Recaps

Tang Li rejected Gu Yue’s attempt to get him to carry her, and Wu Zhangkong enrolled her after learning she had a Silver Dragon Martial Soul. Gu Yue then approached Tang Wulin to ask about Tang Li and revealed that Na’er was in Shrek City, leaving Tang Wulin suspicious of her intentions toward her brother.

• Tang Li refused to carry Gu Yue, and she stood up and presented Wu Zhangkong with her recommendation letter, revealing her Silver Dragon Martial Soul and rank-fifteen Soul Power.
• Wu Zhangkong told the class to complete their physical training and asked Tang Li to supervise while he handled Gu Yue’s enrollment.
• Tang Wulin asked Tang Li whether he knew Gu Yue, and he said he had met her once at Uncle Lin’s place.
• After Gu Yue finished her laps, Tang Li left to cultivate, and Gu Yue used frog-jumping practice to approach Tang Wulin.
• Gu Yue told Tang Wulin that Na’er was in Shrek City as Yun Ming’s disciple, prompting Tang Wulin to resolve to find her.
• Tang Wulin realized Tang Li had concealed what he knew about Gu Yue and became wary of Gu Yue’s interest in her brother.

Tang Li improved his cultivation and Soul Tool skills before making Na'er a long-range Communicator and asking Gu Yue to deliver it. Tang Wulin invited Gu Yue to their home for a meal with their parents, giving Gu Yue a new way to grow closer to Tang Li.

• Gu Yue stopped pursuing Tang Li too eagerly, and Tang Li gradually relaxed as his relationships with Tang Wulin and Xie Xie settled.
• Tang Li's Soul Power rose another level and his Spiritual Power reached 511 points, while he began studying Mecha knowledge and improved his Communicator designs.
• Tang Li made a special Communicator for Na'er and asked Gu Yue to arrange its delivery.
• Gu Yue agreed to have someone deliver the gift, and Tang Li promised to treat her to a meal.
• Tang Wulin invited Gu Yue to their home so their parents could hear about Na'er, and Tang Li agreed to the plan.

During class, Tang Li teased Gu Yue with an illusion through Big Eyed, but Gu Yue sensed that his Evil Eye carried divine essence and auras beyond his own. The discovery left her newly impressed by Tang Li as she considered how to bring him to her side.

• Tang Li waited for Lin Ye to arrange a Spirit Ascension Platform opportunity and planned to use his sealed classmate's Martial Soul as leverage for a fight.
• Tang Wulin became Mu Chen's apprentice, and Tang Li accompanied her to the Blacksmith Association to lift the seal on Mu Xi's hands.
• During Wu Zhangkong's theory lesson, Gu Yue teased Tang Li telepathically, and Wu Zhangkong noticed their exchange.
• Tang Li enlisted Big Eyed to frighten Gu Yue with an illusion of its enormous Evil Eye.
• Gu Yue recognized the Evil Eye's power and detected her own aura, a violent golden aura, and divine essence within it, concluding that Tang Li had given her another surprise.

Gu Yue tested Big Eyed’s fear ability and learned that Tang Li could create other anomalous soul beasts, then plotted to draw closer to him for the sake of the Soul Beast Clan. Meanwhile, Tang Li absorbed a blood-red totem from the Demon-Sealing Pot, woke with markings across his body, and went to see Wu Zhangkong.

• Gu Yue resisted Big Eyed’s fear effect and baited him into revealing that Tang Li could raise another anomalous Evil Eye; Tang Li recalled Big Eyed after noticing Gu Yue intimidating him.
• Gu Yue decided to summon a ferocious beast subordinate to Eastsea City and planned to visit Tang Li’s home and buy a nearby house so she could get closer to him.
• Tang Li studied the Demon-Sealing Pot’s inscriptions in his Spirit Sea, and a crimson-gold totem peeled away and merged into his spiritual body, ejecting him from the Spirit Sea.
• Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Gu Yue found Tang Li after class; Tang Wulin showed him the blood-red markings covering half his body, which he concealed beneath his skin.
• Xie Xie left to get a meal, Gu Yue and Tang Wulin departed for their errands, and Tang Li headed to Wu Zhangkong’s office while Tang Wulin suspected Gu Yue wanted to take him away.

Tang Li received approval to use East Sea Soul Master Academy’s Star Dou Battle Net and entered the virtual Spirit Arena for his first match. He faced a familiar-looking opponent and charged into battle, eager to fight.

• Tang Li learned from Wu Zhangkong that his application had been approved and that he could use a Simulation Pod for ten hours a day.
• Principal Yu Zhen considered putting the Class Zero Experimental Plan into motion after learning Tang Li was under Wu Zhangkong’s guidance.
• Tang Li went to the Advanced Division’s Combat Training Building, avoided the Lin brothers, and entered a Simulation Pod.
• Tang Li chose a live opponent in the simulated Spirit Arena and summoned a crimson-gold shield and axe shaped by the War God Xingtian Totem.
• Tang Li launched himself toward his opponent as the match began.

Tang Li defeated Ouyang Zixin in the Star Dou Battle Net and continued fighting to test the Xingtian Totem’s powers. After defeating Lu Duan and taking fifteenth place in the Eastsea Academy Spirit Arena, he demanded a stronger opponent.

• Tang Li overwhelmed Ouyang Zixin’s sword attacks and killed her with Gan Qi, winning their match.
• Tang Li explained that his Xingtian Totem strengthened him through fighting spirit, granted immunity to negative effects, and enabled a stored burst he called Gan Qi Dance.
• Tang Li changed the matchmaking requirement to Soul Masters with at least three Soul Rings and faced a student with a Crimson Baboon Martial Soul.
• Tang Li overpowered the Crimson Baboon student, defeated Advanced Division student Lu Duan, and took fifteenth place in the Eastsea Academy Spirit Arena.
• Tang Li asked the system to find an opponent with Soul Power above level 35.

Tang Li spent the night winning battles on the Star Dou Battle Net, reaching eighth place with an eighty-eight-fight winning streak. Ouyang Zixin revealed his record to Tang Wulin, and Tang Li’s fame as the Axe King began to spread.

• Tang Li defeated seven Advanced Division seniors, then fought simulated Soul Ancestors until he had accumulated eighty-eight victories.
• Tang Li met Tang Wulin for a morning run and told her he had spent the previous night fighting on the Star Dou Battle Net.
• Ouyang Zixin told Tang Wulin that Tang Li had defeated every online Soul Elder with a single axe swing and had become the academy’s Axe King.
• Tang Li admitted he had beaten his opponents with an axe and shield but dismissed the title as exaggeration.
• Tang Li continued fighting on the Star Dou Battle Net while attending Wu Zhangkong’s classes and sometimes visiting the Spirit Pagoda, and his Axe King fame spread.

Tang Li advanced to level thirty-four while refining other fighters’ Martial Souls in the Star Dou Battle Net, and Na'er finally regained the Communicator he had sent her. At a family gathering with Gu Yue, Tang Li received Na'er's call just as lunch was ending.

• Tang Li reached level thirty-four, mastered the Xingtian Totem, and refined the Martial Souls of simulated fighters and Eastsea Academy students in the Star Dou Battle Net.
• Na'er learned Yun Ming's spear techniques, and Yali returned her Communicator so she could contact her family.
• Yali offered to accompany Na'er to Eastsea City to meet Tang Li, and Na'er called him after seeing his messages.
• Tang Li brought Gu Yue home, where Lang Yue welcomed her warmly and stopped Tang Wulin from interrupting them.
• Tang Li, Gu Yue, and his family ate lunch together, and the familiar nursery rhyme played from Tang Li's Communicator.

Tang Li’s family spoke with Na’er over the Communicator, while Gu Yue grew closer to his parents and planned to move next door. At the East Sea Spirit Pagoda, Gu Yue secretly entered Tang Li’s Meditation Room and touched his forehead to enter his Spirit Sea.

• Tang Li answered Na’er’s call, and she reassured Tang Ziran, Lang Yue, and Tang Wulin that she was doing well and planned to visit.
• Tang Li suggested linking Na’er’s Communicator to his parents’ devices, and Na’er said she would contact him privately later that night.
• Gu Yue decided to have Zi JI buy the house next to Tang Li’s home and bring Bi Ji to help build ties with his family.
• Lang Yue shared stories about Tang Li with Gu Yue, then pushed Tang Li to escort her farther; Gu Yue and Tang Li traveled together to the East Sea Spirit Pagoda.
• Tang Li began meditating in Lin Ye’s office, while Gu Yue concealed the area, entered the Meditation Room, and touched Tang Li’s forehead to enter his Spirit Sea.

Gu Yue entered Tang Li’s Spirit Sea through Na’er’s blessing to propose a deal, but Tang Li mistook her approach for an attack and trapped her Spiritual Sense with the Demon-Sealing Pot. After Gu Yue swore she meant no harm, Tang Li released her and prepared to hear her out.

• Gu Yue used Na’er’s Silver Dragon King blessing to enter Tang Li’s vast Spirit Sea and seek a deal for the Soul Beast Clan.
• Tang Li, warned by Elder Ling, used the Demon-Sealing Pot to bind Gu Yue’s Spiritual Sense and accused her of making an enemy of him.
• Gu Yue insisted she had come to negotiate and swore on her standing as one half of the Dragon God that she was telling the truth.
• Tang Li berated Gu Yue for sneaking into his Spirit Sea instead of speaking to him openly, leaving her doubting her own judgment.
• Tang Li withdrew the Demon-Sealing Pot’s divine power, and Gu Yue fell before him as he crouched down and reached toward her.

Tang Li rejected Gu Yue's plan to take the Soul Beast Clan off the Douluo Planet, then offered to lift the Godhood restriction if the clan stayed and allied with him against the gods' planned future. Gu Yue accepted the deal.

• Tang Li questioned Gu Yue about her proposed deal and learned she wanted him to lift the restriction preventing Soul Beasts from attaining Godhood.
• Gu Yue explained that gods had influenced the Douluo Continent's fate, so she planned to help Di Tian and the other Ferocious Beasts attain Godhood and lead the Soul Beast Clan away from the planet.
• Tang Li refused because the Douluo Plane needed the Soul Beasts to maintain its ecological balance.
• Elder Ling appeared in Tang Li's Spirit Sea and revealed that Tang Li was his chosen successor as Master of the Plane.
• Tang Li offered to lift the restriction if the Soul Beast Clan remained on the Douluo Plane and helped him oppose the gods' planned future, and Gu Yue accepted.

Tang Li and Gu Yue formed an alliance and signed a non-aggression contract, while Elder Ling urged Tang Li to cultivate faster. The next day, Tang Li discovered that Gu Yue and her companions had moved in next door.

• Gu Yue agreed to assist Tang Li and offered resources, protection, and the future help of a Ferocious Beast.
• Tang Li and Gu Yue signed a non-aggression contract, and Tang Li sent her out of his Spirit Sea.
• Elder Ling said the Abyss was weakening him but predicted Tang Li could reach Rank 95 within fifteen years.
• Gu Yue reprimanded Zi JI for nearly entering the Meditation Room, then told her to carry out their plan.
• Gu Yue wondered whether Tang Li's powers affected her feelings and decided keeping him allied with the Soul Beasts would be worthwhile.
• Tang Li returned home the next day and recognized Gu Yue's aura as she emerged from the neighboring residence with a mature woman.

Tang Li accepted Gu Yue’s offer of a ride to school and exchanged a strand of Immortal Spirit Qi for the resources she had promised him. Their growing closeness left Tang Wulin furious when she saw them arrive together at Eastsea Academy.

• Tang Li collected the supplies Lang Yue had prepared, and Gu Yue introduced herself to Lang Yue as her guardian Bi Ji greeted her as a neighbor.
• Gu Yue offered Tang Li a Storage Ring of cultivation resources, but first demanded sincerity; Tang Li gave her a strand of Immortal Spirit Qi, which excited Zi Ji and could help heal Gu Yue or aid Di Tian’s cultivation.
• Gu Yue handed Tang Li the ring, which contained Living Gold and rare plants, and said Di Tian could assess suitable Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bones for him during winter break.
• Tang Li and Gu Yue arrived at Eastsea Academy together, where Tang Wulin saw them chatting and grew furious.

Tang Wulin fretted over Tang Li and Gu Yue growing closer while the Promotion Class Tournament began. Tang Li entered the Spirit Arena seeking a Soul Ancestor opponent, and his first clash revealed the senior’s identity.

• Tang Wulin confronted Tang Li and warned him not to fall in love early, while Gu Yue watched with amusement.
• Xie Xie arrived, and the students discussed the Promotion Class Tournament and their cultivation levels.
• Wu Zhangkong took Gu Yue and the others to compete against Class 4, while Tang Li went to the Advanced Division to challenge Soul Ancestors in the Star Dou Battle Net.
• Tang Li matched with a Soul Ancestor and charged with Gan Qi as his opponent transformed and struck with a huge tail.
• Tang Li blocked the blow with his shield and recognized his opponent.

Tang Li faced Jin Ba, Eastsea Academy’s Golden Crocodile champion, in a close-combat Spirit Arena battle. He unveiled Eight Desolations Battle Qi and defeated Jin Ba with two powerful punches, taking over as the arena champion.

• Tang Li withdrew Gan and Qi and challenged Jin Ba to fight bare-handed.
• Jin Ba used his Soul Skills to strengthen his defense and attack Tang Li, but Tang Li’s punches gradually overwhelmed him.
• Tang Li unleashed the Gan Qi Dance, filling the arena with Eight Desolations Battle Qi that suppressed Jin Ba and tracked his position.
• Jin Ba charged Tang Li at full power, but Tang Li stopped him with a punch and shattered his thorned armor.
• Tang Li struck Jin Ba down with a second punch, becoming the new champion of the Eastsea Spirit Arena.

Tang Li won eight consecutive simulated battles against groups of Soul Kings, then joined the Lin brothers in the research lab to build a human-scale mechanical arm from Mecha components. He left the device taking shape as an auxiliary attachment that could strengthen and protect its wearer.

• Tang Li defeated a simulated Soul King, then won eight consecutive battles against groups of opponents before leaving the Star Dou Battle Net.
• Tang Li met Lin Qingyang and Lin Qinghai, who brought him to the Advanced Division research lab after he mentioned having blueprints for their uncle's custom Mecha.
• Tang Li explained how he modified Mecha modules to use power from the human body or a core, making them practical for human use.
• Tang Li built a mechanical arm attachment, and the Lin brothers realized it was a component for Civilian Battle Armor.

Tang Li’s miniature armor drew attention before Freshman Class 5’s tournament run and its final against Freshman Class One were delayed by a tropical storm. After the storm, Xie Xie and Tang Wulin gained the upper hand in the opening clashes, while Gu Yue contained Zhang Yangzi.

• Tang Li explained that his miniature armor relied on a Soul Master’s Soul Power, gave it to the Lin brothers, and went to see the tournament match.
• Tang Wulin celebrated Freshman Class 4’s victory with Tang Li, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie, and Wu Zhangkong suspended their special training during the tournament.
• Tang Li’s Spirit Arena victory and Freshman Class 5’s strong roster became widely discussed as the class advanced to face Freshman Class One.
• A tropical storm forced Eastsea City to suspend work and classes, postponing the freshman final by one week.
• After the storm, Xie Xie faced Wei Xiaofeng and used his twin daggers to suppress him, while Tang Wulin struck Wang Jinxi’s Bone Dragon Claw with her hammer and drove him back.
• Gu Yue kept Zhang Yangzi from taking advantage of his flight with her elemental attacks.

Tang Wulin and Gu Yue fought Class One’s team and overcame Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill. The golden and silver twin dragons shattered the Bone Dragon King, securing victory for Class Five.

• Tang Wulin overwhelmed Wang Jinxi with her Golden Dragon King aura and knocked him into Zhang Yangzi, while Wei Xiaofeng exhausted his Soul Power against Xie Xie.
• Zhang Yangzi enveloped himself and Wang Jinxi in darkness, then fused their powers into a bone dragon eagle that trapped Xie Xie.
• Gu Yue attacked the fusion creature with light and fire, allowing Tang Wulin to rescue Xie Xie and confront Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi.
• Gu Yue struck the airborne fusion creature with a wind-and-earth-powered punch, sending it crashing toward Tang Wulin.
• Tang Wulin and Gu Yue unleashed simultaneous attacks that broke through the creature’s bloodline suppression and defeated Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi.

Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Xie Xie led Class Five to victory and became the new Freshman Class 1, earning a special meal reward and a place in the academy’s newly established Class Zero. The chapter ended with six of the seven selected students signing an agreement to join the class, while Wei Xiaofeng held back.

• Tang Wulin and Gu Yue shattered Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill, securing Class Five’s promotion to Freshman Class 1.
• Wu Zhangkong told Xie Xie that the academy had arranged other compensation, then the next day led the newly renamed Class 1 to a grade meeting.
• Long Hengxu announced that the tournament winners would receive no further promotion challenges but that all Class 1 students would get Grade A meals for the semester.
• Long Hengxu announced the creation of First-Grade Class Zero under Wu Zhangkong, selecting Tang Li, Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi, and Wei Xiaofeng.
• Tang Li, Gu Yue, Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi signed the academy agreement to join Class Zero, while Wei Xiaofeng did not sign.

Class Zero began physical testing to establish the students’ baseline abilities, and Tang Li and Gu Yue revealed extraordinary Divine Power and strength. Tang Li’s final test damaged the instrument, leaving Wu Zhangkong impressed and the other students stunned.

• Class Zero received upgraded classrooms, single dorm rooms, additional teachers, and specialized instruction under Wu Zhangkong.
• Tang Li scored 720 on the Divine Power test, followed by Tang Wulin at 66 and Gu Yue at 250.
• Gu Yue’s strength tests produced punches of 512 and 666 kilograms, while Zhang Yangzi and Xie Xie recorded much lower scores.
• Tang Wulin demonstrated 3,998 kilograms of strength with a single punch.
• Tang Li struck the strength-testing instrument hard enough to damage it; it displayed 5,000 kilograms before going black, and he led the remaining tests.

Class Zero began intensive combat training as Wang Jinxi tried to understand why his Bone Dragon King Martial Soul reacted strangely to Tang Wulin and Gu Yue. When he went to meet Tang Wulin, Tang Li confronted him and demonstrated that she could suppress his Martial Soul even more forcefully.

• Wu Zhangkong put Class Zero through practical combat training, and Tang Li endured it better than most thanks to her battle experience.
• Tang Li suspected Tang Wulin needed spirit items for the Golden Dragon King's second seal and gave her money when she refused to explain.
• Wang Jinxi noticed his Martial Soul's hostility toward Tang Wulin and Gu Yue eased when he befriended their classmates, and their bloodlines began enhancing him instead.
• Wang Jinxi decided to ask Tang Wulin about the suppression and learned her routine by questioning Xie Xie and scouting the track.
• Tang Li intercepted Wang Jinxi at the track and used the Demon-Sealing Pot to overwhelm his soul, making him collapse.

Tang Li explained to Wang Jinxi how Tang Wulin and Gu Yue’s bloodlines affected his martial soul, then learned that Na'er would visit Eastsea City with Holy Spirit Douluo Yali. He found Tang Wulin exhausted from forging and eating heavily, and began asking what she was saving money to buy so he could help her.

• Tang Li questioned Wang Jinxi, who said he had come to learn why Tang Wulin’s presence affected his Bone Dragon King martial soul.
• Tang Li explained that Tang Wulin and Gu Yue carried the bloodlines of the Gold and Silver Dragon Kings, which suppressed or strengthened Wang Jinxi depending on his feelings toward them.
• Tang Li warned Wang Jinxi that too much exposure to their bloodlines could mutate his martial soul and end his fusion skill with Zhang Yangzi.
• Tang Li received Na'er’s message that she would visit Eastsea City that weekend with Holy Spirit Douluo Yali, and decided to warn Gu Yue to hide Bi Ji and Zi JI.
• Tang Li found Tang Wulin eating in the faculty dining hall after a night of forging and asked what she was saving to buy before offering his good news.

Tang Wulin told Tang Li she needed rare spiritual items for her impending bloodline awakening, and he promised to obtain them. In class, Wu Zhangkong began teaching Class Zero about Mecha and introduced Battle Armor as the kind used by powerful Soul Masters.

• Tang Li confronted Tang Wulin about taking commissions, and she explained that she needed four thousand-year spiritual items to awaken the power inside her.
• Tang Li promised to find the items by the weekend, while Tang Wulin objected to him asking Gu Yue for help; he then told her Na'er would visit that weekend.
• Wu Zhangkong began a theory lesson on Mecha, explaining their history and evolution into weapons usable by ordinary people.
• Wu Zhangkong explained that the strongest Mecha Masters were also powerful Soul Masters and introduced Battle Armor as smaller Mecha that combined with their users' Martial Souls.

Wu Zhangkong introduced mecha-related secondary professions and battle armor, then led his students to the East China Sea Spirit Pagoda for a visit to the Spirit Ascension Platform. There, Xie Xie noticed Tang Wulin's resemblance to Dragon Butterfly Douluo Tang Wutong, and Gu Yue suspected they might be related.

• Wu Zhangkong explained battle armor and the mecha-related professions, urging his students to choose a second profession alongside being soul masters.
• Wu Zhangkong called Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wang Jinxi forward for combat training.
• Tang Li discussed the four thousand-year spirit treasures for Tang Wulin with Gu Yue, who explained their uses and said they would arrive that weekend.
• Wu Zhangkong led the students to the East China Sea Spirit Pagoda, where Long Hengxu welcomed them and showed them inside.
• Xie Xie compared Tang Wulin's face with Tang Wutong's on a mural, and Gu Yue wondered whether the two were related.

Tang Li and the other five members of Class Zero entered the Junior Spirit Ascension Platform for the first time, where Lin Ye warned them about its dangers and privately urged Tang Li to restrain himself. The chapter left Tang Li charging into the forest to attract Soul Beasts, Tang Wulin inexplicably relaxing as nearby plants moved with her breathing, and Zhang Yangzi's screen already black.

• Long Hengxu led the six students to the Junior Spirit Ascension Platform, where Lin Ye warned them about simulated pain and told Tang Li not to wipe out the Soul Beasts.
• Tang Li and the others entered the simulation and arrived on the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Tang Li summoned a copy of Wu Zhangkong's Heavenly Frost Sword and carved a frosty path into the forest to draw Soul Beasts toward him.
• Long Hengxu criticized Tang Li's bold approach until Lin Ye explained that Tang Li already knew the platform and was deliberately attracting Soul Beasts.
• Tang Wulin summoned her Clear Sky Hammer, then leaned against a tree and relaxed as nearby plants moved in rhythm with her breathing.
• Long Hengxu checked Zhang Yangzi's screen and found it had already gone black.