xie Xie won their matches against Tao Liufan, Li Chushui, and Han Lan, advancing to the fourth round.
• Wu Zhangkong paired Tang Wulin against Xu Mengqing, with the winner set to face Xie Xie.
• Tang Wulin opened with Blue Silver Grass attacks and a close-range charge, but Xu Mengqing blocked him and struck with a Blue Silver Long Spear.
• Tang Wulin grabbed Xu Mengqing's spear but was overwhelmed by its force and stumbled backward.
• Tang Wulin's Golden Dragon King Bloodline emerged, transforming his right hand and making Golden Light grow as its pressure suppressed Xu Mengqing's Holy Light Lizard.

After Xu Mengqing’s Holy Dragon Pearl shielded the pressure during his match with Tang Wulin, Wu Zhangkong stopped the class’s ranking match and summoned Xu Mengqing, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin to his office. He criticized their training choices and explained Xie Xie’s Twin Martial Souls, leaving Tang Wulin questioning the apparent gap between their abilities.

• Xu Mengqing’s Holy Dragon Pearl dispelled the pressure, and Wu Zhangkong halted the match between Xu Mengqing and Tang Wulin.
• Wu Zhangkong ended the ranking match, reprimanded the class, and called Xu Mengqing, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin to his office.
• Wu Zhangkong criticized Tang Wulin for neglecting cultivation to learn Forging, but Tang Wulin agreed without intending to give it up.
• Wu Zhangkong revealed that Xie Xie had Twin Martial Souls and Innate Full Soul Power, leaving Xie Xie astonished.
• Wu Zhangkong explained the advantages and limitations of Twin Martial Souls and argued that Xie Xie’s daggers and possible invisibility might be less useful than Tang Wulin’s Blue Silver Grass in Mecha combat.

Wu Zhangkong investigated Tang Wulin’s golden scales and could not identify their source, advising him to build his Soul Power and Spiritual Power to gain control. He then examined Xu Mengqing’s Blue Silver Grass and proposed that it had awakened a trace of Blue Silver King Bloodline, while Xu Mengqing revealed that his Diamond Vine Spirit Soul had become solid after absorption.

• Wu Zhangkong had Xie Xie cut Tang Wulin’s arm, causing the golden scales to emerge and cover Tang Wulin’s right arm with golden claws.
• Tang Wulin gripped Wu Zhangkong’s hand as Wu Zhangkong sensed the transformation, then the scales vanished and Tang Wulin weakened.
• Wu Zhangkong concluded that the scales were an unusual force unrelated to Tang Wulin’s Soul Power and urged him to cultivate and practice controlling it.
• Wu Zhangkong told Xu Mengqing that his Blue Silver Grass had likely awakened a trace of Blue Silver King Bloodline and noted his spear training.
• Xu Mengqing showed the others his Diamond Vine Spirit Soul and explained that it had become solid after he absorbed it.

Wu Zhangkong assigned Xu Mengqing, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie to win the Class Promotion Tournament and raise their class to first-year Class One, then began training them. Xu Mengqing returned Liu Yuxin’s camera and later learned that suitable first-level mecha design commissions were unavailable to him.

• Wu Zhangkong explained the Class Promotion Tournament and tasked Xu Mengqing, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie with reaching first-year Class One through nightly special training.
• Xu Mengqing returned Liu Yuxin’s Soul Guidance Camera, and her senior classmates competed to buy the photos of Wu Zhangkong.
• Wu Zhangkong taught the class a new meditation technique, which Xu Mengqing found less effective than the Heaven Swallowing Spirit Devouring Art.
• Xu Mengqing visited the East Sea Mecha Designer Association and learned that custom first-level design commissions were monopolized by higher-level Designers.

Xu Mengqing found no worthwhile commissions as a Level 1 Mecha Designer, so he passed the Level 2 assessment and accepted a custom commission. His achievement drew the attention of Yang Tian, president of the East Sea Mecha Designer Association, who came to meet him.

• Xu Mengqing asked to take the Level 2 Mecha Designer assessment after learning that Level 1 commissions offered him little opportunity.
• Xu Mengqing passed the written and practical tests, impressing the examiner with a component design that approached Level 3 standards.
• Xu Mengqing received his Level 2 badge and accepted a commission to improve a Mecha leg thruster for fifty thousand Federal Coins.
• Yang Tian learned that Xu Mengqing was a nine-year-old Level 2 Mecha Designer and hurried to meet him.
• Yang Tian introduced himself to Xu Mengqing as the president of the East Sea Mecha Designer Association.

Xu Mengqing became Yang Tian’s personal disciple and received a Space Ring containing ten million Federal Coins, then worked on a Mecha commission and cultivated Blue Silver Grass. The next morning, he and Tang Wulin were surrounded by older students outside the dormitory.

• Yang Tian praised Xu Mengqing’s design talent, accepted him as his personal disciple, and gave him a fifty-cubic-meter Space Ring with ten million Federal Coins.
• Xu Mengqing returned to Eastsea Academy and entered the Holy Dragon Pearl to work on a Mecha leg thruster improvement commission and plant Blue Silver Grass.
• After cultivating through the night, Xu Mengqing met Tang Wulin, and they headed out together to eat.
• A group of older students surrounded Xu Mengqing and Tang Wulin at the dormitory entrance.

Mu Xi confronted Tang Wulin and Xu Mengqing with a group of older students, provoking a fight that ended when she revealed she wanted to challenge Tang Wulin in Forging. She left Tang Wulin facing her demand to compete if he wanted to continue studying at the academy.

• Mu Xi pointed out Tang Wulin, and several older students surrounded him and Xu Mengqing.
• Xu Mengqing and Tang Wulin released their Blue Silver Grass Martial Souls and bound the older students as they tried to escape.
• Mu Xi blinded Xu Mengqing with her sunlike Martial Soul, burned their Blue Silver Grass, and kicked Xu Mengqing back into the group.
• Xu Mengqing formed Blue Silver Armor and struck at the tall student, but Mu Xi ordered him to stop.
• Mu Xi introduced herself and demanded a Forging competition with Tang Wulin, warning him not to refuse if he wanted to remain at the academy.

Xie Xie threatened Mu Xi to make her upper-grade students leave, and Long Hengxu questioned Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Mengqing before Wu Zhangkong intervened on their behalf. Wu Zhangkong then began their promised physical training, assigning them an eight-kilometer run while wearing heavy Iron Vests.

• Xie Xie held Mu Xi at knifepoint until she ordered the upper-grade students to leave, but an enraged voice interrupted him and he was taken to the Dean of Students' Office.
• Long Hengxu questioned the students, and Tang Wulin explained that his father had taught him to fight back against older students who bullied him.
• Xu Mengqing said he had acted to protect Tang Wulin, and Wu Zhangkong entered the office and defended his students.
• Wu Zhangkong warned Mu Xi's classmates not to provoke his students again, then led Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Mengqing out of the office.
• Wu Zhangkong began physical training by assigning the three students ten laps around the track while wearing twenty-pound Iron Vests.

Tang Wulin and Xu Mengqing helped Xie Xie through Wu Zhangkong’s weighted running punishment, then a silver-haired girl named Gu Yuena arrived at Eastsea Academy seeking to enroll. Xu Mengqing recognized her as Na’er and was stunned by the unexpected change, while Wu Zhangkong punished the class with ten more laps for staring at her.

• Xie Xie struggled through the weighted run, and Tang Wulin and Xu Mengqing supported him when he began to falter.
• Wu Zhangkong ordered Tang Wulin and Xu Mengqing to run ten extra laps while carrying Xie Xie, but they kept going steadily.
• Gu Yuena arrived at the school gate and told Wu Zhangkong she wanted to enroll despite missing registration.
• Tang Wulin recognized Gu Yuena as Xu Mengqing’s little sister Na’er, leaving Xu Mengqing shocked by her appearance and name.
• Wu Zhangkong added ten laps for the students who stared at Gu Yuena, and the exhausted class resumed running.

Wu Zhangkong gave Xie Xie a chance to skip running by defeating Gu Yuena, and the two began a match on the field. Gu Yuena turned aside Xie Xie's opening attack with elemental powers, and he countered with a Light Dragon Blade as the fight continued.

• Wu Zhangkong called Xie Xie over, told him to rest, and offered to excuse him from running if he defeated Gu Yuena.
• Xie Xie recovered for twenty minutes before he and Gu Yuena took their positions thirty meters apart.
• Xie Xie charged Gu Yuena, but her cyan light deflected his Light Dragon Dagger and a fireball forced him to dodge.
• Xie Xie circled Gu Yuena and fired his Light Dragon Blade at her from five meters away.

Xie Xie fought Gu Yuena in a sparring match, showing his precision and Twin Martial Souls as she countered him with multiple elements. Wu Zhangkong stopped the battle just as Gu Yuena blinded Xie Xie with a burst of light.

• Xie Xie attacked Gu Yuena with his Light Dragon Blade, but she deflected it with a cyan blade of light and evaded his follow-up strike.
• Xu Mengqing watched Gu Yuena’s elemental control and privately criticized the choices of the Spirit Beasts and other figures in Douluo Continent’s history.
• Gu Yuena trapped Xie Xie’s foot in mud, froze it, and attacked with ice and fire, but Xie Xie blocked her attacks with both daggers.
• Xie Xie relied on his greater Soul Power and expected to break free, but Gu Yuena blinded him with a white sphere of light.
• Wu Zhangkong stopped the match.

Gu Yuena joined Class Five after defeating Xie Xie and revealed that her Martial Soul, Elemental Master, let her control six elements. She reunited with Xu Mengqing during the class run, while Wu Zhangkong went to apologize to Long Hengxu.

• Gu Yuena defeated Xie Xie, demonstrated her ability to shift through space, and explained how her Elemental Master Martial Soul controlled six elements.
• Wu Zhangkong accepted Gu Yuena into Class Five and ordered her and Xie Xie to join the weighted run.
• Gu Yuena called Xu Mengqing “Big brother,” and they ran together while she explained how her Martial Soul had awakened.
• Xie Xie asked Tang Wulin about Gu Yuena and Xu Mengqing, and Tang Wulin told him how they had been separated.
• Wu Zhangkong entered the Academic Affairs Office and bowed to Long Hengxu to apologize.

Wu Zhangkong apologized to Long Hengxu and secured Gu Yuena’s enrollment in Class Five. As Tang Wulin and Xie Xie discussed the Class Promotion Tournament, Xie Xie revealed that an upcoming auction might have the three items Tang Wulin was seeking.

• Wu Zhangkong apologized to Long Hengxu, then asked him to approve Gu Yuena’s enrollment in Class Five.
• Long Hengxu accepted Gu Yuena’s recommendation letter, and Wu Zhangkong said she was a genius who must remain in his class.
• Wu Zhangkong dismissed the exhausted students and gave Gu Yuena her dormitory key, uniform, and textbooks.
• Xie Xie pulled Tang Wulin back to the dormitory and suggested Gu Yuena and Xu Mengqing participate in the Class Promotion Tournament.
• Xie Xie told Tang Wulin that an auction in a little over two months would offer the three things he had asked him to investigate.

Xu Mengqing spent time with Gu Yuena, cultivated in the Holy Dragon Pearl Space, and endured Wu Zhangkong’s grueling physical training alongside Class Five. That evening, Wu Zhangkong gathered Xu Mengqing, Gu Yuena, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin and led them to a specially prepared training ground.

• Xu Mengqing helped Gu Yuena settle into the girls’ dormitory, shared a meal with her, and later cultivated in the Holy Dragon Pearl Space.
• Wu Zhangkong made Class Five complete exhausting strength exercises, then ordered Xu Mengqing, Gu Yuena, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin to meet him that evening.
• After training and showering, Xu Mengqing cultivated again before waking Tang Wulin and leaving with him and Xie Xie for Wu Zhangkong’s office.
• Gu Yuena arrived at the office, and Wu Zhangkong led the four students to a circular training ground protected by Soul Guidance Arrays and a Soul Guidance barrier.

Wu Zhangkong began evening combat training to prepare Xu Mengqing, Gu Yuena, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin for the Class Promotion Tournament, while naming Gu Yuena to replace Tang Wulin unless he met his standards. After giving each student guidance on their strengths and weaknesses, Wu Zhangkong began their first exercise by attacking them himself.

• Wu Zhangkong told Tang Wulin that Gu Yuena would take his tournament spot because his Soul Power was too low, but promised to reconsider if Tang Wulin improved through special training.
• Wu Zhangkong assessed Xu Mengqing's combat experience and advised him to keep improving rather than become arrogant.
• Wu Zhangkong praised Gu Yuena's elemental control, recommended testing everyone's Spiritual Power, and urged her to practice combining elements.
• Wu Zhangkong advised Xie Xie to build stamina, manage it in battle, cultivate Spiritual Power, and keep his second Martial Soul as a surprise.
• Wu Zhangkong told Tang Wulin to develop his Blue Silver Grass control and consider combining it with his twin hammers.
• Wu Zhangkong set himself as the four students' opponent, limited his Soul Power to the level of a twenty-first-level Soul Grandmaster, and thrust his Sky Frost Sword at Xie Xie.

Wu Zhangkong tested Xie Xie, Xu Mengqing, Gu Yuena, and Tang Wulin in a battle, attacking Xie Xie before the others coordinated to intervene. He broke through their opening assault and then focused on Xu Mengqing, while the four regrouped to fight him together.

• Wu Zhangkong lunged at Xie Xie with the Sky Frost Sword, and Xie Xie retreated while protesting the surprise attack.
• Xu Mengqing, Gu Yuena, and Tang Wulin coordinated attacks to protect Xie Xie, but Wu Zhangkong shattered Tang Wulin’s vines, dispersed Gu Yuena’s Ice Cones, and blocked Xu Mengqing’s spear.
• Xie Xie narrowly dodged Wu Zhangkong’s continuing thrust with help from Gu Yuena’s wind element.
• Wu Zhangkong called for another round and turned his full attack on Xu Mengqing, who defended himself by shifting his Blue Silver weapon between different forms.
• Gu Yuena, Xie Xie, and Tang Wulin joined Xu Mengqing again, attacking Wu Zhangkong from multiple directions.

Wu Zhangkong put Xu Mengqing, Gu Yuena, Tang Wulin, and Xie Xie through grueling special training that sharpened their combat skills, then continued tailoring their lessons. Later, their Spiritual Power test results revealed Gu Yuena and Xu Mengqing had unusually high scores, while Wu Zhangkong suspected Gu Yuena’s Martial Soul was spiritual in nature.

• Wu Zhangkong ended the four students’ exhausting sparring session, pointed out their weaknesses, and told them training would continue the next day.
• Xu Mengqing encouraged the others to keep improving, then called Yang Tian and arranged to visit the Mecha Master Association that weekend.
• Xu Mengqing recovered and cultivated in the Holy Dragon Pearl Space, while Wu Zhangkong later exempted him and Tang Wulin from physical training and gave Xu Mengqing one-on-one sparring and swordsmanship lessons.
• After several students collapsed during physical training, Class Five returned to morning physical training and afternoon theory classes.
• Xie Xie scored twenty-nine and Tang Wulin scored forty-four in Spiritual Power, while Gu Yuena scored one hundred and nineteen and Xu Mengqing scored eighty-seven.
• Wu Zhangkong suspected Gu Yuena’s Elemental Master Martial Soul was actually a rare spiritual-type Martial Soul and increased the training demands on her.

Xu Mengqing visited the East Sea Mecha Designer Association, where Yang Tian assessed his skills and began personally teaching him Mecha Design and Soul Guidance technology. He left with Yang Tian’s study notes and association credentials, having accepted a new mecha commission to gain experience.

• Xu Mengqing submitted his earlier task at the East Sea Mecha Designer Association and met Yang Tian in his office.
• Yang Tian praised Xu Mengqing’s design skills and arranged to teach him at the association every weekend.
• Yang Tian showed Xu Mengqing a Battle Armor belt blueprint, and Xu Mengqing identified flaws before Yang Tian explained the design in detail.
• Yang Tian gave Xu Mengqing his handwritten notes covering Mecha Designer knowledge from Level 1 to Level 7.
• Xu Mengqing studied with Yang Tian, received an association token and communicator, and accepted a custom mecha commission before returning to the academy.