Chapter Summaries

Xia Tianling brought Tang Hao and Tang San to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye to help revive Ah Yin, first rescuing her from the neglected cave where she had been kept. After planting her at the springs, he refused Tang Hao’s request to stay with her and ordered him to help Spirit Hall recruit the Single Attribute Four Sects.

• Xia Tianling remembered his promise to Tang San, and Tang Hao agreed to obey him after learning that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye could help Ah Yin recover.
• Xia Tianling led Tang Hao and Tang San to Ah Yin’s hidden cave, opened it to sunlight, gave her water, and scolded Tang Hao for neglecting her needs.
• Tang San and Xia Tianling brought Ah Yin to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye, where Xia Tianling planted her between the two springs.
• Dugu Bo mistook Tang Hao and Tang San’s devotion to the Blue Silver Emperor for madness until Xia Tianling explained Ah Yin’s story.
• Tang Hao asked to remain beside Ah Yin, but Xia Tianling refused and told him to work for Spirit Hall and retrieve the Single Attribute Four Sects after a three-day visit.

Xia Tianling planned to recruit the Four Attribute Clans and build Spirit Hall’s Spirit Research Institute into a major center for research. He persuaded Tang San to join the institute and abandon his plan to rebuild the Tang Sect.

• Xia Tianling assessed the Four Attribute Clans’ skills and considered recruiting the Strength, Defense, and Breaking Clans for blacksmithing, construction, and medical research.
• Xia Tianling summoned Tang San and asked what he wanted to do after the academy tournament, then suggested he rebuild the Douluo Tang Sect.
• Tang San claimed he had no right to pursue the Tang Sect Secret Arts, but Xia Tianling told him the Mysterious Heaven Treasure Record had become freely available in a later era.
• Xia Tianling used Mind Interference and persuasive arguments to get Tang San to join Spirit Hall’s Spirit Research Institute and give up rebuilding the Tang Sect.
• Xia Tianling planned to organize the institute into Spirit and Technology departments, drawing on craftsmen, researchers, and members of the Four Attribute Clans.

Xia Tianling brought Tang Hao and Tang San to the Strength Clan residence, where Titan joyfully reunited with Tang Hao. Titan offered the clan’s loyalty and asked whether Tang Hao had returned to wage war, but Tang Hao said they were not going to war with anyone.

• Xia Tianling left Dugu Bo at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eye with chemistry and medical books to study, a jade communication token, and instructions to bring Dugu Yan to Spirit City later.
• Xia Tianling, Tang Hao, and Tang San arrived at the Strength Clan residence, where Tang San revealed his Clear Sky Hammer to gain them entry.
• Xia Tianling told the Strength Clan’s receptionist that Tang Hao was the Clear Sky Douluo and that Tang Hao and Tang San were working with him.
• Titan rushed to the Assembly Hall, recognized Tang Hao, and fell to his knees in tears before Tang Hao helped him up.
• Titan offered the Strength Clan’s loyalty and asked whether Tang Hao had returned to fight Spirit Hall or the Clear Sky Sect, but Tang Hao said they were going to war with no one.

Xia Tianling revealed his plans to bring the Strength Clan into Spirit Hall, while Tang San recounted Tang Hao’s neglectful past and shattered Titan’s admiration for him. Titan accepted Tang San as the clan’s new master and considered joining Spirit Hall, then asked Xia Tianling how forging could raise blacksmithing’s status.

• Xia Tianling introduced himself to Titan as Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and Tang Hao’s boss, then asked Tang San to explain their history.
• Under Xia Tianling’s Mind Interference, Tang San recounted his hardships and Tang Hao’s neglect, prompting Tang Hao to slip away and Titan to lose faith in his former master.
• Taino thanked Xia Tianling and the current Pope for avenging the Strength Clan, and Titan knelt before Tang San and declared him the clan’s new master.
• Tang San rejected the idea of masters and servants and invited Titan to join Spirit Hall; Xia Tianling explained that Tang Hao worked as his personal bodyguard and that he wanted to hire the Strength Clan.
• Xia Tianling promised to teach the clan forging and elevate blacksmithing’s standing, prompting Titan, Taino, and Tailong to ask how forging differed from casting.

Xia Tianling challenged Titan to a contest in metal purification to prove that forging surpassed casting, wagering Deep Sea Deep Silver against the Strength Clan’s service and training. After Titan refined Pig Iron into Iron Mother with masterful casting, Xia Tianling used two Soul-Forged Deep Silver Hammers to achieve Thousand Forgings Saint Grade in just two strikes.

• Xia Tianling bet Titan a massive chunk of Deep Sea Deep Silver against the Strength Clan working for him and learning forging if Titan lost.
• Titan led Xia Tianling, Tang San, Tang Hao, and the Tai father and son to the clan’s casting room for their contest.
• Titan used his casting hammer to refine a block of Pig Iron into Iron Mother, earning Xia Tianling’s praise.
• Xia Tianling heated another block of Pig Iron with summoned flames and struck it with two Soul-Forged Deep Silver Hammers.
• Xia Tianling’s two strikes made the Pig Iron reach Thousand Forgings Saint Grade, sending silver light more than twelve feet into the air.

Xia Tianling demonstrated Spirit Forging Creation to Titan, impressing the Strength Clan chief enough that Titan begged to become his disciple and pledged the clan’s loyalty. Xia Tianling agreed and set plans to relocate the clan, recruit the Defense Clan, and bring Lou Gao’s group to the new research base.

• Xia Tianling used his Deep Silver Hammers and True Dragon Aura to Spirit Forge Pig Iron into a metal with a vivid Dragon Mark, astonishing Tang Hao and the Strength Clan.
• Titan accepted the Spirit Forged Iron Mother in awe, then knelt and begged Xia Tianling to take him as a disciple, offering the Strength Clan’s loyalty.
• Xia Tianling agreed to teach Titan, and Titan’s son and grandson eagerly asked when the lessons would begin.
• Xia Tianling told Titan to prepare for the clan’s eventual move to Spirit City and explained that they would first visit the Defense Clan and recruit Lou Gao and his disciples from Gengxin City.
• Titan promised to bring Lou Gao and the Defense Clan chief to Xia Tianling, while Xia Tianling offered to forge Titan a pair of hammers and called for a meeting about relocating more than six hundred people.

Xia Tianling and Titan returned to Spirit City while discussing whether the Defense Clan and Breaking Clan would join them, and Xia Tianling demonstrated a Communication Token to explain why he saw little use for the Speed Clan. The Strength Clan remained behind with Tang San to prepare for its relocation, while Titan worried about finding a place for his old allies.

• Titan persuaded Xia Tianling to teach him forging, and Xia Tianling gave him a pair of Spirit Forged Heavy Silver hammers before returning to Spirit City with him.
• Xia Tianling left Tang San to lead the Strength Clan to Spirit City and teach them forging basics, with Tang Hao acting as their bodyguard.
• During their flight, Titan said the Defense Clan might be persuaded to join them but that Yang Wudi and the Breaking Clan still hated Spirit Hall and the Clear Sky Sect.
• Xia Tianling suggested promising Yang Wudi Tang Hao's apology and the destruction of the Clear Sky Sect, then reassured Titan that he had only been speaking hypothetically.
• Titan asked why Xia Tianling had not approached the Speed Clan, and Xia Tianling demonstrated a Communication Token by contacting Zhu Zhuqing in Spirit City.
• Xia Tianling dismissed the Speed Clan's speed as unnecessary beside Spirit Hall's scouts and communication tools, leaving Titan to silently search for a useful role for them.

Xia Tianling brought Titan to Spirit Hall’s newly completed Spirit Research Institute and showed him its defenses, facilities, and thriving forging workshop. Titan was impressed by the advanced equipment and skilled blacksmiths, while Xia Tianling led him toward the institute’s core research area.

• Xia Tianling took Titan to a hidden entrance in the mountains and opened Gate Number One with his Communication Token.
• Titan entered the institute and was astonished by its powerful guards and cement-built corridors; Xia Tianling explained the construction and security systems.
• Xia Tianling showed Titan the forging area, where hundreds of blacksmiths practiced Hundred Refinement and Thousand Refinement.
• Xia Tianling explained that the institute’s research focused on Soul Tools and forging, then led Titan down to its central research area.

Xia Tianling showed Titan the Spirit Research Institute’s advances in mass-produced Spirit Guiding Lamps, forging equipment, and inexpensive paper, along with plans for a Soul Power-powered steam engine. After the tour, Titan eagerly agreed to recruit Lou Gao and Old Rhinoceros and bring them to Spirit City.

• Xia Tianling explained that the Spirit Research Institute had begun mass-producing Communication Tokens and Spirit Guiding Lamps, while its integrated forging platforms improved metalworking and refining.
• Titan examined the Technology Department’s cheap paper and learned that ordinary researchers had developed papermaking techniques that made compulsory education practical.
• Xia Tianling described plans for a steam engine powered by Soul Power and hoped industrialization would let Spirit Hall surpass the Two Great Empires through technology and productivity.
• After the tour, Xia Tianling offered Titan and Lou Gao leadership of the Forging Department and made positions available to members of the Strength Clan.
• Titan called the institute practically heaven and said they would leave the next morning to bring Old Rhinoceros and Lou Gao from Longxing City and Gengxin City.

Xia Tianling and Titan visited the Defense Clan to persuade Niu Gao to join Spirit Hall and support Xia Tianling’s plans. After Xia Tianling revealed he was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son and subdued Niu Gao, Titan explained the situation, leaving Niu Gao to consider his choice.

• Xia Tianling and Titan arrived at the Defense Clan residence in Longxing City, where Niu Gao welcomed them.
• Titan introduced Xia Tianling as his forging teacher, and Xia Tianling demonstrated his spirit-forged Deep Silver Hammers.
• Xia Tianling revealed that he was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son, prompting Niu Gao to attack him with his Spirit Douluo pressure.
• Xia Tianling used the Tai Chi Domain and his strength to restrain Niu Gao until he agreed to listen.
• Titan explained that he, Tang Hao, and Tang San had joined Spirit Hall and described its plans.
• Niu Gao asked whether Titan had come to force him to choose a side, and Titan said the decision was his to make.

Xia Tianling persuaded Niu Gao to bring the Defense Clan into Spirit Hall by demonstrating new construction technology and promising generous work. Niu Gao agreed to join Spirit Hall and the Spirit Research Institute, and Titan began explaining that his teacher’s talent was another reason for his own loyalty.

• Niu Gao weighed the Defense Clan’s options as Xia Tianling explained Spirit Hall’s conflict with the Two Great Empires and offered the clan a place in its Logistics Department and Spirit Research Institute.
• Xia Tianling demonstrated Spirit Guiding Lamps, cement, reinforced concrete, and red bricks, impressing Niu Gao with the Spirit Research Institute’s construction technology.
• Xia Tianling offered the Defense Clan construction work, high wages, and the option to remain outside the Spirit Research Institute, while explaining the conditions for fully joining Spirit Hall.
• Niu Gao declared that he would lead the Defense Clan into Spirit Hall and join the Spirit Research Institute, and Xia Tianling welcomed him.
• Titan told Niu Gao that Xia Tianling’s talent was a major reason he had joined Spirit Hall and asked whether Niu Gao knew about the recently concluded Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Elite Tournament.

Xia Tianling finalized plans to relocate the Defense Clan to Spirit City and begin training its members in modern construction, while Titan and Niu Gao considered how to bring the Breaking and Speed Clans into Spirit Hall. After the Defense Clan settled in, Xia Tianling prepared to take Titan to Gengxin City to recruit Lou Gao, and brought Zhu Zhuqing along.

• Titan told Niu Gao that Xia Tianling had won the tournament alone and possessed Twin Martial Souls and a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Ring, while Niu Gao learned that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect had allied with Spirit Hall.
• Titan explained that Xia Tianling would accept the Speed Clan only if the Breaking Clan joined first, and described his offers of precious herbs, Spear Technique, and two hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins for Bai He's Eighth-Grade Crystal Blood Dragon Ginseng.
• The Defense Clan moved to Spirit City, where Xia Tianling introduced Niu Gao and Titan to Wang Jianshe and other Spirit Research Institute researchers, then ordered the Defense Clan to study architecture and basic physics.
• Xia Tianling told Titan that the Strength Clan could learn forging at the institute and planned to leave for Gengxin City the next day to find Lou Gao; he also invited Zhu Zhuqing to come along.
• When Zhu Zhuqing tried to escape into the void, Xia Tianling briefly restrained the space around her and pulled her back.

Xia Tianling visited the Spirit Research Institute and discovered that the researchers had developed a Spirit Guide Engine as an alternative to steam and internal combustion engines. After seeing it run and learning about its Spirit Guide Generator derivative, he recognized that the invention could advance Douluo Continent’s industrialization.

• Xia Tianling went to the Spirit Research Institute to see the new developments from its departments.
• Wang Jianshe's deputy explained that poor manufacturing standards had made steam engines impractical and led the researchers to seek another solution.
• The deputy unveiled the Spirit Guide Engine, jointly developed by the Research Department, the Spirit Guide Department, and the Engineering Department.
• Xia Tianling supplied Soul Power to the engine, and its Spirit Guiding Arrays converted the energy into mechanical motion.
• The deputy told Xia Tianling that the team had also built a Spirit Guide Generator and was working to miniaturize and improve it.
• Xia Tianling praised the inventions and recognized their significance for industrialization on Douluo Continent.

Xia Tianling pushed Spirit Hall’s industrial and military modernization forward after researchers developed a Spirit Guide Engine and generator, while he planned trains, factories, education reform, and mass production. He then set out with Zhu Zhuqing and others for Gengxin City and the Star Luo capital to meet Lou Gao and resolve Zhu Zhuqing’s marriage contract.

• Xia Tianling rewarded the Spirit Research Institute’s researchers, doubled their funding, and ordered them to develop industrial machines and prioritize train design.
• The deputy reported that large engines still required hand-forged parts, while cast components made small machines much faster to manufacture.
• Xia Tianling planned railways, roads, factory upgrades, education reform, and expanded production of Spirit Hall’s weapons and armor.
• Titan forged his first piece of Thousand Refined Tungsten Steel and made a pair of hammers with a Shock Hammer effect.
• Old Jack reminded Xia Tianling and Zhu Zhuqing to settle her marriage contract, while Chrysanthemum Douluo and Ghost Douluo offered to confront the Nether Duke.
• Xia Tianling, Zhu Zhuqing, Chrysanthemum Douluo, Ghost Douluo, and Titan departed for Gengxin City, where the Continental Blacksmith Association was headquartered.

Xia Tianling and Titan arrived in Gengxin City and visited the Blacksmith Association, where a mysterious, powerful Black Robed Man challenged Xia Tianling about Spirit Hall's power and his plans for social change. The stranger vanished after hearing Xia Tianling's resolve, and Titan introduced him to the association's guards, Si Long and Si Yu.

• Xia Tianling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Titan traveled to Gengxin City, where Titan noticed that many blacksmith shops had moved to Spirit City to work for Spirit Hall.
• Titan led the group to the Blacksmith Association headquarters and explained its floors and functions.
• A Black Robed Man secretly contacted Xia Tianling and questioned his proposed symbols, Spirit Hall's authority, and his willingness to risk death for change.
• Xia Tianling defended Spirit Hall's aims and declared that he would risk his life to remake the world, after which the Black Robed Man said he looked forward to seeing that day and disappeared.
• Xia Tianling asked the system whether the stranger had left, then concealed his fear from Zhu Zhuqing.
• Titan introduced the guards Si Long and Si Yu as Lou Gao's personal disciples.

Xia Tianling visited Blacksmith Association president Lou Gao, revealed that the Thousand-Forged metal Lou Gao admired came from his own work, and accepted Lou Gao as a disciple. Lou Gao agreed to leave for Spirit City with Xia Tianling, then called Si Long over to address the Blacksmith Association.

• Si Long led Xia Tianling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Titan through the association’s locked upper floors to Lou Gao’s forging room.
• Lou Gao showed Titan a flawed piece of Thousand-Forged Blue Pregnant Copper, and Xia Tianling recognized it as a confidential scrap metal from Spirit Hall.
• Xia Tianling asked who had sold the metal, and Lou Gao identified Spirit Hall bishop Miles; Xia Tianling secretly alerted Ghost Douluo.
• Titan told Lou Gao that Xia Tianling was his forging teacher, prompting Lou Gao to beg Xia Tianling to accept him as a disciple.
• Xia Tianling revealed that he was Spirit Hall’s Holy Son, and Lou Gao knelt to become his disciple before Xia Tianling lifted him back up.
• Lou Gao agreed to follow Xia Tianling to Spirit City, then opened the door and summoned Si Long.

Xia Tianling demonstrated advanced forging to Lou Gao, who appointed Si Long as the new president of the Blacksmith Association and agreed to follow his teacher. Xia Tianling then completed his first Heavenly Forging, creating God-tier metal and refining his forging hammers as the witnesses watched.

• Lou Gao made Si Long the new president of the Blacksmith Association and told him that Xia Tianling was their Ancestor Master.
• Xia Tianling forged Deep Silver and Heavenly Star Iron into Star Silver, displaying Thousand Forging, Spirit Forging, and Soul Forging.
• Chrysanthemum Douluo protected the people in the forging room as Xia Tianling’s forging unleashed powerful energy.
• Xia Tianling used his Tai Chi Yin-Yang Domain and elemental tribulation lightning to advance the Star Silver through Heavenly Forging.
• Xia Tianling summoned eighteen additional tribulation bolts, completed the God-tier metal, and refined his forging hammers with it.

After forging god-tier hammers and reaching the pinnacle of mortal forging, Xia Tianling attracted Lou Gao, Si Long, and the Blacksmith Association’s other master smiths as eager students. The Association’s leadership was thrown into turmoil as its members rushed to join Xia Tianling, who planned to take everyone willing to leave after a week.

• Xia Tianling reached Transcendent Saint in forging and created the Heavenly Forging method, producing god-tier hammers capable of threatening gods.
• Lou Gao knelt and asked to study under Xia Tianling, and Xia Tianling promised to teach him.
• Si Long woke, saw the hammers, and asked to leave the Blacksmith Association to study with Xia Tianling.
• Si Long returned with Lou Gao’s three other disciples, and Xia Tianling gave them a week to settle the Association’s affairs before deciding who would go with him.
• The four disciples gathered the Association’s leaders, and Chrysanthemum Douluo announced that Xia Tianling would teach anyone who signed up, prompting blacksmiths to compete to leave.

Ghost Douluo exposed and executed corrupt Gengxin City officials, while Xia Tianling recruited the Blacksmith Association’s top smiths for Spirit Hall. As the blacksmiths departed for Spirit City, Xia Tianling and his companions continued toward the Star Luo Empire, and he warned Tang San about safely forging Pear Blossom Rain Needles.

• Ghost Douluo seized Miles’s soul and read his memories, confirming that Miles had embezzled rare metal and corrupted Spirit Hall.
• Ghost Douluo executed Miles and a vice hall master, and Spirit Hall publicly displayed evidence of their crimes.
• Lou Gao and seventy-eight other Blacksmith Association members joined Spirit Hall to learn its advanced forging techniques, while an absent master blacksmith was named the association’s new president.
• Xia Tianling sent Titan, Lou Gao, and the recruited blacksmiths to Spirit City, where they would undergo training, examinations, and background checks before joining the Spirit Research Institute.
• Xia Tianling warned Tang San to forge Pear Blossom Rain Needles with a Soul Power furnace, then traveled toward the Star Luo Empire with Zhu Zhuqing, Chrysanthemum Douluo, and Ghost Douluo.

After Sword Douluo reached Level 97, Ning Fengzhi sent him to Star Luo City to support Zhu Zhuqing. Dai Mubai returned to the palace, secured the emperor’s promise to name him Crown Prince if he reached Spirit Emperor within two years, and planned to kill Dai Weisi, who was plotting against him as well.

• Sword Douluo broke through to Level 97, then left for Star Luo City after Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong reassured him about the sect’s safety.
• Zhu Zhuyun secretly brought Dai Mubai and Yu Xiaogang back to Star Luo City, where the White Tiger Great Emperor summoned Dai Mubai.
• Dai Mubai demanded the Crown Prince position and revealed his divine inheritance; the emperor promised him the position if he reached Spirit Emperor within two years and arranged protection and treatment.
• Dai Mubai told Yu Xiaogang that his Rakshasa Gauntlets could absorb life force and cultivation, and said he intended to kill Dai Weisi.
• Dai Weisi plotted to kill Dai Mubai, unaware that Zhu Zhuyun had secretly switched her support to Dai Mubai.