Recaps

Gu Hengzhi, a university graduate from Blue Star, transmigrated to the Douluo Continent and was found injured among the ruins of a village destroyed by a powerful Soul Sage. Three days later, he woke in Su Yuntao’s home in Notting City, but collapsed again as memories flooded his mind.

• A black-clad fugitive attacked a village with a blood-red flag, and a pursuing middle-aged man destroyed the village with his Spirit Avatar and celebrated completing the Asura God Trial.
• Gu Hengzhi was swept from Blue Star into the Douluo Continent, suffered severe pain, and fainted after realizing he had transmigrated.
• The next morning, Su Yuntao searched the devastated village and found a bloodied one-year-old boy who was still alive.
• Three days later, Gu Hengzhi woke in Su Yuntao’s home, where Su Yuntao introduced himself and offered him medicine.
• Gu Hengzhi was overwhelmed by a torrent of memories and fainted again.

After recovering from his injuries, Gu Hengzhi grew up in Notting City under Su Yuntao’s care, earning money as a novelist while worrying that his God-Sealing Record cheat remained dormant. On the eve of his martial soul awakening, he learned more about the ceremony and prepared for the uncertain future.

• Doctor Tang said Gu Hengzhi’s injuries were mostly old wounds, and Su Yuntao bought him costly medicine to aid his recovery.
• Gu Hengzhi realized he had transmigrated to Douluo Continent, but the God-Sealing Record stayed blank and unresponsive despite his attempts to activate it.
• Five years later, Gu Hengzhi collected his share of the profits from his novel at Uncle Li’s bookstore and said he needed to prepare for his martial soul awakening.
• Gu Hengzhi recalled that Qian Xunji had died and Bibi Dong had become Pope, then resolved to work hard and become the strongest soul master.
• Su Yuntao celebrated the night before the awakening with a special dinner, and Gu Hengzhi asked him how martial souls and innate soul power worked.

Gu Hengzhi awakened a broken stone-statue martial soul and discovered that he had Innate level-five soul power. As Matthew Nuo announced his result, Gu Hengzhi’s consciousness was pulled into his spiritual sea by the God-Sealing Record’s connection to his martial soul.

• Su Yuntao escorted Gu Hengzhi to the awakening room, where Matthew Nuo prepared to awaken the children’s martial souls.
• Matthew Nuo awakened the children one by one, revealing various martial souls, but none of them had Innate Soul Power.
• Gu Hengzhi stepped into the awakening stones and manifested a broken, unfinished stone statue as his martial soul.
• Gu Hengzhi placed his hand on the blue crystal ball, which confirmed his Innate level-five soul power.
• Gu Hengzhi’s consciousness sank into his spiritual sea as the God-Sealing Record connected with his martial soul.

Gu Hengzhi awakened the God-Sealing Record within his sea of awareness and realized it might let him establish a divine lineage. After joining Spirit Hall, he began learning to cultivate soul power, which circulated through his body with surprising ease.

• Gu Hengzhi explored his sea of awareness, where the God-Sealing Record revealed visions of ancient Huaxia gods before closing and telling him to prepare to carve gods into statues.
• Gu Hengzhi agreed to join Spirit Hall after Matthew Nuo called to him.
• Matthew Nuo told Su Yuntao that Gu Hengzhi had awakened a damaged stone statue and possessed level five Innate Soul Power.
• Gu Hengzhi completed his Spirit Hall enrollment and told Su Yuntao he planned to cultivate before the academy opened and continue writing his novel.
• Su Yuntao taught Gu Hengzhi meditation, and Gu Hengzhi's soul power began circulating on its own through his unusually clear meridians.

Gu Hengzhi discovered that cultivating soul power made the God-Sealing Record resonate with his Stone Statue Martial Soul. On the tenth night, the Record awakened and commanded him to sculpt gods using soul power and faith, then fell silent again.

• Gu Hengzhi meditated and sensed soul power flowing into his Stone Statue Martial Soul.
• The God-Sealing Record glowed and exchanged golden markings with the Stone Statue whenever Gu Hengzhi cultivated.
• For ten days, Gu Hengzhi wrote novels by day and cultivated at night, waiting for the Record to change.
• On the tenth night, the God-Sealing Record awakened and filled Gu Hengzhi’s sea of consciousness with visions of ancient gods.
• A voice declared that Gu Hengzhi could sculpt gods with soul power and faith so that true gods could descend into the world.
• The Record closed and fell dormant again, leaving Gu Hengzhi frightened but excited by its command.

Gu Hengzhi carved a statue of the Jade Emperor and learned from the God-Sealing Record what offerings and rites were required to invite a god to descend. After completing the altar ritual, he summoned the Jade Emperor’s phantom, opening a passage between the mortal world and the Heavenly Realm.

• Gu Hengzhi read the God-Sealing Record’s instruction to use a statue as a vessel guided by sincere devotion.
• Gu Hengzhi carved a one-meter-tall Jade Emperor statue from stone.
• The God-Sealing Record revealed the required offerings and rites for inviting a god to descend.
• Gu Hengzhi arranged offerings on an altar, lit incense, recited a prayer, and offered a drop of his blood.
• The altar’s offerings glowed and stirred as the Jade Emperor’s phantom appeared.

A divine power summoned by Gu Hengzhi shattered his statue and drew the attention of Qian Daoliu and the God Realm, prompting Asura God to accelerate his plan. The God-Sealing Record explained that Gu Hengzhi lacked the strength to invoke powerful gods and would need to wait three days before invoking one again.

• Qian Daoliu sensed the strange power and ordered an investigation, while Asura God and Destruction God King recognized its immense strength and Asura God decided to begin his plan early.
• Gu Hengzhi tried to stop the statue from cracking, but divine might knocked him back and the statue burst apart as purple lightning filled the sky.
• Su Yuntao rushed into the courtyard, and Gu Hengzhi told him he had made a breakthrough in his gunpowder experiments.
• Gu Hengzhi entered his sea of consciousness and heard the God-Sealing Record explain that his weak soul power and physique could not bear the power of the god he had invoked.
• The God-Sealing Record declared that it needed three days to recover, and Gu Hengzhi resolved to invoke only basic gods until he grew stronger.

After the God-Sealing Record finished charging, Gu Hengzhi chose the Earth Deity for his next attempt, deciding to sculpt it through his martial soul rather than ordinary stone. He endured hours of soul-rending pain and memory loss, finally forming an Earth Deity statue, though he collapsed from exhaustion.

• The God-Sealing Record announced that charging was complete, and Gu Hengzhi recalled how the Jade Emperor’s divine power had shattered his ordinary Stone Statue.
• Gu Hengzhi considered several gods before settling on the Earth Deity as a figure he could sustain.
• Gu Hengzhi resolved to sculpt using his martial soul, despite having only level-five Innate Soul Power and wanting to challenge Tang Buddha.
• Gu Hengzhi carved his martial soul Stone Statue with the Soul-Carving Blade, enduring intense pain, dwindling soul power, and fading memories.
• At noon, Gu Hengzhi completed the carving and collapsed as a shoulder-high embryonic Earth Deity statue took shape.

Gu Hengzhi completed a ritual that summoned the Earth Deity, whose image appeared on the first page of the God-Sealing Record. The Earth Deity warned that Tang San’s fate was tied to the plane’s survival, then urged Gu Hengzhi to forge a separate path to godhood and promised to protect him.

• Gu Hengzhi arranged simple offerings and rune-marked drapes in the courtyard before reciting the sacrificial incantation.
• The Earth Deity’s divine soul descended into the statue, and part of its essence returned to Gu Hengzhi’s sea of consciousness.
• The God-Sealing Record opened and inscribed the Earth Deity’s portrait as its first page.
• The Earth Deity told Gu Hengzhi that killing Tang San before his ascension could destroy the plane because Tang San bore its fortune.
• The Earth Deity advised Gu Hengzhi to hinder Tang San if needed but forge another destiny, and promised to protect Gu Hengzhi’s path to godhood.

Gu Hengzhi discovered a panel that displayed his attributes and the Earth Deity’s abilities, then tested the deity’s powers. He confirmed their effects and began cultivating with Earth Vein Meditation.

• Gu Hengzhi opened a mysterious panel showing his attributes and information about the Earth Deity and its abilities.
• Gu Hengzhi tested Earth Vein Acceleration and found that it boosted his speed while he remained in contact with the ground.
• Gu Hengzhi used Earth Element Bodyguard to form adjustable full-body armor and concentrate its protection into a hardened fingertip that shattered a bluestone.
• Gu Hengzhi practiced Earth Vein Meditation and felt earth energy accelerate and strengthen his cultivation.

Gu Hengzhi prepared for enrollment at Nuoding Academy after reaching Rank 6 Soul Power, and Su Yuntao gave him a recommendation letter before he left. At the academy, Yu Xiaogang reviewed Gu Hengzhi’s record and noticed his incomplete Stone Statue Martial Soul and Rank 5 innate Soul Power.

• Gu Hengzhi used plants he had found in the mountains to make nourishing porridge, then trained and meditated using his connection to the Earth Vein.
• Gu Hengzhi told Su Yuntao he planned to attend Nuoding Academy to learn systematic cultivation, and Su Yuntao gave him a recommendation letter.
• Gu Hengzhi left the village with his bundle after Su Yuntao wished him a safe journey.
• At Nuoding Academy, Gu Hengzhi received a wooden token and reported to the Records Review Room.
• Yu Xiaogang checked Gu Hengzhi’s record and reacted with amusement to his incomplete Stone Statue Martial Soul and Rank 5 innate Soul Power.

Yu Xiaogang tried to persuade Gu Hengzhi to become his disciple so he could study his unusual Stone Statue Martial Soul, but Gu Hengzhi exposed his motives and mocked his failures. Enraged, Yu Xiaogang retaliated by assigning Gu Hengzhi to the academy’s dilapidated Seven House.

• Yu Xiaogang saw Gu Hengzhi’s Level Five Innate Soul Power and decided to make him a test subject for his martial soul theories.
• Yu Xiaogang warned Gu Hengzhi that his martial soul might be dangerous and offered to guide him if Gu Hengzhi became his disciple.
• Gu Hengzhi accused Yu Xiaogang of valuing him only as research and a means to prove the Ten Core Competencies of Martial Souls.
• Gu Hengzhi mocked Yu Xiaogang’s low Soul Power and lack of advancement, then left the room.
• Yu Xiaogang assigned Gu Hengzhi to Seven House despite a staff member’s warning that it was the academy’s oldest and worst-maintained building.

Gu Hengzhi arrived at Seven House, where Wang Sheng challenged him over the dormitory’s rules. After Gu Hengzhi dodged and blocked Wang Sheng’s opening attacks, Wang Sheng revealed his Battle Tiger Martial Soul and charged again, beginning their real fight.

• Gu Hengzhi received a bed assignment in Seven House and mocked Yu Xiaogang’s attempt to make things difficult for him.
• Gu Hengzhi entered the crowded dormitory and placed his bag on the empty bed nearest the door.
• Wang Sheng demanded that Gu Hengzhi follow Seven House’s rules and fight him, but Gu Hengzhi refused to obey him.
• Wang Sheng attacked, and Gu Hengzhi evaded his first punch and blocked the next before landing safely nearby.
• Wang Sheng revealed his Battle Tiger Martial Soul, strengthened his body, and lunged at Gu Hengzhi.

Gu Hengzhi defeated Wang Sheng in Seven House by withstanding his attacks and crushing his Tiger-Rending Tyrant Claw with the Great Wilderness Heaven-Prison Finger. After declaring Wang Sheng defeated, Gu Hengzhi had his roommates help him up and gave them medicine for his injuries.

• Wang Sheng charged Gu Hengzhi, but Gu Hengzhi's Earth Element Bodyguard stopped his punch and Gu Hengzhi countered with an elbow strike.
• Wang Sheng launched a barrage of attacks, but Gu Hengzhi used the ground to evade and deflect them.
• Wang Sheng unleashed Tiger-Rending Tyrant Claw, and Gu Hengzhi countered with the Great Wilderness Heaven-Prison Finger, defeating him.
• Gu Hengzhi told Wang Sheng that he had lost, ordered two roommates to help him up, and gave them a pill from his hometown to treat Wang Sheng's injuries.

Shen Yan, Li Jingchen, and Chen Shao worshipped the Stone Statue, activating Gu Hengzhi’s Incense System and awakening the Earth Deity. The Earth Deity explained how incense and Faith Power worked and advised Gu Hengzhi to cultivate worshippers, leaving him resolved to build the divine way through circulating belief.

• Shen Yan and Li Jingchen voiced suspicions that the Stone Statue might be more than a carving, and Chen Shao suggested worshipping it.
• Li Jingchen placed dried fruit and lit incense at the shrine while Gu Hengzhi watched.
• The God-Sealing Record activated the Incense System, registering three incense worshippers and identifying the statue as the Earth Deity.
• The Earth Deity appeared in Gu Hengzhi’s sea of consciousness and explained how worshippers’ emotions generated incense and Faith Power.
• The Earth Deity told Gu Hengzhi to attract and support worshippers, and warned that Gu Hengzhi himself could not produce incense offerings.

Gu Hengzhi ordered the students of Seven House to worship the Earth Deity statue, gathering enough Incense Offerings to refine into Tier-One Faith Power. After discovering that it could nourish herbs, he planned to use it to cultivate spiritual resources and bought land behind the academy to begin.

• Gu Hengzhi ordered the Seven House students to burn incense and worship the Earth Deity statue morning and evening, and Wang Sheng and the others gradually joined in.
• Gu Hengzhi gathered ten wisps of Incense Offerings and asked the Earth Deity to purify them into Tier-One Faith Power.
• Gu Hengzhi infused Faith Power into an ordinary herb, causing it to grow more vibrant and develop a spiritual aura.
• Gu Hengzhi considered using Faith Power to strengthen weapons, awaken the Earth Deity, and turn land into a spiritual field.
• Gu Hengzhi visited the administrative office the next morning and purchased a plot on the academy's back mountain for future cultivation.

Gu Hengzhi tried to turn a hillside behind Nuoding Academy into a Spirit Field, but his Faith Power only stirred spiritual energy on the surface. With the Earth Deity’s guidance, he opened the Earth Vein and awakened the land, though the field would need another offering to stabilize.

• Gu Hengzhi poured Tier-One Faith Power into the hillside, but it failed to penetrate the Earth Vein.
• Gu Hengzhi asked the Earth Deity how to cultivate a Spirit Field, and the deity explained that Faith Power had to reach the Earth Vein.
• The Earth Deity used his jade ruler to guide Gu Hengzhi’s next wisp of Faith Power into the earth.
• Spiritual energy surged through the hillside, turning the dry soil moist and vibrant as Gu Hengzhi recognized the Spirit Field’s awakening.
• The Earth Deity told Gu Hengzhi to inject another wisp of Tier-One Faith Power after fifteen days to stabilize the field.

Gu Hengzhi activated the Earth Vein with Faith Power and formed his first Spirit Field, which improved his cultivation speed. He discovered the field could rapidly grow ordinary herbs, but could not turn low-quality seeds into spirit herbs.

• Gu Hengzhi infused Faith Power into the Earth Vein, awakening it and forming a Spirit Field.
• Gu Hengzhi meditated on the field and found his spiritual energy circulated about twenty percent faster.
• Gu Hengzhi planted Qi-Gathering Grass seedlings to test the Spirit Field.
• The Qi-Gathering Grass grew to fist height in less than half an hour.
• Gu Hengzhi examined the herbs and realized their low-quality seeds had not developed into true spirit plants.

Gu Hengzhi sold herbs in Notting City and spent nearly all his earnings on first-tier spiritual medicine seedlings after hearing that Old Jack's eldest son had died to a soul beast. He planted the seedlings in the Spirit Field, where most failed to thrive by morning, but an Azure Sun Vine at the field's edge grew unusually vigorously.

• Gu Hengzhi sold freshly harvested herbs at Heavenly Spring Hall and bought more than thirty first-tier spiritual medicine seedlings.
• Two customers told Gu Hengzhi that Old Jack's eldest son from Holy Soul Village had died while gathering herbs, and that soul beasts had become active near the back mountain.
• Gu Hengzhi returned to the Spirit Field, planted the seedlings, and spent the night watching over them instead of cultivating.
• The next morning, Gu Hengzhi found that most seedlings had not grown, while the Azure Sun Vine near the stone boundary had flourished and showed signs of unusual vitality.
• Gu Hengzhi examined the Azure Sun Vine and wondered whether the field or the plant itself had something unusual about it.

Gu Hengzhi spent a year cultivating his Spirit Field and Spirit Spring, advancing the Azure Sun Vine and building up his resources as his soul power neared Rank Ten. After learning that Tang San had awakened Blue Silver Grass with full Innate Soul Power, Gu Hengzhi resolved to find a way to hinder his cultivation.

• Gu Hengzhi discovered that Earth Veins nourished a spring beneath the Spirit Field, giving its water and fish spiritual potential.
• Over the next year, Gu Hengzhi cultivated and harvested the Spirit Field three times; the Azure Sun Vine became a second-tier herb, and the Greenback Perch reached the False Soul Beast realm.
• Gu Hengzhi accumulated more than six hundred Gold Soul Coins, brought herbs and a False Soul Beast Mud Carp to Su Yuntao, and shared dinner with him.
• Su Yuntao told Gu Hengzhi that a child in Holy Soul Village had awakened Blue Silver Grass with full Innate Soul Power.
• Gu Hengzhi recognized the child as Tang San and decided to find a way to hinder Tang Buddha's cultivation.

Gu Hengzhi’s three secret letters about Tang San, Tang Hao, and Xiao Wu drew no response from Spirit Hall, so he abandoned his attempt to use it against them. When the new school year began, Tang San and Xiao Wu arrived at Nuoding Academy, where Gu Hengzhi watched Yu Xiaogang persuade Tang San to become his disciple.

• Gu Hengzhi secretly sent Spirit Hall a letter describing Tang Hao and Tang San, but Notting City remained undisturbed.
• After his first letter went unanswered, Gu Hengzhi sent a second letter to Matthew Nuo, which also produced no response.
• Gu Hengzhi considered killing Tang San himself and reporting Xiao Wu, but neither his plans nor his third secret letter brought results.
• Gu Hengzhi stopped sending letters and focused on studying, cultivation, and growing spiritual herbs.
• At the start of the second school year, Tang San and Xiao Wu appeared as new students at Nuoding Academy.
• Gu Hengzhi watched Yu Xiaogang persuade Tang San to kneel and accept him as a teacher, then jokingly welcomed Tang San as his son.

Tang Hao intercepted two letters exposing his family and Xiao Wu, then searched Notting City for the writer while avoiding actions that might reveal his presence. Gu Hengzhi suspected Tang Hao had intercepted the letters and was still searching for him, as the story shifted to Dormitory Seven at Notting Junior Soul Master Academy.

• Yu Xiaogang changed after taking Tang San as his disciple, becoming warmer and more refined.
• Tang Hao intercepted two of Gu Hengzhi’s secret letters, which revealed Tang San’s Twin Martial Souls and Xiao Wu’s identity as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Transformed Soul Beast.
• Tang Hao investigated the letters and considered Su Yuntao and Yu Xiaogang as possible writers, but ruled them out.
• Tang Hao continued searching for the writer while avoiding a massacre that could expose him or frighten Xiao Wu into fleeing.
• Gu Hengzhi inferred that Tang Hao had intercepted the letters and was still searching for him in Notting City.

Gu Hengzhi and Su Yuntao traveled to the Soul Hunting Forest so Gu Hengzhi could obtain his first Soul Ring from an earth-element spirit beast. They arrived before Tang San and Yu Xiaogang, and Su Yuntao warned Gu Hengzhi about the marketplace’s inflated prices and the dangers of spirit-hunting groups.

• Gu Hengzhi told Su Yuntao he wanted an earth-element spirit beast to complement his Stone Statue martial soul, and Su Yuntao promised to help him find a suitable defensive Soul Ring.
• Su Yuntao bought supplies and daggers in Notting City, then took Gu Hengzhi by carriage toward the Soul Hunting Forest.
• Tang San and Yu Xiaogang also set out by carriage while a ragged drunk secretly followed them.
• Gu Hengzhi and Su Yuntao reached a town beside the Soul Hunting Forest that night, ahead of Tang San and Yu Xiaogang.
• Su Yuntao explained that supplies cost much more near the forest and warned Gu Hengzhi that spirit-hunting groups might kill their own clients for profit.

Su Yuntao took Gu Hengzhi into the Spirit Hunting Forest and taught him about soul beasts and Soul Rings. When a powerful Gale Demon Wolf appeared, Su Yuntao sent Gu Hengzhi running and faced the beast alone.

• Su Yuntao explained the roles in a well-balanced Soul Master hunting team and used his Spirit Hall permit to bring Gu Hengzhi into the forest.
• Su Yuntao defeated one Ten-Year Nether Wolf and left another alive for Gu Hengzhi to kill with his dagger.
• Su Yuntao demonstrated how a Soul Ring could be drawn from a slain soul beast and explained that it would dissipate if not absorbed within one shichen.
• After hearing a wolf howl, Su Yuntao used his second Soul Skill to locate a Gale Demon Wolf and judged it to be at least a hundred years old.
• Su Yuntao ordered Gu Hengzhi to flee, then charged the Gale Demon Wolf to hold it off.

Gu Hengzhi left Su Yuntao fighting a Gale Demon Wolf and sought the Earth Deity’s help in finding a suitable Soul Ring. The Earth Deity identified a mutated Earth Azure Bull as a promising target and defeated it, leaving it incapacitated so he could preserve its soul as a spiritual mount.

• Gu Hengzhi used Earth Vein Acceleration to slip away while Su Yuntao battled the Gale Demon Wolf.
• Gu Hengzhi offered the Earth Deity a wisp of Tier-One Faith Power and asked him to find a suitable soul beast.
• The Earth Deity located Earth Mystic Tortoises and Earth Azure Bulls, and Gu Hengzhi chose to seek out the bulls.
• The Earth Deity lured a mutated, two-ring Earth Azure Bull away from its herd and revealed its potential to become a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Gu Hengzhi summoned his Earth Deity Stone Statue and fought the bull alongside the Earth Deity.
• The Earth Deity possessed Gu Hengzhi and struck the charging bull with a powerful finger technique, knocking it down.