Chapter Summaries

Quan Yi revealed his Soul Tool technology and explained how it could cut the cost and time of developing Blue Silver Island. He then outlined a supply route through three islands that would use Yun Qiong’s teleportation abilities to secure the journey from Vast Sea City to Blue Silver Island.

• Quan Yi revealed ten Storage Soul Tools he had made and explained that they could dramatically increase the supplies ships carried.
• Quan Li and the others tested the five-cubic-meter Storage Soul Tools, while Yun Qiong warned everyone to keep the manufacturing technology secret.
• Quan Yi traced a route from Vast Sea City through three islands, prompting Yun Qiong to recognize how her Dark Hidden Spirit could support it.
• Yun Qiong explained that the islands would serve as supply points and safe stops along the voyage to Blue Silver Island.
• Quan Yi confirmed that the islands lay within Yun Qiong’s skill range and said that marking them would give the family control over the fifteen-hundred-li route.

Quan Yi persuaded the Quan Family to support a Pirate Group to occupy the Three Islands while they secretly developed Blue Silver Island. After the family approved his plan, Quan Yi, Huo Wu, Quan Li, and Quan Yue visited the shipyard to inspect the progress of his commissioned steamship.

• Su Ling'er and Huo Wu realized Quan Yi planned to use a Pirate Group as a conspicuous front for the Quan Family’s activities on the Three Islands.
• Quan Li endorsed Quan Yi’s plan and declared that the Quan Family would develop Blue Silver Island according to it.
• The family agreed to support a Pirate Group, secure the Three Islands, and gather manpower and equipment to develop the island.
• Quan Yi postponed returning to school, and Huo Wu chose to stay and help with the plan.
• Quan Li, Quan Yue, Quan Yi, and Huo Wu visited the Quan Family Shipyard after hearing that Quan Yi’s steamship had reached a milestone.
• Quan Yue said the shipyard had caught up with Vast Sea Shipyard and was close to surpassing it.

Quan Yi and the others visited Quan Family Shipyard to see Jiang Jun’s progress on steam-powered ships. Jiang Jun demonstrated a working steam engine installed in a wooden vessel and invited them onto the deck to witness its movement.

• Quan Yue introduced Quan Yi to Jiang Jun, who praised Quan Yi’s steamship blueprint and said he had long wanted to learn from him.
• Jiang Jun showed the group an ordinary-looking wooden ship with an iron exhaust pipe, and Quan Yi recognized that its unusual feature lay beneath the waterline.
• The group went below deck and saw crew members feeding coal into a boiler that powered a complex system of gears.
• Jiang Jun explained that the shipyard and forging factory had built a wooden steamship because they could not yet reproduce Quan Yi’s steel seagoing ship.
• Quan Yi praised Jiang Jun’s ingenuity, and Jiang Jun invited everyone to the deck to experience the ship’s movement.

Quan Yi watched the steam-powered sea vessel demonstrate its speed and learned how quickly the Shipyard could convert its fleet. He challenged Jiang Jun over delaying Iron Ship research, leaving Jiang Jun under pressure as Quan Yi suspected he was protecting the wooden-ship workers.

• Jiang Jun set the steamship moving, and Quan Yi explained to Huo Wu, Quan Yue, and Quan Li how its Propeller worked.
• The steamship reached about twenty knots, and Quan Yi judged that its steady speed would give it a major advantage over sailing ships.
• Jiang Jun told Quan Yi that converting the Shipyard’s nearly hundred vessels into steamships would take about a year, and Quan Yue agreed to push the conversions forward.
• Quan Yi reminded Jiang Jun not to neglect Iron Ship construction and questioned whether he had focused on its research.
• Jiang Jun accepted Quan Yi’s instructions with a strained expression as the ship sailed into an uninhabited Sea Area.

Jiang Jun accepted Quan Yi’s decision to remove him as factory head while retaining him as a researcher, and the steamship trial demonstrated the vessel’s speed and ability to deter sea soul beasts. Quan Yi then considered whether metal forged by someone else could avoid the intense fire aura that gave the ship away.

• Jiang Jun admitted that he had compromised the research process to keep the shipwrights motivated, and Quan Yi dismissed him as factory head while keeping him on as a researcher.
• Jiang Jun accepted Quan Yi’s arrangement, and Quan Yi asked Captain Jiang to demonstrate the steamship’s power.
• Jiang Jun pushed the lever, accelerating the steamship to thirty knots as it began its trial.
• The steamship traveled one hundred kilometers in two hours, while the Ultimate Fire aura from its engine kept sea soul beasts away.
• Quan Yue explained that the fire aura made the ship easier for powerful sea soul beasts to detect, prompting Quan Yi to wonder whether another person’s forged metal would work better.

Quan Yi inspected the steam ship and then showed Quan Li and Quan Yue the Quan Family Forging Factory, where he planned to teach them his Seventy-Two Hit Combo technique. The chapter ended as Quan Yi’s dragon-claw gauntlet seized and heated a block of Pig Iron.

• Quan Yi ordered the steam ship back to Quan Family Wharf, confirmed its engine could run reliably, and dismissed Jiang Jun from his post after the shipwrights’ failure.
• Jiang Jun accepted that shipbuilding research was his strength and returned to studying Quan Yi’s designs, including plans for the Iron Ship.
• Quan Yi and Quan Yue inspected the Forging Factory’s Blast Furnaces, molten iron transport system, and Giant Steam Forging Hammer.
• Quan Yi asked the Blacksmiths to pause the forging hammer and clear the area so he could teach Quan Li and Quan Yue his Seventy-Two Hit Combo technique.
• Quan Yi covered his hand with a Gauntlet, summoned a giant dragon claw, and seized a block of Pig Iron to heat it with flame.

Quan Yi taught Quan Li and Quan Yue the Seventy-Two Hit Combo, and his forging transformed ordinary Pig Iron into Blazing Heart Iron Essence with powerful Flame Amplification. As the Quan Family expanded its industrial and military preparations, Quan Yi continued training and research; a week later, he stood with Huo Wu beside a newly modified Crystal Sea Ship.

• Quan Yi forged Pig Iron into Blazing Heart Iron Essence with nearly thirty percent Flame Amplification, impressing Quan Li and Quan Yue.
• Quan Yi demonstrated the combo technique and taught Quan Li and Quan Yue to use rebound force and force transmission.
• Quan Li and Quan Yue practiced at the Iron Forging Factory as the Quan Family ramped up production of metal, steam engines, and firearms and accelerated ship modifications.
• Quan Yi continued his scouting, cultivation, and research while training under heavy weights and cultivating in the factory's Fire-attribute environment.
• A week later, Quan Yi and Huo Wu stood by a streamlined Crystal Sea Ship as Quan Yi inspected it with his golden Dragon Pupils.

Quan Yi studied the Dragon Abyss Boat’s Soul Power patterns and successfully recreated its ability to change an object’s size and weight, then copied its thrust-generating pattern. He considered using the first pattern to modify the Blazing Sun Dragon Spear and saw promise in the weaker-than-expected thrust for underwater travel.

• Quan Yi examined the Dragon Abyss Boat and memorized its patterns for changing mass and size and generating thrust.
• Quan Yi took Huo Wu to his Research Room and carved the size-and-mass pattern into Soul Guidance Metal.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu tested the metal, confirming it could shrink and become lighter, then return to its original size and weight when infused with Soul Power.
• Quan Yi explained that he wanted to carve the pattern into the Blazing Sun Dragon Spear after softening it in the Blazing Yang Spring.
• Quan Yi copied the thrust-generating pattern onto another piece of Soul Guidance Metal and judged its weak underwater thrust potentially useful for propelling a submarine.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu advanced their Soul Tool research and cultivation before going to Vast Sea City to meet a potential agent. They observed Purple Pearl and her pirate group in a tavern, where Huo Wu questioned Quan Yi about his choice.

• Quan Yi considered building a large, shrinkable submarine but lacked enough Soul Guidance Metal.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu continued their research and cultivation over the following three weeks, while Huo Wu practiced fusing her Fourth and Sixth Soul Skills.
• Quan Yi left the territory after his intelligence gathering identified an agent candidate.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu watched Purple Pearl celebrate with more than fifty men at a Vast Sea City tavern.
• Huo Wu asked why Quan Yi had not told her Purple Pearl was a woman, and Quan Yi said Purple Pearl met his requirements.

Quan Yi explained why he had chosen the Purple Pearl Pirate Group as the group to support, and Huo Wu warmed to its leader after hearing of her deeds. After celebrating her Soul King breakthrough, Purple Pearl returned to her hotel, where she was surprised by two strangers who had somehow entered unnoticed.

• Quan Yi told Huo Wu that Purple Pearl’s group was strong enough and avoided harming the innocent, making it a suitable choice for their plans.
• Huo Wu’s opinion of Purple Pearl improved, and she grew curious about meeting her.
• Purple Pearl celebrated reaching Soul King with her crew in Vast Sea City and ordered them to meet at the docks the next day.
• Purple Pearl went to her hotel and embraced the female shopkeeper, revealing their intimate relationship.
• Two tall strangers spoke from the hotel hall, startling Purple Pearl and making her wary of their concealed strength.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu approached Purple Pearl and offered the Purple Pearl Pirate Group a sponsored partnership to help them achieve their goals at sea. Purple Pearl learned Quan Yi was the Quan Family’s Young Family Head and, intrigued by the opportunity, asked why he had chosen her.

• Quan Yi and Huo Wu revealed themselves to Purple Pearl, who protected the shopkeeper and cautiously agreed to speak with them aboard her ship.
• Quan Yi told Purple Pearl he wanted to sponsor her pirate group in exchange for its help achieving objectives on the ocean.
• Quan Yi identified himself as the Quan Family’s Young Family Head and displayed his Soul Emperor strength and Gauntlets Martial Soul.
• Quan Yi explained that he wanted Purple Pearl’s group to eliminate forces obstructing them at sea, and Purple Pearl considered the offer an opportunity to expand her influence.
• Purple Pearl asked why Quan Yi had chosen her, and he said her aid to impoverished coastal fishing villages made her the right captain for the partnership.

Purple Pearl agreed to help Quan Yi and the Quan Family occupy Golden Sand Island and Demon Dove Island in exchange for their covert support. The next day, she prepared the Purple Pearl Pirate Group to sail for Golden Sand Island with Quan Yi and Huo Wu aboard.

• Quan Yi asked Purple Pearl to help occupy Golden Sand Island and Demon Dove Island, promising that the Quan Family would secretly assist her group.
• Quan Yi revealed that the Quan Family had annihilated the Ghost Pirate Crew, convincing Purple Pearl of their strength and clarifying why they wanted to use her group’s name.
• Purple Pearl weighed the danger of losing her freedom but agreed to cooperate with Quan Yi.
• Quan Yi told Purple Pearl that they would begin the occupation of Golden Sand Island the next day.
• Purple Pearl ordered her crew to prepare the ship, then led them in setting sail for Golden Sand Island while Quan Yi observed their efficient procedures.

Purple Pearl led her crew toward Golden Sand Island while Quan Yi and Huo Wu went ahead alone to attack the pirate stronghold. As the crew advanced to clean up afterward, the two Soul Emperors began targeting the island’s fighters.

• Purple Pearl reassured her uneasy crew that Quan Yi and Huo Wu, two powerful Soul Emperors, would help capture Golden Sand Island, raising their morale.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu told Purple Pearl to prepare to clean up the battlefield, then vanished from the ship, and Purple Pearl ordered the crew to advance.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu flew above Golden Sand Island and used Spiritual Communication to agree not to spare the pirates, who had enslaved more than five hundred people.
• Quan Yi flew toward groups of soul masters while Huo Wu headed for the five strongest auras at the island’s center.

Huo Wu and Quan Yi silently attacked Golden Sand Island from the interior and the perimeter, killing its pirates and Spirit Masters. After nearly two hundred Spirit Masters and almost two thousand pirates were annihilated, the Purple Pearl reached the island’s coast.

• Huo Wu used her Shadow Domain and Purgatory Shadow Flash Kill to kill five Soul Kings, then silently slew more than a hundred Spirit Masters inside the island.
• Quan Yi used Scorching Ray to eliminate the Spirit Master guards at the island’s outer lookouts.
• Quan Yi overwhelmed the guards at the slave cages with Holy Judgment and killed several hundred pirates, leaving the slaves imprisoned while he continued the attack.
• Huo Wu and Quan Yi attacked the island from within and without, annihilating nearly two hundred Spirit Masters and almost two thousand pirates.
• The Purple Pearl reached the coast of Golden Sand Island after Huo Wu and Quan Yi had been away from the deck for fifteen minutes.

Purple Pearl’s crew reached Golden Sand Island after Quan Yi and Huo Wu had wiped out the Golden Sand Pirate Group, then helped secure the island and free its slaves. The group set sail for Demon Dove Island the next morning and arrived at its heavily guarded waters at sunset.

• Purple Pearl led her crew through Golden Sand Island and found hundreds of headless corpses, then met Quan Yi and Huo Wu amid the pirate group’s treasure.
• Quan Yi asked Purple Pearl’s crew to clean up the island, and they burned the corpses, freed 521 slaves, and collected the group’s wealth and supplies.
• Purple Pearl reported that 1,942 bodies had been burned and that Golden Sand Island could support 3,000 people; Quan Yi ordered the crew to rest before sailing for Demon Dove Island.
• Quan Yi told Huo Wu that the liberated slaves would stay on Golden Sand Island until the clan could arrange their settlement after the group took Demon Dove Island.
• The Purple Pearl left half its members to take over Golden Sand Island and sailed with the rest to Demon Dove Island, where they found ten ships patrolling the waters.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu launched a covert attack on Demon Dove Island, where the Demon Dove Pirate Group was celebrating the capture of a merchant ship. Huo Wu killed the group's leader and began cutting down the pirates, while Quan Yi attacked from the island's outskirts.

• Quan Yi switched to Dark Flame Fire Spirit Body and prepared to attack from outside while Huo Wu moved from the inside out.
• Pirates on a patrol ship discussed the captured merchant fleet and the women held captive, while the rest of the group celebrated on Demon Dove Island.
• The Demon Dove leader reflected on how traitors within Vast Sea Shipyard had helped his group seize the merchant ship.
• As the leader rose from the banquet platform, Huo Wu killed him with a piercing attack that left a small hole in his forehead.
• Huo Wu spread pink light and sent fifteen Flame Spikes into her Fire Shadow, causing nearly fifty pirates beneath the platform to fall.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu wiped out the Demon Dove Pirate Group and helped the Purple Pearl Pirate Group take control of Demon Dove Island. The Quan Family began rebuilding the islands and restoring the freed captives, while the Purple Pearl Pirate Group gained fame throughout the four seas.

• Huo Wu killed the pirates gathered at Demon Dove Island, while Quan Yi eliminated the maritime patrols and the rest of the Demon Dove Pirate Group, sparing those imprisoned.
• Quan Yi ordered Purple Pearl to lead her crew to the western prison and rescue the captives, including a captured Merchant Fleet.
• Purple Pearl defeated the prison guards with her Cold Poison and assured the prisoners that the Purple Pearl Pirate Group had come to save them.
• After a night of cleanup, the group secured Demon Dove Island and found wealth and ships far exceeding those taken from the Golden Sand Pirate Group.
• The Quan Family and Purple Pearl Pirate Group settled more than a thousand freed slaves on the islands, began building docks and shipyards, and helped return other captives to their homes.
• People carried news of the Purple Pearl Pirate Group across the seas, making it famous throughout the four seas.

The Quan Family expanded its influence through shipbuilding, the Purple Pearl Pirate Group, and development of the Three Islands. After moving the family’s important operations toward Vast Sea City, Quan Yi visited Sunset Forest to return the Blazing Sun Dragon Spear to the Blazing Yang Spring and found Dugu Bo studying a bottle filled with three kinds of energy.

• The Quan Family opened a public shipyard in Vast Sea City, overtook Vast Sea Shipyard, and drew in its skilled Shipwrights.
• The Purple Pearl Pirate Group grew into a dominant force by protecting merchant ships and wiping out pirate groups that challenged it, while the Quan Family freed slaves and recruited struggling fishermen.
• The Quan Family completed the Three Islands’ initial development and sent ten thousand pioneers with steam-powered farm tools to Blue Silver Island to cultivate crops including Rubber Trees and cotton.
• Huo Wu told her family she had become a Soul Emperor after gaining a Sixth Soul Ring from an Undead Phoenix, then returned to Vast Sea City with Quan Yi.
• Quan Yi gathered Lou Gao, Yuan Xing, and the Quan Family’s important arrangements in Saus City and began moving them toward Vast Sea City.
• Quan Yi flew to Sunset Forest to place the Blazing Sun Dragon Spear in the Blazing Yang Spring, where he found Dugu Bo studying a glass bottle glowing with red, white, and green energy.

Quan Yi witnessed Dugu Bo test a detoxifying method on his own flesh and learn that he had found the right balance to remove most of his poison. Quan Yi returned to reforge the Blazing Sun Dragon Spear and announced he intended to face a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast alone, despite Dugu Bo offering to help.

• Quan Yi used Scarlet Dragon Eye to see the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass energies balance around Dugu Bo’s severed flesh as they drew out most of its poison.
• Dugu Bo celebrated the experiment’s success and explained that his body needed a small amount of residual poison after decades of exposure.
• Quan Yi congratulated Dugu Bo, who thanked him for his help.
• Quan Yi told Dugu Bo he had returned to reforge the Blazing Sun Dragon Spear and would resume cultivating after spending more than half a year hunting pirate groups with Huo Wu.
• Dugu Bo offered to help Quan Yi hunt the Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Quan Yi had found, but Quan Yi said he wanted to face it alone.

Quan Yi returned from meeting Dugu Bo and continued leading the convoy west, gathering thousands of impoverished people for the Quan Family’s expansion. After noticing a deserted village, he investigated and discovered signs of a past attack and a shocking scene nearby.

• Quan Yi declined Dugu Bo’s offer of help with his Seventh Soul Ring, then returned the Blazing Sun Dragon Spear to the Blazing Yang Spring.
• Quan Yi learned that Dugu Bo had used portions of the Infernal Delicate Apricot and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Grass to treat his toxins, but that the herbs could regrow.
• Quan Yi’s convoy traveled west while the Quan Family recruited poor people and beggars to address its labor shortage, and Huo Wu was deeply affected by their hardship.
• After half a month on the road, Quan Yi spotted a village with no cooking smoke and found damaged houses and dried blood inside.
• Quan Yi looked toward an open space near the village and discovered a shocking scene.