Chapter Summaries

On Awakening Day, Gu You’s mysterious Golden Pupils frightened the Spirit Master who was preparing to awaken his martial soul. As the ceremony began, Gu You saw visions of Nidhogg and a bound woman, leaving his awakening unresolved.

• Gu You arrived at Red Mountain Academy as the last child from Red Mountain Orphanage to undergo martial soul awakening.
• The Spirit Master and Chen Hui recoiled from Gu You’s Golden Pupils, which filled them with fear and pressure.
• Gu You stood in the awakening array, and the Spirit Master activated its soul-guiding patterns to begin the ceremony.
• Gu You experienced a vision of the black dragon Nidhogg lying atop a blood-soaked icy mountain.
• The vision shifted to a bound white-haired woman on a vast stone altar as she opened her eyes and bled from them.

Gu You experienced a vision of the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon’s fall before awakening two martial souls: the dragon and the Creation Heaven Phoenix. The Spirit Transmitter recognized Gu You’s extraordinary potential and prepared to bring him to the Spirit Transmission Pagoda.

• Gu You saw a vision of the Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon battling nine-colored light and heard that he was an avenger.
• Destructive aura erupted from Gu You, but multicolored light contained it as the Creation Heaven Phoenix appeared behind him.
• The Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon also manifested, revealing Gu You’s twin martial souls and astonishing the Spirit Transmitter.
• Gu You awoke, recognized the names of both martial souls, and dismissed the vision’s message for later consideration.
• The Spirit Transmitter asked Gu You’s name and martial souls, then celebrated his prospects and considered the rewards for discovering him.

Gu You awakened twin martial souls and innate full soul power, then joined the Spirit Transmission Pagoda and prepared to leave Red Mountain Orphanage for soul-spirit fusion. Meanwhile, the Pagoda rewarded Su Haitao for discovering him, and an illusory woman appeared atop Shrek Academy’s Golden Ancient Tree.

• Gu You demonstrated innate full soul power, agreed to join the Spirit Transmission Pagoda, and learned that he would have to wait for a trip to East Sea City to obtain a soul spirit.
• Gu You told Chen Hui that he had twin martial souls and would leave for East Sea City, then returned to Red Mountain Orphanage to prepare to say goodbye.
• Su Haitao reported Gu You’s talent to Lin Yuanzheng, who promoted him to high-level Spirit Transmitter and promised to recommend him to East Sea City.
• An illusory woman formed above Shrek Academy’s Golden Ancient Tree and told the unseen presence to come out.

A Yin and Tang Hao discussed the shifting plane destiny and the threat it posed to Tang San’s ten-thousand-year plan. The next morning, Gu You prepared to leave Red Mountain Orphanage, where Spirit Transmission Pagoda arrived in helicopters and mecha to collect him.

• A Yin told Tang Hao that the plane’s destiny was changing and Halosa’s favored status was fading.
• Tang Hao said destiny was gathering elsewhere and they needed to find its source to protect Tang San’s plan.
• A Yin recalled the devastation of the Abyss War and worried about the cost if Tang San’s plan failed, then asked Tang Hao about Wu Lin.
• Gu You woke, packed his belongings, and went to say goodbye to Chen Hui at Red Mountain Orphanage.
• Two Spirit Transmission Pagoda helicopters and a dozen mecha descended over the orphanage, stunning Gu You and Chen Hui.

Gu You left Red Mountain Orphanage under a Spirit Transmission Pagoda escort and traveled to East Sea City to prepare for a soul spirit fusion. At East Sea Spirit Transmission Pagoda, Bai Haoze took him inside for a spiritual power test.

• Bai Haoze arrived at Red Mountain Orphanage with helicopters and mechas, then escorted Gu You toward East Sea City to fuse with a soul spirit.
• Qiangu Dongfeng read Gu You's reports and claimed that the child was fated to join the Qiangu Family, then learned that Leng Yaozhu had already set out for East Sea Spirit Transmission Pagoda.
• Gu You reflected on leaving Red Mountain Orphanage as the helicopter carried him across the sea.
• Guang Biao complained after seeing the Spirit Transmission Pagoda's mechas and helicopters flying over East Sea City, but returned to the mecha corps garrison.
• Bai Haoze brought Gu You to East Sea Spirit Transmission Pagoda, dismissed the escort, and led him inside to test his spiritual power.

Gu You’s spiritual power test overwhelmed the equipment and revealed that he had innate Spirit Sea Realm spiritual power. He asked whether he could fuse with a ten-thousand-year soul spirit, but Bai Haoze recommended a thousand-year Indomitable Soul Spirit instead.

• Gu You felt watched by the Spirit Eyes mural before following Bai Haoze to the testing room.
• Bai Haoze tested Gu You’s spiritual power, and the reading climbed past five hundred before the instrument exploded.
• Bai Haoze estimated Gu You’s spiritual power at six hundred and identified him as having innate Spirit Sea Realm spiritual power.
• Gu You asked to fuse with a ten-thousand-year soul spirit, but Bai Haoze advised choosing a thousand-year spirit for safety.
• Bai Haoze explained that Indomitable Soul Spirits were powerful spirits that could cause life-threatening danger if a soul master tried to fuse with them.

Gu You chose to fuse with an unyielding soul spirit and went with Bai Haoze to meet Leng Yaozhu, who had come to recruit him as her disciple. Leng Yaozhu offered him the Spirit Transmission Pagoda’s best resources and her personal guidance, leaving Gu You stunned.

• Gu You decided to fuse with an unyielding soul spirit, and Bai Haoze agreed to take him to meet the person overseeing the fusion.
• Leng Yaozhu reviewed Gu You’s report and resolved to take him as her disciple before the Xu Family or other factions could approach him.
• Bai Haoze brought Gu You to the third-floor reception area, where Gu You recognized her name and wondered if she was the Bai Haoze from the original story.
• Leng Yaozhu arrived, and Gu You recognized her as the Heaven Phoenix Titled Douluo.
• Leng Yaozhu offered Gu You the Spirit Transmission Pagoda’s best cultivation resources and her personal guidance.

Leng Yaozhu accepted Gu You as her personal disciple and discovered that his spiritual power had reached the Spirit Sea Realm. She brought him to the Spirit Ascension Platform to fuse with an Indomitable Soul Spirit, then offered him a choice between one ten-thousand-year soul spirit and two thousand-year soul spirits.

• Leng Yaozhu asked Gu You to become her personal disciple, and he accepted without hesitation.
• Gu You told Leng Yaozhu that his spiritual power was at the Spirit Sea Realm and that he wanted to cultivate both martial souls, with Creation Heaven Phoenix as his main martial soul.
• Leng Yaozhu examined Gu You's spiritual power, confirmed his extraordinary talent, and agreed that an Indomitable Soul Spirit would suit him.
• Gu You explained that he wanted to cultivate Creation Heaven Phoenix openly as Leng Yaozhu's disciple and would also fuse a soul spirit with his Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon.
• Leng Yaozhu brought Gu You to the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform and explained how killing soul beasts could raise a soul spirit's age.
• Leng Yaozhu offered to help Gu You raise one thousand-year Indomitable Soul Spirit to ten thousand years, but warned that he would then be unable to fuse a soul spirit with his second martial soul.

Gu You chose two high-quality soul spirits and entered the Spirit Ascension Platform to fuse with the Hell Demon Dragon first. He woke up beside the dragon, accidentally stroking its head as it glared at him.

• Gu You rejected choosing a ten-thousand-year Indomitable Soul Spirit and decided to pursue two thousand-year soul spirits instead.
• Leng Yaozhu examined Gu You’s Creation Heaven Phoenix and sensed that it could convert its life attribute into other elemental attributes.
• Gu You proposed pairing an Emerald Swan with his Creation Heaven Phoenix and a Hell Demon Dragon with his Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon, and Leng Yaozhu agreed.
• Leng Yaozhu and Gu You selected the 5,800-year Hell Demon Dragon and the 6,400-year Emerald Swan, then prepared to enter the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Gu You arrived beside the Hell Demon Dragon and accidentally stroked its head, drawing its angry glare.

Gu You used his Golden Pupils to make the Hell Demon Dragon submit, then successfully fused with it under Leng Yaozhu’s protection. In his spiritual sea, he received the Spirit Word Heaven Attraction and woke with its dangerous power in mind.

• Gu You ordered the Hell Demon Dragon to kneel with his Golden Pupils, dispersing its attack.
• Leng Yaozhu arrived, pinned down the Hell Demon Dragon, and told Gu You to try fusing with it while she protected him.
• Gu You released his Purple Imperial Heaven-Extinguishing Dragon martial soul and fused with the Hell Demon Dragon without resistance.
• Inside his spiritual sea, Gu You met the Hell Demon Dragon and found three golden orbs, then touched the center one.
• The orbs became a card granting Gu You Spirit Word: Heaven Attraction, a disaster-class power that could draw meteors but placed its caster at the center of extreme gravitational collapse.
• Gu You’s fusion ended, and he prepared to wake while hoping he would never need to use the Spirit Word.

After gaining a powerful Devour Domain soul skill from the Hell Demon Dragon, Gu You encountered a Tyrannosaurus Rex in the Spirit Ascension Platform. The beast passed through Leng Yaozhu’s attack and merged into Gu You, leaving them unsure what had happened.

• Gu You tested his first soul skill and discovered it absorbed life force and natural energy through a Devour Domain.
• A Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared outside the rock cave and attacked Gu You and Leng Yaozhu.
• Leng Yaozhu unleashed her Heaven Phoenix True Fire, but the Tyrannosaurus Rex became incorporeal and escaped the flames.
• The Tyrannosaurus Rex’s illusory form merged into Gu You, and he stood there wondering where the beast had gone.

After the Tyrannosaurus Rex vanished into Gu You, Leng Yaozhu took him to the Emerald Swan so he could fuse with it as a soul spirit. She protected him from the surrounding soul beasts while Gu You persuaded the Emerald Swan to accept the fusion, which began to succeed.

• Gu You told Leng Yaozhu that the Tyrannosaurus Rex had disappeared without hurting him, and she planned to examine him after they left the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Leng Yaozhu used her spiritual power to locate the Emerald Swan and took Gu You to its lake.
• A Rock Armor Violent Bear and other soul beasts surrounded the lake, but Leng Yaozhu told Gu You to proceed and promised to protect him.
• As the soul beasts charged, Leng Yaozhu erased them with a flick of crimson flame.
• Gu You linked with the Emerald Swan and persuaded it to accept fusion; after he released the Creation Heaven Phoenix, its resistance nearly vanished and it began merging with his martial soul.

Gu You fused with the Emerald Swan and gained the versatile first soul skill Creation Conversion, which let him control and enhance attacks with nine elements. After absorbing spirit ascension energy and leaving the platform, he heard Leng Yaozhu confront a staff member over the faulty respawn coordinates before she took him to examine the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

• Gu You awakened Creation Conversion, which let him convert his martial soul into nine elemental forms and strengthen attacks using a single element.
• Leng Yaozhu judged that Gu You could challenge opponents above his level but warned that his new soul skill consumed soul power quickly.
• Gu You considered combining elements, but Leng Yaozhu warned him about the danger of attribute fusion and told him to focus on cultivation first.
• Gu You absorbed more than two thousand years of spirit ascension energy, using it to increase the Emerald Swan's age, then left the Spirit Ascension Platform with Leng Yaozhu.
• Leng Yaozhu challenged the staff member over the respawn bug that had left Gu You alone with the Hell Demon Dragon, then took Gu You to examine the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

After the Spirit Transmission Pagoda found nothing wrong with Gu You, Gu Yue learned that Na'er and Tang Wulin had both been found in Aolai City and ordered Di Tian to watch Tang Wulin. That night, Gu You saw a crack open in the sky and a gray, gold-patterned sphere approach through the universe.

• Leng Yaozhu had Gu You examined again, found no abnormalities, and arranged for him to stay overnight at the East Sea Spirit Transmission Pagoda.
• In Shrek City, Di Tian told Gu Yue that Na'er had been found in Aolai City, and Gu Yue ordered him to bring her back.
• Di Tian reported that Tang Wulin, who carried the Golden Dragon King bloodline, was also in Aolai City, and Gu Yue ordered him to observe Tang Wulin rather than seize him.
• Alone in his room, Gu You looked at the stars and saw the sky split open to reveal the universe.
• Gu You watched a gray sphere marked with flowing golden patterns approach through the crack.

Gu You received a mysterious gray light and a voice promised him a gift, then a black case containing the Seven Deadly Sins appeared before him. As he recited its inscription, his eyes turned molten gold and he vowed to kill all rebels when he returned to the world.

• A gray ball of light merged into Gu You’s forehead and spoke Electrolux’s familiar words before the rift outside his window closed.
• A masked Spirit Transmission Pagoda service worker delivered Gu You’s late-night meal, then secretly reported to his Family Head, who ordered him to watch Gu You and act if he had a certain martial soul.
• While meditating, Gu You heard the mysterious voice that had once appeared when he chose a golden orb, but it did not answer when he asked who it was.
• A golden light produced a black case marked with ancient Hebrew, and Gu You recognized the Seven Deadly Sins as seven powerful alchemical blades.
• Gu You recited the inscription on the case, his eyes glowed molten gold, and he vowed that all rebellious ministers would die when he returned to the world.

Leng Yaozhu defended Gu You against the Spirit Pagoda council’s demands to investigate the Tyrannosaurus Rex’s disappearance. Gu You reached rank thirteen and was sent to Tiandou City for a major auction while Leng Yaozhu dealt with the council.

• Leng Yaozhu told the council that the Tyrannosaurus Rex had turned illusory and vanished, refused to send Gu You for another examination, and left the meeting.
• Gu You woke after cultivating and discovered his soul power had reached rank thirteen; he confirmed the Seven Deadly Sins was beside his bed.
• Leng Yaozhu called Gu You, praised his progress, and explained that trouble at the Heavenly Spirit Pagoda prevented her from bringing him to headquarters.
• Leng Yaozhu arranged funds for Gu You to visit a major Tiandou City auction and told him to enjoy the trip without embarrassing her.

Gu You traveled from East Sea to Tiandou City with Bai Haoze and Bai Zhicen to attend an auction, then encountered the young Luo Guixing at a grilled-fish shop. The chapter ended with Gu You recognizing Luo Guixing as a future spatial-element genius.

• Bai Haoze and Bai Zhicen arrived to escort Gu You to Tiandou City, and Gu You packed the Seven Deadly Sins that Leng Yaozhu had given him.
• Gu You traveled by Soul Guidance Train with the two sisters and reached Tiandou City.
• Bai Haoze took Gu You to a Yuhao Grilled Fish shop, where they ordered twenty grilled fish.
• Luo Guixing returned to the shop and told his brother Luo Cheng that he had joined the Spirit Transmission Pagoda, absorbed a hundred-year soul spirit, and become a soul master.
• Gu You recognized Luo Guixing as the future genius with a powerful spatial martial soul.

Gu You and Bai Haoze traveled to Tiandou City for an auction scheduled in three days, while Di Tian confronted Xiong Jun in Aolai City after the young lady went missing. The chapter ended with Xiong Jun unable to explain that he had lost track of her.

• Gu You met Luo Guixing at Luo Cheng’s grilled fish shop, and they parted on friendly terms.
• Bai Haoze took Gu You and the other companion to Tiandou City’s inner city and arranged top-floor suites at Tiandou Hotel for the wait until the auction.
• Gu You settled into Heaven No. 1, put down the Seven Deadly Sins, and looked forward to the Tiandou Auction.
• In Aolai City, Di Tian demanded to know where the young lady was, and Xiong Jun sweated as he faced him after losing track of her.

Di Tian and Xiong Jun argued over losing the young lady, while Di Tian forbade Xiong Jun from attacking Tang Wulin. Three days later, Gu You prepared to attend the Tiandou Auction House auction and learned that the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect controlled it.

• Di Tian blamed Xiong Jun for losing the young lady and ordered him to stay put instead of attacking Tang Wulin.
• After three days of cultivation, Gu You left the Heaven Number One Suite to prepare for the auction.
• Bai Haoze told Gu You that the auction featured a top-tier soul device and that the deputy tower master had authorized him to bid without worrying about money.
• Gu You, Bai Haoze, and Bai Zhicen ate breakfast together before Bai Zhicen left to handle something else.
• Bai Haoze drove Gu You to the auction and explained that the Nine Treasures Glazed Sect controlled Tiandou Auction House.

Gu You and Bai Haoze attended the Tiandou Auction House’s commemorative auction, where Gu You waited for the most valuable lots before bidding. The auction reached its twenty-third item, a ten-thousand-year Purple Spirit Wolf pelt, and Gu You had not yet made a bid.

• Gu You and Bai Haoze arrived at the Tiandou Auction House and were shown to a VIP room.
• Gu You and Bai Haoze meditated until attendants escorted them to front-row seats, where they put on masks to conceal their identities.
• Xu Mingzhi opened the auction and announced its rules and forty-seven lots.
• Gu You declined to bid on the level-five Soul Guidance Device Sigh of the Wind, which sold for 6.8 million Federal Coins.
• Gu You watched several lots pass without bidding as he waited for the centerpiece items.
• Xu Mingzhi presented the pelt of a ten-thousand-year Purple Spirit Wolf as the twenty-third lot, with bidding starting at ten million Federal Coins.