Chapter Summaries

Feng Wu discovered that his Killing Intent weakened the Ancient Battlefield’s trial, allowing him to open the inheritance entrance. After passing through its protective membrane, he saw someone below.

• Feng Wu considered detonating his Pseudo Strange Fire but stopped when he realized his Killing Intent could weaken the trial’s shredding force.
• The inheritance entrance opened, and Mu Chen hurried to Feng Wu’s side.
• Feng Wu explained how his Killing Intent had helped him pass the trial and praised Mu Chen’s ancestor for designing it.
• Feng Wu tested the dark red membrane, confirmed it allowed him through, and leaped into the inheritance entrance.
• Feng Wu saw someone’s back as he fell through the membrane.

Feng Wu encountered Mu Bin’s strange, back-facing inheritance figure and discovered that it presented its back from every direction. After returning underground with his puppets, Feng Wu surrounded the figure and waited instead of accepting the inheritance, and the figure eventually changed as Feng Wu smiled confidently.

• Mu Bin’s figure recited his life as a battle-scarred general and offered his inheritance to anyone who knelt and kowtowed three times.
• Feng Wu discovered that Mu Bin’s figure showed its back no matter where he stood, then returned to the surface to reassure Mu Chen that he would share the inheritance.
• Feng Wu recalled his Ten Attendants Puppets, went back underground, and arranged them in a circle around Mu Bin’s figure.
• Feng Wu waited and cultivated with his remaining Symbiotic Purple Crystal Source while Mu Chen, Dong Wen, and Dong Wu worried aboveground.
• After more than two hours, Mu Bin’s back view changed, and Feng Wu smiled confidently.

Feng Wu met Mu Bin, the long-preserved spirit of Mu Chen’s great-great-great grandfather, and refused to kneel for his inheritance. He offered instead to revive Mu Bin in exchange for the inheritance, leaving Mu Bin considering the promise after Feng Wu demonstrated his alchemy.

• Feng Wu examined Mu Bin’s blood-soaked corpse and waited for the life force he had sensed within it to reveal itself.
• Mu Bin appeared and demanded that Feng Wu kneel and accept his inheritance, but Feng Wu refused to bow to anyone.
• Mu Bin threatened to kill Feng Wu and unleashed the Killing Intent within the Inheritance Ground.
• Feng Wu offered to help Mu Bin obtain a new body and live again if Mu Bin passed on his inheritance.
• Mu Bin asked how Feng Wu could prove he could revive him, and Feng Wu showed him a Fifth Grade pill and Peach Blossom Fire, claiming he could save him after reaching the seventh grade as an Alchemist.

Feng Wu received Mu Bin’s inheritance, learning the principles of the Killing Dao and securing Mu Bin’s remains and a soul-nourishing bone pendant. He emerged from the Ancient Battlefield with Mu Bin’s soul, then asked whether Mu Bin wanted to pass some inheritance to Mu Chen.

• Feng Wu convinced Mu Bin that he was a Fifth Rank Alchemist and described the requirements for resurrection while the two cautiously tested each other.
• Mu Bin passed his inheritance to Feng Wu, who endured the flood of knowledge and recognized Mu Bin’s Killing Dao as a formidable auxiliary path.
• Mu Bin gave Feng Wu a bone from his skeleton to use as a pendant and asked him to take his spear and corpse, explaining how Killing Intent had tempered his body and abilities.
• Feng Wu fashioned the bone into a pendant, stored Mu Bin’s corpse, and let Mu Bin’s soul enter the pendant before leaving the Ancient Battlefield.
• Mu Chen greeted Feng Wu outside, and Feng Wu asked Mu Bin whether he wanted to give his descendant some of the inheritance; Mu Bin questioned Mu Chen’s inadequacy despite his Killing Intent.

Feng Wu told Mu Bin about the Gamma Empire’s decline, prompting Mu Bin to decide to pass on part of his inheritance to Mu Chen. After Mu Chen received it, Feng Wu accepted his offer of a military post and asked him to help locate a secluded Cauldron Forging Master.

• Feng Wu explained the Gamma Empire’s weakness and the threat posed by a Dou Zong plotting rebellion, and Mu Bin erupted with Killing Intent before agreeing to give Mu Chen part of his inheritance.
• Feng Wu wrote down a simplified version of Mu Bin’s inheritance and gave it to Mu Chen, who thanked him and offered him a general’s rank and a place at the border.
• Feng Wu accepted Mu Chen’s offer but said he needed half a month to a month before traveling to the border.
• Feng Wu showed Mu Chen Ya Fei’s map and asked him to use the army’s intelligence network to find a secluded high-level Cauldron Forging Master.
• Mu Chen realized Feng Wu was an Alchemist, offered him a pill cauldron from his family, and called Dong Wen and Dong Wu over.

Feng Wu learned that Dong Wen and Dong Wu were disciples of the Cauldron Forging Master he sought and asked them to take him to their master for a higher-grade alchemy cauldron. Dong Wen agreed to help and recognized Feng Wu’s Peach Blossom Fire as a Heavenly Flame.

• Mu Chen called Dong Wen and Dong Wu over and asked them to guide Feng Wu to a Cauldron Forging Master.
• Dong Wen explained that the map was outdated and offered to forge Feng Wu a cauldron, but Feng Wu declined because he wanted one of Sixth or Seventh Order.
• Dong Wen agreed to take Feng Wu to his master and promised to recommend him.
• Dong Wen asked whether Feng Wu’s flame was a Heavenly Flame, and Feng Wu revealed his Peach Blossom Fire.

Feng Wu visited Yue Yang, Dong Wen and Dong Wu’s master, to ask him to forge an alchemy cauldron and discovered that Yue Yang was a Dou Zong preparing to break through to Rank 7 Cauldron Forging Master. Yue Yang began to refuse, but Dong Wen revealed that Feng Wu possessed a Heavenly Flame, leaving Yue Yang stunned.

• Feng Wu, Dong Wen, and Dong Wu flew to their master’s home at Black Mountain Fortress.
• Feng Wu admired the enormous Iron Mother forging room and concluded that Dong Wen and Dong Wu’s master was at least a Half-Step Dou Zong.
• Yue Yang emerged from the forging room carrying a powerful Fifth Order guandao and asked Feng Wu what weapon he wanted.
• Feng Wu respectfully asked Yue Yang to forge him an alchemy cauldron.
• Yue Yang started to refuse because he was preparing to become a Rank 7 Cauldron Forging Master, but Dong Wen urged him to reconsider.
• Dong Wen told Yue Yang that Feng Wu had a Heavenly Flame, and Yue Yang grabbed Dong Wen’s arm and demanded that he repeat it.

Feng Wu agreed to help Yue Yang use his Heavenly Flame to break through to Rank 7 Cauldron Forging Master in exchange for a supreme-quality Rank 7 Medicine Cauldron. After settling into a room built over a Yang Meridian, Feng Wu summoned Mu Bin to begin cultivating.

• Dong Wen suggested that Feng Wu use his Heavenly Flame to help Yue Yang break through to Rank 7 Cauldron Forging Master, and Yue Yang offered Feng Wu the first cauldron he forged afterward.
• Yue Yang crushed his fleeting greed for Feng Wu's Heavenly Flame and promised him a Rank 6 Cauldron instead if the breakthrough failed.
• Feng Wu accepted the deal, and Yue Yang had Dong Wen and Dong Wu prepare his room and teach him Cauldron Forging Master's Fire Control techniques.
• Feng Wu discovered that his room sat over a fire-attributed Yang Meridian and considered his remaining goals, including finding Heavenly Fire Venerable's soul and the Bodhi Transformation Saliva.
• Feng Wu summoned Mu Bin from the Bone Pendant and asked him to assess and guide his cultivation.

Feng Wu began cultivating Mu Bin’s Blood Blade Slaughter Dao by purifying the impurities in his killing intent with his Soul Power. He passed out after enduring the process for thirty-eight minutes, having greatly strengthened and refined his soul.

• Feng Wu recalled Mu Bin’s Slaughter Dao inheritance and recognized that Blood Blade could address his weakness in close combat.
• Mu Bin explained that Feng Wu first had to use Soul Power to cleanse the violent and resentful impurities from his killing intent.
• Feng Wu endured the soul-straining purification while taking a Fourth Grade Mind Calming Pill to withstand the pressure.
• Feng Wu discovered that the process tempered his soul and increased his Soul Power, then continued despite the pain.
• Feng Wu lasted thirty-eight minutes before collapsing, and Mu Bin caught him.
• Feng Wu’s soul had grown denser and clearer, and he believed he could now refine middle- or late-Fifth Grade pills after recovering.

After waking from a coma, Feng Wu discovered that Mu Bin’s dream-based method had greatly restored and strengthened his Soul Power. He realized the method might also increase the soul’s spirit and enable breakthroughs into the Spirit Realm, but kept that insight to himself.

• Mu Bin told Feng Wu that he had endured the previous day’s soul impact for thirty-eight minutes and gained substantial benefits.
• Feng Wu found his Soul Power fully restored, his twisted emotions gone, and his Soul Power increased by forty-seven percent from before the coma.
• Feng Wu considered Mu Bin’s theory that dreams could purify Killing Intent and improve Soul Power, while recognizing that the method’s effectiveness would gradually decline.
• Feng Wu realized that purifying Killing Intent might also increase the soul’s spirit and help a soul break through into the Spirit Realm.
• Feng Wu suspected Mu Bin had already reached the Spirit Realm and decided not to reveal his insight, since the method could attract powerful factions.

Feng Wu purified his Killing Intent, used the separated obsessions to strengthen the Fire Tipped Spear, and began tempering his body with the refined energy. He left to learn forging at Yue Yang's secluded cultivation grounds, with plans to pursue a cauldron and other goals afterward.

• Feng Wu separated his Killing Intent into dark-red primordial energy, bright blood-red purified energy, and gray-black obsessions.
• Feng Wu embedded the obsessions in the Fire Tipped Spear, raising its power by an entire tier, and considered Mu Bin's imagined God Slaying Spear.
• Dong Wu called Feng Wu to learn forging with Dong Wen, and Feng Wu restrained most of his Killing Intent.
• Feng Wu guided the remaining purified Killing Intent into his body and endured its pain as it tempered his body and soul.

Feng Wu began learning forging from Dong Wen and Dong Wu while enduring the Killing Intent tempering his body. He grasped how hammering could heat and refine iron without flames, and the lesson left him ready to continue learning artifact refining.

• Feng Wu brushed off Dong Wen's concern about his pale, sweating appearance and insisted on starting his forging lessons.
• Dong Wen showed Feng Wu the forging room, where the Zheng Yang Land's Yang Qi boosted Dong Wu's flames and could aid Yue Yang's attempt to break through to Rank 7 Cauldron Forging Master.
• Dong Wu finished a short blade and explained that Feng Wu would learn forging before Fire Control, while Dong Wen described how hammer strikes required precise changes in temperature.
• Dong Wu struck unheated pig iron once, compressing it into a glowing disc of refined iron and forcing black material out onto the platform.
• Feng Wu used his understanding of physics to grasp how impact and friction could heat the iron without a flame.

Feng Wu learned how fire control and uneven heating could create flaws inside forged weapons as Dong Wen compared a sound short sword with a cracked dagger. Dong Wen explained that Feng Wu’s task was to maintain steady temperatures, and Feng Wu offered to try.

• Feng Wu realized Dong Wu’s hammer strikes required him to adjust the flame temperature constantly as the metal heated and cooled.
• Dong Wen showed Feng Wu a third-tier Short Dagger and compared it with Dong Wu’s Lake Blue Short Sword.
• Dong Wen struck the Lake Blue Short Sword against the Short Dagger, splitting the dagger along an internal crack while the short sword suffered only minor damage.
• Dong Wen explained that poor forging technique or unstable Fire Control could leave a metal’s internal structure uneven and cause flaws.
• Feng Wu summarized that the metal needed to remain within a steady temperature range and offered to try controlling the fire.

Feng Wu began learning artifact refining from Dong Wen and Dong Wu, practicing temperature control while forging third-tier Iron Mother into a weapon. Impressed by Feng Wu’s early success, Dong Wen accelerated the lesson until Feng Wu was struggling to keep up, though the material had not yet collapsed.

• Dong Wen chose third-tier Iron Mother and explained that Feng Wu should learn weapon forging before attempting the more difficult cauldron forging.
• Feng Wu used his Peach Blossom Fire to heat the Iron Mother quickly and keep it at a steady temperature on the forging table.
• Dong Wen struck the metal, and Feng Wu adjusted the flame to compensate for the heat produced by each hammer blow.
• Feng Wu managed the first two strikes without ruining the Iron Mother, convincing Dong Wen and Dong Wu that he was a forging prodigy.
• Dong Wen cut most of the time for reflection and increased the hammering speed, leaving Feng Wu struggling to control the temperature as the lesson continued.

Feng Wu discovered that his enhanced soul spirituality made his Fire Control more intuitive, and he helped forge a high-grade Third Order axe. Though Dong Wen urged him to become an Artifact Refiner, Feng Wu declined and spent the day learning and practicing the full forging process instead.

• Feng Wu found that his improved soul realm made controlling the Peach Blossom Fire easier and more creative, despite his remaining flaws in regulating the Iron Mother's temperature.
• Dong Wen quenched the axe Feng Wu had helped forge, praised his talent, and urged him to study Cauldron Forging under his master.
• Feng Wu accepted the axe but declined to pursue artifact refining, deciding he needed to focus his limited time on his existing paths and have Yue Yang make weapons for him.
• Feng Wu spent the rest of the day forging weapons from varied materials, practicing every step from Fire Control to quenching, and found the hands-on process more effective than fire practice alone.

Feng Wu rapidly mastered artifact refinement, progressing from failed attempts to forging a high-quality Fourth Order spearhead in seven days. When Yue Yang returned, he was astonished by Feng Wu’s skill and asked whether Feng Wu had studied artifact refinement before.

• Feng Wu failed several times before independently forging a usable Second Rank weapon on his fifth attempt.
• Feng Wu steadily improved, perfected Second Rank forging, and became a Third Grade Artifact Refiner in one day.
• Feng Wu incorporated forging techniques and Fire Control practice into his daily training while purifying his Killing Intent.
• A week later, Feng Wu had purified seventy percent of his Killing Intent and more than doubled his Soul Power.
• Feng Wu forged a high-quality Fourth Order spearhead just as Yue Yang returned.
• Yue Yang saw the spearhead and asked Feng Wu whether he already had a foundation in artifact refinement.

Feng Wu’s remarkable forging talent convinced Yue Yang that he could help forge a cauldron, and Yue Yang tried to recruit him as a disciple. After learning Feng Wu was already a Fifth Grade Alchemist, Yue Yang gave up on changing his path and let Dong Wen and Dong Wu teach him the Yue Yang Hammer Technique.

• Yue Yang returned to find Feng Wu forging a spearhead and questioned why someone so skilled had asked him to forge a cauldron.
• Dong Wen and Dong Wu explained that Feng Wu had learned forging in just seven days, and Yue Yang confirmed his recent practice by examining his new calluses.
• Impressed by Feng Wu’s talent, Yue Yang offered to make him his final disciple and pass on his forging knowledge.
• Feng Wu said he was a mid-tier Fifth Grade Alchemist, so Yue Yang accepted that he would not switch paths and instructed Dong Wen and Dong Wu to teach him the Yue Yang Hammer Technique.
• Yue Yang lamented the decline of Cauldron Forging Masters, while Feng Wu recognized that his forging progress would soon slow and his strength would limit him.

Yue Yang began forging a Rank 7 medicine cauldron with Feng Wu, Dong Wen, and Dong Wu assisting. When Feng Wu heated Rank 7 Cloud Sea Fine Gold, Yue Yang discovered it carried a trace of spirituality that helped the metal accommodate his hammer strikes and repair minor flaws.

• After Feng Wu advanced to Fifth Grade Artifact Refiner and Fourth Grade cauldron forging, Yue Yang gave him more time to practice with Rank 7 materials.
• Yue Yang judged the day ideal for a breakthrough and began forging a Rank 7 cauldron, with Feng Wu heating materials and Dong Wen and Dong Wu preparing array inscriptions.
• Feng Wu heated a piece of Rank 7 Cloud Sea Fine Gold and handed it to Yue Yang, who sensed a faint spirituality in the metal.
• As Yue Yang hammered the metal, it seemed to accommodate his strikes, and minor imperfections began to repair themselves.
• Yue Yang suspected Feng Wu had bestowed the metal with spirit and became more confident in forging the cauldron.

Yue Yang led Feng Wu, Dong Wen, and Dong Wu through the preparation of a complex Rank 7 medicinal cauldron, aiming to forge the best possible cauldron rather than an easier one. With the preliminary work complete and Feng Wu nearly out of Soul Power, Yue Yang began the final stages alone.

• Yue Yang hammered Cloud Sea Fine Gold while Feng Wu controlled the flames and Dong Wen and Dong Wu engraved miniature arrays into the metal pieces.
• Yue Yang designed the cauldron’s array system with smaller patterns linked to Rank 6 and Rank 7 engravings for powerful amplification.
• Yue Yang chose to attempt a top-tier Rank 7 cauldron, believing the experience would strengthen his future forging rather than leave him with an unstable foundation.
• Yue Yang, Feng Wu, Dong Wen, and Dong Wu worked from noon until midnight, preparing more than a hundred pieces as Feng Wu’s Soul Power fell below thirty percent.
• Yue Yang announced that he was beginning fusion forging, cauldron assembly, and final forging, and told the others to watch and learn.

Feng Wu and Yue Yang completed the cauldron’s alloy forging and joined its body, producing a seamless, sturdy blank with layered inscriptions. Yue Yang began the final casting as Sixth Order and Seventh Order inscriptions appeared, and he believed Rank 7 was assured.

• Feng Wu and Yue Yang transferred the heated metals between their flames while keeping the temperature change to one degree.
• Yue Yang hammered more than a hundred metal pieces into over thirty identical alloy pieces as Feng Wu and the others watched.
• Yue Yang fused the alloy pieces into a seamless square cauldron body, embedding Dong Wen and Dong Wu’s inscriptions without breaking them.
• Feng Wu recognized that the completed blank had reached at least Fifth Order and could likely serve as an ordinary Sixth Order medicine cauldron.
• Yue Yang began the final casting, and Sixth Order and Seventh Order array inscriptions appeared within the cauldron’s patterns.