Chapter Summaries

Su Ming absorbed the Dark Gold Bear through a flawed contract array, gaining a Soul Spirit that resided in his Sea of Consciousness. He discovered that the Soul Spirit had strengthened his First Soul Skill and might evolve further, while Zhu Jiuyang asked about his Second Soul Skill.

• Su Ming killed the Dark Gold Bear and used his array to absorb its spiritual body, which later formed a purple Soul Ring around him.
• Zhu Jiuyang told Su Ming that the Dark Gold Bear had become a spiritual body instead of producing a Soul Ring, and Su Ming found it within his Sea of Consciousness.
• Su Ming explained the Soul Spirit arrangement to the Dark Gold Bear and persuaded it to consider cooperating, though it remained hostile before falling asleep.
• Su Ming told Zhu Jiuyang that he had named the form a Soul Spirit and demonstrated his evolved First Soul Skill, Dark Gold Power, which he sensed was at least twice as strong as Vajra Power.
• Su Ming said the Dark Gold Bear might evolve into a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, and Zhu Jiuyang asked what his Second Soul Skill was like.

Su Ming learned how his Berserk Soul Skill could amplify other enhancements and discussed preparations to strengthen Duan Jin for a higher-year Soul Ring. In Dou Er, his attempt at Spiritual Forging failed to change the laws of the present, while in Dou San he met Han Tianyi and discovered the Body Sect was far more influential than he expected.

• Su Ming explained that his Second Soul Skill, Berserk, increased all attributes by 200% and could stack with other enhancements, and Zhu Jiuyang agreed that absorbing a Soul Ring beyond his level had strengthened his Soul Skills.
• Su Ming urged Zhu Jiuyang to obtain more Whale Rubber, and Zhu Jiuyang explained how Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Rubber and other energy-rich ingredients could improve Duan Jin's chances of absorbing a powerful Fourth Soul Ring.
• Su Ming tried Spiritual Forging in Dou Er but failed, then wondered whether Soul Spirits needed to spread or whether Electrolux's death and Tang Hao were necessary to change the laws of the Douluo Plane.
• Zhang Tianyang took Su Ming to Heaven Dou City to meet Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua, and they were greeted by Spirit Pagoda honorary Tower Master Han Tianyi.
• Han Tianyi revealed that many Body Sect members were Blacksmiths and that the sect included two Saint Craftsmen, leaving Su Ming shocked because he believed the Body Sect had declined.

Su Ming followed Old Han to meet Body Sect Master Mu Ye and Divine Blacksmith Zhen Hua, hoping to demonstrate his forging talent despite his Spirit Pagoda ties. He began forging Star Soul Iron, and his first hammer strike left Zhen Hua intrigued by the unusual sound and force.

• Su Ming reflected that the changes to the Dou San era might have been caused by his actions in an earlier era, then followed Old Han to the Blacksmith Association with Zhang Tianyang.
• Mu Ye greeted Old Han as his martial uncle and examined Su Ming before leading the group to meet Zhen Hua.
• Zhen Hua explained through his actions that Su Ming would need to demonstrate exceptional skill to become his disciple, given the Blacksmith Association's need to remain neutral toward the Spirit Pagoda.
• Su Ming chose a ten-jin piece of Star Soul Iron to forge, despite having never worked with the rare metal before.
• Su Ming heated the Star Soul Iron and struck it once with his Thousand Forgings First Grade Sinking Silver hammers, surprising Zhen Hua with the lingering force and resonance.

Su Ming completed Thousand Forgings First Grade on his first attempt at forging Star Soul Iron, impressing Zhen Hua and becoming his disciple. After the ceremony, Mu Ye questioned whether Su Ming had a Body Martial Soul.

• Zhen Hua observed Su Ming’s unusual hammer effect, which extended each strike’s impact, as Su Ming completed Hundred Forgings on Star Soul Iron.
• Su Ming used his Soul Rings and continued forging, driving the metal toward Thousand Forgings while Zhen Hua recognized his extraordinary skill.
• The Star Soul Iron resonated with Su Ming and developed a Replenishment characteristic that restored his Soul Power.
• Su Ming called on the strength of his two past selves and landed the final strike, completing Thousand Forgings First Grade.
• Mu Ye gave the exhausted Su Ming a Hundred Year Heavenly Heart Lotus Seed, and Su Ming respectfully accepted Zhen Hua as his teacher.
• Mu Ye asked Su Ming whether he had a Body Martial Soul.

Su Ming explained that his Soul Skill let him borrow past power, including Martial Souls and Soul Power, impressing Mu Ye, Zhen Hua, and Han Tianyi. He accepted Mu Ye and Han Tianyi as additional teachers and learned that the Body Sect’s history had changed because of his Dou Er self.

• Su Ming told Mu Ye that his Soul Skill let him borrow power from the past, including Martial Souls and Soul Power but not Soul Skills.
• Mu Ye invited Su Ming to join the Body Sect and teach him its Blood Qi Secret Art, while Han Tianyi offered to guide his Spiritual Power cultivation.
• Zhang Tianyang reluctantly agreed that Su Ming could take more teachers, and Su Ming greeted Mu Ye, Han Tianyi, and Zhang Tianyang as his teachers.
• The three teachers each promised to train Su Ming in Blood Qi, forging, and Spiritual Power.
• Su Ming asked about the Body Sect’s origins, then concluded that his Dou Er self had changed its history and helped it remain neutral during the Sun Moon Empire’s unification.

Su Ming worked out how his selves in the Dou Yi, Dou Er, and Dou San eras affected the timeline, concluding that the past could not be changed but the future could. He made plans for his Dou Er self to pursue Battle Armor and for his Dou Yi self to develop spirit forging, then left the Dark Gold Bear believing it was the continent’s first Soul Spirit.

• Su Ming concluded that changes in the Dou Yi era could not alter the Dou Er era, while changes in Dou Er could shape the future, and he saw Dou San Su Ming as anchoring that future.
• Dou Er Su Ming persuaded his other selves to take on more work while he pursued Battle Armor, and planned to study Soul Spirits and find a way to replace Tang Hao’s role in spirit forging.
• Dou Yi Su Ming worried that he had been tasked with pioneering Forging, but his Dou Er self encouraged him to use answers from the future as a guide.
• Su Ming visited the Dark Gold Bear in his Sea of Consciousness and told it that it was the first Soul Spirit, persuading it to accept responsibility for the future of Soul Spirits.

Su Ming explained how the Dark Gold Bear could use its Metal Element affinity and his blacksmithing to pursue bloodline evolution. They agreed to experiment with Spiritual Forging, though they still lacked a proven method.

• Su Ming told the Dark Gold Bear that the Meteorite Iron Mine had developed its Metal Element talent and brought its bloodline close to evolution.
• Su Ming named the Dark Gold Bear Little Gold and proposed that further Metal Element growth could help it awaken its bloodline.
• Su Ming showed Little Gold his blacksmith shop and asked it to take part in forging so it could benefit from the process.
• Su Ming proposed splitting off some of Little Gold’s spirit into metal and using Forging techniques to help the metal develop Spirituality and eventually feed back to Little Gold.
• Little Gold agreed to help Su Ming explore Spiritual Forging despite the risks and lack of an established method.

Su Ming grafted Little Gold’s spirit into metal and successfully created a Blood Sacrifice Thousand-Forged Sinking Silver piece. He forged it into Claw Covers for Little Gold, whose powerful attack damaged the workshop, and told him to repair the mess.

• Su Ming used Little Gold’s spirit to nurture metal while Su Ming of Dou San questioned Zhen Hua about Spiritual Forging and the laws behind spirits.
• Little Gold’s spirit adapted to the metal, after which Su Ming withdrew it and completed the forging before performing a Blood Sacrifice on the Sinking Silver.
• Little Gold claimed the metal, and Su Ming forged it into a pair of Claw Covers for him.
• Little Gold tested the Claw Covers and unleashed a tearing Claw Light that pierced the wall behind the forging table.
• Su Ming stopped Little Gold from testing the Claw Covers again and told him to repair the damage, but Little Gold protested that he did not know how.

Su Ming and Little Gold repaired a damaged anvil through forging, and Su Ming realized their work could help him establish Spiritual Forging in the present era. He planned to develop Battle Armor and Mecha and began considering a Spirit System soul beast that could strengthen his mental power.

• Su Ming told Little Gold that their successful Thousand Forgings with Spirit made them Divine Blacksmiths, then taught him to repair the anvil by hammering it.
• Su Ming explained that communicating with metal could help Little Gold master forging and evolve into a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear, motivating Little Gold to hammer through a day and night.
• As Little Gold rested in Su Ming's Sea of Consciousness, Su Ming took over the final hammer blow and decided to have Little Gold practice forging while he meditated.
• Su Ming celebrated his success and planned to establish the Spiritual Forging System and develop Battle Armor and Mecha in the current era.
• Su Ming considered attracting Tian Meng or Electrolux with the Spirit System and searched for a suitable soul beast to compensate for his weak mental strength.

Su Ming discussed his need for a Soul Spirit that could amplify his Soul Power and asked whether forged metals could help Soul Spirits evolve. Mu Ye revealed that he had fused his Soul Spirit Little Red with his Mecha, gaining four Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings but becoming unable to advance past level 94.

• Su Ming reflected that his First Soul Ring's three forms of Soul Power Amplification had forced him to condense a Soul Core at level 20, yet he still needed amplification to pursue his Martial Soul's Second Awakening.
• Su Ming asked Zhen Hua whether Thousand Forgings or Spiritual Forged Metal could be integrated with Soul Spirits, and Zhen Hua considered the possibility of contracts that would help them gain abilities and evolve.
• Mu Ye explained that he had integrated his sixty-thousand-year Soul Spirit Little Red into the Soul Forging Metal core of his Black-grade Mecha, increasing her cultivation to eighty thousand years.
• Mu Ye said that upgrading the Mecha to Red-grade had transformed Little Red into a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Spirit and granted him four Hundred Thousand Year Soul Rings.
• Mu Ye revealed that Little Red's deep connection to the Mecha prevented him from opening up his Main Body Martial Soul and advancing from level 94 to level 95, while further upgrades demanded enormous quantities of rare and Soul Forging Metal.

Su Ming discussed using forged metals to guide a soul spirit’s evolution and learned more about Mu Ye’s crafting skills before returning to Skysea City. There, Zhang Tianyang introduced him to Gu Yue, another young elemental controller who could manipulate all seven elements.

• Mu Ye and Zhen Hua confirmed that forged metals could strengthen a soul spirit over time, while warning Su Ming to proceed cautiously.
• Su Ming learned that Mu Ye had mastered several secondary professions but remained a Level 7 Saint Craftsman in blacksmithing.
• Zhen Hua told Su Ming to focus on learning forging during his three months in Heaven Dou City.
• After Su Ming returned to Skysea City, Zhang Tianyang explained that he had persuaded Han Tianyi to keep Su Ming there rather than send him to Spirit Pagoda Headquarters or Shrek.
• Zhang Tianyang introduced Su Ming to Gu Yue, who studied at Eastsea Academy and could control the same seven elements as Su Ming.

Su Ming accompanied Zhang Tianyang to the Eastsea City Blacksmith Association to deliver a gift from his forging teacher, Zhen Hua, to his martial uncle Mu Chen. There, he met Tang Wulin and Mu Xi, and Mu Chen invited the two boys to show their forging skills.

• Gu Yue declined to study at the Spirit Soul Research Academy full-time, and Su Ming arranged to travel with her to Eastsea City to deliver something for Zhen Hua.
• Su Ming completed a Thousand Forgings First Grade piece, but it lacked the time-related trait he had hoped to produce.
• After Gu Yue was dropped off at Eastsea Academy, Su Ming and Zhang Tianyang arrived at the Eastsea City Blacksmith Association and met Mu Chen, Tang Wulin, and Mu Xi.
• Mu Chen discovered that Su Ming was Zhen Hua's nine-year-old disciple and received fifty pieces of Thousand Forgings First Grade metal from him.
• Mu Chen invited Su Ming and Tang Wulin to demonstrate their forging skills together.

Su Ming demonstrated his forging skill to Mu Chen, producing Thousand Forgings Star Soul Iron with the rare delay trait. On the way back to Skysea City, he studied research on Soul Core condensation and concluded that his Dou Er self could attempt a breakthrough.

• Su Ming chose Mu Chen’s last piece of Star Soul Iron and forged it into Thousand Forgings First Grade metal using his Forging Hammer’s delay effect.
• Su Ming sensed the metal’s delay trait, performed a Blood Sacrifice, and absorbed it into his body.
• Mu Chen praised Su Ming’s forging while telling Tang Wulin to keep working hard, and Su Ming left for Skysea City with Zhang Tianyang.
• Zhang Tianyang showed Su Ming research projections and techniques for condensing a Soul Core before Soul Power was fully accumulated.
• Su Ming studied the models and concluded that his Dou Er self could attempt a breakthrough.

Su Ming returned to Dongyang City with Du Busi to have Su Can inspect two Soul Tool arrays: one to improve Soul Ring absorption and another to help condense a Soul Core. Su Can confirmed the first array’s promise and was astonished by the second, leaving Su Ming’s Soul Engineer talent under scrutiny.

• Su Ming told Du Busi that his Martial Soul could guide him in condensing a Soul Core and revealed that he had designed a contract-type array to improve Soul Ring absorption.
• Du Busi agreed to accompany Su Ming to hunt a Soul Beast in the Sun Moon Realm and take the array to Su Can for inspection.
• Su Ming and Du Busi visited Su Can in Dongyang City, where Su Ming presented his Soul Ring array.
• Su Can judged that the array could improve absorption of Soul Rings up to three thousand years old, while Du Busi said Su Ming could withstand a thirteen-hundred-year ring after taking Thousand-Year Whale Rubber.
• Su Ming showed Su Can a second array intended to help condense a Soul Core, and Su Can was astonished by its complexity.

Su Ming, Su Can, and Du Busi traveled to hunt a Star Tree so Su Ming could test a Soul Spirit contract, while Su Can revealed arrays designed to aid Su Ming’s early Soul Core breakthrough. Su Ming successfully contracted the Star Tree after killing it and reached level twenty, though Su Can feared Su Ming had made a mistake while inscribing the array.

• Su Can explained the two arrays he had prepared to support Su Ming’s Soul Core breakthrough, and Du Busi approved them.
• Su Can told Du Busi he had found three children with Body Martial Souls, and Du Busi was pleased to take them into the Body Sect after Hunt Soul.
• Su Can proposed a twelve-hundred-year Star Tree for Su Ming’s Third Soul Ring, and Du Busi agreed to hunt it.
• Su Ming, Su Can, and Du Busi set out that night and found the Star Tree in a forest in the western Sun Moon Empire.
• Du Busi snapped the Star Tree in half, and Su Ming inscribed and activated the array to bind its soul to himself as a Soul Spirit.
• The Star Tree’s phantom contracted with Su Ming and merged into his body, and its purple Soul Ring helped him reach level twenty.

Su Ming formed a Soul Core Prototype to stabilize his rapidly increasing Soul Power, then entered his Sea of Consciousness and discovered Faith Power gathering there. He left wondering where that faith had come from in an era before Soul Spirits were established.

• Su Can arranged a Hexagram Array around Su Ming to compress and regulate his Soul Power as he condensed a Soul Core Prototype.
• Su Ming formed a vortex in his Dantian, which sped up his Soul Power circulation and helped prevent his Soul Power from solidifying.
• Su Ming realized his accumulated energy had raised his Soul Power to Level 25 and worried that he might soon need to condense another Soul Core.
• Su Ming communicated with his future self and learned that Faith Power was gathering and could be used across eras.
• Su Ming entered his Sea of Consciousness, found strands of Faith Power, and wondered how faith in Soul Spirits could exist in that era.

Su Ming discovered that his past self had created an evolving segment of illusory history that could establish a Rank and might explain the Faith Power in his Sea of Consciousness. After revealing the Star Tree Spirit to Du Busi and Su Can, he explained the powerful effects of his two Soul Skills.

• Su Ming examined the Faith Power in his Sea of Consciousness and concluded that his past self had somehow affected the present.
• Su Ming observed that the illusory history at his Dou Yi node had expanded into a timeline of its own, potentially providing the basis for one of his Ranks.
• Su Ming stopped investigating when Du Busi called out, then reassured Du Busi and Su Can that he was unharmed after absorbing his Soul Ring.
• Su Ming explained that the Star Tree's Soul had survived as a contracted spiritual entity, then released the sleeping Star Tree Spirit for Du Busi and Su Can to examine.
• Su Ming told Du Busi and Su Can that his First Soul Skill amplified his Soul Power and that his Second Soul Skill amplified it further or let him harness starlight to recover Soul Power.

Su Ming learned that his Soul Skills made his Soul Power exceptionally powerful, while his Soul Spirit began absorbing Faith Power and neared birth. After six months of cultivation across three eras, Dou Yi Su Ming sensed that Little Gold was about to evolve.

• Du Busi warned Su Ming that his immense Soul Power would make his Martial Soul's Second Awakening difficult and urged him to master the Body Sect's Battle Techniques.
• In Dou San, Su Ming discovered that his Soul Spirit could absorb Faith Power, which it found nourishing, and learned that it would soon be born.
• Dou San Su Ming studied Faith Power and forging, while Dou Er Su Ming completed Thousand Forgings First Grade and trained in Battle Techniques.
• Dou Yi Su Ming forged with Little Gold and fitted its Claw Cover with tear-property Sinking Silver and a Core Array.
• Six months later, Little Gold told Su Ming that its body felt swollen, and he realized it was about to evolve.

Su Ming completed a Battle Armor-style upgrade to Little Gold’s Claw Covers, exhausting himself in the process. Little Gold fused with the Claw Covers and fell asleep as he neared evolution, while Su Ming sought energy supplies to support him.

• Su Ming engraved extension-type arrays into Little Gold’s Claw Covers, turning them into Battle Armor gauntlets.
• After finishing the upgrade, Su Ming collapsed, and Little Gold helped restore his Soul Power through meditation.
• Little Gold fused his Dark Gold Claws with the Claw Cover and fell asleep as his Soul Power Fluctuation grew intense.
• Su Ming realized Little Gold was about to evolve and went to Zhu Jiuyang for Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures to replenish energy.
• Zhu Jiuyang became eager when Su Ming told him Little Gold might evolve and raise his Soul Ring Limit.

Su Ming and Zhu Jiuyang took Little Gold to the Meteorite Iron Mine, where Little Gold evolved into a Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear. Su Ming reached level twenty-eight, Little Gold’s cultivation rose by three thousand years, and Su Ming sensed that Little Gold could provide him with another Soul Ring.

• Zhu Jiuyang brought Su Ming to the Meteorite Iron Mine so Little Gold could evolve amid its Metal Element energy.
• Little Gold underwent a painful transformation, while Su Ming absorbed Metal Element Qi and an Earth Origin Fruit to strengthen himself.
• Little Gold reached seven meters tall and revealed his evolved Dark Gold Dreadclaws by carving five ravines into the ground.
• Su Ming broke through two levels to level twenty-eight, and Little Gold’s Soul Ring cultivation increased from one thousand to four thousand years.
• Su Ming told Zhu Jiuyang that Little Gold might be able to give him another Soul Ring, surprising both Zhu Jiuyang and Little Gold.