Chapter Summaries

Quan Yi used the Quan Family’s wealth to expand its shipbuilding, maritime operations, and secret weapons research while advancing steam technology. After returning to Saus City, he demonstrated his strength by compressing five thousand kilograms of iron into Iron Essence with a Fifty-Four Hit Combo.

• Quan Yi’s earnings enabled the Quan Family to build a shipyard, develop shallow-water resources, and fund research into firearms and ironware.
• Quan Yi developed Smokeless Gunpowder in secret and used petroleum distillation to produce fuel for steam engines and automated production lines.
• Quan Yi reserved the remaining funds for the future while bicycles spread throughout Saus City.
• After saying goodbye to Huo Wu and Huo Wuxie, Quan Yi went to the Yuan Family Blacksmith Shop to continue his Iron Forging cultivation.
• Quan Yi used his Fifty-Four Hit Combo to compress five thousand kilograms of ordinary iron into a block of Iron Essence.

Quan Yi forged a perfected batch of Blazing Heart Iron Essence, a material that strengthened ships and repelled Sea Soul Beasts, while learning that a rival shop was selling bicycles comparable to his. The chapter ended as the rival shop’s apprentice told its master that Quan Yi’s side had made a move.

• Quan Yi used his Fifty-Four Hit Combo to forge Blazing Heart Iron Essence, impressing Blacksmith Yuan with his skill.
• Blacksmith Yuan examined the iron essence and described its strength, heat and corrosion resistance, and suppressive effect on Sea Soul Beasts.
• Quan Yi learned that his family had tested the iron essence on sea vessels and Sea Soul Beasts, and that he had sent several hundred thousand kilograms to Vast Sea City over two years.
• Blacksmith Yuan reported that a new bicycle shop was hand-making bicycles as sturdy as Quan Yi’s and selling ten each day for ten thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Quan Yi decided to meet the rival shop’s challenge directly.
• The following day, a man told the fat old master of the rival bicycle shop that Quan Yi’s side had made a move.

Divine Blacksmith Lou Gao learned that Quan Yi’s shop had introduced a gear-shifting bicycle and decided to lower his own prices after realizing his team could not match its production. At the Yuan Family Blacksmith Shop, Quan Yi and Blacksmith Yuan remained confident in their production methods as Lou Gao considered his next move.

• Lou Gao oversaw more than fifty blacksmiths assembling bicycles and asked Si Long for news about Quan Yi’s shop.
• Si Long reported that the shop had released a gear-shifting bicycle and showed Lou Gao a blueprint of its mechanism.
• Lou Gao was shocked that the new bicycle still cost ten thousand Gold Soul Coins and replaced the original model, while sales remained limited to ten per day.
• Lou Gao ordered his team to lower its prices, admitting that they had temporarily lost to the shop across the street.
• Quan Yi read Quan Ying’s report as Blacksmith Yuan praised Lou Gao’s skill but expressed confidence in their production line and fuel power.

Quan Yi used the gear bicycle to pressure Lou Gao’s business and test his skill, then visited him to invite him into the Quan Family. Lou Gao’s response to the offer was left unknown.

• Quan Yi explained that the new gear bicycle had forced Lou Gao to slash prices and that he hoped to recruit Lou Gao and his blacksmiths.
• Lou Gao remained in Saus City as business shifted toward his cheaper bicycles, then spent a week forging a crude three-gear model that sold for six thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Lou Gao admitted the difficulty of copying Quan Yi’s bicycle, but said he was excited by the chance to advance blacksmithing.
• Quan Yi appeared in Lou Gao’s forging room, identified himself as a member of the Quan Family, and invited Lou Gao to join it.

Quan Yi visited Lou Gao on behalf of the Quan Family and offered him a place in the family. Lou Gao accepted, hoping to support the Blacksmith industry's growth and learn from the blacksmith behind the Bicycle.

• Si Long confronted Quan Yi, but Quan Yi's presence and killing intent left him unable to move until Lou Gao ordered him to stand down.
• Lou Gao brought Quan Yi to his office, where they discussed the Blacksmith Association's profits from copying the Quan Family's Bicycle.
• Quan Yi revealed his Blazing Sun Gauntlets, powerful soul rings, and identity as Quan Yue's son and the Quan Family's Young Family Head.
• Quan Yi offered Lou Gao the choice to join the Quan Family without pressure, and Lou Gao immediately agreed.
• Lou Gao explained that he valued the Blacksmith industry's future and wanted to learn from the expert who had created the Bicycle, and Quan Yi welcomed him into the Quan Family.

Quan Yi welcomed Lou Gao into the Quan Family and showed him a steam-powered forging workshop. After entrusting Lou Gao with confidential steam engine blueprints and a team of blacksmiths, Quan Yi revealed that he had helped develop the steam engine and Bicycle himself.

• Lou Gao became the Blacksmith Association president, then passed the position to Si Long and joined the Quan Family alone.
• Quan Yi agreed to let the remaining blacksmiths keep producing Bicycles in Gengxin City in exchange for cheaper metal ores and covered shipping costs.
• Quan Yi showed Lou Gao a new workshop, where a Steam Hammer rapidly forged iron into Iron Essence.
• Quan Yi gave Lou Gao confidential steam engine blueprints and asked him to study and improve the engine's power mechanism, with five Quan Family blacksmiths assigned to assist.
• Quan Yi revealed that he and another Forgemaster had developed the Bicycle and steam engine, shocking Lou Gao with the news that Quan Yi had drawn more than half of the blueprints.

Quan Yi arranged for Lou Gao to research power devices at the second Blacksmith Shop while he retained control of weapon development. After dinner with Huo Wu, he heard her worry that her appetite had suddenly increased, leaving him to consider what was happening to her body.

• Quan Yi offered Lou Gao generous pay, research funding, and freedom in exchange for confidentiality, and assigned him power-device research.
• Quan Yi completed his iron-forging training and returned to the Wooden Cabin, where Huo Wu had prepared a huge roast.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu ate a massive meal of Thunderstorm Manatee meat and joked about their full bellies.
• Huo Wu told Quan Yi that her appetite had jumped from about forty kilograms per meal to around sixty in a week and asked whether the increase was abnormal.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu grew closer after he explained how her new Soul Ring had increased her height and strengthened her Martial Soul, though he stopped them from taking their intimacy further because they were too young. Far away in the Far West Land, the Quan Family prepared for its first hunt with a fleet of armored sea vessels.

• Quan Yi noticed Huo Wu had grown nearly five centimeters since absorbing the Fire Spirit Ghost King Soul Ring and explained how it had affected her Fire Shadow Martial Soul and body.
• Huo Wu embraced and kissed Quan Yi, and the two shared a passionate moment before he restrained himself from going further.
• Quan Yi told Huo Wu they were too young to risk harming her body, and the pair cleared the tableware before spending the night together in their room.
• From the next day, Quan Yi and Huo Wu became more intimate and spent nearly all their time together outside cultivation and sleep.
• At the Quan Family's private dock in the Far West Land, fifty armored sea vessels assembled for the family's first hunt, and Quan Yue found their armor could withstand repeated Spirit Saint strikes.

Quan Yue and Su Ling'er led a fleet into the sea to hunt Sea Soul Beasts, using guns, specialized fishing weapons, and the Dragon Abyss Boat. The fleet formed a defensive circle as a horned seal-like beast surfaced behind Quan Yue’s underwater vessel.

• Quan Li warned Quan Yue and Su Ling'er to prioritize safety and gave Quan Yue the Dragon Abyss Boat for underwater scouting and support.
• Five ships departed, and Quan Yue and Su Ling'er guided the lead ship toward a reef zone where Sea Soul Beasts gathered.
• Quan Yue took eight men underwater in the Dragon Abyss Boat while Su Ling'er commanded the crew on the surface to prepare for an encounter.
• After half an hour, Su Ling'er sensed an approaching presence and alerted the fleet to stand guard.
• Quan Yue's glowing Dragon Abyss Boat leaped from the sea with a horned gray-white seal close behind, and Su Ling'er ordered the fleet to retreat into a circular formation.

Quan Yue and Su Ling'er led the fleet in trapping and killing a two-thousand-year Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard. The fleet returned to the Quan Family dock at sunset, where Quan Li and Yun Qiong saw them approaching.

• Quan Yue lured the Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard out of the reefs and into the fleet's planned encirclement.
• Su Ling'er ordered the ships to fire, and the fleet harpooned the sea leopard with iron spears before pulling from several directions.
• The fleet waited two hours as the sea leopard weakened and died, then Quan Yue and the crew celebrated their successful hunt.
• Quan Yue returned to the ship and excitedly lifted Su Ling'er before apologizing when she pinched his lower back.
• Quan Yue and the crew processed the leopard as the fleet sailed back to the Quan Family dock.
• Quan Li spotted the returning fleet at sunset and excitedly told Yun Qiong that they had come back.

The Quan Family fleet returned with a two-thousand-year Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard, proving its weapons and crew could hunt powerful Sea Soul Beasts. The family celebrated its success, while Yun Qiong warned that stronger beasts were occupying the shallow sea and the family would need to change its plans.

• The fleet returned with the Poison Horn Devouring Sea Leopard, and Yun Qiong identified it as a rare two-thousand-year Sea Soul Beast while Quan Li praised the Fishing Guns.
• Quan Yue and Su Ling'er reported the hunt's yield, and Quan Li calculated that its profits could recover much of the fleet's initial investment.
• Yun Qiong questioned Quan Yue's decision to hunt such a powerful beast, and he explained that weaker beasts had fled the reef area and stronger ones gathered farther in.
• Yun Qiong linked the Sea Soul Beasts' expansion to Martial Soul Hall's ban on going out to sea, and Quan Li proposed reducing fishing voyages and focusing on hunting Sea Soul Beasts.
• The Quan Family held a banquet where its members shared the hunted beast, strengthening the family's confidence and cohesion.

Xiao Lin and Xiao Ming learned that their swimming scores would determine how much Soul Beast Meat they received at school. Xiao Ming and then Xiao Lin impressed their teacher with unusually strong performances, and the chapter ended with Xiao Lin placing second in his group.

• Xiao Ming told Xiao Lin that the school would serve Soul Beast Meat at lunch, and the teacher confirmed that portions would depend on training scores.
• The teacher explained that the children would be scored on their swimming speed, distance, and time, then led them to the pool for training.
• Xiao Ming finished five round trips ahead of the other children and earned an approving look from the teacher.
• Xiao Ming urged Xiao Lin to do well, and Xiao Lin threw himself into his swim with surprising speed and strength.
• Xiao Lin held on despite slowing in the second half and rose from his usual last place to second in his group.

Xiao Ming and Xiao Lin received Soul Beast Meat after training, while the Quan Family continued supplying it to its young children and recording their development. Quan Yi reached Soul Power Level 60 at age fifteen and reunited with Quan Li before they prepared to enter the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Area to hunt a soul beast for his sixth Soul Ring.

• Xiao Ming received the class’s largest portion of Soul Beast Meat, and Xiao Lin realized that training harder made the meat taste better and earned him more.
• Quan Li and Yun Qiong learned that the Soul Beast Meat supply for children under six had been completed, while Quan Yue and Su Ling'er led the fleet out to hunt again.
• Quan Yi reached Soul Power Level 60 after a year of cultivation at Blazing Fire Intermediate Academy.
• Quan Yi met Quan Li at the Star Dou Great Forest after three years apart and learned that the Quan Family had become a powerful force in Vast Sea City.
• Quan Yi asked Quan Li to protect him as they prepared to enter the Core Area and hunt a soul beast of at least seventy thousand years for his sixth Soul Ring.

Quan Yi and Quan Li entered the Star Dou Great Forest’s Core Area to search for a suitable Soul Beast, with Quan Yi scouting ahead using his Fire Spirit Body. After searching deeper into the forest, Quan Yi found a giant cave and discovered a Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon inside.

• Quan Yi and Quan Li rested outside the Core Area, and Quan Yi decided against pursuing a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring until he had greater Mental Power.
• Quan Yi used his Fire Spirit Body to scout the Core Area while Quan Li waited outside, but his first day of searching found no suitable Soul Beast.
• Quan Yi returned at night, and he and Quan Li rested before resuming the search at daybreak.
• Quan Yi sensed a powerful flame aura near the Core Area’s middle ring and traced it to a cavern inside a giant hill.
• Quan Yi entered the cavern and recognized the colossal glowing creature within as a Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon.

Quan Yi discovered a nearly ninety-five-thousand-year-old Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon and decided to fight it alone, confident that his Ultimate Fire could overcome it. He entered the dragon’s cave with his aura unleashed, and the dragon woke and attacked.

• Quan Yi found the sleeping Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon absorbing Fire Element through its horns and estimated its age at ninety thousand to ninety-five thousand years.
• Quan Yi told Quan Li he would fight the dragon alone while Quan Li guarded the cave, arguing that the dragon was in seclusion and his Ultimate Fire gave him an advantage.
• Quan Li agreed to trust Quan Yi, who recovered his soul power and prepared to use his reserves if needed.
• Quan Yi and Quan Li returned to the lair, and Quan Yi entered while Quan Li held the cave entrance.
• Quan Yi let his aura spread through the cave, awakening the Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon, which roared and blasted fire toward the entrance.

Quan Yi entered the Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon’s cave and overcame its fire-draining cold and devastating energy attack with his Nebula Body. He killed the dragon before it could reach 100,000 years of cultivation.

• The Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon drained the cave’s Fire Element and sent freezing air at Quan Yi, but its ability could not suppress his flames.
• Quan Yi compressed his Fire Spirit Body into a point, releasing white light that vaporized the ice and dispelled the dragon’s cold aura.
• The Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon gathered its stored Fire Element into a powerful white sphere and fired it at Quan Yi.
• Quan Yi combined Dark Flame Power, Holy Judgment, and Fire Spirit Body into his Nebula Body, then transformed into the Nebula Spear.
• The Nebula Spear pierced the dragon’s attack and body, killing the Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon before it became a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Quan Yi killed the Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon with the Nebula Spear and began absorbing its ninety-thousand-year soul ring. After devouring the dragon’s soul in his Sea of Consciousness, he stabilized the surging energy, but then sensed some of it moving toward his forehead.

• Quan Yi recovered after his attack nearly exhausted his Mental Power and soul power, while Quan Li arrived and praised him for killing the Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon in one blow.
• Quan Yi began absorbing the dragon’s soul ring as Quan Li watched, and the ring’s energy filled his meridians.
• Four hours into the absorption, the Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon’s Dragon Roar shook Quan Yi’s spirit and caused the ring’s energy to surge, but Golden Light weakened the dragon’s soul in his Sea of Consciousness.
• Quan Yi fought the dragon’s soul, devoured it, and received a tremendous replenishment of Mental Power.
• Quan Yi used his restored Mental Power to compress the energy and ease the strain on his meridians, then sensed some of the energy flowing toward his forehead.

Quan Yi absorbed his Sixth Soul Ring and gained an External Soul Bone in the form of Dragon Horns, which greatly enhanced his fire perception and cultivation. After discovering the horns could absorb and release fire energy, he prepared to lead Quan Li back to safety.

• Quan Li saw vermilion Dragon Horns grow from Quan Yi's forehead and realized they were an External Soul Bone.
• Quan Yi completed absorbing his Sixth Soul Ring, and the Dragon Horns expanded his fire perception range to one hundred kilometers.
• Quan Yi used the Dragon Horns to absorb nearby fire elements, chilling the area and drawing Quan Li's warning.
• Quan Yi demonstrated that the Dragon Horns could release fire energy to warm the surroundings and explained that they had further abilities to develop.
• Quan Li urged Quan Yi to leave the area, and Quan Yi used the Dragon Horns' perception to sense a route back.

Quan Yi used his Dragon Horn and Sixth Soul Skill, Scarlet Dragon Descent, to summon a dragon and carry himself and Quan Li out of the cave. After crossing the Core Area, they landed safely in a region of weaker Soul Beasts, where Quan Yi explained that the Dragon Horn’s stored energy had enabled him to summon a complete dragon.

• Quan Yi stored the Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon’s frozen corpse in the Blazing Sun Heart and warned Quan Li not to panic.
• Quan Yi released energy through his Dragon Horn and summoned a scarlet dragon beneath himself and Quan Li.
• Quan Yi rode the dragon out of the cave and shielded himself and Quan Li from the wind, cold, and their human auras.
• Quan Yi guided the dragon through the Core Area, avoiding strange zones as it flew toward the region of Thousand Year and Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts.
• Quan Yi landed in an empty clearing, where the dragon dissolved into motes of light and returned to his Dragon Horn.
• Quan Yi explained to Quan Li that stored energy from the Dragon Horn had let him summon the complete dragon, though using it had consumed more than half that energy.

Quan Yi and Quan Li discovered that Quan Yi’s dragon-horn External Soul Bone had evolved by absorbing his fire-attribute Soul Power, granting it exceptional abilities. After leaving the Star Dou Great Forest, Quan Li prepared to return to Vast Sea City and begin seclusion to pursue Level 90.

• Quan Yi explained that his dragon horn sensed Fire Element within one hundred kilometers and helped him avoid the Scarlet Scale Evil Dragon’s detection.
• Quan Yi and Quan Li tested his Soul Power with a Crystal Stone and found it was Level 61; Quan Li concluded the dragon horn had evolved and fully fused with Quan Yi.
• Quan Li warned Quan Yi to keep the External Soul Bone secret, and the two left the Star Dou Great Forest for a Soul Hunting Town.
• Quan Li told Quan Yi he would return to Vast Sea City and enter seclusion until he reached Level 90.