Chapter Summaries

Quan Yi infused awakened Diamond Fine Gold with seven balanced elements to forge a Ring Band, completing its Elemental Imprint. The metal summoned a Seven-Colored Thunder Tribulation, leaving Quan Yi facing a dangerous test.

• Quan Yi guided Gold, Fire, and Ice Elements into the Diamond Fine Gold, where they left mysterious marks.
• Quan Yi added Light, Dark, and Space Elements, then infused Wind to strengthen the Ring Band’s amplification of Fire.
• The seven-colored Elemental Imprint filled the metal, and a strange ringing sounded as the imprint linked together.
• The surrounding elements broke free of Quan Yi’s control, and seven-colored clouds gathered above him.
• The Flame Dragon King identified the clouds as a Seven-Colored Thunder Tribulation summoned by the forged metal and warned Quan Yi that he had to survive its baptism.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu weathered the Lightning Tribulation as it strengthened the Diamond Fine Gold and the two Gold Dragons. The metal transformed into a powerful liquid alloy that enhanced their Martial Soul Fusion, and Huo Wu handed it to Quan Yi so he could shape and engrave it.

• The Flame Dragon King warned Quan Yi to let the Diamond Fine Gold absorb the Lightning Tribulation, and Quan Yi agreed.
• The Dragon Phoenix Goddess shielded herself and the metal from the first strike, while Xiao Jin and Xiao Hong asked Quan Yi to let them absorb the lightning.
• Quan Yi released the two Gold Dragons, and they absorbed most of the Seven-Colored Lightning while passing some of its energy to the Diamond Fine Gold.
• The lightning also tempered the Dragon Phoenix Goddess, and Quan Yi realized it could refine the body.
• The seventh strike strengthened the Gold Dragons and completed the Diamond Fine Gold's transformation into liquid metal, which gained a communicable soul and greatly amplified the Martial Soul Fusion state.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu ended their fusion, and Huo Wu summoned the metal from her body and handed it to Quan Yi to shape and engrave.

Quan Yi watched Huo Wu break through to level 70 and celebrated with a lavish fire-element roast. He then revealed that he had prepared a gift for her and carried her into the night sky to show her.

• Over the following months, Quan Yi repeatedly endured Lightning Tribulations while forging, reaching level 79 and deepening his understanding of the elements and laws.
• After three days in seclusion, Huo Wu broke through to level 70, and Quan Yi congratulated her as soon as she opened her eyes.
• Quan Yi carried Huo Wu to their Wooden House and prepared a celebratory meal by controlling fire elements and seasoning the ingredients.
• Huo Wu enjoyed the meal, which filled her with fire-element energy, while Quan Yi explained its effects.
• Quan Yi told Huo Wu he had prepared a gift, then carried her upward on a Scarlet Dragon Dragon Head until they reached the starry sky.

Quan Yi proposed to Huo Wu beneath the stars with a ring he had secretly forged, and she accepted. They spent the following night and day together before waking exhausted but happy, leaving Quan Yi watching over Huo Wu as she slept in his arms.

• Quan Yi knelt beneath the starry sky and asked Huo Wu to marry him, presenting the ring he had forged from their Diamond Fine Gold.
• Huo Wu accepted, and Quan Yi placed the ring on her finger as Dragon Phoenix Phantoms appeared to bless them.
• Huo Wu asked Quan Yi to love her, and he carried her into the Wooden House as lava wrapped around it.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu spent the night and following day together, while the souls sharing their perception lost contact with the outside world.
• After they finally rested, Quan Yi tidied Huo Wu's hair in the morning and watched her sleep in his arms.

Huo Wu woke beside Quan Yi, and the two shared a tender morning before she examined the Dragon and Phoenix Heart ring he had given her. She discovered its powerful abilities and left Quan Yi with an excited kiss.

• Huo Wu woke to Quan Yi watching over her, and he teased her until she called him Husband.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu tidied the Wooden House, and Quan Yi prepared food while Huo Wu admired him.
• Huo Wu examined the Dragon and Phoenix Heart and used Soul Power and Mental Power to discover its vast Storage Space.
• Huo Wu learned from Little Dragon and Little Phoenix that the ring could amplify Fire-attribute energy ninety-ninefold and absorb external Fire Element for later use.
• Huo Wu realized the ring's power and excitedly pulled Quan Yi close and kissed him.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu deepened their relationship during seclusion, became engaged, and asked Dugu Bo to officiate their wedding. Quan Yi reached level 80, and the pair left for the Volcano Archipelago to meet the Three Beast Kings ahead of schedule.

• Quan Yi explained that the ruby in Huo Wu's ring was a fire-strengthening Divine Artifact, then promised to ask his father to propose marriage to her.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu spent a week resting together, then resumed their seclusion and training.
• After returning to the Ice and Fire Spring, Dugu Bo recognized their engagement, and Quan Yi and Huo Wu asked him to officiate their wedding; Quan Yi pressured him into agreeing.
• Quan Yi focused on Soul Power cultivation while Huo Wu trained for her Seventh Soul Ring, and Quan Yi broke through to level 80 after ten months of seclusion.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu said farewell to Dugu Bo, then arrived above the Volcano Archipelago four days later, two months before their agreement with the Three Beast Kings was due.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu visited the Misty Smoke Albatross King to ask for her help with a Sacrifice Ceremony. After the clan tested them with a cloud of concealed elements and Mental Power, they revealed the albatrosses’ true forms and met their ruler, who said she had been waiting for them.

• Quan Yi told Huo Wu he preferred to visit the Misty Smoke Albatross King first because of her cultivation and the potential compatibility of her Soul Bone with Huo Wu’s Phoenix Bone Wings.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu flew to the enormous cloud mass above ten thousand meters and announced their visit to the Misty Smoke Albatross King.
• The Misty Smoke Albatross King opened a passage into the cloud mass, where dense elements and currents of wind concealed the surroundings and lowered the temperature.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu used their perception abilities to penetrate the elemental and mental concealment and locate nearly a hundred albatrosses, including their ruler.
• The Misty Smoke Albatross King welcomed Quan Yi and Huo Wu and said she had been waiting for them.

Quan Yi and Huo Wu met the Misty Smoke Clan, whose king challenged Huo Wu to a duel that would decide whether she would Sacrifice herself to her. Huo Wu accepted, and the battle was arranged at the Heavenly Pool with the other clan leaders invited to watch.

• Quan Yi saw through the Misty Smoke Clan’s Doubtful Formation and asked the Misty Smoke King directly whether she was willing to Sacrifice.
• The Misty Smoke King praised Huo Wu’s recent breakthrough and challenged her to defeat her in single combat to earn her Sacrifice.
• Huo Wu accepted after the Misty Smoke King promised she would become Huo Wu’s Soul Ring and Spirit Bone if she refused to Sacrifice afterward.
• Quan Yi warned the Misty Smoke King that he would kill the entire clan if Huo Wu’s life was endangered.
• The Flame Dragon King proposed holding the duel above the Heavenly Pool, and the Misty Smoke Clan invited the other two clans to witness it.
• The Fierce Fang Sea Lion King and the Golden Furnace Flame Turtle King arrived after hearing about the challenge.

Misty Smoke King defended her decision to risk a Sacrifice, then faced Huo Wu in a duel at the Heavenly Pool. Huo Wu opened with a hidden, fully charged Phoenix Cry Towards the Sun, but Misty Smoke King had concealed her real body and left a clone in its place.

• Misty Smoke King told Old Turtle and Fierce Fang Sea Lion that she had chosen to gamble her remaining life for the chance at endless life, and they accepted her decision.
• Quan Yi warned Huo Wu not to hold back against Misty Smoke King, and Huo Wu prepared to fight with her Phoenix Bone Wings.
• After Quan Yi announced the duel, Huo Wu launched a secretly charged Phoenix Cry Towards the Sun at Misty Smoke King.
• The blast appeared to engulf Misty Smoke King, but Quan Yi saw that it had struck an illusion while Misty Smoke King's real body hovered above the explosion inside a hurricane.

The Misty Smoke King used a clone, concealed her true body, and turned Huo Wu’s attack into a storm of ice arrows. Huo Wu discovered the deception and struck back, but the King’s arrows tracked her as she dodged.

• The Misty Smoke King’s clone transformed Huo Wu’s attack into ice arrows, while Quan Yi realized the King had hidden her true body using mist and their visual blind spots.
• Huo Wu used the Shadow Domain within Phoenix Cry Towards the Sun to detect that the figure before her was a fake and moved away from the ice arrows’ target area.
• The Misty Smoke King dispersed her concealment while attacking, allowing Huo Wu to reveal the true body with Peach Illusion Fire and prepare Purgatory Shadow Flash Kill.
• The ice arrows abruptly changed direction and flew toward Huo Wu, forcing her to redirect her Flame Spikes to block them and escape on her Phoenix Bone Wings.
• The Misty Smoke King absorbed Huo Wu’s steam into her hurricane and turned it back into ice, while Huo Wu dodged arrows that continued to track her precisely.

Huo Wu tried to draw out the Misty Smoke King's hidden move while attacking its cloud concealment, but the Misty Smoke King answered by summoning a torrential rain that threatened her blazing sun. The chapter ended with Huo Wu's lone firelight wavering beneath the darkened sky.

• Huo Wu used Defying Flame Ring to repel incoming attacks, but the Misty Smoke King hid itself inside dense white clouds and neutralized her Flame Bullet.
• Old Turtle and Quan Yi assessed the duel as a tactical battle, while Quan Yi suspected the Misty Smoke King still had a hidden trump card.
• Huo Wu realized the Misty Smoke King had detected flaws in her Peach Illusion Fire simulation through its superior elemental perception.
• Huo Wu revealed herself and charged Phoenix Cry Towards the Sun, hoping to force the Misty Smoke King to attack or expose itself.
• The Misty Smoke King concealed a rain cloud above the white clouds and unleashed a torrential downpour that overwhelmed Huo Wu's blazing sun.

Huo Wu used the Dragon and Phoenix Heart to amplify her fire and defeat the Misty Smoke King’s devastating ice spear. She rescued the injured Misty Smoke King and returned to Quan Yi, announcing her victory.

• The Misty Smoke King summoned a torrential rainstorm and launched an enormous ice spear at Huo Wu.
• Quan Yi told Old Turtle and Little Sea Lion to watch as Huo Wu raised the Dragon and Phoenix Heart toward the Blazing White Sun.
• Huo Wu enlarged the Blazing White Sun with her amplified Soul Power, and its heat melted the ice spear and blasted open the dark clouds.
• Old Turtle led the Golden Jade Furnace Flame Turtles in raising a protective barrier, which cracked under the shock wave.
• The shock wave knocked the Misty Smoke King unconscious, and Huo Wu caught it and assured the Misty Smoke Clan that it was alive.
• Huo Wu ran to Quan Yi, hugged him, and told him that she had won.

After Huo Wu defeated the Misty Smoke King, Old Turtle and Little Sea Lion agreed to Sacrifice themselves to Quan Yi and Huo Wu. A week later, the Misty Smoke King's Sacrifice began, leaving Huo Wu's meridians cracking under the incoming energy.

• Huo Wu defeated the Misty Smoke King, and Quan Yi declared the duel settled and asked Old Turtle and Little Sea Lion to decide whether they would Sacrifice.
• Old Turtle offered everything to Quan Yi, and Little Sea Lion offered everything to Huo Wu, completing the Three Kings' submission.
• After waking, the Misty Smoke King praised Huo Wu, admitted it had risked its life and clan in the duel, and reaffirmed its promise to Sacrifice to her.
• A week later, Quan Li joined Quan Yi and Huo Wu as protector for the Sacrifice Ceremony at the Heavenly Pool stone platform.
• The Misty Smoke King began its Sacrifice, and Quan Yi and Huo Wu trapped its soul with their Mental Power as deep-red energy entered Huo Wu and cracked her meridians.

Huo Wu absorbed the Misty Smoke King's Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and torso bone, using her Spiritless flame to control their energy. Her Phoenix Bone Wings fused with the torso bone and collarbone, and after the sacrifice ended, the Misty Smoke King settled into her Sea of Consciousness.

• Huo Wu used Spiritless to devour the Misty Smoke King's energy as she absorbed its Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Ring and torso bone.
• The Phoenix Bone Wings absorbed the torso bone's energy, and the two soul bones began to fuse.
• Energy spread into Huo Wu's collarbone, forming a loop that let the Phoenix Origin dominate the fusion.
• The fused soul bones drew in Spiritless and the soul ring, completing Huo Wu's absorption as the Stasis Domain collapsed and the Sacrifice Ceremony ended.
• The Misty Smoke King took up residence in Huo Wu's body, and she told Quan Yi that the soul bone mutation had caused no discomfort.

Huo Wu discovered that her Phoenix Bone Wings had transformed her torso bone and formed Phoenix Bone Armor, prompting Quan Yi to explain soul bone fusion and speculate that the phoenix bloodline might eventually assimilate all her soul bones. The chapter ended as Quan Yi remembered he had another important matter to ask her about.

• Huo Wu told Quan Yi that her Phoenix Bone Wings had linked her upper-body bones and transformed her 100,000-year Stormsmoke Torso Bone into a 200,000-year Stormsmoke Phoenix Torso Bone.
• Huo Wu released her wings and discovered that Phoenix Bone Armor had formed over her upper body, amplifying her soul bone power while reducing its consumption.
• Quan Yi explained Soul Bone Fusion Skills and said Huo Wu's changes came from soul bone assimilation led by her External Soul Bone, rather than a true Soul Bone Fusion Skill.
• Quan Yi speculated that a god-level Phoenix Bone Wings might someday assimilate all of Huo Wu's soul bones, and he reassured her not to fixate on the possibility.
• Huo Wu accepted Quan Yi's reassurance, and he remembered he had forgotten to ask her about something more important.

After Huo Wu’s breakthrough and the Misty Smoke King’s sacrifice, she explained how her Soul Power had reached level 73 and described the two skills of her 200,000-year torso bone. The chapter ended with her detailing how Fuyao and Torrential Rain could combine to amplify her attacks with wind, water, fire, and ice.

• Little Sea Lion saw the Misty Smoke King’s complete Mental Body and felt reassured about the sacrifice, while Huo Wu teased him about his turn.
• Huo Wu said her Soul Power Level had reached level 73 and explained that Fuyao used flames and wind to amplify and spread her Fire-attribute attacks.
• Quan Li praised Fuyao’s potential, while Old Turtle explained that the Misty Smoke Clan’s power focused more on quantity than quality; Quan Yi and Huo Wu said the skill suited them.
• Huo Wu described Scorched Earth, the first stage of Timely Rain, which evaporated moisture and weakened Water- and Ice-attribute Spirit Masters while boosting Fire-attribute Spirit Masters.
• Huo Wu explained that Torrential Rain gathered the evaporated moisture into black clouds and released rain carrying hidden Phoenix Flame, and that combining it with Fuyao could create stronger ice-and-fire attacks.

Huo Wu demonstrated her Seventh Soul Skill, Fire Shadow True Form Awakening, revealing its advanced Shadow Manipulation ability and powerful enhancements. The chapter ended with Quan Yi praising the potential of her Fire Shadow Martial Soul.

• Huo Wu explained that her fused Soul Bone Skills were powerful but consumed substantial soul power.
• Huo Wu activated her Martial Soul Avatar and vanished into an incorporeal Fire Shadow.
• Huo Wu merged with Fierce Fang King's shadow and controlled its body, making it perform tricks before releasing it.
• Huo Wu revealed that Shadow Manipulation let her hide within and control living beings through their shadows.
• Huo Wu emerged from Old Turtle's shadow while Quan Yi struggled to detect her movement.
• Huo Wu described her Fire Shadow True Form's attribute boosts and damage immunities, and Quan Yi praised her Martial Soul.

Quan Yi began the second Sacrifice Ceremony with the Golden Furnace Flame Turtle King and used borrowed Mental Power to replace the turtle’s soul in guiding the ritual. The sacrifice succeeded, strengthening Quan Yi and producing a golden-jade Left Arm Bone that he absorbed.

• Three days after Huo Wu’s transformation, the Golden Furnace Flame Turtle King met Quan Yi to begin the second Sacrifice Ceremony.
• Quan Yi and Huo Wu used their fully compatible Mental Fusion to seize Old Turtle’s soul as his body became red motes of light.
• Quan Yi asked the Flame Dragon King, Wutong, and the Misty Smoke King to lend him their Mental Power, and they agreed.
• Quan Yi used Dual-Mindedness to control the turtle’s energy and guide the sacrifice in place of Old Turtle’s soul.
• Old Turtle’s energy strengthened Quan Yi’s physical attributes and life origin, then formed a golden-jade Left Arm Bone that Quan Yi absorbed.

Quan Yi successfully absorbed the Golden Jade King's Hundred Thousand Year Soul Ring and Spirit Bone, expanding the Dark Gold Sun Dragon Claw across his shoulder, chest, and back. He explained his new abilities to everyone, then revealed that he could precisely hit targets thousands of li away despite the skill having no locking ability.

• Quan Yi controlled the Sacrifice energy and fused the Golden Jade King's Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone into himself, raising his Soul Power Level to eighty-three.
• Huo Wu admired the expanded Dark Gold Sun Dragon Claw as it spread across Quan Yi's upper body in a Flame Pattern.
• Quan Yi told Quan Li and the others that the absorption had given him four powerful skills and described the Soul Ring skill Furnace Flame Burst Golden Spear.
• Quan Yi explained that the Golden Spear's range could extend thousands of li and that he could use the Dark Gold Sun Dragon Claw to increase its power.
• After Fierce Fang King questioned how he could hit a distant target without locking onto it, Quan Yi claimed he had a way to achieve a precise hit.

Quan Yi explained the four skills he gained from the Golden Jade Furnace Flame Turtle’s Soul Ring and Soul Bone, including powerful remote attacks, control, defense, and recovery. Huo Wu vowed to return in a year after reaching level 80, and Quan Yi led the clans away from the Volcano Archipelago.

• Quan Yi showed Fierce Fang King how Xiao Jin and Xiao Hong could extend his senses and carry out remote precision attacks with the Furnace Flame Burst Golden Spear.
• Quan Yi described the Golden Jade Furnace, which trapped enemies in a sealed, high-temperature space and blocked spatial Soul Skills.
• Quan Yi revealed the Golden Jade Luminescence and Spirit Turtle Shedding Shell Soul Bone Skills, which dispelled negative effects, formed a barrier, and fully restored his condition at a heavy cost and with a long cooldown.
• Huo Wu promised Fierce Fang King she would return in one year after reaching level 80, and Fierce Fang King agreed to wait.
• Quan Yi bid farewell to Fierce Fang King and led the Misty Smoke Albatross and Golden Jade Furnace Flame Turtle clans back to Blue Silver Island.