Chapter Summaries

Guang Long learned from Guang Biao that an Evil Spirit Master might have companions, while Tang Wulin encountered Tang San’s Divine Sense and learned that the Golden Dragon King’s seal threatened his life. Tang San erased Huo Yuhao’s Mental Beacon on Wulin, revealing that he was awake and alerting Huo Yuhao to his presence.

• Guang Long told Guang Biao that he did not regret working for the Spirit Pagoda, and Guang Biao warned him to avoid suspicious people after catching an Evil Spirit Master.
• Tang Wulin fell asleep and found himself facing a gigantic golden dragon and Tang San’s Divine Sense.
• Tang San explained that Wulin had to gather three auxiliary items to undo the Golden Dragon King Seal, and Wulin vowed to find them.
• Tang San warned Wulin not to seek help from major forces, then sent him back and noticed that Wulin’s fortune had fallen.
• Tang San discovered and erased Huo Yuhao’s Mental Beacon on Wulin, and Huo Yuhao sensed the beacon’s destruction and realized Tang San had awakened.
• Tang San regretted erasing the beacon and angrily blamed the many forces and people who had caused trouble for him.

During Luo Yanglu’s history lesson, Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena secretly avoided paying attention, prompting Luo Yanglu to remind them of the Spirit Pagoda’s place in the Federation. Gu Yuena listened after being corrected, while Luo Yanglu realized she could use Sound Transmission into Secrecy despite being a two-ring Soul Grandmaster.

• Luo Yanglu used historical anecdotes to engage the class before teaching about events from ten thousand years ago.
• Huo Yuhao secretly carved a Soul Guidance Array while recalling how Emperor Xu Tianran’s ambitions had helped Shrek attract former Sun Moon Empire Soul Engineers.
• Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao to include her in his Simulation, then discovered he was carving an array instead of listening.
• Luo Yanglu privately quizzed Gu Yuena on Federation history and urged her and Huo Yuhao to show restraint as future Spirit Pagoda leaders.
• Gu Yuena accepted Luo Yanglu’s advice and resumed listening, leaving him astonished that she could use Sound Transmission into Secrecy.

Huo Yuhao met Mu Xi at the Mecha Master Association and arranged for her to purify rare metals, while their classmates speculated about his connection to Gu Yuena and the Spirit Pagoda. He left Mu Xi and found Gu Yuena waiting outside his Manufacturing Room with a small hammer.

• Wei Xiaofeng, Xie Xie, and Wang Jinxi speculated that Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena lived together and might be connected to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Huo Yuhao met Mu Xi at the Mecha Master Association, where she recognized him from their awkward encounter three years earlier.
• Huo Yuhao gave Mu Xi three pieces of rare metal and asked her to perform Hundred Refinements Purification on them.
• Huo Yuhao asked Mu Xi about the nine-year-old Level Two Blacksmith and learned that he was busy earning money.
• Huo Yuhao left the reception room and found Gu Yuena standing outside his Manufacturing Room with a small hammer.

Gu Yuena decided to learn forging to repay Huo Yuhao, but he reassured her that her company and bloodline already helped him. As she watched him demonstrate a forging principle, she recognized that his work involved extracting Metal Source, a technology central to the Federation’s rank-12 Godslayer-level Soul Cannon Shells.

• Gu Yuena resolved to learn forging because she felt she had only accepted favors from Huo Yuhao and wanted to help him.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yuena she did not need to learn forging for his sake, explaining that her Silver Dragon King Bloodline already helped him research a Dragon God Bloodline Soul Spirit.
• Huo Yuhao asked whether Gu Yuena would object to his taking a trace of Golden Dragon King Bloodline Power from Tang Wulin, and Gu Yuena worried about whether he would be in danger.
• Huo Yuhao showed Gu Yuena his unfamiliar Soul Guidance Array and explained that forging involved extracting and then altering Metal Source.
• Gu Yuena recognized Huo Yuhao’s extraction of Metal Source as the core technology behind the Douluo Federation’s rank-12 Godslayer-level Soul Cannon Shells.

Huo Yuhao explained his Siphon Rune Soul Guidance Array, which extracted Metal Source and could transform the practice of forging. He realized Gu Yuena could overcome forging’s hardest stages through her control of life and elements, and she began considering what metal forged entirely with the Power of Heaven and Earth might become.

• Huo Yuena learned that Huo Yuhao’s array refined Metal Source from Spirit-Forged Metal and could help blacksmiths advance toward Spirit Forging.
• Huo Yuhao explained how Spirit Forging, Soul Forging, and Heavenly Forging worked, then asked whether Gu Yuena could accomplish their requirements.
• Gu Yuena recognized that her Creation Divinity and elemental control let her grant metal life and intelligence and draw on elemental power.
• Huo Yuhao suggested Gu Yuena forge without a hammer by using Elemental Power, explaining that forging was about refining and changing Metal Source.
• Gu Yuena considered using the Power of Heaven and Earth for every stage of forging and wondered what the resulting metal would become.

Gu Yuena decided to learn Huo Yuhao’s proposed Divine Forging method, while her teacher Cheng Yixuan misread her interest in him as romantic. On their way back to campus, Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena were ambushed by an Evil Spirit Master, whom Huo Yuhao incapacitated before Luo Ziyang took him away.

• Gu Yuena left the Manufacturing Room resolved to learn forging with the Power of Heavenly Forging and named the method Divine Forging.
• Cheng Yixuan asked Gu Yuena about Huo Yuhao and, after hearing her guarded explanation, worried that Gu Yuena might be hurt by her feelings for him.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena left President Li Yucheng and headed back to campus, with Li Yucheng close to completing their level-seven Soul Power Amplifier.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing to guide Gu Yuena into an alley, where a four-ring Evil Spirit Master tried to capture them.
• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Interference Domain and Spiritual Shock to defeat the Evil Spirit Master, then asked the hidden Luo Ziyang to handle him.
• Luo Ziyang escorted Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena back to the academy before taking the captive to the Spirit Pagoda.

After Hua Yichen learned that Evil Spirit Masters had targeted Tang Ziran and his wife, he captured one and alerted the Mecha Brigade and the Execution Department. While waiting for an investigation, he reflected on the department’s supervision of people whose martial souls might lead them toward evil and the growing trust between humans and soul beasts.

• Hua Yichen used his Soul Suppressing Song to subdue the captured Evil Spirit Master and learned that the target was Tang Ziran and his wife.
• Hua Yichen informed Guang Biao and contacted Leng Yulai, who arranged an investigation into a possible Evil Spirit Master hideout near Skysea City.
• Hua Yichen reflected on how the Execution Department monitored soul masters whose martial souls could become evil, using their contracted soul spirits to verify their conduct.
• Hua Yichen considered the growing bond between soul spirits, humans, and soul beasts, and wondered whether the Spirit Pagoda’s flourishing age fulfilled the First Generation Tower Master’s wish.

Huo Yuhao learned about the Execution Department’s hidden Limit Douluo, Soul Suppressing, whose soul-devouring ability led the Spirit Pagoda to develop Spirit Ascension Pills. Gu Yuena said she wanted the era to improve, then followed Huo Yuhao to try refining metal with elemental power.

• Gu Yuena told Huo Yuhao that the Execution Department handled evil spirit masters and explained that it had only two Titled Douluo-level experts: Dark Phoenix Douluo and Soul Suppressing Douluo.
• Gu Yuena explained that Soul Suppressing Douluo consumed soul energy to grow, inspired the creation of Spirit Ascension Pills, and became a Limit Douluo by taking them.
• Gu Yuena said Soul Suppressing Douluo could generate his own soul rings and that the Spirit Pagoda valued him for both his strength and research potential.
• Gu Yuena asked Huo Yuhao whether he was satisfied with the era’s progress, and he said she should answer for herself and take part in improving it.
• Huo Yuhao took Gu Yuena to a Forging Room and invited her to use elemental power to remove impurities from rare metal.

Tang Wulin hurried to reunite with his parents, but found them and Captain Guang Long incapacitated by an Evil Spirit Master. Just as the attacker reached for Tang Wulin, a black mecha arrived, interrupting Tang San’s plan to use the crisis to gain Wulin’s trust.

• Tang Wulin learned that Tang Ziran and Lang Yue had settled in Eastsea and rushed to their home near Snack Street.
• A black-robed Evil Spirit Master arrived at the couple’s door, and Tang Ziran agreed to go with him rather than risk leaving Tang Wulin behind.
• Guang Long confronted the Evil Spirit Master, but the man released plague-controlling green mist that incapacitated Guang Long and the couple.
• Tang Wulin arrived, charged at the Evil Spirit Master, and collapsed when he entered the plague’s area; Lang Yue pleaded for him to be spared.
• Tang San’s Divine Sense sensed Tang Wulin’s danger and planned to use the attack to gain his trust, but a black mecha suddenly descended and interrupted them.

Guang Biao’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Spirit rescued Tang Wulin’s family and defeated the Evil Spirit Master, while Tang San’s Divine Sense withdrew after worrying about Wulin’s admiration for the mecha pilot. At the mecha brigade base, Guang Biao learned that Tang Ziran and his wife had once worked as Federation researchers and that Tang Ziran came from the Star Luo Federation.

• The Evil Spirit Master took Tang Ziran hostage, but Guang Biao’s Ten Thousand Year Soul Spirit emerged from the Black Level Mecha and overwhelmed him.
• The Black Level Mecha battered the Evil Spirit Master unconscious, ending the threat to Tang Wulin and his family.
• Tang San’s Divine Sense withdrew once Wulin was safe, uneasy about how much he admired Guang Biao and the mecha.
• Guang Biao brought the injured family to the mecha brigade base, had them treated, and handed the Evil Spirit Master to his subordinates.
• An investigator told Guang Biao that Tang Ziran and his wife had formerly been Federation Mecha Designers and Pharmaceutical Researchers, and that they had recently returned to work for money.
• Guang Biao learned from Tang Ziran’s records that he had come from the Star Luo Federation.

After the attack on his family, Tang Wulin decided he needed the strength to protect them and went to the Spirit Pagoda to join. His parents remained in the hospital, while Guang Biao warned them that the Evil Spirit Masters might strike again.

• Tang Wulin thanked Guang Long for saving his parents, and Guang Long admitted he had envied their close family.
• Gong Lingyao examined Tang Ziran, Lang Yue, Tang Wulin, and Guang Long, confirming that the Evil Spirit Master's attack had left no hidden effects.
• Guang Biao questioned Tang Ziran about the attack and learned that it might involve a mecha blueprint or the couple's Mental Medicine research.
• Guang Biao advised Tang Ziran and Lang Yue to join the authorities or a major faction, then told Tang Wulin not to waste his talent and opportunities.
• Tang Wulin remembered the people who had encouraged him and left his parents with a promise to return.
• Tang Wulin entered the Spirit Pagoda and declared that he wanted to join.

Tang Wulin joined the Spirit Pagoda and learned that it could provide his family with a safe home and arrange forging training for him. Meanwhile, Hua Yichen questioned why the Holy Spirit Cult’s higher-ups remained hidden and suspected they were developing beyond the Federation.

• Tang San's Divine Sense realized Tang Wulin had joined the Spirit Pagoda and worried that his own plans and allies might not be enough to deal with an unknown enemy.
• Tang Wulin received a Portable Soul Guidance Light Screen, searched for spiritual items, and found their prices too high.
• The receptionist told Tang Wulin that his family could settle near the Spirit Pagoda and that he could train in its Forging Department despite already having a teacher.
• Hua Yichen received Guang Biao's message that an Evil Spirit Master had been apprehended, then considered reports that the captured base was fake and yielded only a Soul King.
• Hua Yichen wondered whether the Holy Spirit Cult was developing in the ocean, Star Luo, or Heaven Dou, and questioned whether Tang Ziran's research had truly drawn its attention.

After Gu Yuena exhausted herself forging rare metal, Huo Yuhao showed her concern and later explained that he would treat Tang Wulin as a classmate unless they became enemies. While meditating, Huo Yuhao was summoned into the Eternal Domain, where the Eternal Angel appeared to give him a trial.

• Gu Yuena completed her ninth forging attempt, and Huo Yuhao escorted her to her room before bringing her three Class A meals.
• Gu Yuena browsed Soul Tool Network advice about growing closer to Huo Yuhao and felt encouraged by his concern.
• Huo Yuhao learned Tang Wulin had joined the Spirit Pagoda and told the Ice Empress he would not target him unless their relationship changed.
• Electrolux sensed a new ripple in Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Sea and reacted with a smile.
• During meditation, Huo Yuhao entered the Eternal Domain and learned from Electrolux that the Throne of Eternity and Creation had summoned him.
• The Eternal Angel appeared before Huo Yuhao, while Brother Sky Dream joked about her dramatic entrance.

Huo Yuhao entered the Throne of Eternity and Creation’s assessment and faced the Eternal Angel, who restricted both his resources and her own strength. The battle began with her using an ability Huo Yuhao recognized from the Star Crown.

• The Eternal Angel introduced herself as guardian of the Eternal Domain and confirmed that Huo Yuhao would take the assessment.
• Huo Yuhao asked to use his companions and equipment, then prepared a cannon barrel and eight Level Nine Fixed Soul Cannon Shells with Electrolux’s help.
• The Eternal Angel forbade external assistance and objects, while Tian Meng, the Ice Empress, and Electrolux argued that Huo Yuhao’s tools and allies should be allowed.
• The Eternal Angel transformed her strength to match the Douluo cultivation system and limited herself to one rank above Huo Yuhao, while ordering him to put away his Storage Ring.
• Huo Yuhao charged as the Eternal Angel conjured starlight chains and a golden pillar; he recognized her ability as a Star Crown soul skill.

Huo Yuhao defeated Eternal Angel by exploiting her unfamiliarity with soul skills and chaining Spiritual Power attacks into an ice-sword strike and Ice Blast. Eternal Angel conceded and offered him her staff, which Tian Meng and the Ice Empress recognized as a divine tool.

• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Power to interrupt Eternal Angel's Starry Sky Chains, then fooled her with a false body and struck her with Ukiyo-e Frost.
• Huo Yuhao questioned Eternal Angel's reliance on soul skills and attacked with Empress Sword, Unparalleled Chill, freezing her into an ice sculpture.
• Huo Yuhao retreated before Eternal Angel triggered Ice Blast, whose explosion devastated the surrounding area.
• Eternal Angel restored her strength, admitted she had been careless, and conceded the match.
• Eternal Angel let Huo Yuhao keep her staff, and Tian Meng and the Ice Empress suspected it was a divine tool.

The Lord of Eternity granted Huo Yuhao the Power of Stars and a Divine Tool through the Throne of Seal, strengthening his foundation as he meditated. After he returned to his room, Gu Yuena came to check on him when their connection briefly vanished.

• The Lord of Eternity explained that Huo Yuhao’s influence on the world had prompted Him to draw Huo Yuhao into the trial.
• The Eternal Angel described the Eternal Domain and granted Huo Yuhao recognition of the Power of Stars.
• Starlight gathered around Huo Yuhao, and a Divine Tool staff merged into him as the Power of Stars reshaped his second soul ring.
• Tian Meng, the Ice Empress, and Electrolux examined the staff in Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Sea, where Electrolux moved it beside the Eye of Life.
• Gu Yuena went to Huo Yuhao’s room after losing their connection, then met his starlit gaze when the connection returned and the door opened.

Huo Yuhao showed Gu Yuena the star-power divine tool Star's Favor and explained its abilities, then trained with her to test how the Power of Stars had transformed his second soul skill. Their sparring ended with Gu Yuena escaping his Star Chains through the Space Element.

• Huo Yuhao thanked Gu Yuena for checking on him and brought her outside to show her Star's Favor.
• Huo Yuhao used Star's Favor to draw in the Power of Stars and considered how its power might alter the Eye of Life.
• Huo Yuhao invited Gu Yuena to train with him, and they both revealed their unusual soul rings.
• Gu Yuena attacked with dual-attribute Ice Cones, while Huo Yuhao's star-infused second soul skill formed a wall that withstood them for one second.
• Huo Yuhao disrupted Gu Yuena with Mental Interference and caught her with a Star Chain, but she escaped using the Space Element.

Huo Yuhao assessed the defensive, offensive, and control uses of his star-powered Divine Shaping of All Forms, while Xu Xiaoyan worried about being forced into the Xu Family heirship. At Eastsea Academy, class three defeated Wu Zhangkong’s class five and prepared to challenge class two.

• Huo Yuhao concluded that Divine Shaping of All Forms could provide one second of absolute defense and could also serve as an offensive and control skill, though he believed it could be developed further.
• Huo Yuhao jokingly asked Sky Dream Ice Silkworm for more soul skills, then used Star's Favor to draw in the Power of Stars while meditating.
• Xu Xiaoyan recalled how the Starry Sky Beast Ancestor chose her as the Xu Family's heir after her Martial Soul mutated, despite her wish for her brother to inherit the role.
• Xu Xiaoyan reflected on being placed in class two and becoming a candidate for the Promotion Match before quietly going to sleep.
• Class three, led by Ye Yingrong's three Gu brothers, defeated Wu Zhangkong's class five in the Promotion Matches and prepared to challenge class two.

Luo Yanglu introduced the Class Zero program and its contracts to four students, while Wei Xiaofeng refused to join because he wanted to attend Shrek Academy. Xie Xie, Wang Jinxi, and Zhang Yangzi accepted after learning about the Spirit Pagoda’s powerful resources, and the chapter ended with Xie Xie reflecting that his father had made the right call.

• Luo Yanglu selected Wang Jinxi, Xie Xie, Zhang Yangzi, and Wei Xiaofeng to discuss the upcoming match and explained the academy’s Class Zero proposal.
• Wei Xiaofeng refused the academy’s agreement because his family expected him to study at Shrek Academy, but Luo Yanglu clarified that the decision did not affect the match.
• Xie Xie recalled his father advising him to cooperate with the Spirit Pagoda, then agreed to join Class Zero.
• Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi also agreed to join, and the three drew lots to determine the match participants.
• Luo Yanglu showed the three students the Spirit Pagoda’s agreement, which offered a suitable Ten Thousand Year Soul Spirit and advanced training resources to members who met its terms.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena watched Mu Xi forge so Gu Yuena could study the craft, then discussed the Soul Beast Saint Craftsmen and the path to Heavenly Forging. Gu Yuena left with a better understanding of forging and a growing sense of ease beside Huo Yuhao.

• Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Sharing to help Mu Xi notice and correct mistakes while forging, and Gu Yuena studied her technique.
• Zheng Tianlin asked Mu Xi to take on extra forging work, but she refused and identified Huo Yuhao as a Level Three Mecha Manufacturer and her collaborator.
• Zheng Tianlin apologized and left, and Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena departed with the forged metal.
• Gu Yuena told Huo Yuhao that Di Tian and Xiong Jun were Saint Craftsmen, and that Xiong Jun had spent a thousand years learning to forge under Di Tian.
• Huo Yuhao offered to help Gu Yuena if she became stuck at Heavenly Forging, and Gu Yuena watched Soul Masters and Soul Spirits together with a gentle smile.