Chapter Summaries

Hua Yichen taught Huo Yuhao the Spirit Pagoda’s strict rules against lovestruck disciples, then watched him demonstrate his exceptional abilities. After Li Yucheng questioned Huo Yuhao’s many Side Professions, Huo Yuhao met the dying Silver Moon Douluo and offered to inherit his Natal Soul Tool in the name of the Spirit Pagoda.

• Hua Yichen read First Generation Tower Master's Admonitions to Huo Yuhao and explained how the Spirit Pagoda dealt with disciples who became lovestruck fools.
• Huo Yuhao learned that the admonitions had been adapted from advice he had once given Su Tong, then received a copy of the book from Hua Yichen.
• Hua Yichen tested Huo Yuhao in combat and considered placing the nine-year-old, whose Soul Power had reached rank thirty-two, in the top ten of the Young Genius List.
• Li Yucheng visited the Spirit Pagoda and urged Huo Yuhao to focus on one field, but Huo Yuhao explained that he wanted to complete a Soul Tool of his own and asked about Silver Moon Douluo.
• Huo Yuhao offered to inherit Kong Deming’s Natal Soul Tool in the name of the Spirit Pagoda, and Kong Deming agreed.

Huo Yuhao revisited his unfinished Level 12 Natal Soul Tool blueprint and resolved to complete it using modern Soul Guidance Arrays, Heaven Forging Metal, and the Spirit Pagoda’s accumulated Power of Faith. Meanwhile, Gu Yuena traveled by Soul Tool Airplane and heard Zi Ji urge her to slow down and enjoy her life among humans, leaving her wondering whether she had lost her dignity.

• Huo Yuhao watched Li Yucheng leave after agreeing to visit the Mecha Master Association and exchange ideas, then returned home.
• Huo Yuhao examined his unfinished Spirit Pagoda blueprint and decided to combine modern Soul Tool knowledge, Heaven Forging Metal, and the Spirit Pagoda’s Power of Faith to complete it.
• The Federation restricted civilian Soul Tool Airplanes after Soul Masters repeatedly borrowed military planes, while the Spirit Pagoda began operating its own passenger flights.
• Gu Yuena rode a Spirit Pagoda Soul Tool Airplane, confirmed her identity as the Element Controller on the Young Genius List, and refused to disclose her Martial Soul abilities to a fellow passenger.
• Zi Ji called Gu Yuena to remind her not to overwork herself for the plan and to avoid attracting trouble as she lived among humans.
• After recalling how the Soul Beasts around her had cared for her, Gu Yuena wondered whether she had become lacking in dignity.

Huo Yuhao welcomed Gu Yuena to the Eastern Sea Branch, where she tested his Ultimate Ice Soul Power and confirmed his identity. After he used Spiritual Sharing to reveal a Super Divine Tool, Gu Yuena became convinced he might be a powerful reincarnated deity—or not human at all.

• Hua Yichen and Huo Yuhao met Gu Yuena at the airport and welcomed her to the Eastern Sea Branch.
• Gu Yuena shook Huo Yuhao's hand and used her Ice Element Control to suppress his Ultimate Ice Soul Power, confirming he was the person she sought.
• Huo Yuhao reassured Tian Meng, the Ice Empress, and Electrolux that Gu Yuena's strength was limited and that he had a contingency plan.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing on Gu Yuena, who sensed the mark and origin aura of a Super Divine Tool and froze in shock.
• As she followed Hua Yichen and Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena speculated that Huo Yuhao was a powerful deity reincarnated—or had never been human.

Gu Yuena worried that Huo Yuhao was an Otherworldly God King and questioned why he remained on Douluo Continent. Huo Yuhao reassured her that he would not act against her unless she crossed his bottom line, leaving Gu Yuena to consider whether to sign his Equal Contract.

• Gu Yuena concluded that Huo Yuhao's power did not resemble that of the Divine Realm's Five Great God Kings and feared he might be an Otherworldly God King.
• Huo Yuhao revealed that he knew the Golden Dragon King God Core's location and reminded Gu Yuena that she herself was part of the Dragon God's legacy.
• Gu Yuena apologized for testing Huo Yuhao, and he handed her the documents needed to enroll at Eastsea Academy.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yuena that Douluo Continent had become somewhat like his homeland and shared an Equal Contract that could bind her until she recovered to god level.
• After Huo Yuhao left, Gu Yuena considered signing the contract and noticed the tea he had poured for her.

After meeting Gu Yuena, Huo Yuhao explained to his companions that he had made her believe he was a reincarnated Deity to deter her from acting against him. He planned to use her presence to distract Tang San’s Divine Sense while keeping Tang San and the Plane Master as restraints on Gu Yuena, and decided to go to Eastsea Academy with her.

• Huo Yuhao weighed the risks of deceiving Gu Yuena into respecting him as a Deity and concluded that the threat could keep her from carrying out her plans.
• In the Spiritual Sea, Huo Yuhao’s companions questioned him about his secrets, and he explained that their enemies included Deities and described the restrictions on them.
• Huo Yuhao told the others that Tang San’s Divine Sense might be weaker than Electrolux and would not dare focus on the outside world while Tang Wulin approached the seal.
• Huo Yuhao revealed his plan to bring Gu Yuena before Tang San’s Divine Sense so she would draw its attention while its existence restrained her.
• Huo Yuhao decided to go to Eastsea Academy with Gu Yuena, expecting Tang San to misread their alliance and overestimate their plans.

Huo Yuhao prepared to get a trace of Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King Bloodline while arranging safeguards with Electrolux, then signed an Equal Contract with Gu Yuena. The contract sharply increased his affinity for elemental powers, revealing the influence of her Silver Dragon King Bloodline.

• Huo Yuhao admitted that he wanted to obtain a thread of Tang Wulin’s Golden Dragon King Bloodline, and Electrolux proposed safeguards using the Gold of Life and the Undead Demigod Plane.
• Gu Yuena changed her appearance to look more ordinary before entering Eastsea Academy, leaving Huo Yuhao puzzled about her interpretation of his earlier hints and the Dragon God’s wisdom.
• Hua Yichen reminded Huo Yuhao to follow the First Generation Tower Master’s Admonitions, and Gu Yuena asked whether the warning was directed at her.
• After Hua Yichen left, Gu Yuena told Huo Yuhao she was willing to sign the Equal Contract, and they bound themselves through the contract formation.
• Huo Yuhao sensed his perception of elements and affinity for them increase severalfold after the contract took effect.

Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao signed an Equal Contract that gave them mutual benefits, while Tang Wulin arrived in Eastsea City and his Spirit Pagoda bracelet stopped a bodyguard from confronting him. Tang San withdrew his divine sense from watching Wulin and resolved to find a way to guide him away from the Spirit Pagoda.

• Gu Yuena signed an Equal Contract with Huo Yuhao, hoping to gain power and information about the Divine Realm, while Huo Yuhao received feedback that strengthened his connection to the elements.
• The Ice Empress suggested that Huo Yuhao fuse Gu Yuena’s bloodline into his Martial Soul, but he chose to wait until he obtained the Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• Tang Wulin arrived at Eastsea City’s train station, where he bumped into Xie Xie and the bodyguard stopped himself after noticing Tang Wulin’s Spirit Pagoda bracelet.
• Tang Wulin remembered his mother’s advice about wearing the bracelet and planned to collect its monthly subsidy.
• Tang San worried that Wulin was falling into the Spirit Pagoda’s influence, recalled how Tang Wutong had nearly failed to become a god, and withdrew his divine sense to consider how to teach Wulin.

Tang Ziran and Lang Yue decided to resume their former professions so they could support Tang Wulin, while Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena reported to Eastsea Academy. Dean Yu arranged for the new students and learned that Tang Wulin had been bullied, placing him in Class 2 and Zhou Changxi in Class Five.

• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue watched Tang Wulin avoid disaster thanks to his bracelet, and Tang Ziran resolved to return to his old profession to help pay for their son's Soul Spirits.
• Huo Yuhao brought Gu Yuena, whose appearance was concealed by a special Soul Tool, to meet Dean Yu and register at Eastsea Academy.
• Dean Yu planned to place Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena in Class One before later gathering the academy's outstanding students into a special class.
• Long Hengxu told Dean Yu that Zhou Changxi had bullied Tang Wulin, searched his luggage, and started a fight before Xie Xie intervened.
• Dean Yu assigned Tang Wulin to Class 2 and Zhou Changxi to Class Five.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena settled into their rooms at Eastsea Academy and headed for the cafeteria, where they encountered Tang Wulin and Xie Xie. Gu Yuena recognized that Tang Wulin might carry the Golden Dragon King God Core, and Huo Yuhao confirmed her suspicion.

• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena found their reserved neighboring rooms in the teachers' dormitory building and unpacked.
• Gu Yuena invited Huo Yuhao to visit the cafeteria, and they went together in their academy uniforms.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena passed Tang Wulin and Xie Xie, who discussed their dormitory dispute and the academy's talent-based class assignments.
• Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao through sound transmission whether Tang Wulin carried the God Core, and Huo Yuhao nodded.
• Gu Yuena concluded that one of the Five Great God Kings must have sealed the Golden Dragon King God Core inside Tang Wulin.

Huo Yuhao warned Gu Yuena that the Plane Master and the holder of the Golden Dragon King God Core were both surnamed Tang, prompting her to plan cautiously while she sought cooperation. As Gu Yuena managed her hidden identity and considered the Snow Empress’s return, Huo Yuhao confirmed that no powerful being had come to the academy and that Tang San’s Divine Sense still had weaknesses.

• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing to tell Gu Yuena that the Plane Master and the holder of the Golden Dragon King God Core were both surnamed Tang, and Gu Yuena decided to stay hidden and seek cooperation with him.
• Tang San’s Divine Sense, Tang San, and the Abyssal Sage King each believed the advantage was theirs for different reasons.
• Huo Yuhao ate an A meal in the cafeteria while observing Gu Yuena eat a second one and sensing the effects of her Silver Dragon King Bloodline.
• Gu Yuena hesitated to contact others, then received a call from Gu Ruiqiu, who complained about maintaining her Ancient Clan identity; Bi Ji afterward reported that the Snow Empress had not attended the Spirit Pagoda meeting.
• Bi Ji wondered how strong the Snow Empress had become after her Human Form Re-cultivation, while Gu Yuena suspected Huo Yuhao had promised her something.
• Huo Yuhao asked Old Yi to check for powerful beings near the academy and concluded that Gu Yuena was acting cautiously and Tang San’s Divine Sense remained flawed.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena were assigned to Eastsea Academy’s Class One, where Luo Yanglu explained that the class was being prepared as a Special Class in cooperation with the Spirit Pagoda. During the class introductions, Wei Xiaofeng declared himself the strongest student until Gu Yuena revealed her Soul Power Level was twenty-seven.

• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena were assigned to Class One, while Tang Wulin was assigned to Class Two.
• Luo Yanglu told Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena that Eastsea Academy was establishing a Special Class with the Spirit Pagoda and had reserved them in advance.
• Huo Yuhao met Xie Xie, who recognized him as a prodigy Mecha Designer and offered to help him.
• Xie Xie introduced himself as a Level Nineteen Soul Master, and Wei Xiaofeng followed by claiming Level Twenty-Two Soul Power and declaring his ambition to become a Titled Douluo.
• Gu Yuena introduced herself as a Level Twenty-Seven Battle Spirit Master, freezing Wei Xiaofeng’s smile.

Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao shocked their classmates with their high Soul Power Levels before leaving for the Mecha Master Association. There, Gu Yuena reconsidered her skills after watching Huo Yuhao design and make parts himself.

• Gu Yuena introduced herself as a Level 27 Battle Spirit Master, and Huo Yuhao revealed that he was a Level 33 Control System Battle Spirit Master.
• Luo Yanglu encouraged the stunned students to focus on surpassing themselves and dismissed the class.
• Xie Xie slipped out to cultivate, while Wei Xiaofeng acknowledged the gap between himself and Huo Yuhao and asked for his guidance.
• Huo Yuhao headed to the Mecha Master Association for instruction from President Li Yucheng, with Gu Yuena following and explaining why she avoided close friendships with humans.
• Gu Yuena revealed she was a Level Three Mecha Designer, then watched Huo Yuhao design blueprints and make parts before wondering whether she should learn forging instead.

Huo Yuhao impressed the Mecha Master Association’s leaders with his soul tool craftsmanship, prompting Li Yucheng and Xia Haoxuan to compete to mentor him. Their rivalry left Huo Yuhao with gifts and broader access to association resources.

• Xia Haoxuan admired Huo Yuhao’s precise manufacturing and asked Li Yucheng to let him teach Huo Yuhao, but Li Yucheng refused.
• Li Yucheng praised Huo Yuhao’s Energy Conversion Soul Tool Array and pointed out two minor improvements while Gu Yuena listened.
• After realizing he had missed his chance to recruit Huo Yuhao, Xia Haoxuan called his teacher at Headquarters and invited Huo Yuhao to become his junior martial brother.
• Xia Haoxuan also offered to find Gu Yuena a suitable teacher, then gave Huo Yuhao rare metals as a gift.
• Li Yucheng gave Huo Yuhao a pass to association rooms and a small soul tool, and Huo Yuhao saw himself as the fisherman benefiting from their rivalry.

Huo Yuhao accepted Li Yucheng’s request to continue researching a Soul Power Amplifier and showed him how Spiritual Detection Sharing could help refine its design. When Li Yucheng asked to acquire the Soul Spirit behind the skill, Huo Yuhao identified it as a mutated Ice Silkworm, enraging Tian Meng and the Little Ice Silkworm.

• Xia Haoxuan took Gu Yuena to meet his wife, a Level Seven Designer who would teach her.
• Huo Yuhao identified Li Yucheng’s Soul Tool as a Soul Power Amplifier made with thousand-refined Blue Pregnant Copper.
• Li Yucheng explained that he hoped Huo Yuhao would help improve the amplifier so it could enhance higher-level Soul Tools, and Huo Yuhao agreed to do his best.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing to reveal the amplifier’s internal structure and flaws to Li Yucheng.
• Li Yucheng asked what Soul Beast produced Huo Yuhao’s Soul Skill, and Huo Yuhao said it was a mutated Ice Silkworm, making Tian Meng and the Little Ice Silkworm furious.

Li Yucheng prepared to cooperate with Mu Chen’s association and considered handing off his presidency, while Huo Yuhao studied Gu Yuena’s mecha design and offered advice. Mu Chen agreed to work with the Mecha Master Association but left without greeting Huo Yuhao after learning the Spirit Pagoda had recruited Tang Wulin first.

• Li Yucheng set aside buying an Ice Silkworm Spirit Soul and began crafting with Blue Pregnant Copper as Huo Yuhao watched his technique.
• After hearing Mu Chen had arrived, Li Yucheng expected to finalize cooperation and plotted to pass his presidency and accumulated work to Xia Haoxuan.
• Huo Yuhao declined to meet Mu Chen, went to the design room, and studied Gu Yuena’s blueprint before advising her on the Energy Gathering Array.
• Mu Chen recalled that nine-year-old Tang Wulin had surpassed the Blacksmith Association’s Thousand Refinements record, then learned the Spirit Pagoda had already recruited him.
• Mu Chen and the East Sea Forging Association agreed to cooperate with the Mecha Master Association to cultivate promising juniors.
• Mu Chen spotted Huo Yuhao talking with Gu Yuena and association staff, left without greeting him, and Huo Yuhao continued discussing Tang Wulin’s class assignment.

Tang Wulin visited the Spirit Pagoda to collect his subsidy and received thirty thousand Federation coins after revealing he was a Level Two Blacksmith. The Spirit Pagoda began considering him a promising recruit, while Huo Yuhao noticed Tang Wulin's profile on the internal network.

• Tang Wulin went to the Spirit Pagoda and learned that blacksmithing qualified him for a higher subsidy.
• After Tang Wulin showed his Level Two Blacksmith Badge, the counter attendant transferred him thirty thousand Federation coins and recorded him as a candidate for recruitment.
• Carefree Douluo Hua Yichen reviewed Tang Wulin's information, signed it, and ordered the Spirit Pagoda to pay special attention to him.
• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue heard about Tang Wulin from Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena, then discussed earning enough to buy back their Eastsea home.
• Gu Yuena wondered about Tang Ziran and Lang Yue, and Huo Yuhao told her they were ordinary people before examining Tang Wulin's highlighted profile.

Luo Yanglu equipped Class One with physical-strength testing Soul Tools and taught them the Soul Spirit Symbiosis Meditation Method before asking Huo Yuhao to spar with Gu Yuena. Their staged match began, and Huo Yuhao effortlessly disrupted Gu Yuena's elemental attacks.

• Luo Yanglu gave the students physical-strength testing Soul Tools and warned them not to overtrain.
• Luo Yanglu taught the class the simplified Soul Spirit Symbiosis Meditation Method, then told Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena they did not need it because they already had top-tier methods.
• Luo Yanglu asked Huo Yuhao to spar with Gu Yuena so he could assess her combat training.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena agreed to hold back, while their classmates gathered to watch.
• Gu Yuena attacked with Wind Blades, fireballs, and Ice Cones, but Huo Yuhao used his Spiritual Power and elemental perception to break apart her attacks.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena ended their spar after he countered her elemental storm and briefly affected her with the conception in his self-created combat art. Luo Yanglu recognized their exceptional abilities and advised Gu Yuena to improve her basic training and combat experience.

• Huo Yuhao charged Gu Yuena, but she used the Space Element to evade his attack.
• Gu Yuena combined wind and fire, drawing on the Heart of Elements to create a powerful tornado.
• Huo Yuhao canceled the tornado with a palm strike combining his Spiritual Power and Ultimate Ice, then his combat art briefly froze Gu Yuena's thoughts.
• Gu Yuena dispersed her Ice Cones, and Huo Yuhao stopped the spar without pursuing victory.
• Luo Yanglu praised their abilities and told Gu Yuena that she needed more basic training and combat experience.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena discussed the move he had used in their battle, while Tian Meng proposed an overblown name for his techniques. Meanwhile, Xie Xie took Tang Wulin to eat after learning his father had hoped to send him to Class Five, and they began chatting about Tang Wulin’s class.

• Luo Yanglu praised Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao’s fight, assigned them basic combat training, and let them cultivate on their own.
• Huo Yuhao thanked Gu Yuena for concealing his second Martial Soul, and she asked what he called his final move.
• Tian Meng suggested naming Huo Yuhao’s three techniques “Destroy Tang San’s Three Absolutes,” but Huo Yuhao called the move “Ukiyo-e Frost.”
• Huo Yuhao settled into academy life while Tang Wulin continued his own routine.
• Xie Xie told Tang Wulin that his father had wanted him placed in Class Five, then took him to a Stewed Beef Pot shop, where Tang Wulin insisted on paying.
• Xie Xie and Tang Wulin ate together, and Xie Xie asked how Tang Wulin’s class was going.

Tang Wulin and Xie Xie discussed their classes and the powerful students in Class One before witnessing Security Team captain Guang Long arrest two robbers on Snack Street. After hearing Guang Long’s story and learning that his brother Guang Biao was a Seven Rings Soul Saint, Tang Wulin began wondering whether he too could reach such heights.

• Tang Wulin told Xie Xie that their teacher was strict about combat training and that he had become a preliminary candidate for the Promotion Match.
• Xie Xie described Class One’s favorable treatment and revealed that Huo Yuhao and another student were powerful enough to rival a four-ring Soul Ancestor.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie saw two armed men chase a middle-aged man until Guang Long arrived and subdued the robbers.
• Xie Xie explained that Guang Long came from an ordinary family and had risen through the support of the Spirit Pagoda; Guang Long then heard Tang Wulin’s story and encouraged him to pursue forging.
• Xie Xie revealed that Guang Long’s older brother, Guang Biao, was a Seven Rings Soul Saint, prompting Tang Wulin to wonder if he could reach a similar level.