Chapter Summaries

Su Ming developed plans with Zhen Hua and Zhang Tianyang to combine Soul Forging research with Ten-thousand-year Artificial Spirits, then began absorbing Sea God Faith to challenge Tang San’s influence over the Douluo Plane. As he helped the Plane Will reclaim its authority, he discovered Ah Yin’s faint presence in its core and suspected she would need to destroy the Golden Ancient Tree to become the Tree of Life.

• Zhen Hua understood Su Ming’s plan to use forging to help Soul Spirits break through ten thousand years before using them to develop Artificial Soul-Forged Metal.
• Su Ming contacted Zhang Tianyang, and the Blacksmith Association and Spirit Pagoda expanded their joint project to include Ten-thousand-year Artificial Spirits.
• Su Ming began absorbing Sea God Faith and realized that Sea God influence dominated much of the Douluo Plane.
• Su Ming entered the Plane Will’s dimension and used the Faith he had absorbed to help the Plane Will recover authority from the Sea God.
• Su Ming heard Ah Yin call for Tang Hao and inferred that she had not yet taken control of the Golden Ancient Tree and might need to destroy it to become the Tree of Life.

Su Ming explored the Time River and realized how his three selves could make the past and future connect with reality. He prepared to use the Light Cluster and Borrowed Power to let Dou San reach into the river, ending with a giant hand extending into its waters.

• Su Ming accepted the Plane Will’s favor and considered weakening the Sea God’s faith by targeting Shrek Academy’s Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, but decided to wait until he grew stronger.
• Su Ming discovered he could freely enter the Plane Will’s space and remain in the Time River, where he understood how Dou Er, Dou Yi, and Dou San formed his Trinity.
• Su Ming speculated that the Dragon God might have transcended the God Kings by altering history, then reminded himself that he was still only a Soul Elder.
• Su Ming told the Light Cluster to develop its Time Attribute instead of its elemental domain and promised to find it Time Attribute treasures.
• The Light Cluster activated Borrowed Power while Su Ming meditated, and Su Ming gathered the Soul Power of all three selves to form a giant hand that reached into the Time River.

Su Ming tested his ability to draw power from the Time River, accidentally flooding his Cultivation Room with its water before the Light Cluster drank a drop and gained a spatial ability. He learned how slowly the Light Cluster would digest it, then sensed Tang San seeking to learn his Forging system.

• Su Ming fished a wisp of power from the Time River and tried to manifest it, but even a tiny fraction became enough water to nearly flood his Cultivation Room.
• The Light Cluster drank a drop of the Water of Time, then told Su Ming it was full and needed five days to digest it.
• The Light Cluster escaped Su Ming’s grip by turning intangible, revealing that it had awakened a spatial attribute from the Water of Time.
• Su Ming considered using manifested Time River water in a crisis and sensed that Tang San wanted to learn his Forging system.
• Tang San registered at Shrek Academy, visited the Suotuo City Blacksmith Association, and impressed Huo Lie, who recommended him to the Headquarters in Heavenly Forging City and sent Su Ming a separate message.

Su Ming ordered Huo Lie to investigate Tang San and learned that Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, then arranged for him to be assessed at the Blacksmith Association. Tang Hao intervened when Tang Long and Tang Hu confronted Tang San, but three Titled Douluo attacked him, leaving him crippled and missing an arm.

• Su Ming asked Huo Lie to investigate Tang San, and Huo Lie traced his Chaotic Cape hammer technique to the Clear Sky Sect and uncovered Tang Hao’s name.
• Su Ming decided Tang San should demonstrate his forging skills at the Blacksmith Association, while Tang San entered Heavenly Forging City as an exchange student.
• Tang San displayed the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer during an assessment overseen by Tang Long and Tang Hu, who recognized his mastery of the technique.
• Tang Long asked whether Tang San was Tang Hao’s son, and Tang Hu called him Tang Hao’s bastard before preparing to attack him.
• Tang Hao appeared, seized Tang San, and fled, but three Titled Douluo attacked and crippled him; Chen Xin severed one of his arms and later traded the recovered Soul Bone to the Clear Sky Sect.

After Tang Hao lost his right arm, Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong discussed the Clear Sky Sect, Su Ming, and Ning Rongrong’s departure. Tang Hao took Tang San into hiding and vowed to obtain Forging techniques, while Su Ming later planned to track the pair to protect himself and alert Spirit Hall.

• Su Ming concluded that Tang Hao’s lost right arm had weakened him but still left him dangerous, while Dugu Bo remained nearby in secluded cultivation.
• Ning Fengzhi told Gu Rong that Jian had severed Tang Hao’s right arm, and they discussed the Clear Sky Sect’s inherited Soul Bone, its Rare Metal Vein, and Su Ming’s share of the metals.
• Gu Rong urged Ning Fengzhi to recall Ning Rongrong, but Ning Fengzhi insisted she needed to face challenges and learn to work with companions.
• Tang San awoke beside Tang Hao and blamed himself for joining the Blacksmith Association, while Tang Hao explained that Tang Long and Tang Hu had exposed his identity.
• Tang Hao told Tang San to avoid Shrek Academy, cultivate with him, and learn Forging; he planned to capture an association leader and steal its techniques if necessary.
• Three months later, Su Ming decided to develop a tracking system to follow Tang Hao and Tang San and potentially report them to Spirit Hall.

Su Ming used Faith techniques to track Tang San after Tang Hao helped him obtain a Blue Silver King Soul Spirit and Forging knowledge. The chapter ended with Su Ming locating the father and son and preparing to act on his plans for them and Ah Yin.

• Su Ming explained that anyone who learned his Spirit Infusion technique would generate Faith for him, and Dugu Bo was surprised that he planned to reveal Spiritual Forging.
• Tang Hao returned with Soul Spirits and Forging knowledge, and he helped Tang San absorb a thousand-year Blue Silver King as his Third Soul Spirit.
• Su Ming sensed Tang San's fusion and used Electrolux's secret Positioning art to locate him, while considering how to raise Ah Yin's cultivation for a future Soul Ring.
• Three days later, Su Ming used the Faith from Tang San's Soul Spirit and Forging, along with Tang Hao's lingering Forging Faith, to pinpoint their location within ten meters.

Su Ming found Ah Yin’s hiding place and discovered that she had already reached the ten-thousand-year level. He uprooted the Blue Silver Empress and took the Spiritual Metal and Soul Bone, leaving her fate unresolved.

• Su Ming decided to deal with Tang Hao and Tang San soon and sought a way to accelerate Ah Yin’s cultivation.
• Tang Hao chose to attend the Spirit Forged Metal auction, and Tang San persuaded him to let him come along and help conceal their identities.
• Tang Hao and Tang San left their valley, and Su Ming arrived there three days later.
• Su Ming found Ah Yin’s cave and overwhelmed her Blue Silver Grass with his elemental powers.
• Su Ming collected the Spiritual Metal around Ah Yin, uprooted the Blue Silver Empress, and uncovered a blue-glowing Soul Bone beneath her.

Su Ming stole Ah Yin, the Blue Silver Empress, and brought her back to Dugu Bo at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes. There, he revealed he planned to restore her cultivation and use her for his Fifth Soul Ring, leaving Ah Yin furious.

• Su Ming took Ah Yin's Hundred Thousand Year right leg bone from the cave and concealed her in the Ruyi Hundred Treasures Pouch.
• Tang San and Tang Hao worked with Shi Nian in Canghui City to disguise Tang Hao's missing arm, and Shi Nian agreed to help conceal their movements in exchange for Tang Hao's blacksmithing guidance.
• Su Ming noticed Tang San and Tang Hao were in Canghui City but decided to keep tracking them as he flew back to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.
• Dugu Bo initially mistook Ah Yin for ordinary Blue Silver Grass, then learned she was a revived Blue Silver Empress who had once been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.
• Su Ming said he intended to use Ah Yin as his Fifth Soul Ring after restoring her cultivation, and Ah Yin angrily refused.

Su Ming and Dugu Bo persuaded Ah Yin to reconsider her resistance by arguing that her reincarnation ability could let her surpass the Blue Silver Clan’s limits. Ah Yin wavered and asked whether Su Ming could help her regain fifty thousand years of cultivation within half a year.

• Ah Yin tried to self-destruct, but Su Ming used the Domain of Chaos to stop her, and Dugu Bo restrained her.
• Su Ming showed Ah Yin the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes and argued that she could recover faster by taking root there, but she rejected his persuasion.
• Su Ming urged Ah Yin to strengthen the Blue Silver Clan by breaking through her bloodline’s limits, and Ah Yin questioned whether that was possible.
• Dugu Bo pointed out that Ah Yin could reincarnate and re-cultivate repeatedly, potentially using the process to surpass her clan’s limits.
• Su Ming proposed experimenting with ways to raise Ah Yin to fifty thousand years of cultivation within half a year, and Ah Yin eventually asked whether he was confident he could do it.

Su Ming used Ah Yin to develop Blue Silver Empress Iron and restore the damaged Origin of the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone. After the bone absorbed the iron’s Spirituality but remained short of its target, Su Ming gave Ah Yin a Thousand Forging Saint Grade iron block to fuse with.

• Su Ming gave Ah Yin a piece of pure Spirit Forged Iron and ordered her to fuse her Origin with it, creating Blue Silver Empress Iron.
• Su Ming hammered the Blue Silver Empress Iron daily, drawing power from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes to nurture its Spirituality and Ah Yin’s cultivation.
• After three months, Ah Yin’s cultivation reached ten thousand years, and Su Ming removed the Blue Silver Empress Iron from her body.
• Su Ming fused the iron into the damaged Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, which absorbed its Spirituality when the iron shattered.
• Su Ming found the bone’s restored Origin insufficient and gave Ah Yin a Thousand Forging Saint Grade iron block to fuse with.

Su Ming forged Ah Yin and a Thousand Forging iron block together, then used the resulting fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring and Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone to raise his Soul Power to level 54. He gained the Two Forms Mutual Generation Domain and kept the Soul Bone's abilities private.

• Ah Yin agreed to fuse with the iron block and let Su Ming forge her into it, knowing he would kill her and give her another chance at Re-cultivation.
• Su Ming used Ice and Fire Power and a Spirit Soul Conversion Formation to merge Ah Yin's power into the metal, then left her Blue Silver seed to take root.
• Su Ming shattered the transformed metal and formed a fifty-thousand-year Soul Ring, breaking through to Soul King in the process.
• Little Gold brought Su Ming the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone, which fused with him and had its Origin flaw repaired.
• Su Ming absorbed the Soul Ring and Soul Bone, reached level 54, and gained the Two Forms Mutual Generation Domain, while keeping the Soul Bone's skills to himself.

Su Ming obtained the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone’s healing and teleportation abilities, then prepared safeguards for his future in the Dou San era. Tang Hao and Tang San returned to find Ah Yin’s remains and the leg bone stolen, while Su Ming turned his attention to Shrek’s exchange program in Dou Er.

• Su Ming gained Blue Silver Marks for teleportation and a powerful healing skill from the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone.
• Tang Hao and Tang San returned to the valley, where Tang Hao found Ah Yin uprooted and the Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone missing.
• Tang Hao’s rage caused his damaged meridians to fail, and he collapsed unconscious as Tang San tried to treat him.
• Su Ming nourished Ah Yin’s seedling and left his imprint on it before using Trinity to study the Blue Silver Empress portion across his selves.
• Su Ming planned to enter Shrek in the Dou San era as an exchange student and arranged for Xiao and Meng to go to Shrek in Dou Er while he watched Huo Yuhao.

Jing Hongchen agreed to Shrek’s exchange proposal, while Xuan Zi learned that key students would leave for the exchange instead of joining him to Hunt Souls. Outside Shrek City, Long Xiaoyao drove off five Evil Soul Masters who intended to abduct Ma Xiaotao, then reflected on his promise to Mu En.

• Jing Hongchen agreed that the exchange with Shrek was necessary and said Ma Rulong could participate after recovering from the Sacrificial Chapter’s effects.
• Xuan Zi told Yan Shaozhe that he intended to relax before attempting a breakthrough to Level 99, then learned that thirteen students would leave for the exchange and abandoned his plan to lead a Hunt Souls trip.
• Yan Shaozhe told Xuan Zi that Ma Xiaotao had become a Dark Phoenix with darkness and Evil Attributes, though her Evil Fire had disappeared.
• Five Evil Soul Masters gathered outside Shrek City and planned to abduct Ma Xiaotao, whom they called the Holy Spirit Cult’s Holy Maiden.
• Long Xiaoyao confronted the five Evil Soul Masters, ordered them to stop targeting Ma Xiaotao, and watched them flee before reflecting on his promise to Mu En.

Su Ming prepared to counter the Holy Spirit Cult by offering rewards for fighting Evil Soul Masters and developing a device to locate them. As the exchange program began, Zhang Wei took charge of the Blacksmith Association’s Shrek City branch, while Su Ming noticed Huo Yuhao had missed the Auspicious Beast.

• Long Xiaoyao recalled Mu En’s request to stop the Holy Spirit Cult from infiltrating Shrek Academy and reflected that Tang Ya had disappeared after leaving to rebuild the Tang Sect.
• Jing Hongchen told Su Ming that Evil Soul Masters had attacked across the Sun Moon Empire and the continent, including the Blacksmith Associations, and described the royal family’s cautious stance toward them.
• Su Ming pledged association support for eliminating Evil Soul Masters, established a contribution-point plan for exchanging Spiritual Metal and Spiritual Alloy, and asked Mingde Hall to mass-produce a Soul Tool that could locate them.
• Su Ming assigned Zhang Wei to lead the Shrek City branch and urged him to improve Shrek’s teaching environment rather than seek revenge.
• One month later, Zhang Wei and the Mingde Hall exchange students arrived in Shrek City as Shrek Academy’s exchange students arrived at Mingde Hall; Su Ming noticed Huo Yuhao was only Level thirty and had missed the Auspicious Beast.

Su Ming rejected the Auspicious Beast opportunity, declared himself Fate, and warned Huo Yuhao against using Spiritual Detection recklessly at Mingde Hall. Huo Yuhao then planned his next Soul Hunt, eyeing a powerful Evil Eye Soul Beast.

• Su Ming decided the Auspicious Beast was too dangerous to pursue, then merged his three selves above the Time River and proclaimed, "I am Fate!"
• Su Ming led the Shrek exchange students through Mingde Hall and warned them that forbidden research was off-limits and careless use of Spiritual Power could get them killed.
• Huo Yuhao and He Caitou worried that Su Ming had detected Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection, and Fan Yu advised Huo Yuhao to hunt a Soul Beast before attempting to copy Soul Tool Core Arrays.
• Fan Yu gave Huo Yuhao a booklet on Sun Moon Empire Soul Beasts, and Tian Meng urged him to target the Evil Eye Clan.
• Huo Yuhao agreed that he would hunt an Evil Eye Tyrant if he got the chance.

One month later, Zhang Wei led the Shrek City Blacksmith Association as rumors about his expulsion from Shrek Academy drew in Soul Masters resentful of Shrek. Su Ming developed the Rank 5 Evil-Illuminating Mirror to detect Evil Soul Masters, and Jing Hongchen agreed to deploy it across five cities, with Su Ming demanding four layers of coverage.

• Soul Masters at the Shrek City Blacksmith Association discussed Zhang Wei’s past, and one man loudly claimed Shrek had expelled him and mistreated its students.
• Zhang Wei stopped Forging and memorized the outspoken man’s face, then asked Su Ming whether he could make use of him; Su Ming gave him discretion as long as the man followed association rules.
• Su Ming built a Rank 5 Evil-Illuminating Mirror that detected Evil Soul Masters by sensing their beliefs and displayed them as red dots.
• Su Ming brought the mirror to Jing Hongchen, explained that its dots indicated talent rather than strength, and Jing Hongchen promised to prioritize distribution to five cities within half a month.
• Su Ming required every location in those cities to be covered by at least four mirrors, making Jing Hongchen’s cheek twitch.

Su Ming introduced the Evil-Illuminating Mirror to Zhen Hua and uncovered a Holy Spirit Cult spy inside the Blacksmith Association. He agreed to let the Holy Angel Yue Family distribute the technology, then discussed his recent breakthrough and plans to fuse with an Evil Eye Soul Spirit.

• Zhen Hua tested Su Ming's Evil-Illuminating Mirror and discovered an Evil Soul Master nearby in the Blacksmith Association.
• Su Ming explained that the target, Soul Flame, had used Holy Source to raise a Soul Spirit, revealing him as a Holy Spirit Cult spy.
• Zhen Hua and Su Ming agreed to keep Soul Flame unaware of the mirror and have the Holy Angel Yue Family distribute its technology.
• Mu Ye asked about Su Ming's cultivation, and Su Ming said he had reached Rank 40 and planned to fuse with an Evil Eye Soul Spirit.
• Su Ming considered using the Evil Eye Soul Spirit's attributes to expand his Martial Soul and possibly help the Main Body of Dou Yi pursue the God of Destruction's power.

Su Ming merged with the Evil Eye Soul Spirit, renamed him Chaos, and discovered that Chaos Power could coordinate multiple elements. The chapter ended with the Light Cluster reluctantly beginning to train Chaos in Element Harmony while Su Ming watched from his forging table.

• Zhang Tianyang brought Su Ming the Evil Eye Soul Spirit, and Su Ming began merging with it.
• Su Ming reassured Evil Eye that his divided elemental talent could be reunited through Chaos Power and the fusion of his attributes.
• The merger raised Su Ming to level 41 and increased his Spiritual Power to 6800 points, while giving his Martial Soul access to Chaos Power and Decomposition Power.
• Su Ming named Evil Eye Chaos, and Chaos tried to coordinate six elements but caused an explosion because his elemental control was weak.
• Su Ming assigned the Light Cluster to teach Chaos Element Harmony, and the Light Cluster reluctantly began guiding him as Su Ming went to forge.

Su Ming prepared to condense Dual Soul Cores while seeking Dugu Bo’s help to develop a breakthrough method for Zhu Jiuyang. Dugu Bo explained how he had created his Poison Pill Method, and Su Ming ended by pointing out a possible way to study Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast power.

• Su Ming searched for Dual Soul Core research and worried that his Soul Power might stall at Level 48 before he reached his preferred preparation point of Level 50.
• Su Ming asked Dugu Bo whether his Poison Pill Method had helped him break through to Titled Douluo and proposed researching a general breakthrough method for Zhu Jiuyang.
• Dugu Bo explained that he had gained insight into the Poison Pill Method after the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s medicinal power formed a pill within it.
• Su Ming suggested studying the Soul Power structure of Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts, and Dugu Bo objected that capturing one alive would be nearly impossible.
• Su Ming reminded Dugu Bo that she had once been a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast.

Su Ming accelerated Ah Yin’s cultivation at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes until she regained her intelligence, then questioned her about the Soul Core Method. Ah Yin’s explanation prompted Su Ming to formulate a framework for Soul Core cultivation, which he and Dugu Bo refined over the following months.

• Su Ming used his Two Forms Mutual Generation Domain to raise Ah Yin’s cultivation to a thousand years and restore her intelligence.
• Su Ming asked Ah Yin how Soul Power circulated after she became a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast, and she explained that it formed a Soul Core.
• Su Ming explained how Soul Beasts maintained fluid Soul Power while increasing its quality, and Dugu Bo recognized the implications for his Poison Pill Method.
• Su Ming experienced an epiphany about delaying Soul Power solidification and began writing a framework for the Soul Core Method.
• Su Ming asked Ah Yin and Dugu Bo to review the framework, and he and Dugu Bo continued refining it over several days and then three months.