Chapter Summaries

Tang Chenfeng stayed beside Ye Hongling’s flower bud while Blue Gold explained the wolves’ attack and treated the injured wolves. When Ye Jiulong collapsed from old tribulation injuries, Tang Chenfeng cleared the blockages in his meridians with Bai Xing’s guidance, then later woke to find Ye Jiulong awake while Ye Hongling remained enclosed in the bud.

• Tang Chenfeng saw the wounded Wood Wolf and Rock Wolf return, and Blue Gold healed them with Hundred-Year Life Fruits.
• Blue Gold explained that the wolves had been sent to bring Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling back, then vanished when Ye Jiulong approached.
• Tang Chenfeng told Ye Jiulong that Ye Hongling’s Martial Soul seemed to be evolving, but Ye Jiulong collapsed after examining her flower bud.
• Tang Chenfeng fed Ye Jiulong a Life Fruit, and Blue Gold revealed that Ye Jiulong’s meridians had been damaged by a failed Lightning Tribulation.
• Bai Xing instructed Tang Chenfeng to clear Ye Jiulong’s blocked meridians, and Tang Chenfeng used his Spiritual Power and Soul Power to draw out the impurities before falling asleep.
• Tang Chenfeng woke to find Ye Jiulong awake and Ye Hongling still inside the fuller, more vibrant flower bud.

After Ye Jiulong recovered, he told Tang Chenfeng how he and Ling Wei rose to become Limit Douluos, then lost much of their power when he recklessly challenged a Lightning Tribulation. He also revealed how they found and adopted Tang Chenfeng, and how the infant Chenfeng helped save Ye Hongling; the chapter ended as the flower bud around Ye Hongling reacted.

• Ye Jiulong awoke healed, identified Tang Chenfeng’s Blue Gold Fruit, and returned it to him.
• Ye Jiulong revealed that he and Ling Wei had been renowned Limit Douluos who met as gifted children and later married.
• Ye Jiulong explained that his failed attempt to endure a Lightning Tribulation nearly killed him and permanently weakened both him and Ling Wei.
• Ye Jiulong recounted how he and Ling Wei found infant Tang Chenfeng, then learned that Ye Hongling’s parents had died and Ye Hongling was unlikely to survive.
• Ye Jiulong said Tang Chenfeng had held the dying Ye Hongling’s hand, after which her life force recovered, and urged him not to challenge his limits impulsively.
• The flower bud surrounding Ye Hongling reacted.

Ye Hongling awakened after receiving power from the Tree Ancestor, gaining a green-gold Soul Ring and a healing domain. The group returned home, where the Blue Gold Fruit restored Ling Wei’s youth, and Ye Jiulong announced a tougher training schedule.

• Ye Hongling emerged from the flower transformed, and Ye Jiulong used Tang Chenfeng’s Blue Gold Fruit in a plan to surprise him.
• A green-gold Soul Ring appeared as the petals fused into Ye Hongling, and she awakened and reunited emotionally with Ye Jiulong and Tang Chenfeng.
• Ye Hongling revealed her First Soul Skill, Spirit Domain, which healed and restored Spiritual Power across a large area.
• The three left the Sunset Great Forest and returned to Tianhun Town, where Ye Jiulong brought Grandma Ling inside to recreate Tang Chenfeng’s treatment.
• Ling Wei appeared rejuvenated after eating the Blue Gold Fruit, and the family shared dinner before Ye Jiulong laid out a demanding new training routine.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling arrived at Haitian Academy as Work-Study Students and met the academy’s vice dean, Zhao Gaobo, through their grandfather Ye Jiulong. At Dormitory Six, Tang Chenfeng defeated Ze Ping in a spar and became leader of the Work-Study Students, while Ye Hongling claimed the position of big sister.

• Ye Jiulong, Ling Wei, Tang Chenfeng, and Ye Hongling arrived in Haitian City and traveled to Haitian Academy to register the children.
• Ye Jiulong reunited with his former classmate Zhao Gaobo, who gave Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling their School Emblems and directed them to the Work-Study Student dormitory.
• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling entered Dormitory Six, where Ze Ping mistook Tang Chenfeng for a troublemaker and then challenged him to a match.
• Tang Chenfeng used his Body Martial Soul and Precognition to block Ze Ping’s attacks before sending him flying with a punch.
• Ze Ping accepted defeat and made Tang Chenfeng the leader of the Work-Study Students, and Ye Hongling asked to become their big sister.

Tang Chenfeng treated Ze Ping to a lavish meal and promised to train him before visiting Zhao Gaobo to seek work and a way to earn money. Zhao Gaobo revealed a hidden workshop and offered to teach Tang Chenfeng blacksmithing, then led him inside for a test.

• Tang Chenfeng treated Ze Ping and the other Work-Study Students to lunch, where Ze Ping was taunted by Ning Tong.
• Tang Chenfeng told Ze Ping that he would help him improve through combat and physical training, and said his training would begin the day after tomorrow.
• Tang Chenfeng visited Zhao Gaobo to ask for work, and Zhao Gaobo proposed a test to determine whether he could help him.
• Zhao Gaobo explained that blacksmithing supplied the Rare Metals needed for Mechas and Battle Armor, then opened a secret chamber behind his office bookshelf.
• Tang Chenfeng agreed to try to become an outstanding Blacksmith and followed Zhao Gaobo into the chamber for another test.

Zhao Gaobo taught Tang Chenfeng the basics of forging and tested his talent by having him forge a piece of rare metal. Tang Chenfeng transformed a difficult Dark Star Crystal through an extraordinary forging process, and Zhao Gaobo declared him a forging genius.

• Zhao Gaobo explained the difference between forging and casting, demonstrated Hundred Forgings First Grade, and challenged Tang Chenfeng to forge a rare metal of his choice.
• Tang Chenfeng chose the difficult-to-forge Dark Star Crystal and a heavy long-handled Forging Hammer, then began forging alone.
• As the metal glowed with golden light, Bai Xing urged Tang Chenfeng to continue and use the chance to understand creation.
• Tang Chenfeng infused the hammer with Soul Power and used Divine Sense to sense the metal, forging it into a flawless dark blue crystal filled with starlight.
• Exhausted, Tang Chenfeng brought Zhao Gaobo to inspect the finished crystal, and Zhao Gaobo recognized him as a forging genius.

Tang Chenfeng began academy life after Zhao Gaobo recognized his Spirit Forging talent, took him as a disciple, and gave him a Fund Card. He agreed to learn Mecha Manufacturing as well as forging, while Zhao Gaobo discovered Ye Hongling had nearly perfected an unfinished Soul Guide Matrix blueprint.

• Zhao Gaobo explained that Tang Chenfeng had Spirit Forged Dark Star Crystal worth over a hundred thousand Federal Currency, and Tang Chenfeng chose to keep it and accepted Zhao Gaobo as his teacher.
• Tang Chenfeng returned to the dormitory, told Ye Hongling and Ze Ping about his blacksmithing, and began training Ze Ping the next morning.
• Teacher Meng Hua welcomed Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling to class, where their Soul Power Levels of sixteen and fourteen stunned their classmates.
• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling put Ze Ping through exhausting special training, then Tang Chenfeng went with Ye Hongling to Zhao Gaobo's forging room.
• Zhao Gaobo explained that only Tang Chenfeng or someone connected to him could process his Spirit Forged metal, so Tang Chenfeng agreed to study Mecha Manufacturing alongside forging.
• Zhao Gaobo praised Tang Chenfeng's forging progress and planned to register him with the Forging Association, then found that Ye Hongling had nearly completed his unfinished matrix blueprint.

Tang Chenfeng prepared for a forging assessment by choosing the rare, difficult-to-forge Star Iron and began making a hammer of his own. He successfully Thousand Forged it to First Grade and started attempting Spirit Forging, despite Zhao Gaobo’s belief that Star Iron could not undergo it.

• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling earned money through forging and design work while studying, cultivating, and training with Ze Ping.
• Zhao Gaobo challenged Tang Chenfeng to forge a personal hammer and push himself to his current peak before his blacksmith certification test.
• Tang Chenfeng selected an expensive piece of Star Iron, and Zhao Gaobo warned Ye Hongling that the metal was exceptionally difficult to forge and could not undergo Spirit Forging.
• Tang Chenfeng used a hammer technique resembling the Clear Sky Sect’s Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and achieved Thousand Forging First Grade after thirty-six strikes.
• Tang Chenfeng began communicating with the Thousand-Forged Star Iron in preparation for a Spirit Forging attempt.

Tang Chenfeng pushed Star Iron to the brink of Advanced Spirit Forging, but a dark blue beam interrupted his final strike and triggered a violent blast. As Zhao Gaobo rescued him, his past with Ye Jiulong and Ling Wei was revealed, leaving his hope of reuniting with them still unresolved.

• Zhao Gaobo explained that Tang Chenfeng's first Spirit Forging success made him a Level 5 Blacksmith, while Ye Hongling resolved to study Mecha Design and support her brother.
• Tang Chenfeng used gentle hammer taps to Spirit Forge Star Iron, then drove it toward Advanced Spirit Forging as his strength ran out.
• A dark blue beam darted between Tang Chenfeng's hammer and the Star Iron, and his final blow sent it into the metal, causing an explosive burst that shattered his hammer and injured him.
• Zhao Gaobo released his Flame Heavy Hammer Martial Soul and caught Tang Chenfeng as the blast threw him backward.
• Zhao Gaobo's past was revealed: he had loved Ling Wei, searched for her and Ye Jiulong after their tribulation failed, and waited in Haitian City for six years after she refused to return to Sky City.
• Zhao Gaobo had accepted Ye Jiulong's request to teach Tang Chenfeng forging and still hoped to reunite with Ye Jiulong and Ling Wei.

Tang Chenfeng recovered after successfully Spirit Forging Star Iron, then learned from Bai Xing that his cultivation had reached level eighteen and that he must avoid using Divine Sense for a year. After waking, he went with Ye Hongling and Ze Ping to the training grounds, where they found Ning Tong leading a group confronting the Work-Study Students.

• Tang Chenfeng completed the Spirit Forging of Star Iron, but the shockwave left him badly hurt, and Zhao Gaobo confirmed that he had passed his assessment.
• Zhao Gaobo inspected the Star Iron and realized that the forging had succeeded beyond his expectations.
• While Tang Chenfeng slept, Bai Xing told him that his Soul Power had risen nearly two levels and warned him not to use Divine Sense for a year.
• Tang Chenfeng woke after a day and night, then agreed to go with Ye Hongling and Ze Ping to check on the Work-Study Students' training.
• Tang Chenfeng, Ye Hongling, and Ze Ping found Ning Tong and more than ten others confronting the Work-Study Students, and Tang Chenfeng decided to teach them a lesson.

Tang Chenfeng accepted Ning Tong’s challenge on behalf of the Work-Study Students, wagering that the losing side would become the winners’ underlings. Ze Ping defeated Chang Yun in the first bout, and Lin Feng began the second bout by swooping at Tang Chenfeng with his Steel Wings.

• Tang Chenfeng agreed to Ning Tong’s five-person gauntlet match and proposed that the losing group become the winners’ underlings.
• Ze Ping faced his longtime rival Chang Yun and, using the aggressive fighting style he had learned from Tang Chenfeng’s training, knocked him unconscious.
• Ye Hongling pulled the bloodied Ze Ping back to rest as Ning Tong sent Lin Feng into the second bout.
• Lin Feng activated his Steel Wings and flew behind Tang Chenfeng, who remained motionless as the attack approached.

Tang Chenfeng effortlessly defeated Lin Feng, then accepted Ning Tong’s proposal to settle the contest with a two-on-two battle. As Ning Tong and Mo Xiaoyu faced Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling, Tang Chenfeng revealed a disguised Thousand-Year Soul Ring, leaving their opponents stunned.

• Tang Chenfeng broke Lin Feng’s Steel Wings with a punch and knocked him unconscious without releasing his Martial Soul.
• Ning Tong proposed deciding the match with a two-on-two battle in the third round, and Tang Chenfeng accepted.
• Ning Tong brought out Mo Xiaoyu, whose Phoenix Ceremony Flute and connection to the powerful Mo Family alarmed Ze Ping.
• Ye Hongling joined Tang Chenfeng as his partner after he waved Ze Ping back from the field.
• Ning Tong and Mo Xiaoyu revealed their Martial Souls and Hundred-Year Soul Spirits, while Tang Chenfeng announced his Level 18 rank and displayed a purple Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Tang Chenfeng chose to face both opponents alone, and Ye Hongling withheld her own Martial Soul after understanding his signal.

Tang Chenfeng defeated Ning Tong and Mo Xiaoyu in a one-against-two duel, then Ye Hongling healed the injured with her Life Domain. The siblings left before Ning Tong could ask them anything, while Ning Tong honored the wager and called Tang Chenfeng Boss.

• Ning Tong attacked Tang Chenfeng, but Tang Chenfeng overpowered him in a direct clash and dodged his Wind Blades.
• Mo Xiaoyu slowed Tang Chenfeng with her flute, but Tang Chenfeng surged through the effect, knocked Ning Tong unconscious, and won the duel.
• Mo Xiaoyu surrendered and panicked over Ning Tong's injuries, so Tang Chenfeng set his broken bones while Ye Hongling healed everyone with her Life Domain.
• Ning Tong woke up unharmed and accepted the loss as fair, while Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling hurried away to meet Teacher Zhao.
• Ze Ping reminded Ning Tong of the wager, and Ning Tong reluctantly called Tang Chenfeng Boss as the crowd laughed.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling discovered that Tang Chenfeng's failed forging had transformed into an unknown, blood-linked Forging Hammer. Zhao Gaobo explained the hammer's origins and urged Tang Chenfeng to test its special property.

• Ning Tong and Mo Xiaoyu wondered whether Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling had hidden identities and considered asking their families to investigate.
• Zhao Gaobo brought the siblings to the forging workshop and showed them the dark-blue Forging Hammer that had formed from Tang Chenfeng's metal without anyone touching it.
• Zhao Gaobo recalled telling Ye Jiulong about Tang Chenfeng's near-Quasi-Soul Forging, but Ye Jiulong refused to let Chenfeng focus only on forging and described his exceptional combat ability.
• Zhao Gaobo explained that Tang Chenfeng's blood had completed a Blood Sacrifice, linking the metal to his bloodline and potentially giving the hammer special properties.
• Tang Chenfeng reached for the Forging Hammer to test it.

Tang Chenfeng tested his transformed Forging Hammer by forging Silver Silt and discovered its Shaping effect. The hammer revealed its true name, the Soul Forged Star God Hammer, then transformed into armor on his left arm that matched Ye Hongling’s Battle Armor design.

• Tang Chenfeng lifted the Forging Hammer, which transformed into a vivid blue war hammer and connected to him by blood.
• Zhao Gaobo chose Silver Silt and asked Tang Chenfeng to forge a Mecha gear joint using Ye Hongling’s blueprint.
• Tang Chenfeng sensed the metal guiding his strikes and forged the Silver Silt into a Thousand Forging gear component.
• Zhao Gaobo identified the hammer’s special effect as Shaping, which adjusted its hammer face and vibration frequency for precise forging.
• Tang Chenfeng heard the hammer’s name and called it the Soul Forged Star God Hammer.
• The hammer melted around Tang Chenfeng’s left arm and condensed into armor identical to the left arm in Ye Hongling’s design.

Tang Chenfeng’s forging produced living Star God Crystal armor and a Star God Forging Hammer, while Zhao Gaobo showed how blood could make the exclusive metal usable by others. After returning to the dormitory, Tang Chenfeng learned the Work-Study Students had won relief from their chores and tried to avoid Ning Tong’s invitation to meet his family.

• Tang Chenfeng’s Forging Hammer transformed into blue armor and merged with his arm, and he named the metal Star God Crystal and the hammer the Star God Forging Hammer.
• Zhao Gaobo praised Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling, then arranged to take Tang Chenfeng to the Blacksmith Association for a rank assessment the following week.
• Zhao Gaobo demonstrated that blood could bond Tang Chenfeng’s exclusive living metal to another person, though success depended on how close that person was to Tang Chenfeng.
• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling returned to the dormitory and learned Ning Tong and Mo Xiaoyu had arranged for others to do the Work-Study Students’ chores while they kept their wages.
• Ze Ping told Tang Chenfeng that Ning Tong wanted to invite his family over, and Tang Chenfeng said he would consider it and ask his family first.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling visited the Blacksmith Association to take their professional assessments, carrying a recommendation from Zhao Gaobo. Their claimed skill levels and six-year-old ages shocked Du Wei, who led them toward a testing room while wondering whether they would break a record.

• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling traveled from Haitian Academy to the Blacksmith Association with Zhao Gaobo's recommendation letter.
• Zhou Xiaoyi confirmed the letter and escorted them to Du Wei, who welcomed them as Zhao Gaobo's apprentices.
• Du Wei learned that Tang Chenfeng claimed Level Four Blacksmith and Level Three Maker skills, while Ye Hongling claimed Level Three Designer skills.
• At the fifth-floor assessment area, Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling filled out forms that revealed they were both six years old.
• Du Wei, stunned by their ages, took them toward Testing Room Six and wondered whether they could break the youngest-assessment record.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling took their Blacksmith Association evaluations, and Ye Hongling earned a perfect score and Level Three Designer certification. As Tang Chenfeng forged magic silver with a remarkable hammer, Zhao Gaobo hurried to the testing room, worried he had made a serious mistake.

• Du Wei brought Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling to a multi-functional forging room for separate designer, blacksmith, and master maker evaluations.
• Ye Hongling completed a yellow-grade mecha core blueprint in twenty-seven minutes and received a perfect score and Level Three Designer certification.
• Tang Chenfeng chose magic silver for his forging test and began purifying it with a blue hammer that astonished Du Wei and the evaluator.
• Zhao Gaobo arrived at the association, learned the children were in forging room number six, and rushed upstairs, hoping he was not too late.

Tang Chenfeng’s Thousand Forging examination was rejected as cheating because he used a Soul-Forged Hammer, and Zhao Gaobo intervened to secure him a basic Level Two Blacksmith Badge. As Tang Chenfeng left disappointed but encouraged by Ye Hongling, Zhao Gaobo urged them to prove themselves through the future.

• Tang Chenfeng completed an exceptional Thousand Forging, but Du Wei gave him zero points, accusing him of using a Soul-Forged Hammer that he could not have made himself.
• Tang Chenfeng refused Du Wei’s offer to retake the test, insisting that his work came from his own effort, while Ye Hongling defended him.
• Du Wei offered to reconsider if Tang Chenfeng forged another Quasi-Soul-Forged piece, but Zhao Gaobo arrived and vouched for Tang Chenfeng’s account.
• Zhao Gaobo persuaded Du Wei to award Tang Chenfeng a basic Level Two Blacksmith Badge, while the controversy cost him the Master Maker certification; Ye Hongling earned a Level Three Designer Badge.
• Outside the association, Zhao Gaobo advised Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling to keep a low profile, and Ye Hongling comforted Tang Chenfeng as he vowed to prove himself.

Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling finished their academy tasks and prepared to leave for vacation, while their family discussed Tang Chenfeng’s stalled cultivation and his chance to enter Cloud City. Ze Ping invited the siblings to accompany him to the Spirit Pagoda to buy his first Spirit Soul, and Ling Wei joined them to help choose one.

• Tang Chenfeng and Ye Hongling submitted their completed work-study tasks, and Teacher Mo urged Tang Chenfeng to break through level nineteen before Cloud City enrollment.
• Ling Wei told Zhao Gaobo that she had come to collect the siblings, and they discussed Tang Chenfeng’s bottleneck and the risks of forcing his Soul Power higher.
• Tang Chenfeng, Ye Hongling, and Ze Ping left the academy together after Ze Ping asked them to witness him buy a Hundred-Year Soul Spirit.
• Tang Chenfeng guided his friends through the crowd at the academy gates, where Ling Wei and Ze Ping’s mother, Ze Ya, met them.
• Ling Wei offered to help Ze Ping choose a Spirit Soul, and the group set off for the Spirit Pagoda.