Chapter Summaries

Hu Fangyuan refined the Marrow-Warming Gu to fulfill Gu Yue’s commission while keeping his inheritance and Gu-refining abilities secret. He completed the Gu and stored it safely, ready to use its powder as a mild body-strengthening medicine.

• Hu Fangyuan decided to refine a Gu that could strengthen the body without revealing that he could refine Gu worms.
• Hu Fangyuan used Scarlet Sun True Fire to extract resin from pine heartwood and prepare the Marrow-Warming Gu’s base.
• Hu Fangyuan mixed the Gu’s ingredients into a paste, packed it into the hollow sac, and carefully nurtured it in the Heaven Refining Furnace.
• The Heaven Refining Furnace produced the completed Marrow-Warming Gu, which Hu Fangyuan tested and found released Marrow-Warming Powder.
• Hu Fangyuan placed the Gu in a jade box with its feed and looked out at the moon.

You Chao searched for a way to protect his tribe after beasts and cold kept them from sleeping safely. After learning to climb into the trees, he watched birds build nests and began trying to copy them.

• You Chao heard the Wandering Gu say that humans were born to keep moving and had no place to sleep in peace.
• You Chao met the Reliance Gu, which told him that humans had to admit they had nothing to rely on before they could find something.
• You Chao's attempts to dig burrows, claim caves, and build a stone wall failed, and wolves drove him up a tree for the night.
• You Chao met the Climbing Gu, which showed him that the heights could offer humans a refuge from beasts on the ground.
• You Chao watched siskins weave a nest in the branches and repeatedly tried to copy them, cutting his fingers as the twigs and grass came apart.

You Chao learned to weave a shelter in the trees and taught his tribe to build nests, giving people a place to live safely and return to. The Wandering Gu named this place home before vanishing, and the people honored You Chao as their leader.

• You Chao watched yellow birds and, guided by the Master of Things Gu, wove a nest from branches and vines through repeated effort.
• The Timber Construction Gu awoke in You Chao’s nest and explained that shelter had to be built by human hands.
• You Chao wove nests in large trees for his people and carried children and elderly people up to safety when wolves returned.
• You Chao’s tribe spread the method of building timber nests, and other tribes came to meet him and offer gifts.
• The Wandering Gu told You Chao that people now had a home and vanished into a breeze.
• The people called him You Chao Shi, honored him as their tribal leader, and recorded his method in The True Man’s Biography.

Hu Fangyuan prepared to combine two Moonlight Pearl Gu into the Rank Two Twin Toads Embracing the Moon Gu, which could produce a more potent form of dew. He began the refinement under the strongest moonlight and left the two Gu positioned inside the Heaven Refining Furnace.

• Hu Fangyuan waited for the moon to reach its peak before refining the moonlight-type Gu.
• Hu Fangyuan considered how Gu-refining resources could give him an advantage in the Douluo Plane and wondered why Gu Yue's powerful faction bought cultivation resources from him.
• Hu Fangyuan decided to keep some distance from Gu Yue after suspecting her middle-aged companion was a relative assessing her business partner.
• Hu Fangyuan used his Water Refining Azure Furnace Soul Skill to bring out two Moonlight Pearl Gu that he had exposed to moonlight for three days.
• Hu Fangyuan applied Moon Orchid juice to the Gu worms' star marks, arranged them mouth to mouth like twin toads embracing the moon, and placed them in the Heaven Refining Furnace.

Hu Fangyuan completed the Twin Toads Embracing the Moon Gu through an overnight combined refinement and prepared for the physical tests. At the test site, Wu Changkong began measuring Class Zero’s Spiritual Power, assessing several students.

• Hu Fangyuan carefully refined two Moonlight Pearl Gu with Wood Path catalysts and Fire-Refined Scarlet Force until they fused into the Twin Toads Embracing the Moon Gu.
• The new Gu worm produced a drop of Moon-Wood Dual Essence Dew, which Hu Fangyuan collected before storing the Gu and getting ready for the physical tests.
• Wu Changkong brought Class Zero to a high-tech testing room and began the Spiritual Power tests with Xie Xie.
• Wang Jinxi tested at eighteen Spiritual Power, and Wu Changkong urged him to improve so he could fuse with more Soul Spirits.
• Zhang Yangzi tested at forty-one Spiritual Power, and Wu Changkong encouraged him to reach the Spirit Origin Realm within a year.
• Su Xiao tested at thirty-six Spiritual Power, and Wu Changkong told her to keep improving her foundation.

Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, and Hu Fangyuan tested their Spiritual Power, revealing that all three had reached the Spirit Connection Realm. The results left the others stunned, and Gu Yue wondered how Hu Fangyuan had developed such powerful Spiritual Power.

• Tang Wulin's Spiritual Power climbed past fifty, entering the Spirit Connection Realm and surprising him and the others.
• Gu Yue's reading reached 220, astonishing everyone and showing how close she was to the Spirit Sea Realm.
• Wu Changkong asked Hu Fangyuan to take the test, and his Spiritual Power surged into the Spirit Connection Realm.
• Hu Fangyuan's reading stopped at 192, leaving the room speechless.
• Gu Yue compared Hu Fangyuan's result with her own and wondered what other secrets he was hiding.

Hu Fangyuan and the other Class Zero students completed spiritual power tests that revealed three had reached the Spirit Connection Realm, then began testing their physical strength. Tang Wulin’s strength stunned the class, and the chapter ended with his scaled right arm striking with 2,700 kilograms of force.

• Hu Fangyuan recorded 192 spiritual power, while Wu Changkong noted that he, Tang Wulin, and Gu Yue had reached the Spirit Connection Realm.
• Gu Yue opened the strength test with punches of 145 and 163 kilograms, shocking Zhang Yangzi and Xie Xie.
• Zhang Yangzi recorded 61 and 69 kilograms, while Xie Xie recorded 153 and 164 kilograms.
• Wang Jinxi recorded 423 and 468 kilograms, exceeding typical strength for a two-ring battle soul master.
• Tang Wulin struck with 1,156 kilograms in his left hand and 1,348 in his right, then used his Golden Dragon King scales to hit with 2,700 kilograms.

Tang Wulin tested his Golden Dragon Claw and shattered the Strength Test machine with a force of 3,998 kilograms. Hu Fangyuan noticed Gu Yue’s intense reaction and suspected she had enrolled at Eastsea Academy because of Tang Wulin’s supreme dragon bloodline.

• Wu Changkong asked Tang Wulin to test his Golden Dragon Claw, and Tang Wulin checked whether he would have to pay if he broke the machine.
• Tang Wulin struck the machine with his Golden Dragon Claw, destroying it; Wu Changkong recorded a reading of 3,998 kilograms.
• Zhang Yangzi, Xie Xie, and Wang Jinxi were stunned, while Wang Jinxi’s Bone Dragon King Martial Soul trembled before Tang Wulin’s power.
• Hu Fangyuan noticed Gu Yue staring intensely at Tang Wulin’s arm and wondered whether she had enrolled at the academy because of his bloodline.
• Hu Fangyuan concluded that Tang Wulin possessed a supreme dragon bloodline capable of suppressing even Wang Jinxi’s Bone Dragon King Martial Soul.

Hu Fangyuan recognized a resemblance between Tang Wulin’s draconic presence and the power behind Gu Yue, but chose to keep his suspicion secret. After Hu Fangyuan’s unenhanced punches revealed formidable strength, Wu Changkong ordered him to use his full power, and Hu activated the Four Symbols Iron Body Gu.

• Hu Fangyuan connected the dragon-like auras of Tang Wulin and the powerhouse behind Gu Yue, then decided not to reveal what he had inferred.
• Wu Changkong brought out a spare testing machine after Hu Fangyuan pointed out that Tang Wulin had broken the first one.
• Hu Fangyuan recorded punches of 1,870 kilograms with his left fist and 1,980 kilograms with his right, startling the students.
• Wu Changkong judged that Hu Fangyuan’s base strength might still fall short of a Martial Soul Fusion Skill and told him to use his full strength.
• Hu Fangyuan activated the Four Symbols Iron Body Gu, causing its four colors to spread across his body and his right hand to grow larger and more ironlike.