Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and Dugu Bo completed and published the Soul Core Method, while Su Ming pursued Soul Core Faith and proposed the Infinite Soul Core Theory. Shrek Academy’s elders learned that Su Ming was struggling to condense a second Soul Core and celebrated, believing his progress had stalled.

• Su Ming and Dugu Bo developed the Soul Core Method, and Su Ming persuaded Dugu Bo to publish it under both their names.
• Su Ming asked Electrolux whether Soul Core Faith could help him condense Dual Soul Cores, and Electrolux warned him against seeking Faith as a shortcut.
• Su Ming drafted an Infinite Soul Core Theory with Electrolux’s help and published it through the Blacksmith Association.
• Yan Shaozhe convened a Sea God Pavilion Meeting after realizing Su Ming already had a Soul Core and might be trying to condense a second one.
• Yan Shaozhe and the pavilion elders concluded that Su Ming had stalled on his Second Soul Core and celebrated the news.

Su Ming planned to use faith, soul-core battle armor, and a powerful secret method soul bone to help condense his second soul core, but he needed a hundred-thousand-year light-attribute torso bone to counter its resentment. Du Busi went to Shrek to claim Mu En's torso bone as the fulfillment of an old promise, arguing that giving it to Su Ming would benefit the soul master world.

• Electrolux confirmed that soul-core faith could make Su Ming's soul-core condensation steadier but could not directly assist, and agreed to activate it when needed.
• Su Ming refined his plan to forge supportive battle armor with customized arrays for condensing his second soul core.
• Su Ming examined a hundred-thousand-year Three-Star Secret Method Soul Bone whose resentment and evil qi could corrupt its user, and concluded he needed a matching light-attribute torso bone.
• Du Busi confronted Yan Shaozhe and the Sea God Pavilion elders, demanding Mu En's torso bone under Shrek's old promise.
• Yan Shaozhe and the elders refused, but Du Busi argued that giving the bone to Su Ming would benefit the soul master world.

Du Busi obtained Mu En’s Light-attribute dragon Soul Bone from Shrek and brought it to Su Ming to support his breakthrough. After three months of preparation, Su Ming began condensing a Soul Core with his Battle Armor and two Soul Bones, leaving Elder Yi to extract the torso bone’s Light Origin.

• Mu En instructed Shrek’s elders to give Du Busi his torso Soul Bone, and Du Busi took it away in a Soul Tool case.
• Du Busi presented the Soul Bone to Su Ming, who confirmed he could use it but warned that the fusion might not follow conventional methods.
• Three months later, Su Ming reached level forty-eight and prepared to condense a Soul Core with a Three-Star Secret Method Soul Bone and Mu En’s torso bone.
• Su Ming fused with his eleven Battle Armor components, greatly increasing his Soul Power, while Du Busi watched.
• Su Ming endured the Secret Method Soul Bone’s Baleful Qi as Elder Yi began stripping the Light Origin from Mu En’s torso bone.

Su Ming successfully condensed a Second Soul Core at Level 48 after the Secret Method Soul Bone and Soul Condensing Battle Armor amplified his Soul Power. After stabilizing his Dual Soul Cores, he urged Du Busi to seek more power for his own breakthrough and hinted that they could go beyond the Battle Armor’s current limits.

• Du Busi crushed and absorbed the dragon bloodline released from Su Ming’s shattered Soul Bone, while Electrolux used the Light Origin to repair the Secret Method Soul Bone’s flaws.
• Su Ming controlled his surging Soul Power and condensed his Second Soul Core with the help of his preparations and the Soul Bone’s amplification.
• Du Busi celebrated Su Ming’s successful Level 48 breakthrough, and Su Ming spent half a month stabilizing his Dual Soul Cores.
• Su Ming sensed that his resonating Soul Cores improved his perception of spatial fluctuations and greatly increased the amount of Soul Power he could compress.
• Su Ming told Du Busi it was time for him to break through, then asked what would happen if they took Battle Armor one step further.

Su Ming developed soul forging, completed his first soul-forged metal, and became the first Saint Craftsman, drawing attention across the continent and from the Divine Realm. As the forging system’s new realm spread, Su Ming realized he could no longer keep his techniques hidden and decided he had little reason to fear the consequences.

• Su Ming explained soul forging to Du Busi and described how a blacksmith guided an alloy to awaken its own inheritance.
• After more than a hundred attempts over two and a half months, Su Ming completed his first soul forging and declared himself a Saint Craftsman.
• Su Ming’s forging faith condensed into the embryonic form of a Divine Throne, which astonished the God of Destruction.
• Blacksmiths across the continent learned that soul forging was a new realm, while Xuan Zi convened a Sea God Pavilion Meeting and Xu Jiawei complained that Su Ming had concealed the true state of forging.
• Su Ming worried that he had caused too much of a stir, then resolved that his strength and Du Busi’s approaching breakthrough meant he no longer needed to fear anyone.

Su Ming established requirements for learning advanced forging techniques and recruited Xuan Ziwen to join Su Can’s Battle Armor research project. The project gained strong support and resources, including three pieces of Spirit Forged Metal from Su Ming.

• Su Ming announced that blacksmiths had to meet specific forging standards before learning Spiritual Forging, Fusion Forging, and Soul Forging.
• Su Ming told Du Busi that Soul Guide Technology would be needed to complete his Battle Armor, while Su Can’s team worked on advanced Battle Armor arrays.
• Su Ming invited Xuan Ziwen to join Su Can’s project and persuaded him that Battle Armor research could also advance Soul Tools that assisted ordinary Soul Tool production.
• Xu Tianran learned that Xuan Ziwen and Kong Deming’s team had joined the project and backed Battle Armor research as a means of resisting the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Su Ming sponsored the project with three pieces of Spirit Forged Metal.

Su Ming arrived at Shrek Academy as an exchange student and met with Feng Wu Yu, who sought his advice on Spirit Infusion. Feng Wu Yu demonstrated a method combining Spirit Infusion with multiple Soul Spirits, leaving Su Ming wondering whether it could also work with Soul Forging and Heavenly Forging.

• Tang Wulin and Yue Zhengyu speculated about who had built the villa beside the work-study student dormitories.
• Su Ming arrived in Shrek City and went to the Shrek Blacksmith Association to register as an exchange student.
• Feng Wu Yu welcomed Su Ming and asked for guidance on using his own Spirituality for Spirit Infusion.
• Su Ming explained that a Soul Master could not separate their own Spirituality for Spirit Infusion.
• Feng Wu Yu demonstrated how he used two Soul Spirits to combine Spirit Infusion with Fusion Forging, and Su Ming considered extending the method to Soul Forging and Heavenly Forging.

Su Ming discussed Feng Wu Yu’s Spirit Infusion-based Fusion Forging technique and realized it could help him create pure metal life embryos. After Tang Wulin briefly visited him, Su Ming considered how his different selves might develop Ultimate Spirit Infusion, while a voice in the plane will’s space asked Hao whether he had found another Son of the Plane.

• Feng Wu Yu completed Spirit Infusion and explained how he had combined it with Fusion Forging.
• Su Ming pointed out the technique’s high overall requirements and suggested using a primary Soul Spirit to incorporate other Soul Spirits’ characteristics.
• Su Ming reflected that Spirit Infusion could be combined with his life embryo technique to produce metal with a perfect fusion rate.
• Tang Wulin saw Su Ming enter the work-study villa, went to greet him, and awkwardly left after exchanging a few words.
• Su Ming concluded that his Dou Er self should visit the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes and try Ultimate Spirit Infusion, but worried about Tang San’s interference.
• In the plane will’s space, a jade-green glow appeared and a voice asked Hao whether he had found another Son of the Plane.

Su Ming deceived Ah Yin while investigating the contest over the Son of the Plane, then spent a month advancing his cultivation and professions. In Dou Er, Du Busi found an unusually weak Evil Eye with all six elements, and Su Ming asked him to capture it alive.

• Su Ming imitated the Clear Sky Hammer’s clashes to convince Ah Yin that Tang Hao was occupied, and she agreed to help him grow.
• Su Ming observed that the Sea God held seventy percent of the territory, while Tang Hao and the Plane Will held the rest, and concluded that Tang Hao and Ah Yin had to approve a Son of the Plane.
• After a month of cultivation and study, Su Ming reached Level 44 and expected to break through to Level 45 within five days.
• Du Busi entered the Demonic Forest to investigate the Holy Spirit Cult and encountered a dispirited, thousand-year-old Evil Eye with all six elemental attributes.
• Su Ming learned that the Evil Eye was Chaos and asked Du Busi to capture it alive.

Su Ming found a thousand-year-old Evil Eye with every elemental attribute to serve as the vessel for his Elemental Control martial soul, and Du Busi went to retrieve it from the Demonic Forest. Du Busi’s clash with the Evil Emperor triggered a breakthrough, and he left with the Evil Eye after thwarting Ye Xishui’s attempted ambush.

• Su Ming told Electrolux that his teacher had found a thousand-year-old Evil Eye suited to the Elemental Control martial soul, and he considered Ah Yin as a link between eras.
• Du Busi seized the Evil Eye in the Demonic Forest, provoking the Evil Emperor, who attacked to defend his descendant.
• Long Xiaoyao refused Ye Xishui’s demand to help kill Du Busi, and Ye Xishui set out to strike on her own.
• Du Busi burned Soul Forging Metal to unleash Limit-level power, shattered the Evil Emperor’s ray, and broke through a blocked pathway within himself.
• Du Busi spotted Ye Xishui approaching with the Evil-Illuminating Mirror, escaped her ambush, and left the forest with Little Chaos.

After Du Busi reached the Limit and entered seclusion, Su Ming made Little Chaos his spirit soul and began guiding him in elemental cultivation. In [Dou San], Su Ming reached level 45 and ordered the Light Cluster to develop its Borrowed Power talent to help Chaos train.

• Du Busi returned to Mingdu, gave Little Chaos to Su Ming, and went into seclusion after his blood essence began condensing a second soul core.
• Su Ming learned that Du Busi had destroyed the soul forging metal and concluded that the explosion had helped his teacher break through to the Limit.
• Su Ming and Electrolux discovered that Little Chaos controlled six elements, space, and chaos power, and Su Ming named him Chaos and promised to help him become a god.
• Su Ming used a Spirit Soul Array to turn Chaos into a spirit soul, then guided him in learning Element Harmony.
• Three days later, Chaos began cultivating Element Harmony under Su Ming's guidance, and the story moved to [Dou San], where Su Ming broke through to level 45.
• Su Ming chastised the Light Cluster for Chaos's slow combat progress and ordered him to develop his Borrowed Power talent so Chaos could learn from past Soul Masters' soul spirit abilities.

After Du Busi broke through to the limit, Su Ming persuaded him to use Soul Forging Metal to strengthen himself and led him to search for the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes. They reached the spring at the heart of Sunset Forest’s poisonous valley, where Du Busi found a wealth of immortal herbs.

• Du Busi broke through to the limit by burning Soul Forging Metal and tempering his bloodline power.
• Su Ming suggested using lower-quality Soul Forging Metal to strengthen Du Busi instead of making Battle Armor.
• Su Ming deduced that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes lay near Heaven Dou City, deep in Sunset Forest’s poisonous miasma.
• Du Busi and Su Ming crossed into the valley, protected themselves from the Seven-colored poison, and found vast fields of Seven Absolutes of Jade Phosphor.
• Du Busi brought Su Ming through the poisonous mist to the spring where red and white waters converged, and recognized the surrounding plants as peerless immortal herbs.

Du Busi and Su Ming negotiated with the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes to obtain materials for Su Ming’s Ice and Fire Alchemy Body and future cultivation plans. Su Ming began the body refinement in the springs, and strange phenomena appeared above him as the process advanced.

• Du Busi confronted the Immortal Herbs, and the Aromatic Silk Beauty explained that Tang San had once owned the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.
• Su Ming requested several Immortal Herbs, and Du Busi subdued the Infernal Delicate Apricot before the Aromatic Silk Beauty arranged for them to provide portions of their essence.
• Su Ming collected the Aromatic Silk Beauty’s immortal pill, the Blazing Gel, the Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal, Full Moon Wearing Autumn Dew, and a bead of earth-attribute Origin.
• Su Ming told Du Busi that he wanted to build his foundation for eventually fusing with a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast Embryo, using Chaos as a vessel to improve the chance of success.
• Su Ming swallowed the Blazing Gel and Octagonal Mysterious Ice Crystal, entered the meeting point of the two springs, and used his Dual Soul Cores to control and fuse their opposing powers.
• Strange phenomena appeared above Su Ming as his Ice and Fire Alchemy Body progressed.

Su Ming completed his Martial Soul’s Second Awakening and reached level fifty, gaining Ice and Fire characteristics and the ability to refine, record, and feed abilities back through Soul Power. After Du Busi arranged for Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beasts to be found, Su Ming discovered that the Light Cluster had borrowed a Star Tree’s abilities, opening up new possibilities for his cultivation.

• Su Ming’s Martial Soul underwent its Second Awakening, and his Soul Power broke through to level fifty.
• Su Ming told Du Busi that his Ice and Fire Alchemy Body made him immune to poisons and that his Soul Power had gained Ice and Fire characteristics.
• Su Ming explained that his awakened Martial Soul could refine his power, potentially restore him after death, and record and feed other abilities back into his body.
• Du Busi asked whether Su Ming could withstand Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Rings and Soul Bones; Su Ming confirmed that he could, and Du Busi contacted the Body Sect and the association to find suitable Soul Beasts.
• Su Ming realized he could use his own Soul Power in place of the Ice and Fire Power of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, then urged the Light Cluster to continue developing.
• The Light Cluster sensed that it had borrowed a Star Tree’s abilities, and Su Ming recognized that his Soul Power could now transfer copied Martial Soul abilities onto his body more efficiently.

Su Ming considered how to strengthen himself and was invited by Tang Wulin to join a challenge tournament against Shrek Academy’s third-years. He agreed to attend a strength assessment, while both he and Old Tang questioned the unusual signs surrounding Su Ming.

• Su Ming reflected on cultivating every aspect of his body and on the strength he would need to face the Abyssal Sage King and Tang San.
• Tang Wulin asked Su Ming to compete in a challenge tournament where first- and second-years would face third-years, but Su Ming initially refused.
• Tang Wulin suggested Su Ming enter the forging contest and spar with Wu Siduo; intrigued by the chance to encounter powerful martial souls, Su Ming asked when the tournament would take place.
• Tang Wulin told Su Ming to meet everyone at Training Ground No. 3 the next day so they could assess his strength and arrange the matchups.
• After Tang Wulin left, Su Ming suspected Old Tang had been observing him and wondered whether his faith had been exposed.
• In Tang Wulin’s inner world, Old Tang wondered why destiny seemed to be gathering around Su Ming, who appeared to be a Son of Destiny.

Su Ming joined the first- and second-years as they chose fourteen participants for the Challenge Tournament, then dismissed the suggestion of daily combat practice and claimed he could secure victories in every event. When Yuanen Yehui and Wu Siduo challenged his confidence, Tang Wulin revealed he still did not believe he could defeat Su Ming.

• Su Ming arrived at Training Ground No. 3, where Tang Wulin and Yuanen Yehui helped organize the twenty students competing for fourteen Challenge Tournament spots.
• The students selected Su Ming, Yuanen Yehui, Yue Zhengyu, Tang Wulin, Gu Yue, Wu Siduo, and Ye Xinglan as official team members, then chose six substitutes through matches.
• Tang Wulin proposed daily combat practice, but Su Ming said he would guarantee wins in forging, individual combat, and two-person combat, and eliminate the team battle's strongest opponent.
• Su Ming challenged Tang Wulin, Wu Siduo, and Yuanen Yehui to face him together or one at a time; Yuanen Yehui and Wu Siduo volunteered, while Tang Wulin warned that Su Ming had been stronger than him even three years earlier.

Tang Wulin, Yuanen Yehui, and Wu Siduo teamed up to challenge Su Ming, but his Spirit Abyss Realm Spiritual Power and precise elemental control overwhelmed them. After the fight, the Light Cluster analyzed Su Ming’s techniques for Evil Eye while Tang Wulin reassured him about his potential.

• Yuanen Yehui and Wu Siduo agreed to join Tang Wulin in fighting Su Ming, and Yue Zhengyu began the match.
• Su Ming’s Spirit Abyss Realm Spiritual Power pressured the three opponents, while Tang Wulin, Yuanen Yehui, and Wu Siduo released their abilities.
• Su Ming blocked Yuanen Yehui’s Air Cannon and struck back with Supreme Wave Fist, injuring Tang Wulin and sending Yuanen Yehui reeling.
• Wu Siduo used Hell White Tiger, but Su Ming’s increasingly controlled Supreme Wave Fist overcame the fusion attack and the teammates’ combined assault.
• Su Ming left the training ground, and the Light Cluster recreated and explained his elemental control techniques to Evil Eye.
• Tang Wulin shut down when asked whether he would ever defeat Su Ming, then reminded him that his Golden Dragon King Bloodline had limitless potential.

Tang Wulin reflected on his chance of catching up to Su Ming, while Su Ming helped Feng Wu Yu develop a new way to fuse a Soul Spirit with Rare Metal. At the challenge tournament, Su Ming began demonstrating the method by forging Sinking Silver with Zheng Yiran’s Soul Spirit.

• Tang Wulin reassured himself that his cultivation might eventually catch up to Su Ming, and Old Tang fell silent.
• Cai Yue Er and Wu Changkong discussed Su Ming’s strength and considered arranging another exchange event for him.
• Feng Wu Yu brought Su Ming to the Blacksmith Association and asked him to solve the problem of fusing a Soul Spirit’s Spirituality with Sinking Silver.
• Su Ming explained that the Soul Spirit itself could support its Spirituality by remaining bound to the metal, and Feng Wu Yu accepted the idea.
• At the challenge tournament, Su Ming invited Zheng Yiran onto the forging stage to provide her Jade Python Snake Spirit.
• Su Ming cut part of the Jade Python Snake Spirit with Spiritual Power, placed it in the heated Sinking Silver, and struck the metal with his Forging Hammer.

Su Ming demonstrated the Spirit Fusion Method by combining Zheng Yiran’s Soul Spirit with sinking silver, then explained how it could reduce the burden of older spirit souls and aid forging. After the secondary profession contests, the team competition began, with Yuanen Yehui and Wu Siduo taking the first two individual battles.

• Su Ming fused Zheng Yiran’s Jade Python Snake Soul Spirit with sinking silver and achieved Thousand Forgings saint grade.
• Su Ming explained that the Spirit Fusion Method let metal anchor a Soul Spirit’s spirituality, lower soul forging difficulty, and reduce the burden on a Soul Master’s spiritual power.
• Feng Wu Yu told Zhuo Shi that learning the Spirit Fusion Method required Saint Craftsman-level understanding of spirituality, which Su Ming possessed but Feng Wu Yu had not yet mastered.
• Su Ming’s team won the design and manufacturing contests, and Su Ming volunteered for the individual, pair, and team battles.
• Tang Wulin and Yuanen Yehui assigned Yuanen Yehui and Wu Siduo to the first two individual battles, with Su Ming going last.
• Yuanen Yehui faced Wu Rui, whose Heavenly Book Martial Soul could copy abilities, and Wu Siduo faced Ye Wu, whose Flame Physique supported an agility-focused fighting style.

Su Ming defeated Mo Jue and helped secure victories in the individual and doubles matches, prompting the third-year class to forfeit the team battle. He planned to use Feng Wu Yu’s Spirit Fusion Method to gain access to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, while Old Tang gave up on targeting him.

• After Wu Siduo and Ye Wu were unable to continue, Mo Jue fought Su Ming and was overwhelmed by his Supreme Wave Fist despite activating her Battle Armor and curse abilities.
• Tang Wulin and Gu Yue won the first doubles match, but Su Ming and Yue Zhengyu lost the second, and the third-year class forfeited the team battle.
• Su Ming copied Mo Jue’s Black Swan and Li Qiankun’s Qiankun Ball, adding them to the Martial Souls he had gathered for his cultivation.
• Old Tang recognized Su Ming as a Son of Destiny and Son of the Plane, decided he was too risky to target, and focused instead on Tang Wulin’s growth.
• After Zhen Hua contacted him, Su Ming planned to claim that his Spirit Fusion Method required Ice and Fire Power so he could overcome the Tang Sect’s blockade and enter the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.