Chapter Summaries

Su Ming and Evil Emperor destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult, while Su Ming used its Origins to prepare for condensing his Third Soul Core. He then confronted the limits the Time River placed on his future observations and discovered that Tang Ya had been raised as a demon puppet.

• Su Ming and Evil Emperor killed Ye Xishui, Long Xiaoyao, and Zhong Liwu after agreeing that Evil Emperor would help Su Ming become a god in exchange for later sacrificing his cultivation to Chaos.
• Su Ming shaped the collected Origins into a small space for Chaos and explained to Du Busi how Nirvana Fire could temper his Poisonous Technique.
• Su Ming and Du Busi eradicated the Holy Spirit Cult, sparing only Tang Ya, and Su Ming purified its soul Origin and altars after Electrolux found the method dangerous.
• Su Ming found that he could observe the future only through the Dou San Main Body because a future god-self might notice his interference, leaving him concerned about the Time River resisting his attempt to achieve Trinity.
• Su Ming brought the unconscious Tang Ya to Mingdu, recognized that Zhong Liwu had raised her as a demon puppet, and woke her after Zhong Liwu's death.

Su Ming exposed Tang Ya as an Evil Soul Master and publicized the destruction of the Holy Spirit Cult, shaking Shrek and Tang San’s influence across the continent. After discovering Sea God Power in Tang Ya’s bloodline, he realized Tang San may have cultivated her Dark Blue Silver Grass mutation for its life-devouring ability.

• Tang Ya panicked when Su Ming confronted her, and his pressure shattered her Soul Rings and crushed her Dark Blue Silver Grass before he knocked her unconscious.
• The next day, continental headlines announced the Holy Spirit Cult’s destruction, revealed Ye Xishui’s identity and past, and exposed Tang Ya as the Blue Silver Saintess.
• Rumors about Yan Shaozhe’s possible parentage spread, and Shrek’s elders temporarily placed Lin'er in charge of the Supervisory Team while Yan Shaozhe stayed out of public view.
• The Star Luo Empire, Heaven Dou Empire, and Dou Ling Empire abolished their recommendation systems for sending talented Soul Masters to Shrek.
• Su Ming examined Tang Ya and found Sea God Power rooted in her bloodline, leading him to suspect Tang San had arranged for the Dark Blue Silver Grass mutation and its life-devouring power.

Su Ming prepared to become a Divine Blacksmith and turned to a parallel timeline to train Zhen Hua. After directly possessing Zhen Hua and teaching him forging techniques, Su Ming watched him achieve a ninety-percent fusion rate and prepare to attempt soul forging.

• Su Ming refused Huo Yuhao’s ransom offer, told him Tang Ya was dead, and kept the Sea God Power he had extracted from her.
• Su Ming planned to demonstrate forging at the upcoming Soul Master Tournament and use the opportunity to pursue heavenly forging and condense his Third Soul Core.
• With too little time to return from the Star Luo Continent before the tournament, Su Ming entered Xu Yuan’s parallel timeline fifty years before Xu Yuan’s era to train Zhen Hua.
• Su Ming possessed Zhen Hua, who accepted him readily, and taught him the forging techniques he had learned from Zhen Hua.
• Zhen Hua achieved a ninety-percent fusion rate in fusion forging and told Su Ming he felt ready to attempt soul forging.

Su Ming helped Zhen Hua advance toward Heavenly Forging while quietly reshaping the Will Space to undermine Tang Hao’s control. When Zhen Hua began his attempt, Tang Hao found that the Sea God’s power had withdrawn from him.

• Su Ming observed Zhen Hua’s Soul Forging attempt and explored the Will Space, where Tang Hao and the Sea God jointly suppressed the Soul Spirit region.
• Su Ming concluded that he could claim the Sea God’s domain and worked to shift the Will Space’s balance of power.
• Ten years later, Zhen Hua had become the continent’s youngest Saint Craftsman and prepared to attempt Heavenly Forging, trusting the spiritual entity guiding him.
• Su Ming relayed Heavenly Forging techniques to Zhen Hua while also learning from Zhen Hua in his True Future.
• As Zhen Hua began forging with six Rare Metals and three Soul Spirits, Tang Hao awakened and tried to suppress the Elemental Lightning Tribulation.
• Tang Hao discovered that his power had weakened because the Sea God’s seven-tenths of the Will Space had moved away from him.

Su Ming used his control over the plane’s will to help Zhen Hua complete a heavenly forging, then repeated the process across timelines to study it. Two months after destroying the Holy Spirit Cult, Su Ming arrived at the opening ceremony of the Soul Master Tournament in Mingdu.

• Su Ming seized most of the Sea God’s control over the plane’s will and watched Zhen Hua forge at the Blacksmith Association headquarters.
• Su Ming helped Zhen Hua invoke an elemental lightning tribulation and weakened it, allowing Zhen Hua’s spiritual alloy to survive and become heavenly forged metal.
• Tang Hao searched for the culprit in the Will Space, but Su Ming had already left and continued training Zhen Hua across other timelines.
• Two months after Su Ming destroyed the Holy Spirit Cult, the Soul Master Tournament’s opening ceremony began at a new arena on the outskirts of Mingdu.
• The tournament arena accommodated over a million spectators and used soul tool screens, replays, and varied ticket prices to serve the audience.

The Body Sect entered the Soul Master Tournament with Su Ming’s backing, while Shrek’s team worried that they could not overcome him. As the tournament began, Su Ming stayed in seclusion to study Zhen Hua’s forging techniques and realized he could withstand an Elemental Lightning Tribulation himself.

• The Blacksmith Association offered Spiritual Metal and research partnerships to tournament teams, drawing more than four hundred entrants and prompting Xu Sanshi to criticize its refusal to compete as a jab at Shrek Academy.
• Xu Sanshi worried that Su Ming’s participation meant the Body Sect had already claimed the championship, leaving Huo Yuhao despairing over the gap between them.
• Long Aotian said he would register without fighting, and Su Ming equipped the Body Sect’s competitors with Battle Armor, including Two-word Battle Armor for Long Aotian and Vina.
• The tournament began while Su Ming entered seclusion to digest the forging techniques he had learned by repeatedly helping Zhen Hua draw down Elemental Lightning Tribulations.
• Su Ming realized he did not need to follow Zhen Hua’s approach because his own strength was close to the limit and could let him withstand the tribulation without Battle Armor.

Su Ming prepared to use Elemental Lightning Tribulation and the laws of heaven and earth to help condense his Third Martial Soul, while arranging to control the Snow Empress if she self-destructed. At the Soul Master Tournament, Xu Tianran continued to wait for Su Ming to expose a weakness, frustrating Ju Zi, who wanted war and revenge.

• Su Ming shifted his Heavenly Forging plans toward diversifying metal embryos and using the Elemental Lightning Tribulation to baptize himself and condense his Elemental Control Martial Soul.
• Su Ming gave Chaos several Origin clusters to practice controlling and harmonizing, and planned to use the Blood Soul Demon Puppet's abilities to control the Snow Empress.
• Su Ming sensed that the Snow Empress was becoming restless and likely to self-destruct, and decided that her doing so would be preferable to her drawing down a Heavenly Tribulation.
• Xu Tianran watched the Soul Master Tournament, then left without spotting Su Ming and wondered what he had been preparing.
• Ju Zi urged Xu Tianran to start a war, but Xu Tianran chose to wait until Su Ming exposed a weakness, leaving Ju Zi increasingly frustrated.

Xu Tianran allowed Ju Zi to mobilize the Royal Soul Master Corps against the Douluo Three Kingdoms during the Soul Master Tournament, while preparing to recall three Soul Engineer Legions to Mingdu. Su Ming foresaw the looming war and accepted its strategic value; meanwhile, Huo Yuhao warned Xu Jiujiu that Mingdu was dangerous and urged her to leave before the tournament finals.

• Xu Tianran told Ju Zi that the royal family had lost influence to Mingde Hall and the Blacksmith Association, then secretly decided to let her act and ordered three Soul Engineer Legions back to Mingdu.
• Ju Zi confirmed that the Royal Soul Master Corps was ready to attack the Douluo Three Kingdoms' teams after the tournament and said she would take responsibility if Xu Tianran objected.
• Su Ming observed Mingdu's turbulent fortune, saw that Ju Zi and Xu Tianran had split and war was near, and concluded that unification would help him build power before ascending to the God Realm.
• Huo Yuhao visited Xu Jiujiu at the Sun Moon Grand Hotel to discuss cooperation and warned her that Mingdu was dangerous and she should leave before the tournament finals.

Huo Yuhao warned Xu Jiujiu that the Sun Moon Empire planned to attack the gathered teams, prompting them to seek cooperation among the Douluo Three Kingdoms. As rumors spread and teams sought the Blacksmith Association’s protection, Su Ming and Xu Tianran questioned why the plot had become public.

• Huo Yuhao told Xu Jiujiu that the Sun Moon Empire had exploited tensions to gather the Douluo Three Kingdoms’ strongest fighters in Mingdu before attacking them.
• Xu Jiujiu agreed to urge the Star Luo Empire to share technology and unite with the other kingdoms, while warning Huo Yuhao that Vina belonged to the Body Sect.
• Su Ming deduced that Ju Zi was likely Huo Yuhao’s source, then returned to deducing Heavenly Forging.
• Rumors of a planned massacre spread, and teams from the Douluo Three Kingdoms asked the Blacksmith Association for protection.
• Du Busi’s report alerted Su Ming that the rumors had changed his fortune, and he suspected someone wanted the Body Sect to intervene with Xu Tianran.
• Xu Tianran summoned Ju Zi, puzzled by her apparent role in the public turmoil.

Ju Zi accepted Xu Tianran’s order to surround the tournament teams while the Blacksmith Association secured the teams’ safety and promoted forging standards. As the tournament reached its top four, Su Ming prepared to publicly demonstrate and teach Soul Forging.

• Ju Zi advised Xu Tianran to wait for the Blacksmith Association’s response, then accepted his order to surround the participating teams without killing them.
• Xu Tianran ordered the Fire Phoenix Soul Engineer Legion to prepare for war and authorized Level 9 Fixed Soul Tool Cannonballs.
• The Blacksmith Association promised to protect the teams, established shelters in Mingdu, and resumed the tournament under safer conditions.
• Su Ming demonstrated the requirements for Level 6 Blacksmith certification by completing three rounds of Fusion Forging.
• The tournament selected the Body Sect Team, Sun Moon Royal Team, Shrek Team, and Heavenly Dragon Gate Team as its top four.
• Su Ming returned to the arena with Rare Metals to publicly demonstrate and teach Soul Forging.

Su Ming revealed the principles and standards of Soul Forging before a crowd of blacksmiths, then demonstrated how he forged an inheritance into Spirit Jade Silver. His elaborate array overwhelmed Huo Yuhao, while Tian Meng recognized that Su Ming’s method could surpass existing Soul Tools.

• Su Ming explained that Soul Forging drew out the mysteries within metal and described the requirements for Level 7 and Level 8 Saint Craftsmen.
• Su Ming began forging Three-in-One Spiritual Alloy as the audience watched an unusual projection and experienced a soothing Forging anomaly.
• Su Ming combined Origin Spirit Iron, Magic Silver, and Sinking Silver into Spirit Jade Silver and forged an inheritance of Elemental Control, Elemental Affinity, and malleability into it.
• Su Ming used his Soul Power to form an Engraving Knife and carve a complex Soul Tool Magic Array that traced and gathered the metal’s Spirituality.
• Huo Yuhao tried to memorize the array with Spiritual Detection, but Tian Meng helped him record it and explained how its patterns intertwined with the metal’s Spirituality.

Su Ming demonstrated how Spirituality-based Soul Tool arrays could activate Soul Forging Spirit Jade Silver and create a domain, revealing a major benefit of Battle Armor made from Soul Forging Metal. He ended the demonstration without explaining the domain’s effects, wary of a watcher in the audience.

• Huo Yuhao understood that Su Ming’s Soul Tool array nested subtle patterns into its lines and required resonance with Spirituality rather than rote memorization.
• Su Ming completed the array for the Spirit Jade Silver as Soul Engineers, including Kong Deming, watched and recognized its unusual emotional resonance.
• Su Ming pressed the Spirit Jade Silver to his chest, and it transformed into a Heart Protection Mirror that formed the core of an illusory Soul Power Armor.
• Su Ming poured in Soul Power, causing Spirituality and Soul Power to create a domain above the arena; Kong Deming and the audience reacted with shock.
• Su Ming explained that Soul Forging Metal could naturally generate a domain and that its power could grow with further enhancements.
• Su Ming ended the demonstration and concealed the domain’s effects, thinking that a dog was watching.

Su Ming finished his forging demonstration, and the semifinal draw matched Shrek Team against the Sun Moon Royal Team. Huo Yuhao and Fan Yu prepared Shrek’s lineup for the team battle, while the Sun Moon Royal Team readied its Soul Tools.

• Su Ming put away his Spirit Jade Silver and left the arena after completing his demonstration.
• Long Aotian, Huo Yuhao, Xiao Hongchen, and Yu Tianlong drew lots, and Shrek Team was matched against the Sun Moon Royal Team.
• Huo Yuhao worried that Shrek would have no excuse if it lost without Su Ming, and Fan Yu warned that Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s Martial Soul Fusion Skill posed a major threat.
• Huo Yuhao chose Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu to replace Xiao Xiao and Jiang Nannan in the team battle, where their Hell White Tiger could challenge the Sun Moon Royal Team.
• Fan Yu ordered Yuhao, Dong’er, Dai Huabin, Zhu Lu, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou to fight in the team battle and told the others to prepare for their individual matches.
• The Sun Moon Royal Team prepared to equip their Battle Armor and release their other Soul Tools as soon as they entered the arena.

The Sun Moon Royal Team faced Shrek with Battle Armor that boosted all seven competitors to at least Soul Emperor strength, forcing Huo Yuhao’s team to rely on their spirit weapons. The match began with Xiao Hongchen attacking Huo Yuhao and Meng Hongchen confronting Bei Bei.

• The Sun Moon Royal Team equipped their One-word Battle Armor, raising their combat strength to at least Soul Emperor level, while Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen reached Soul Saint level.
• Huo Yuyao rallied Shrek’s shaken competitors and called for them to use their spirit weapons.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and He Caitou brought out their weapons, while Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu had none.
• Xiao Hongchen charged Huo Yuhao and fired his Invincible Golden Toad Cannon from the Heart Protection Mirror, forcing Huo Yuhao to block with his hammers.
• Meng Hongchen charged Bei Bei as the match opened.

Huo Yuhao faced Xiao Hongchen’s overwhelming Battle Armor while the Shrek team struggled against the Sun Moon team’s transformed tactics. Seeing Meng Hongchen use her Battle Armor to turn her poison’s weakness into an attack, Huo Yuhao realized Shrek had chosen the wrong direction for developing its forging system, just as Xiao launched a barrage at the entire team.

• Xiao Hongchen’s Invincible Golden Toad Cannon struck Huo Yuhao, but the Ice Empress protected him and he remained able to fight.
• Wang Dong’er flew to Huo Yuhao, while Dai Huabin and Zhu Lu used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill to protect Zhu Lu from a Soul Cannon blast.
• Xiao Hongchen used his Battle Armor to transform into a giant Golden Toad and stomped at Huo Yuhao, who defended himself with the Ice Empress’s pincers and protection.
• Meng Hongchen used her Battle Armor to make Bei Bei’s lightning trigger an explosive reaction in her Crimson-eyed Ice Toad poison, badly threatening him.
• Huo Yuhao recognized that Battle Armor could repair Martial Soul flaws and enhance Soul Masters themselves, and regretted prioritizing the Tang Sect’s hidden-weapon approach.
• Xiao Hongchen fired more than a hundred Invincible Golden Toad Cannon shells toward every member of the Shrek Team.

The Invincible Golden Toad Cannon badly injured the Shrek team, forcing Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er to counterattack with Martial Soul Fusion Skills. The clash between their Golden Road and Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen's Hongchen's Devotion continued as Bei Bei fought to hold his ground.

• Xiao Hongchen used the Invincible Golden Toad Cannon to hit every Shrek member except Wang Dong'er, who escaped by flying.
• Huo Yuhao called for a Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and Wang Dong'er attacked Meng Hongchen with a power-stacked Clear Sky Hammer strike.
• Meng Hongchen evaded Wang Dong'er's attack and rushed toward Huo Yuhao, while Wang Dong'er struck Xiao Hongchen instead.
• Xiao Hongchen pinned Wang Dong'er and fired at her, so Huo Yuhao embraced her and unleashed Blazing in the Extreme Cold, Heavenly Emperor's Hammer.
• Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen answered with Hongchen's Devotion, clashing with Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er's Golden Road; the Crimson Gold Giant Toad evaded and attacked Bei Bei.
• Bei Bei activated Dragon Emperor's Domain Shock and Dragon Emperor's Evil Splitting as Su Ming watched from below the arena.

Su Ming reflected on how killing Mu En had removed a major threat, while the semifinal between Shrek and the Sun Moon Royal Team escalated into a clash of Martial Soul Fusion Skills and burned Battle Armor. The Sun Moon Royal Team won after Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen overcame Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er's final attack.

• Su Ming considered how Mu En might have become far stronger with healing, Battle Armor, and Tang San's support, and reaffirmed that killing him early had been prudent.
• Bei Bei was eliminated after Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen used their Martial Soul Fusion Skill, and the Crimson Gold Giant Toad then targeted the other fighters.
• Xu Sanshi tried and failed to escape elimination, leaving the two fusion teams alone on the arena.
• Xiao Hongchen burned his Battle Armor to strengthen the Crimson Gold Giant Toad, and Meng Hongchen burned hers to merge it with his.
• Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er launched Radiant Dress, but Wang Dong'er's phantom shattered under the giant toad's attack.
• The referee awarded the semifinal to the Sun Moon Royal Team.

Su Ming confronted spectators who accused the Body Sect of favoring the Sun Moon Empire, then demonstrated his impartiality by choosing a Rank 9 Soul Engineer for a tailored Soul Forging Metal demonstration. He selected Ye Yulin and began preparing materials based on Ye Yulin’s abilities and research goals.

• Spectators praised the Sun Moon Royal Team’s Battle Armor, while some accused Su Ming and the Body Sect of unfairly favoring the Sun Moon Empire.
• Su Ming defended the Body Sect’s neutrality and argued that the Douluo Three Kingdoms had failed to develop Battle Armor themselves.
• Su Ming announced that he would forge Soul Forging Metal for a Rank 9 Soul Engineer, prompting spectators to turn on the troublemakers who had cost them the chance to be selected.
• Su Ming used an elemental pointer guided by Chaos Power to randomly choose Ye Yulin, the Starry Sky Douluo known for the Sun Moon Divine Needle.
• After Ye Yulin arrived, Su Ming learned about his Martial Soul, Soul Skills, and ambitions, then chose additional Rare Metals for the forging.

Su Ming forged nine Rare Metals into a Spiritual Alloy for Ye Yulin, harmonizing the powers of the sun and moon. As the alloy stirred the laws of heaven and earth, Su Ming dispersed the gathering phenomenon with a punch.

• Su Ming deliberated over how to fuse the nine Rare Metals and refine Ye Yulin’s Sun Moon Divine Needle.
• Su Ming forged all nine Rare Metals at once, raising three-chi spiritual radiance from each and progressing through Fusion Forging, Spiritual Forging, and Soul Forging.
• Huo Yuhao and Tian Meng failed to spy on Su Ming’s forging, while Xiao Hongchen watched intently and grew excited about forging.
• Su Ming completed a Spiritual Alloy whose sun-and-moon phenomenon stirred the laws of heaven and earth and darkened the sky.
• Su Ming looked up and punched, shouting, “Disperse!”

Su Ming tested whether Heavenly Forging would trigger a Soul Beast Heavenly Tribulation by forging a Three-in-One Spiritual Alloy in Dou Yi. As the forging drew the attention of the God Realm, Destruction prepared to intervene before the danger escalated.

• Su Ming suppressed the Spiritual Alloy he had been forging for Ye Yulin in Dou Er after sensing that its Heavenly Forging might summon a million-year Heavenly Tribulation.
• In Dou Yi, Su Ming fused wind, darkness, and fire to complete a Three-in-One Spiritual Alloy through Thousand Forging, Fusion Forging, Spiritual Forging, and Soul Forging.
• Chen Xin watched Su Ming forge and reflected on his own progress toward Level 98, while Zhu Jiuyang gained insight into Soul Forging.
• Destruction and the other Gods observed Su Ming through the trial mechanism, and Destruction prepared to interrupt the Heavenly Tribulation because Su Ming's embryonic God of Forging Divine Throne could not yet support a full system.