Chapter Summaries

Su Ming explained that Little Gold could provide him with multiple Soul Rings, but Zhu Jiuyang warned that relying on one Soul Spirit would limit the traits his Martial Soul could gain. Su Ming argued that Little Gold could still evolve with the help of his Spirit Armor, leaving Zhu Jiuyang to reconsider the Soul Spirit’s future.

• Su Ming told Zhu Jiuyang that Little Gold could attach multiple Soul Rings to him, and Little Gold confirmed the ability after sensing it.
• Zhu Jiuyang persuaded Little Gold that other Soul Spirits could take over miscellaneous tasks, but Su Ming explained that his Spiritual Power was already strained by carrying Little Gold alone.
• Zhu Jiuyang said Little Gold could provide Su Ming’s Third Soul Ring, while cautioning that a higher-cultivation ordinary Soul Ring might be more valuable.
• Little Gold agreed that he might not have much room to improve and doubted that his Soul Skill would be useful to Su Ming.
• Su Ming reminded Zhu Jiuyang that his Spirit Armor had enabled Little Gold’s recent evolution, and Zhu Jiuyang realized it could help Little Gold evolve further.

Su Ming developed plans to help Little Gold evolve by granting him Soul Skills and strengthening his Behemoth Bloodline, while Zhu Jiuyang agreed to seek a Soul Spirit and advance their forging work. Four months later, Su Ming was still forging in Gengxin City when Ning Yuan brought him one million Gold Soul Coins for ten exceptional armor sets.

• Su Ming explained to Zhu Jiuyang that Soul Spirits could let Soul Beasts gain abilities beyond their normal evolution paths, and Zhu Jiuyang accepted that forging could surpass Thousand Forgings with Spirit.
• Su Ming told Little Gold to develop Metal Element Control and Dark Gold Power so he could bestow Soul Skills, while planning to place all three Soul Rings on Little Gold’s shoulders.
• Su Ming sent Little Gold to cultivate and planned to strengthen his Behemoth Bloodline by forging Spirit Armor with a Devour-type property.
• Su Ming returned to Gengxin City to cultivate and experiment with Rare Metals, while Zhu Jiuyang searched Soul Beast habitats for a suitable Soul Spirit.
• Four months later, Ning Yuan visited Xiao Ming’s Forge Shop and paid Su Ming one million Gold Soul Coins for ten armor sets on the Sect Master’s orders.

Su Ming accepted payment from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and offered Ning Yuan a deeper partnership, hoping to obtain rare metals for his research. Ning Fengzhi examined Su Ming’s Thousand Forgings metal and weighed the sect’s interest against Zhu Jiuyang’s ties to Spirit Hall.

• Su Ming accepted a million Gold Soul Coins from Ning Yuan and asked whether the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect would order more armor.
• Su Ming gave Ning Yuan a piece of Thousand Forgings First Grade metal to show Ning Fengzhi, then told Little Gold he could stop hiding and focus on cultivation.
• Su Ming planned to seek Spirit Abyss Iron from collectors, especially the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, to pursue Devour-type traits.
• Ning Fengzhi examined the metal and noted its potential to resonate with Soul Masters and perhaps develop an effect like a contract.
• Ning Fengzhi told Chen Xin and Gu Rong that recruiting Zhu Jiuyang was unlikely because of his ties to the Qian Family and Spirit Hall.

Su Ming welcomed Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong to discuss cooperation, revealing that Little Gold was a Soul Spirit and that Soul Spirits enabled the mass production of Thousand Forgings First Grade metal. He proposed two partnership models, but the chapter ended before he explained the second one.

• Su Ming decided to use Ning Fengzhi’s visit to seek support for spreading Soul Spirit and forging technologies while reforming the Blacksmith Association.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong arrived, and Su Ming introduced Little Gold as his partner and said he was connected to their discussion.
• Su Ming told Ning Fengzhi that he could mass-produce Thousand Forgings First Grade metal and explained that Little Gold was his Soul Spirit.
• Su Ming proposed one cooperation model in which he forged what the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect requested in exchange for rare metals.
• Ning Fengzhi asked Su Ming to explain the other cooperation model.

Su Ming negotiated a partnership with Ning Fengzhi, offering to teach Thousand Forgings with Spirit to qualified blacksmiths while supplying forged metal for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect. After demonstrating a Soul Tool Ray Gun’s threat even to Gu Rong, Su Ming and Ning Fengzhi agreed to pursue both forms of cooperation, leaving payment for the blacksmith training to be discussed.

• Su Ming explained that sharing his forging techniques would help secure Rare Metals through cooperation with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Gu Rong pressured Su Ming, who calmly demonstrated that his Soul Tool Ray Gun could pierce Gu Rong’s Soul Power and threaten even powerful Soul Masters.
• Su Ming and Ning Fengzhi agreed to pursue both forging partnerships at once, including an initial order for ten armor-and-spear sets.
• Su Ming rejected making all the ordered pieces from Thousand Forgings First Grade metal and showed Ning Fengzhi ordinary Thousand Forgings metal made through his technique.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to train several blacksmiths and asked Su Ming what he would demand in exchange for teaching them.

Su Ming negotiated a deal with Ning Fengzhi, exchanging the Soul Spirit technology for Rare Metals, Sword Douluo’s help, and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support for the Blacksmith Association. The transformation array would remain with Su Ming until the sect met the agreed conditions, and Su Ming turned next to coordinating with the association.

• Su Ming warned Ning Fengzhi that Soul Spirit contracts and Spirit Infusion had limitations, risks, and required both a cooperative Soul Spirit and a talented Forging Master.
• Su Ming asked the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect to pay for transactions in Rare Metals and lend Sword Douluo to help Zhu Jiuyang find a Soul Spirit for his eighth ring, and Ning Fengzhi agreed.
• Su Ming demanded ten percent of the metals the sect acquired over the next ten years, and Ning Fengzhi accepted.
• Su Ming required the sect’s future Forging Masters to join the Blacksmith Association and proposed mutual support, which Ning Fengzhi agreed to pursue.
• Su Ming withheld the Soul Spirit transformation array until the sect fulfilled the conditions, then received Ning Fengzhi’s jade token as the two visitors departed.
• Su Ming and Little Gold recovered from the meeting, and Su Ming said he needed to consult the association and wondered whether Zhu Jiuyang had received his letter.

Su Ming considered how to manage the Blacksmith Association’s renaming and new partnerships, then learned more about Zhu Jiuyang’s ties to Spirit Hall. The chapter left Su Ming realizing that Zhu Jiuyang’s past connection to the Qian Family could affect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s view of their collaboration.

• Su Ming decided the Blacksmith Association’s operations and partnership negotiations needed a trustworthy person to handle them, and called for his martial brothers.
• Duan Jin arrived with Huo Lie and announced that he had broken through to Level 40, then explained his plan to obtain a Soul Spirit from a six-thousand-year Wild Ape.
• Su Ming agreed to help arrange the Soul Tool Magic Array after he dealt with another matter, and told Duan Jin and Huo Lie about his proposed collaboration with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Huo Lie revealed that Zhu Jiuyang’s younger sister had nearly married Qian Xunji and that the Zhu Family had long intermarried with the Qian Family.
• Huo Lie explained that Zhu Jiuyang had broken off the marriage arrangement and fallen out with the Qian Family, while Su Ming realized that the connection could still change.

Su Ming and his martial brothers went to the Blacksmith Association to seek Lou Gao’s support for sharing Su Ming’s Soul Spirit forging method. Su Ming demonstrated it by forging Star Soul Iron into Spiritual Metal, leaving Lou Gao captivated by the result.

• Su Ming explained that the association’s Grandmaster Blacksmiths would likely pursue Soul Power cultivation after learning his method, and Huo Lie agreed to manage the ensuing operations.
• Su Ming, Huo Lie, and Duan Jin went to Lou Gao’s forge room after learning that their teacher had not replied to their message.
• Su Ming selected a piece of Star Soul Iron and began forging while Lou Gao watched.
• Su Ming used spiritual Forging Hammers and a Dark Gold bear’s Spirituality to infuse the Star Soul Iron with a spirit.
• Su Ming completed the forging, and a pillar of brilliant starlight rose from the finished metal as Lou Gao watched in rapture.

Su Ming impressed Lou Gao with his forging skill and proposed reforming the Blacksmith Association into the Forging Association, establishing new forger ranks and metal grades. Lou Gao accepted the plan in principle but insisted ordinary smiths must have a path to advance, while Su Ming outlined a future goal of forging metal into true life.

• Lou Gao recognized that Su Ming's forging skill far surpassed his own, and Duan Jin and Huo Lie were also affected by watching him forge.
• Su Ming told Lou Gao he would share the Thousand Forgings with Spirit technique and proposed renaming the Blacksmith Association as the Forging Association.
• Lou Gao supported the reforms but insisted ordinary smiths must also be able to advance and earn the title of forger.
• Su Ming laid out four forger ranks, from junior forger to Forging Master, and proposed grading Spiritual Metal by the strength of its Spirituality.
• Su Ming described a future forging level in which a forger could cultivate metal's Spirituality to create a true Lifeform, and Lou Gao became excited by the possibility.

Su Ming explained Spiritual Forging and Soul Spirits to Lou Gao, then set plans in motion to reform the Blacksmith Association. At the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, Ning Fengzhi recognized the opportunity in Su Ming’s public reforms and planned to secure the sect a place in the association.

• Su Ming named Spiritual Forging and its practitioners’ rank, then explained to Lou Gao how Soul Spirits enabled Spirit Infusion and urged him to cultivate until he could obtain one.
• Lou Gao agreed to become honorary president, while Su Ming proposed Huo Lie for the association’s leadership and arranged for Lou Gao and Silong to help him learn its affairs.
• Lou Gao told his four disciples about the reforms, and they accepted them eagerly because Su Ming’s technique promised new possibilities for forging.
• Gu Rong complained that Su Ming had shared a technique after striking a deal with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, but Ning Fengzhi argued that the sect still benefited from early knowledge and access to the Soul Spirit contract formation.
• Ning Fengzhi decided to send talented sect disciples to Gengxin City to join the Blacksmith Association, assign Ning Yuan to lead negotiations, and ask Uncle Jian to oversee the city.

Su Ming, Huo Lie, and Duan Jin obtained a Soul Ring for Duan Jin from a Wild Ape, then returned to Gengxin City and learned that Zhu Jiuyang had acquired an 80,000-year Flame Lord Soul Spirit. Zhu Jiuyang planned to use the threat posed by Spirit Hall to secure the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support, and he quickly mastered Spirit Infusion and advanced to Master Blacksmith.

• Huo Lie defeated the six-thousand-year Wild Ape, and Su Ming used a Hexagram Array to help Duan Jin absorb its Soul Ring and form a contract with it.
• Duan Jin said the Wild Ape was more reasonable than expected, while Huo Lie admitted it seemed afraid of him, so Su Ming suggested keeping the two apart for a while.
• Su Ming, Huo Lie, and Duan Jin returned to Gengxin City and learned that Zhu Jiuyang had returned with an 80,000-year Flame Lord Soul Spirit.
• Zhu Jiuyang explained that Spirit Hall’s Miles would likely target the Blacksmith Association over Spiritual Metal, giving them a reason to ask the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect for Sword Douluo’s help.
• Zhu Jiuyang and Duan Jin learned Spirit Infusion from Su Ming, and Zhu Jiuyang completed Thousand Forgings with Spirit on his thirty-third attempt, advancing to Master Blacksmith.

Su Ming helped Zhu Jiuyang learn Thousand Forgings with Spirit and prepared to spread Spiritual Forging as the Blacksmith Association’s reform approached. The story then moved to the Sky Sea Alliance Grand Competition, where Su Ming and the Zero Class prepared to compete.

• Zhu Jiuyang used Su Ming’s guidance to discover his Spiritual Metal’s Stacked Hammer characteristic and successfully repeated Thousand Forgings with Spirit after five attempts.
• Over three days, Zhu Jiuyang made forty forging attempts and produced ten pieces of Spiritual Metal, while Duan Jin continued practicing Spirit Infusion.
• Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect sent Sword Douluo, three core disciples, and thirteen inner disciples to Gengxin City as the Blacksmith Association’s reform approached.
• Platinum Bishop Miles suspected the Blacksmith Association’s changes concealed a shift in power or technology and decided to investigate.
• Su Ming returned to Xiao Ming's Forge Shop to cultivate, believing that spreading Spiritual Forging would help secure his future Rank.
• At Sky Sea Academy, Long Zhan named ten-year-old Soul Elder Su Ming the Sky Sea Team’s Junior Division trump card, while Wu Changkong urged Zero Class to show its strength at the competition.

Tang Wulin worried that Su Ming would dominate the Sky Sea Alliance Grand Competition, and Gu Yue admitted that the others might not be able to match him. Meanwhile, Su Ming discovered that his Soul Spirit could compress faith into golden beads and began planning to have it refine more faith.

• Tang Wulin told Xu Xiaoyan that he was unsure about facing Su Ming in the competition, and Gu Yue agreed that Su Ming was far beyond their current level.
• Su Ming reasoned that Tang Hao had used forging faith to absorb the Rank of Lord of the Plane and considered secretly taking some faith for himself.
• Su Ming coaxed his Soul Spirit into producing a compressed golden bead of Faith Power and learned that it could store faith this way.
• Su Ming gathered unrefined faith in a Spirit Pagoda Cultivation Room and had the Soul Spirit absorb it for an experiment.
• Su Ming found that the Soul Spirit could refine enough faith to exceed its daily needs and promised it the surplus if it kept working.

Ye Xinglan and Su Ming clashed with Sky Sea Team after she blamed them for Xu Lizhi wandering off, and Su Ming criticized Shrek Academy. Shrek’s Junior Team crushed Sky Sea Team’s Youth Team in the Exhibition Match, while Wu Changkong told Tang Wulin and his classmates to aim for Shrek’s Inner Court; afterward, Ye Xinglan confronted Su Ming again.

• Ye Xinglan blamed Long Xin and Sky Sea Team for Xu Lizhi’s trouble, and Su Ming insulted Shrek Academy when she invoked its honor.
• Ye Xinglan threatened to meet Su Ming at the Exhibition Match and left with Xu Lizhi after Tang Wulin admitted he had given Xu Lizhi dried fish.
• Shrek’s Junior Team challenged Sky Sea Team’s older Youth Team, and its members overwhelmed them with a lightning attack.
• Wu Changkong told Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, and Xu Xiaoyan that their goal was Shrek Academy’s Inner Court and that its students would be their future opponents.
• After the match, Ye Xinglan confronted Su Ming, and one of the senior students beside her challenged him over his earlier remarks.

Su Ming impressed the Forging Master Grand Competition judges with a near-Thousand Forging and earned a perfect score in the first round. After learning that Shrek had arranged for Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi to face the Sky Sea Team, he decided to fight all three opponents himself while absorbing the Faith his forging display had gathered.

• Su Ming challenged Ye Xinglan to a three-person team match and told her to bring Xu Lizhi along.
• Su Ming completed a Hundred Forging of Sinking Silver in minutes, leaving it one hammer strike from Thousand Forgings and earning a perfect score.
• Shen Yi questioned Ye Xinglan about her conflict with the Sky Sea Team and told her to defeat Su Ming in their arranged match.
• Su Ming learned that Ye Xinglan and Xu Lizhi would face the Sky Sea Team in the first round and told Long Xin that he would fight them alone.
• Su Ming examined the Faith gained from his forging display and estimated it could soon sustain the Light Cluster for half a year.

Su Ming entered the tournament arena alone and challenged Ye Xinglan, Xu Lizhi, and their Soul Elder captain, claiming he wanted to give them a fair chance. His three Purple Soul Rings stunned the crowd, and he overwhelmed the arena with a Six Elements storm as Ye Xinglan and the others fought through his attacks.

• Su Ming established one unit of Faith as the Light Cluster’s current monthly rations, then left the waiting area to compete alone.
• Su Ming told Ye Xinglan that fighting alone gave her side a chance to win, and revealed three Purple Soul Rings that shocked the arena.
• Ye Xinglan, Xu Lizhi, and the Soul Elder captain began the match, while Wu Changkong wondered how Su Ming had obtained his Soul Rings.
• Su Ming unleashed a Six Elements storm and bombarded the opposing team with elemental shells.
• Ye Xinglan endured the blast, used Xu Lizhi’s Recovery Big Meat Buns, and charged Su Ming alongside the wounded Soul Elder captain.

Su Ming defeated Ye Xinglan and two other Shrek students in a one-versus-three match, demonstrating his overwhelming power and precise control. He continued competing and cultivating, while the Light Cluster began gathering elements as it approached hatching.

• Ye Xinglan attacked Su Ming with Sword God Net, but he shattered the sword net and sent her flying with an elemental punch.
• Shen Yi treated Ye Xinglan and the other injured students, while Wu Changkong recognized Su Ming's strength and wondered whether he would join Shrek Academy.
• The referee declared Su Ming the winner, and Shen Yi confirmed that he had held back and that Ye Xinglan would recover.
• Long Zhan praised Su Ming, while Zhang Tianyang contacted the Sky Sea Spirit Pagoda to protect Sky Sea Academy from possible retaliation.
• Su Ming continued his training and competition, and Junior Division teams began forfeiting against the Sky Sea Team in later three-versus-three matches.
• After several days of processing Faith, the Light Cluster grew unstable, and Su Ming released it as elemental forces gathered around it.

Su Ming watched Light Cluster hatch into a jade-white caterpillar after it absorbed vast amounts of Elemental Power and Faith Power. Light Cluster gained the ability to sense and absorb Faith himself, then discovered he could instinctively use Cross-Time Clone Condensation but did not know how to perform it.

• Zhang Tianyang concealed the phenomenon caused by Light Cluster's hatching and hid its source from those near the Sky Sea Spirit Pagoda.
• Su Ming realized Light Cluster had helped produce his three powerful Soul Skills as streams of Elemental Power formed a staircase beneath the hatching Soul Spirit.
• Light Cluster emerged as a white caterpillar with golden patterns and marks representing the Six Elements and Space, and he blamed Su Ming's influence for his form.
• Su Ming picked up Light Cluster, sensed that his cultivation age had increased by at least a thousand years, and explained that Faith Power had formed his body.
• Light Cluster realized he could directly sense and absorb Faith, then discovered he could instinctively use Cross-Time Clone Condensation but did not know how to condense a clone.

Su Ming realized that the Light Cluster’s new time-related talent might work with Borrowed Power to create projections across time. After the Light Cluster’s emergence triggered widespread breakthroughs among Soul Spirits, Gu Yue identified it as a potential Spirit God and ordered it found.

• Su Ming connected the Light Cluster’s clone-condensing talent to Borrowed Power and considered using it to create projections in other eras.
• Su Ming suspected the Light Cluster had been born because of his transmigration and joked to himself that he was its father.
• Zhang Tianyang told Su Ming that the Light Cluster might be an Auspicious Beast after Soul Spirits and Spirit Ascension Platform Soul Beasts across the Sky Sea Spirit Pagoda underwent mass breakthroughs.
• Su Ming warned the Light Cluster to stay in his Sea of Consciousness so it would not attract trouble.
• Gu Yue told Di Tian and the other Fierce Beasts that the Light Cluster was a Soul Spirit infused with Faith Power and could become a Spirit God, then ordered them to find it.

Su Ming began the final round of the Forging Competition, where he used all six elements to forge Origin Spirit Iron as the audience's faith gathered around him. As he sensed the metal’s spirituality and faith reaching his hammers, he formed a new idea.

• Gu Yue ordered Xiong Jun not to act rashly, then left with Di Tian and the other Fierce Beasts concealed nearby.
• Su Ming hid the Light Cluster in his Sea of Consciousness and used Forging Faith Power to conceal traces connected to the Soul Spirit.
• Su Ming arrived at Sky Sea City Stadium for the final assessment and found Origin Spirit Iron on his forging platform.
• Su Ming gathered the six elements and used them with fire to temper the Origin Spirit Iron, drawing the judges’ attention.
• Tang Wulin infused his Origin Spirit Iron with Bloodline Power and a golden dragon-shaped mark as Su Ming continued forging.
• Faith gathered on Su Ming’s hammers, and he sensed the Origin Spirit Iron’s spirituality and came up with a new idea.