Chapter Summaries

Little Gold repeatedly attempted to forge Sinking Silver under the influence of the Ice and Fire Power, with Dugu Bo offering advice and Su Ming explaining why the metal could not absorb life essence before Spirit Infusion. Little Gold finally infused the metal with spirituality, but further interference caused repeated failures, and his unstable spirit body had to return to Su Ming’s Sea of Consciousness to recover.

• Little Gold’s first Sinking Silver forging attempt exploded when the Ice and Fire Power altered and cooled the metal.
• Dugu Bo suggested strengthening the metal with Soul Power or adjusting the Ice and Fire Power with successive strikes, and Su Ming explained that metal could absorb life essence only after Spirit Infusion.
• Little Gold used Spin Forging and improved through repeated attempts until he could sustain more than fifty strikes before infusing the Sinking Silver with his spirituality.
• Little Gold successfully completed Spirit Infusion, but he missed the chance to help the metal absorb life essence and the Sinking Silver exploded again.
• Little Gold failed five more post-infusion attempts as the Ice and Fire Power disrupted each strike, then returned to Su Ming’s Sea of Consciousness to recuperate.

Su Ming used the Ice and Fire Power in the valley to develop a new approach to Spirit Infusion and created living Sinking Silver. The metal absorbed the valley’s power and life energy as Su Ming completed Spirit Forging Creation.

• Su Ming reassured Little Gold after the bear failed to achieve Thousand Forgings with Spirit in seventy-five attempts.
• Su Ming began forging Sinking Silver and used Triple Stacked Hammer strikes to limit the Ice and Fire Power’s damage while Little Gold supplied Spirituality.
• Su Ming broke the Sinking Silver into fragments while preserving its inner structure and fusing it with Spirituality, creating a stable energy-state Life Embryo.
• Su Ming drew Ice and Fire Power into the embryo and achieved Saint Grade Thousand Forgings with Spirit, producing a six-foot glow of Spirituality.
• Su Ming continued hammering for half an hour and completed Spirit Forging Creation, bringing the Sinking Silver to life.

Su Ming reached the peak of Spirit Forging and used his work to secure Dugu Bo’s protection and a chance to make a Spirit Forged alloy. Dugu Bo began studying the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes’ herbs while Su Ming prepared to forge an alloy suited to Dugu Bo’s martial soul.

• Su Ming’s Life Reflux raised his Soul Power to level 36, and he revealed that his Sinking Silver had reached the highest realm of Spirit Forging.
• Dugu Bo judged that the Spirit Forged Sinking Silver could significantly enhance a Soul Saint and promised to protect Su Ming and the Blacksmith Association.
• Dugu Bo offered Su Ming an Immortal Herb if he could forge a Spirit Forged Spiritual Alloy, and Su Ming promised to make one suited to Dugu Bo’s Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor martial soul.
• Dugu Bo went to examine the herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, while Su Ming suggested he consult a faction with records about their effects.

Su Ming persuaded Dugu Bo that the Breaking Clan might possess rare herbs and asked him to seek advanced pharmacological knowledge, while Dugu Bo warned him not to approach the Immortal Herbs. After Dugu Bo left, Su Ming stayed in the valley to forge and taught Little Gold a destructive method of transforming metal through Spirituality.

• Su Ming suggested the Breaking Clan might have rare medicinal herbs, and Dugu Bo considered whether he could obtain them while claiming he only wanted to discuss pharmacology.
• Su Ming asked whether rare herbs could help him reach Soul Ancestor, and Dugu Bo warned him to stay away from the poisonous Immortal Herbs before leaving the valley.
• Su Ming chose not to consume any Immortal Herbs, reasoning that doing so would be difficult to explain and could damage Dugu Bo's trust.
• Little Gold struggled to learn how to use Ice and Fire Power in forging, so Su Ming began teaching him to destroy metal's material structure and merge its core with Spirituality.
• Little Gold stopped trying to understand Su Ming's complicated explanation and decided to trust him.

Su Ming and Dugu Bo studied the Yang Family’s medicinal texts and identified the effects of several Immortal Herbs. Su Ming consumed the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, whose effects triggered an unexpected surge of Bloodline Power that gathered above his head.

• Su Ming assigned Little Gold a safer spot in the valley to test its forging and explained how they would restore its Spirituality after failures.
• Dugu Bo returned with pharmacology books he had exchanged for three Thousand Year Spirit Medicines from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.
• Su Ming and Dugu Bo found records describing the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum’s Indestructible Vajra Body effects and the Nine-Rank Dragon Ganoderma’s Dragon Qi.
• Su Ming chose the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum, and Dugu Bo confirmed that the nearby Nine-Rank Dragon Ganoderma’s Dragon Qi was pure.
• Su Ming ate the chrysanthemum’s stamens and petals, then continued cultivating as its medicinal power strengthened his meridians and circulated his blood.
• Blood qi began gathering above Su Ming’s head into a phenomenon, leaving Dugu Bo astonished.

After the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum triggered Su Ming’s Silver Rank Martial Soul Second Awakening, he condensed Bloodline Power and reassured Dugu Bo that the herb’s recorded effects were unchanged. Dugu Bo agreed to help obtain Nether Iron and took Su Ming to hunt a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, suggesting a Ten Thousand Year Blood Vine for his Fourth Soul Ring.

• Su Ming underwent a Martial Soul Second Awakening, producing a silver phantom and gaining control over his blood and vitality to condense Bloodline Power.
• Su Ming explained the changes to Dugu Bo, who agreed to give Dugu Yan the Nine-Rank Dragon Ganoderma later and asked Su Ming to forge Spiritually Forged Nether Iron.
• Su Ming told Dugu Bo that the Blacksmith Association had found a Rare Metal Vein containing Nether Iron, and showed him a Soul Tool Communicator.
• Su Ming asked Dugu Bo to help find his Fourth Soul Ring after reaching Level 40, and said he might need a Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring.
• Dugu Bo took Su Ming out to hunt and proposed a Ten Thousand Year Blood Vine, advising him to refine his combat system around his Main Body Martial Soul and Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.

Su Ming and Dugu Bo searched Sunset Forest for a suitable Blood Vine Soul Ring and captured a Metagross that Su Ming wanted to use for sustainable metal secretion collection. They found the ten-thousand-year Blood Vine in a marsh, where Dugu Bo explained how his poison could kill it.

• Dugu Bo led Su Ming through Sunset Forest, where they encountered a ten-thousand-year Cave Spider but decided it was unsuitable for Su Ming.
• A Metagross attacked them, and Dugu Bo petrified and captured it after Su Ming explained how its secretion could improve his Forging efficiency.
• Su Ming examined the six-thousand-year Metagross and planned to keep it alive for sustainable use.
• Dugu Bo led Su Ming to a vast ten-thousand-year Blood Vine growing in the marsh and described its spreading vines and tenacious vitality.
• Dugu Bo explained that he could kill the Blood Vine by introducing poison into its rapidly circulating internal energy.

Dugu Bo poisoned Blood Vine until he exposed its backup main body, which Su Ming destroyed before absorbing its Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring. Su Ming refined the ring’s Remnant Soul through his Martial Soul’s Second Awakening and emerged able to perceive and use the Soul Skill without revealing the ring; Dugu Bo asked him about the skill’s effect.

• Dugu Bo transformed into the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor and spread his poison through Blood Vine, forcing it to abandon its main body and flee toward a backup.
• Dugu Bo tracked down Blood Vine’s backup main body and explained that destroying it would kill the entire Soul Beast.
• Su Ming crushed the backup main body, summoned the resulting Ten Thousand Year Soul Ring, and began absorbing it.
• Su Ming used Purifying Fire to refine Blood Vine’s Remnant Soul, triggering his Martial Soul’s Second Awakening as Little Gold connected with the silver phantom.
• Su Ming sensed that he could grasp and activate the Soul Skill at full power without revealing the Soul Ring, then opened his eyes as Dugu Bo asked about its effect.

Su Ming discovered that his Fourth Soul Skill, Blood Source Power, could heal injuries or convert into Bloodline Power, which could in turn be refined back into Blood Source Power. After returning to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes, he and Dugu Bo discussed how his Soul Ring absorption and Spirit Soul cultivation might reveal ways to strengthen Soul Rings.

• Su Ming demonstrated that Blood Source Power rapidly healed wounds and explained how it could strengthen his Bloodline Power, while Dugu Bo questioned its limits.
• Su Ming explained that he had fused a Remnant Soul’s spiritual portion into his Soul Ring, and Dugu Bo urged him to return to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes to discuss the discovery.
• Su Ming and Dugu Bo moved the Metagross into the valley, where Dugu Bo helped tame it for Su Ming’s future Forging.
• Su Ming concluded that Body Martial Soul users—and possibly Evil Soul Masters—could gain stronger Soul Skills by absorbing Remnant Souls, and that preserving a Soul Ring’s spiritual portion might help raise its limit.
• Su Ming reported that Little Gold’s progress had increased the strength of his first three Soul Rings by about five hundred years, and Dugu Bo asked how much Blood Source Power he had condensed.

Su Ming explained how Blood Source Power strengthened his bloodline, combat endurance, and body tempering, prompting Dugu Bo to investigate the soul and physical aspects of Soul Rings. During a toxin flare-up, Dugu Bo used Su Ming’s Soul Control Technique to meditate and discovered a possible way to replenish the missing soul portion of his Soul Rings, then entered seclusion.

• Su Ming told Dugu Bo that ten days of condensing Blood Source Power had raised his Bloodline Power by about ten percent and improved his endurance and body-tempering efficiency.
• Dugu Bo considered how Soul Rings contained physical and soul portions, and concluded that developed Soul Skills might make up for the soul portion’s lack of spirit.
• After forgetting to suppress his toxins, Dugu Bo suffered a severe flare-up and realized that giving Soul Rings souls might let him cure the poison in his body.
• Su Ming used Soul Control Technique to separate Dugu Bo’s soul partly from his body, easing the pain enough for Dugu Bo to meditate.
• Dugu Bo stopped twitching after three hours, thanked Su Ming, and went into seclusion to pursue his discovery.

Su Ming realized Dugu Bo might be an Evil Soul Master whose poison-based Martial Soul flaw could be used to nourish his soul. Dugu Bo accepted Su Ming’s theory and began devouring poison to test it.

• After his seclusion, Dugu Bo told Su Ming he had sensed a connection between his body and soul, not an empty Soul Ring slot.
• Su Ming consulted Electrolux and concluded that Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul might have the flaw associated with Evil Soul Masters.
• Su Ming learned that Dugu Bo could potentially devour poison to cultivate, though Dugu Bo had never tried it.
• Su Ming explained that poison might nourish Dugu Bo’s soul and compensate for the missing soul-related component in his Soul Rings.
• Dugu Bo decided to try devouring the poison in his body and asked Su Ming to strip away his soul.
• As Dugu Bo began devouring poison, his body convulsed, grew thinner, and appeared to lose its vitality.

Dugu Bo endured a painful attempt to use toxins to replenish his soul, discovering that his Seventh Soul Ring slot could absorb them while Su Ming identified the Martial Soul’s toxin leakage as the underlying problem. Three days later, Dugu Bo woke at level ninety-two and planned to recover his health while avoiding further toxin consumption.

• Dugu Bo devoured toxins, but when his Soul Power began rising and the pain reached his soul, he urged Su Ming to use the Soul Control Technique.
• Dugu Bo found a breach leaking toxic mist into his soul, sensed three regions tied to Soul Skills, and fused the toxins into his Seventh Soul Ring slot.
• Su Ming concluded that the toxins came from a flaw in Dugu Bo’s Martial Soul and that the leaked toxins could be stored in his Soul Bones.
• After three days, Su Ming woke Dugu Bo, who ate food and learned that his Soul Power had reached level ninety-two.
• Dugu Bo resolved to avoid devouring more toxins, nurse his body back to health, and told Su Ming about what he had perceived in the world of the soul.

Su Ming discussed a new Spirit Infusion method with Zhen Hua, while Mu Ye proposed using Spirituality to transform Ordinary Metal into Artificial Rare Metal. The chapter left Zhen Hua questioning where the metal’s properties would come from.

• Dugu Bo warned Su Ming that his soul might not be ready to leave his body, so Su Ming had his Dou Er and Dou San selves try the experience instead.
• Su Ming returned to cultivation, raising his Soul Power to Level 45 after absorbing the Ten Thousand Year Blood Vine and the remaining effects of the Singular Velvet Sky Chrysanthemum.
• Su Ming and Little Gold improved their forging, making Spirit Infusion less dependent on the Ice and Fire Power of the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes.
• At the Blacksmith Association, Su Ming proposed exchanging the Spirituality of Sinking Silver and Magic Silver to forge them into energy states, and Zhen Hua considered how this could improve later fusion forging.
• Mu Ye suggested guiding Spirituality into Ordinary Metal to create Artificial Rare Metal, and Zhen Hua asked where the new metal’s properties would come from.

Su Ming proposed using Soul Beast materials and defective Artificial Soul Spirits to create metal traits, gaining Zhen Hua’s support for a cooperative project with Zhang Tianyang. He then asked Electrolux to adapt magical-equipment techniques for combining metal traits, while Zhen Hua prepared to unveil Spirit Infusion at a crowded Blacksmith Association conference.

• Mu Ye explained that Soul Beast bloodlines, skills, and body parts could provide traits for Ordinary Metal, and Su Ming suggested using defective Artificial Soul Spirits as well.
• Su Ming asked Zhen Hua to cooperate with the Spirit Pagoda, and Zhen Hua agreed to favor working with Zhang Tianyang while keeping the Blacksmith Association neutral.
• Su Ming considered how the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Eyes and other Rare Metal traits could support his plans, then asked Electrolux for help developing the technique.
• Su Ming explained his idea of giving metal chosen traits to Electrolux, who began comparing it with the magical-equipment crafting knowledge he remembered.
• After a month, Zhen Hua had helped Su Ming grant Spirituality to Ordinary Metal and organized an exchange conference to present the technique.
• Blacksmiths, reporters, and spectators gathered at the Blacksmith Association in Heaven Dou City to await Zhen Hua’s conference.

Su Ming demonstrated the Spirit Infusion technique by transforming ordinary Mortal Iron into Saint Grade Thousand Forgings before the Blacksmith Association and a vast audience. He spent an hour reflecting on the forging while the gathered blacksmiths and reporters waited in silence.

• Zhen Hua brought Su Ming before the gathered blacksmiths and announced that the new technique would change the blacksmithing world.
• Su Ming began the demonstration by heating an ordinary piece of Mortal Iron and striking it with a plain Forging Hammer.
• The six elements gathered around the iron as Su Ming hammered spirituality into it using the Spirit Infusion technique.
• Su Ming transformed the Mortal Iron into Saint Grade Thousand Forgings with six-foot radiance, astonishing the blacksmiths.
• Su Ming closed his eyes to reflect on the forging, while the blacksmiths and reporters waited quietly for an hour.

Su Ming unveiled Spirit Infusion, a technique that let ordinary metal gain Spirituality and become suitable for advanced forging, while its effect weakened Tang Hao’s forging faith. After explaining how the technique could aid forging masters, Su Ming reflected on his visions across time and felt safer; meanwhile, Qian Gu Dongfeng watched the demonstration before Old Han entered his office.

• Su Ming revealed Spirit Infusion and explained that it used Soul Spirit Spirituality to turn ordinary metal into Spiritual Metal that could undergo Heavenly Forging.
• Su Ming’s declaration strengthened his forging faith and weakened Tang Hao’s position in an endless battle within Tang Hao’s consciousness.
• Zhen Hua brought Su Ming away and demonstrated the Spirit Infusion process, explaining its practical value for forging masters who needed affordable practice material.
• Su Ming woke from his meditation and concluded that his use of Rank across illusory time nodes had caused Tang Hao’s killing intent, while Tang Hao would remain asleep.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng watched the demonstration at Spirit Pagoda Headquarters, and Old Han kicked open his office door.

Han Tianyi forced Qian Gu Dongfeng to approve the Spirit Pagoda’s cooperation with the Blacksmith Association, citing Su Ming’s ties to Zhen Hua and Zhang Tianyang. At Shrek Academy’s Sea God Pavilion, Yun Ming’s elders discussed the effects of Spirit Infusion, and Yun Ming decided to pursue cooperation and send Feng Wu Yu to learn the technique.

• Han Tianyi confronted Qian Gu Dongfeng over his rejection of Zhang Tianyang’s cooperation application and warned that the Spirit Pagoda’s factions would turn against him if he blocked reconciliation with the Blacksmith Association.
• Han Tianyi revealed that Zhen Hua had refused to cooperate with Headquarters because Su Ming was both Zhen Hua’s personal disciple and Zhang Tianyang’s disciple.
• Qian Gu Dongfeng approved the application and entered the cooperation as top-secret information in the Spirit Pagoda’s system.
• At the Sea God Pavilion, Feng Wu Yu, Cai Yue Er, and Zhuo Shi discussed how Spirit Infusion could affect blacksmithing, Battle Armor, and Shrek Academy.
• Yun Ming directed Feng Wu Yu to visit the Blacksmith Association and try to learn Spirit Infusion, arguing that stronger Battle Armor Masters outside the academy could strengthen Shrek Academy overall.

Su Ming’s Spiritual Power surged to four thousand, giving him a chance to obtain a ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring. As Zhang Tianyang searched Soul Spirit records for a suitable match, he found a spiritual-type Evil Eye that might suit Su Ming.

• Yun Ming told Cai Yue Er to prepare Outer Academy reforms and expected Zang Xin to seek cooperation over Spirit Infusion technology.
• Zang Xin arrived at Sea God Pavilion and asked Yun Ming to ensure the Tang Sect could benefit from the technology.
• Su Ming restrained the overwhelming faith entering his Sea of Consciousness and discovered his Spiritual Power had risen to four thousand.
• Mu Ye suggested Su Ming might qualify for a ten-thousand-year Fourth Soul Ring, and Su Ming contacted Zhang Tianyang for help finding one.
• After ruling out several Soul Spirits, Zhang Tianyang noticed a ten-thousand-year spiritual-type Evil Eye with many secondary attributes and considered it a match for Su Ming.

Zhang Tianyang selected a ten-thousand-year Ultimate Composite Monster Evil Eye as a soul spirit candidate for Su Ming, who asked him to reserve it. Meanwhile, Zhen Hua finished demonstrating Spirit Infusion, and leaders from Shrek and the Tang Sect discussed sharing the technology and buying forged works made from Ordinary Metal.

• Zhang Tianyang reviewed soul spirit candidates and sent Su Ming five options, led by a ten-thousand-year Ultimate Composite Monster Evil Eye with nine attributes.
• Su Ming asked Zhang Tianyang to reserve the Evil Eye, and he and Mu Ye discussed whether its many attributes came from a mutation.
• Zhen Hua concluded his Spirit Infusion demonstration, and Feng Wu Yu and Zang Xin arrived at the Blacksmith Association headquarters.
• Feng Wu Yu questioned why Zhen Hua had released the technology, then apologized and promised that the Shrek Blacksmith Association would share its gains publicly.
• Zang Xin told Zhen Hua that the Tang Sect would pay ten times the cost price for Spiritual Forging and Soul Forging works made from Ordinary Metal.

Zang Xin learned that the Blacksmith Association would not pursue cheaper Spirit Infusion technology and watched the Spirit Pagoda and association establish cooperation on Artificial Spirits and Artificial Rare Metals. Su Ming then tested a defective fire-type Artificial Spirit and showed how it could be controlled well enough for Spirit Infusion.

• Zhen Hua told Zang Xin that the Blacksmith Association would not invest in lowering Spirit Infusion costs, though Tang Sect could work with individual high-level blacksmiths.
• Zang Xin discovered that Su Ming was Zhang Tianyang's disciple and suspected Su Ming might also be connected to the Body Sect.
• Zhang Tianyang announced that the Sky Sea Spirit Pagoda and the Blacksmith Association had approved cooperation to research Artificial Rare Metals and improve Artificial Spirit technology.
• Zhen Hua rejected further requests from Feng Wu Yu, Zang Xin, and Federation representatives, who left to pursue partnerships and research elsewhere.
• Zhang Tianyang explained that defective Artificial Spirits from Spirit Pagodas would be sent to Heaven Dou City for research and repair.
• Su Ming controlled a tiny fire-snake Artificial Spirit with his Spiritual Power and Fire Element control, demonstrating that it could be used for Spirit Infusion.