Chapter Summaries

Huo Yuhao earned his level-four Mecha Master badges, while Tang Wulin revealed his forging talent and became a Level Three Blacksmith. After returning to his family, Tang Wulin realized he had to buy spiritual items for the Golden Dragon King Seal and worried about explaining the purchase to the Spirit Pagoda.

• Xia Haoxuan persuaded Huo Yuhao to take the level-four exam, and Huo Yuhao designed and manufactured a level-four Soul Tool to earn two professional badges.
• Zheng Tianlin and Mu Xi heard that Tang Wulin had completed Thousand Refinement and received a Level Three Blacksmith badge, leaving both of them unsettled by the other young talents around them.
• Tang Wulin recalled how Wu Yu and Mang Tian had encouraged him to stop hiding his abilities after joining the Spirit Pagoda, and he resolved to use his future earnings to help his teachers and friends.
• Tang Wulin returned to the Spirit Pagoda family housing, where Tang Ziran offered to help him buy anything he needed.
• Tang Wulin remembered the Golden Dragon King Seal, calculated that he could afford the spiritual items he needed, and worried about what to tell the Spirit Pagoda seniors.

Tang Wulin bought the materials to break through his Golden Dragon King seal, while Tang San worried about the place he chose to do it. At the Promotion Match, Class One narrowly defeated class two, and Luo Yanglu decided it was time to speak with Wu Zhangkong about establishing Class Zero.

• Tang Wulin reassured Tang Ziran that he had enough money, then bought spirit items and dragon blood at the Spirit Pagoda and entered a Meditation Room to call for Old Tang.
• Tang San awakened, realized Tang Wulin planned to break through the seal inside the Spirit Pagoda, and decided he needed to begin educating him soon.
• Before the Promotion Match, Gu Yuena recognized the weak Golden Dragon King aura in Tang Wulin, and Huo Yuhao explained he planned to draw its bloodline power from Tang Wulin's soul spirit.
• Gu Yuena moved behind Huo Yuhao for protection, while Huo Yuhao wondered why their roles had reversed.
• Class One defeated class two in a friendly three-on-three match, though Tang Wulin's bloodline suppressed Wang Jinxi and the victory was close.
• Luo Yanglu considered Tang Wulin's dragon bloodline and decided to talk with Wu Zhangkong about establishing Class Zero.

Eastsea Academy established Class Zero for seven talented students, with Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena exempt from signing the academy agreement. After the students moved into the single dormitories, Luo Yanglu and Wu Zhangkong introduced themselves as their cultural and combat teachers.

• Long Hengxu announced the creation of Class Zero and named its initial candidates.
• Yu Zhen offered the five students besides Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena places in Class Zero, and all five agreed.
• The seven students moved into the single dormitories, where Xu Xiaoyan chose a room beside Gu Yuena.
• Luo Yanglu and Wu Zhangkong introduced themselves as Class Zero's teachers, and Wu Zhangkong said he still needed to assess four students' strength.

Wu Zhangkong arranged a night battle in which Tang Wulin, Wang Jinxi, Zhang Yangzi, Xu Xiaoyan, and Xie Xie faced Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena. As the fight began, Huo Yuhao revealed a powerful spiritual domain, astonishing Wu Zhangkong.

• Wu Zhangkong assigned the five students to fight Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena so he could assess their abilities.
• Xie Xie asked Huo Yuhao to go easy on them, while Xu Xiaoyan learned that Gu Yuena was a rank twenty-eight Soul Grandmaster and Huo Yuhao was around rank thirty-five.
• The students discussed their abilities and formed their teams at the training ground under the moonlight.
• Tang Wulin, Wang Jinxi, and Zhang Yangzi charged at Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena as both sides released their martial souls and soul rings.
• Zhang Yangzi spread darkness across the training ground, but Gu Yuena illuminated it with the Light Element.
• Huo Yuhao unleashed an expansive spiritual domain, leaving Wu Zhangkong stunned by his talent.

Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena defeated their opponents in a team battle by using spiritual interference and their formidable abilities. Wu Zhangkong recognized their exceptional talent and decided to test them himself and improve their combat skills.

• Gu Yuena teleported behind Xu Xiaoyan, but Xie Xie intercepted her while Xu Xiaoyan used Star Wheel Chains on an illusion created by Huo Yuhao's spiritual domain.
• Gu Yuena overwhelmed Xie Xie with elemental attacks and sent Xu Xiaoyan out of the arena.
• Huo Yuhao manipulated Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi into attacking each other, then defeated them and redirected Tang Wulin's attacks before knocking him out of the arena.
• Wu Zhangkong resolved to test Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena himself and guide their practical combat training, while Luo Yanglu warned that Huo Yuhao did not need his guidance.

Tang San’s Divine Sense tried to teach Tang Wulin that strength and troublemaking ruled the world, but Wulin defended kindness and refused to accept that lesson. The next morning, Huo Yuhao’s cooking drew Gu Yuena and the others to the kitchen, leaving Xu Xiaoyan wondering about their relationship.

• Tang Wulin argued that strength did not give anyone the right to bully others, and Tang San’s Divine Sense could not refute him.
• Tang San’s Divine Sense reviewed the God Realm’s calamity, the Golden Dragon King’s escape, and the flaws in Wulin’s seal before deciding he could not yet trust Wulin with that power.
• Gu Yuena woke to the smell of breakfast and eagerly ate Huo Yuhao’s soup dumplings.
• Huo Yuhao served Gu Yuena another plate, and Xu Xiaoyan asked Xie Xie whether the two were usually like that.

Luo Yanglu taught the students about mecha and Battle Armor, and Wu Zhangkong urged them to pursue Battle Armor mastery. The class learned that Tang Wulin, Gu Yuena, and Huo Yuhao already had strong Side Profession credentials before Wu Zhangkong led them to combat training.

• Luo Yanglu served the students a breakfast enriched with Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, which Tang Wulin eagerly ate.
• Luo Yanglu explained mecha and Battle Armor, including their history and the advantages and tradeoffs of each path.
• Tang Wulin told Xie Xie he wanted to become a mecha master, but Wu Zhangkong insisted the students should aim to become Battle Armor Masters.
• Tang Wulin revealed he was a Level Three Blacksmith, Gu Yuena said she was a Level Three Designer, and Huo Yuhao disclosed he was a Level-four Manufacturer.
• Wu Zhangkong praised their potential and led the students to the training field for combat training.

Wu Zhangkong tested Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena’s combat abilities, but the two overwhelmed him despite his suppressed cultivation. He then raised his strength and challenged all seven students, while Luo Yanglu watched the lesson end with Wu Zhangkong admitting he could not teach Huo Yuhao.

• Wu Zhangkong brought the students to the training field to assess their unarmed combat skills and challenged Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena.
• Luo Yanglu warned Wu Zhangkong to keep his cultivation higher and told Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena to go easy on their teacher.
• Huo Yuhao disrupted Wu Zhangkong with Spiritual Shock while Gu Yuena attacked with elemental powers, and the pair defeated him with a coordinated strike.
• Wu Zhangkong raised his strength and challenged all seven students, while Huo Yuhao used Spiritual Detection Sharing to coordinate their fight.
• After the battle, Wu Zhangkong told Luo Yanglu that Huo Yuhao was perfect and that he could not teach him.

After seeing Huo Yuhao coordinate his team’s victory, Wu Zhangkong learned more about the students’ powerful mentors and their prospects in the Spirit Pagoda. Luo Yanglu brought the students to the Spirit Pagoda, where they viewed murals of its origins before heading underground for tests prior to training on the Spirit Ascension Platform.

• Wu Zhangkong recognized that Huo Yuhao had directed the students’ attacks through Spiritual Detection Sharing and learned that Gu Yuena was Heavenly Phoenix’s disciple while Huo Yuhao was being sent to headquarters.
• Luo Yanglu told the students they could enter the Spirit Ascension Platform every day for training, exciting Xu Xiaoyan.
• The students entered the Spirit Pagoda and studied a mural depicting the First Generation Tower Master contracting with the Snow Empress and Di Tian.
• Tang Wulin explained the mural’s significance, and Huo Yuhao looked at the Snow Empress before turning away.
• Luo Yanglu led the group underground to a testing room, where he and Wu Zhangkong planned to assess their physical fitness and Spiritual Power.

The students tested their Spiritual Power and physical constitutions, revealing Tang Wulin’s and Xu Xiaoyan’s unusual potential and Huo Yuhao’s Spirit Sea Realm. After the others left for the Spirit Ascension Platform, Xu Xiaoyan joined the Spirit Pagoda and confirmed her plan to bond with the Starry Sky Beast Ancestor.

• Wang Jinxi, Zhang Yangzi, and Xie Xie scored 38, 83, and 62 in Spiritual Power, while Xu Xiaoyan scored 106 and Tang Wulin scored 135.
• Gu Yuena scored 400, and Luo Yanglu said Huo Yuhao was already in the Spirit Sea Realm without testing him.
• Luo Yanglu asked Huo Yuhao about his Soul Spirit plans, and Huo Yuhao said he would fuse with the Evil Eye Tyrant Soul Spirit first.
• Luo Yanglu advised Tang Wulin to wait before raising his first Soul Spirit to a thousand-year level, and Tang Wulin agreed.
• Luo Yanglu sent the other students with Wu Zhangkong to the Spirit Ascension Platform and asked Xu Xiaoyan to stay, then told her that the rest of Class Zero had joined the Spirit Pagoda.
• Xu Xiaoyan joined the Spirit Pagoda and affirmed her plan to fuse with the Starry Sky Beast Ancestor, which would let her use the Star Wheel Ice Staff’s Astrological and Ice Attribute soul skills.

Huo Yuhao reunited with Xie Xie in the Spirit Ascension Platform and revealed that its spiritual energy came from a fragment of the Divine Realm. Outside, Wu Zhangkong and Luo Yanglu noticed Gu Yuena meeting them and grew wary of what might follow.

• Luo Yanglu put Xu Xiaoyan into the Spirit Ascension Platform while Wu Zhangkong watched Xie Xie flee from Huo Yuhao’s Evil Eye Tyrant.
• Huo Yuhao stopped the Evil Eye Tyrant from chasing Xie Xie and learned that Xie Xie had approached the Isolation Zone out of curiosity.
• Huo Yuhao told the Evil Eye Tyrant to return to guarding the Isolation Zone, while Wu Zhangkong and Luo Yanglu noticed Gu Yuena approaching Huo Yuhao and Xie Xie.
• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena fought simulated Soul Beasts and discussed the Spirit Ascension Platform’s spiritual energy and the Divine Realm.
• Huo Yuhao revealed to Sky Dream Ice Silkworm that the Spirit Ascension Platform was a fragment of the Divine Realm.

Huo Yuhao, Gu Yuena, and the others left the elementary Spirit Ascension Platform and learned about the Spirit Pagoda’s rewarding Virtual Battlefield. After hearing Gu Yuena mention Huo Yuhao repeatedly, Leng Yaozhu wondered whether to visit Eastsea and meet him herself.

• Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena absorbed spiritual power in the elementary Spirit Ascension Platform, then left safely with the others.
• Luo Yanglu explained the Virtual Battlefield and gave the students Soul Guidance Screens displaying its difficult challenges and valuable rewards.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yuena he had tried the Virtual Battlefield before and hinted that its simulated opponents were unusual.
• Luo Yanglu told Hua Yichen about Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena, but they decided not to interfere in the juniors’ relationship.
• Gu Yuena called Leng Yaozhu and spoke about Huo Yuhao, prompting Leng Yaozhu to consider visiting Eastsea to meet him.

Luo Yanglu introduced the group to the Spirit Pagoda’s Virtual Battlefield, where assessments could earn them resources and the attention of powerful mentors. Gu Yuena and Huo Yuhao entered purple-level trials and found they would face simulated historical figures, including versions of themselves.

• Luo Yanglu led the group through the Gate of Space and explained the Virtual Battlefield’s difficulty levels, rewards, and Black Level requirement for greater resources and mentorship.
• Huo Yuhao told the group that clearing the third Black Level round could attract a Super Douluo Branch Pagoda Master, while completing Red Level could draw the attention of a Limit Douluo or Deputy Pagoda Master.
• Gu Yuena chose the purple-level assessment and found herself facing a simulated Frost Douluo Su Tong, the Spirit Pagoda’s Second Generation Pagoda Master.
• Huo Yuhao entered his trial and found himself facing a simulated version of himself, whose battle experience seemed implausibly enhanced.

Huo Yuhao passed the Spirit Pagoda’s Virtual Battlefield assessment by defeating a simulated version of himself and revealed that his Spiritual Power had reached the Spirit Abyss Realm. After his classmates struggled against their opponents, Luo Yanglu explained that Ji Juechen had risen from rank-three Innate Soul Power to become a rank 97 Super Douluo, inspiring Tang Wulin and the others.

• Huo Yuhao defeated the simulated First Generation Tower Master with his Spirit Abyss Realm spiritual attack and passed the assessment.
• Luo Yanglu and Wu Zhangkong realized Huo Yuhao’s Spiritual Power had reached the Spirit Abyss Realm, and Wu Zhangkong reconsidered his earlier defeat.
• Tang Wulin and Xie Xie emerged from the Virtual Battlefield after losing to powerful opponents, while Gu Yuena remained inside.
• Luo Yanglu told the students that Ji Juechen had rank-three Innate Soul Power but had become a rank 97 Super Douluo.
• Tang Wulin resolved to make Ji Juechen his goal, and the other students recovered their fighting spirit.

Leng Yulai learned that someone had passed the Extreme North Branch’s red-level assessment, while Class Zero’s semester drew to a close and Tang Wulin was summoned to the Spirit Pagoda over an incident involving Wang Jinxi. The chapter left Tang Wulin heading to find out what had happened to his companion.

• Huo Yuhao asked Gu Yuena about her assessment, and she revealed that a Soul Tool using Elemental Stripping had defeated her.
• Leng Yulai saw that someone had passed the red-level assessment at the Extreme North Branch and wondered who could overcome its formidable difficulty.
• The Snow Empress told Leng Yulai to accompany her to Heaven Dou City after she arranged matters in the Extreme North.
• Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi entered a cooperative Virtual Battlefield match and attempted their Dark Eagle Dragon Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Xie Xie found Tang Wulin and told him Teacher Luo had sent for him because something had happened to Wang Jinxi, then led him toward the Spirit Pagoda.

Tang Wulin brought Jinyu to the Spirit Pagoda for research into his Golden Dragon bloodline, while the Spirit Pagoda arranged to stabilize Wang Jinxi's changing martial soul. Huo Yuhao took over the examination and secretly transferred Jinyu's contract to himself to extract its bloodline, awakening Tang San's divine sense.

• Luo Yanglu told Tang Wulin that his bloodline had caused Wang Jinxi's martial soul to begin mutating, which could end Wang Jinxi and Zhang Yangzi's Martial Soul Fusion Skill.
• Luo Yanglu revealed that his investigation linked Tang Wulin's bloodline to the Golden Dragon and brought him to the Soul Spirit Research Institute with Jinyu for testing.
• Huo Yuhao volunteered to examine Tang Wulin's dragon bloodline and led him and Jinyu into a laboratory.
• Huo Yuhao activated the Blood Source Core Crystal, used a hidden method to transfer Jinyu's contract to himself, and began extracting its bloodline.
• Tang San's divine sense sensed danger, recognized Huo Yuhao, and exclaimed in shock.

Huo Yuhao extracted some of the Golden Dragon King Bloodline from Jinyu while Tang San’s hidden divine sense weighed whether to attack him. Gu Yuena arrived, and Huo Yuhao tried to keep Tang San from reacting to her presence as they discussed the bloodline and the vanished God Realm.

• Luo Yanglu told Gu Yuena that Huo Yuhao and Tang Wulin were at the Soul Spirit Research Institute, so she went there to help guard Huo Yuhao.
• Sky Dream Ice Silkworm urged Electrolux to hide from Tang San’s divine sense while Electrolux prepared to fight through Huo Yuhao’s vision.
• Tang San’s divine sense recognized Huo Yuhao as someone who should have been dead, probed his fortune, and considered killing him as Huo Yuhao extracted Jinyu’s Golden Dragon King Bloodline.
• Gu Yuena entered the institute, and Tang San’s divine sense realized she was the Silver Dragon King.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yuena that they could extract little bloodline for now, and she agreed to let Tang Wulin grow stronger before fusing the bloodline with Dragon God Power.
• Gu Yuena revealed that a First Rank God had died in a battle with the Golden Dragon King and that the God Realm had disappeared; Huo Yuhao suspected the Golden Dragon King had caused the deaths and reflected on Tang San’s past fight.

Tang San discovered that Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena did not know about the Golden Dragon King Seal and planned to use Gu Yuena against the Abyss while conserving his divine sense. Later, Huo Yuhao traveled to the Undead Demigod Plane and began absorbing the extracted Golden Dragon King Bloodline into his Silver Dragon King Bloodline.

• Tang San overheard Huo Yuhao and Gu Yuena, realized Gu Yuena was the Silver Dragon King, and decided to maneuver her into fighting the Abyss.
• Tang San concluded that his father could keep Huo Yuhao from becoming a god, then returned to slumber to conserve his divine sense.
• Huo Yuhao told Gu Yuena that Tang Wulin carried divine sense left by the Sea God, and Gu Yuena explained she had joined him to make the extraction safer.
• Huo Yuhao traveled to the Undead Demigod Plane and used Heavenly Silkworm Transformation to draw the Silver Dragon King Bloodline together.
• Huo Yuhao combined the extracted Golden Dragon King Bloodline with the stronger Silver Dragon King Bloodline, then used his third soul ring to absorb the unstable result.

Huo Yuhao discovered that Gu Yuena’s Silver Dragon King bloodline and the Golden Dragon King bloodline had transformed his Ice Emperor Martial Soul, letting him wield elemental powers. He then used Simulation to create Dragon God Pressure, forcing the Soul Beasts in his Demiplane to kneel.

• Huo Yuhao examined the silver scales on his arms and found that the Dragon King bloodlines had merged into his Ice Emperor Martial Soul, with Gu Yuena’s bloodline dominating.
• Huo Yuhao demonstrated that his altered Martial Soul could summon fire and use the Space Element for basic teleportation, while the Golden Dragon King bloodline brought little additional benefit.
• Huo Yuhao reflected on Gu Yuena’s sacrifice to protect him and his uncertainty about whether he had truly kept Tang San from attacking her.
• At Tian Meng’s prompting, Huo Yuhao used Simulation to project a Seven Colors dragon and unleash Dragon God Pressure.
• The Soul Beasts Huo Yuhao had transformed into Undead Creatures knelt before the overwhelming pressure.

Huo Yuhao cultivated the Ice Emperor Martial Soul’s Dragon King bloodline with life energy and gave Gu Yuena Star’s Favor for protection. Gu Yuena returned his gesture with the Silver Dragon King’s Reverse Scale.

• Huo Yuhao used his simulated Dragon God aura to suppress the dragon Undead Creatures and considered visiting Dragon Valley and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Huo Yuhao drew out the Ice Emperor Martial Soul’s bloodline power and nurtured it with life energy, while Electrolux advised him to seek powerful dragon soul spirits and Soul Rings.
• Huo Yuhao received the Lord of Eternity’s permission to give Gu Yuena Star’s Favor, which could let her enter the safe interior of the Super Divine Tool.
• Huo Yuhao gave Star’s Favor to Gu Yuena at the training field so she could escape danger, and she accepted it as a gift between friends.
• Gu Yuena returned the gesture by giving Huo Yuhao a small scale: the Silver Dragon King’s Reverse Scale.