Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lin cultivated the Forging Fire Art with Xiao Yan and Yun Zhi, breaking through to Seven-star Dou Shi as Yao Chen recognized the extraordinary potential of his Spirit Clan bloodline. After half a month, Jiang Lin realized that the key to cultivating the art was to think of himself as a Spiritual Artifact that needed multiple energy sources.

• Jiang Lin explained why he had restrained Yun Zhi differently from Xiao Yan, and the three began cultivating together with their palms pressed together.
• After a week, Jiang Lin broke through to Seven-star Dou Shi, astonishing Yao Chen with his talents and the transformed nature of his Spirit Clan bloodline.
• Yao Chen urged Xiao Yan to maintain a good relationship with Jiang Lin and eventually go to the Central Continent, while Xiao Yan wondered if he was collecting inheritances.
• Jiang Lin resumed cultivation with Xiao Yan and Yun Zhi, and after half a month he reached the middle-to-late stages of Seven-star Dou Shi but ran out of Crystal Pills.
• Jiang Lin realized that he should understand the Forging Fire Art from the perspective of a Spiritual Artifact and that Spiritual Artifacts needed multiple energy sources.

Jiang Lin used Profound Spirit Pills to boost his Dou Qi while Xiao Yan and Yun Zhi recovered and assessed the gains from half a month of cultivating the Forging Fire Art. Their physical strength and meridians had improved substantially, but their progress now depended on Jiang Lin's cultivation, leaving them to prepare for the next day's operation.

• Jiang Lin swallowed a Profound Spirit Pill, raising his cultivation to the late stage of Seven-star Dou Shi, then took a second pill to push toward the peak.
• Yun Zhi recognized the pills and realized Jiang Lin might have obtained the two Profound Spirit Pills Fa Ma lost in a wager.
• Yao Chen explained to Xiao Yan that the Forging Fire Art was reducing the pills' effects because it refined incoming energy before it could nourish Jiang Lin's Dou Qi.
• Xiao Yan and Yun Zhi resumed cultivating as they prepared for the next day's operation.
• Xiao Yan reflected that half a month of cultivation had brought his body to the peak of Dou Zhe and his meridians to Dou Master standards, while Yun Zhi's body had reached the Dou Master realm.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that his improved physical strength and meridians would make his future cultivation faster, and Xiao Yan accepted that the opportunity had benefited him.

Jiang Lin, Xiao Yan, and Yun Zhi set out for the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave, showing off their flying gear and bickering along the way. After carrying the exhausted pair for much of the flight, Yun Zhi reached the cave with them, where Jiang Lin and Xiao Yan dramatically broke free from her grasp.

• Jiang Lin reached Eight-star Dou Shi and accepted Yun Zhi's Purple Spirit Crystal detector, which he handed to Xiao Yan.
• Jiang Lin and Xiao Yan donned their flying equipment and followed Yun Zhi toward the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave.
• Xiao Yan ran out of Dou Qi, and Jiang Lin carried him until he too became exhausted; Yun Zhi then carried both of them while they bickered.
• As the group neared the cave, Jiang Lin broke free from Yun Zhi's grip and stabilized himself with his light wings.
• Xiao Yan tried and failed to escape Yun Zhi's grasp, so Yun Zhi let him go, and he spread his wings.

Jiang Lin and Xiao Yan took advantage of Yun Zhi distracting the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King to attack its cub outside the cave. Jiang Lin knocked the Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King unconscious and told Xiao Yan to give it a restorative pill so it would survive.

• Yun Zhi drew the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's attention while Jiang Lin led Xiao Yan around to the cave.
• Jiang Lin sensed that a Third-tier Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King remained inside and waited for it to emerge.
• Jiang Lin struck the cub with a punch and two Fast-slow Legs, knocking it unconscious before it could call for its father.
• Xiao Yan saw Jiang Lin's strength firsthand, while Yao Chen assessed how Eight Extremes Collapse amplified Jiang Lin's close-combat power.
• Jiang Lin asked Xiao Yan for a restorative pill to keep the Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King alive and avoid provoking its father further.

Jiang Lin and Xiao Yan looted the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's cave, leaving threats and taunting messages behind while sparing the injured cub's life. They left with the valuable crystals, and Xiao Yan added his own message before following Jiang Lin out.

• Xiao Yan gave the injured Little Purple Crystal Winged Lion King a Fifth-grade Healing Pill and found Jiang Lin's bloody warning to its parent.
• Jiang Lin explained that the warning was meant to deter the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King from retaliating against them or Wutan City.
• Jiang Lin found a large Purple Spirit Crystal, and Yao Chen cut off a piece for him before Jiang Lin reburied the rest with a taunting message.
• Jiang Lin dug up all three Companion Purple Crystal Sources and said they would split the spoils after leaving the cave.
• Xiao Yan followed Jiang Lin out after carving “Xiao Huohuo Was Here!” into the cave.

Jiang Lin and Xiao Yan escaped the Purple Crystal Cave while Yun Zhi distracted the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King, and Yun Zhi later recovered the Purple Spirit Crystal. Yun Zhi departed after offering Jiang Lin help with cultivation, leaving him and Xiao Yan alone by a secluded lake.

• Jiang Lin led Xiao Yan out of the Purple Crystal Cave and into the forest while Yun Zhi held off the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King.
• Yun Zhi gave the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King a sixth-tier medicinal herb as compensation, then fled after Jiang Lin's signal revealed he had completed the task.
• Jiang Lin and Xiao Yan reached a secluded lake, where Yun Zhi arrived and accepted the Purple Spirit Crystal from Xiao Yan.
• Yun Zhi asked Jiang Lin whether he would return to the Jia Ma Imperial Capital with her, and he said he would stay to handle other matters.
• Yun Zhi offered to help Jiang Lin if he encountered difficulties in cultivation, then flew away.
• Xiao Yan joked with Jiang Lin about Yun Zhi making him a Cultivation Cauldron, and Jiang Lin said only women were allowed to capture him.

Jiang Lin brought Xiao Yan to Artifact Forging Valley, where he asked Yao Chen to accept Xiao Yi Xian as a nominal disciple. As Xiao Yi Xian arrived, Jiang Lin and Xiao Yan were cultivating with Companion Purple Crystal Source.

• Jiang Lin led Xiao Yan through the maze formation into Artifact Forging Valley, where Yao Chen noticed the formation and Xiao Yan admired the valley.
• Yao Chen identified Ice Spirit Flame Grass in Jiang Lin's Spiritual Plant Area, and Jiang Lin invited him to take Xiao Yi Xian as a nominal disciple.
• Yao Chen agreed to accept Xiao Yi Xian, and Jiang Lin sent the Mist Eagle to bring her from Qingshan Town.
• Jiang Lin gave Xiao Yan a Companion Purple Crystal Source, and Yao Chen used its contents to help Xiao Yan cultivate.
• Jiang Lin drank some of another Companion Purple Crystal Source and began cultivating alongside Xiao Yan.
• Xiao Yi Xian followed the Mist Eagle into Artifact Forging Valley and saw Jiang Lin and Xiao Yan cultivating amid pale purple flames.

Jiang Lin introduced Xiao Yi Xian to Yao Chen, who accepted her as his disciple and gave her a path to cultivate her Calamity Poison Body through poison pills. Yao Chen began teaching her alchemy in Artifact Forging Valley, curious what unusual pills she might create.

• Jiang Lin introduced Yao Chen as Xiao Yi Xian's potential teacher, and Yao Chen invited her to join his sect.
• Xiao Yi Xian hesitated because she lacked alchemist talent, but Jiang Lin and Yao Chen reassured her, and she bowed to accept Yao Chen as her master.
• Yao Chen gave Xiao Yi Xian the Heavenly Poison Scripture and explained that guiding her Calamity Poison Body could prevent an eruption for five years while they sought three Heavenly Flames for a Calamity Poison Pill.
• Yao Chen instructed Xiao Yi Xian to refine poison powder into poison pills before consuming it, shaping her training around poison-pill mastery.
• Yao Chen taught Xiao Yi Xian alchemy and wondered what special pills she might invent after Jiang Lin created the Body Tempering Marrow Cleansing Crystal Pill.

Yao Chen came to appreciate Jiang Lin’s Crystal Pills and helped Xiao Yi Xian learn alchemy with the Azure Profound Universe Cauldron. After a month of cultivation, Xiao Yan reached Nine-star Dou Zhe and Jiang Lin reached Nine-star Dou Shi, while Xiao Yi Xian refined her first Qi Replenishing Pill.

• Yao Chen explained to Xiao Yi Xian that Crystal Pills could keep tempering the body without drug resistance, with stronger pills needed as a person’s physique improved.
• Jiang Lin used the Azure Profound Universe Cauldron to help Xiao Yi Xian test her alchemy, and Yao Chen recognized the cauldron’s versatility.
• After a month of consuming Companion Purple Crystal Source, Xiao Yan advanced to Nine-star Dou Zhe and Jiang Lin reached Nine-star Dou Shi.
• Under Yao Chen’s instruction, Xiao Yi Xian successfully refined a first-grade Qi Replenishing Pill.
• Jiang Lin ate Xiao Yi Xian’s pill, while Xiao Yan nervously refused to try it.

Jiang Lin melted the special Source Crystal and realized his pale blue Magic Core Fossil was actually a Sixth Order Sea Magical Beast fossilized core. He began crafting with it while Yao Chen punished Xiao Yan for teasing him, and Jiang Lin planned to collect his commissioned Alchemy cauldron before joining the others in the Tagor Desert.

• Xiao Yan asked Jiang Lin for Companion Purple Crystal Source, and Jiang Lin gave him half of the remaining supply for his Alchemy studies with Yao Chen.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan to study Alchemy and reach Dou Master before they headed to the Tagor Desert in search of news about Heavenly Flames.
• Jiang Lin said he would return to Jia Ma Holy City to collect his commissioned Alchemy cauldron and gather information before meeting the others in the desert.
• Jiang Lin refined the special Source Crystal in the Azure Profound Cauldron until it melted into liquid glass.
• Yao Chen identified Jiang Lin's pale blue Magic Core Fossil as a Sixth Order Sea Magical Beast core, and Jiang Lin began coating and polishing it with the molten Source Crystal.
• Xiao Yi Xian remarked on Jiang Lin's knack for finding bargains, and Yao Chen whipped Xiao Yan for asking him to give blessings too.

After three days of forging, Jiang Lin created a fifth-grade water-element Dou Crystal, a reusable Magic Core. He asked Yao Chen to charge it with Dou Qi, revealing the artifact’s potential to transform the Artifact Forger system.

• Xiao Yi Xian watched Jiang Lin forge while studying the manuals Yao Chen had given her.
• Jiang Lin spent three days refining the Azure Profound Cauldron, then swallowed it and used the Forging Fire Art and Soul Refining Art to calcine it.
• Yao Chen and the others watched Jiang Lin cultivate with invisible flames, puzzled by the methods he used.
• Jiang Lin explained that he had shaped Source Crystal in the Azure Profound Cauldron to forge a fifth-grade Water Element Crystal Core using the Dou Crystal Technique.
• Jiang Lin gave the Dou Crystal to Yao Chen and asked him to infuse it with Dou Qi; Yao Chen sensed its properties and began charging it.

Yao Chen replenished a Water Element Crystal Core, and Jiang Lin tested whether it could purify and supply Dou Qi. Jiang Lin managed to cast a water-element technique, but the foreign Dou Qi injured his meridians, leaving him to conclude that the core could serve as a reusable Magic Core or an additional Dou Qi reserve.

• Yao Chen used his Soul Power to replenish the Water Element Crystal Core with Da Dou Shi-level Water Element Dou Qi and gave it to Jiang Lin.
• Jiang Lin swallowed the core, exhausted his own Crimson Gold Dou Qi, and activated the water-attributed energy inside his body.
• Jiang Lin gathered the foreign Dou Qi and cast the Yellow-grade intermediate High-Pressure Water Arrow, piercing a distant peach tree.
• Jiang Lin removed the Crystal Core and found that the foreign Dou Qi had injured his meridians despite his powerful physique.
• Jiang Lin shared the core's effects and use with Xiao Yan and the others, explaining that it could act as a reusable Magic Core or an additional Dou Qi Dantian.

Jiang Lin promised to forge Xiao Yan a Fire Element Crystal Core if he found a high-grade Fire Magic Core, while the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King searched in vain for the intruder who had threatened its offspring. Jiang Lin then swallowed the Water Element Crystal Core to test whether he could absorb its Dou Qi, leaving Yao Chen and the others stunned by the strange cultivation that followed.

• Jiang Lin refused to give Xiao Yan one of the three Crystal Cores, but promised to forge him a Fire Element Crystal Core in exchange for a high-grade Fire Magic Core.
• Xiao Yan agreed to the deal, and Jiang Lin asked him to deliver something when he reached Dou Master and passed through Black Iron City.
• The Purple Crystal Winged Lion King searched towns and the Monster Mountain Range for the human who had threatened its offspring, but feared attacking human cities or confronting the intruder.
• Jiang Lin reasoned that he could absorb the Da Dou Shi-level Water Dou Qi in the Water Element Crystal Core, then swallowed it and circulated the Forging Fire Art and Soul Refining Art.
• Yao Chen and the others saw Jiang Lin absorb fire, metal, and water attribute Dou Qi amid a huge energy vortex, with an illusory Azure Blue Shadow appearing around him.

Jiang Lin discovered that his Pale Blue Crystal Core doubled the Forging Fire Art’s cultivation efficiency and helped his body adapt to Water Element Dou Qi. After a month of cultivation, Xiao Yan and Jiang Lin both broke through, reaching Dou Master and Da Dou Shi respectively.

• Yao Chen explained to Xiao Yan that Jiang Lin’s Forging Fire Art absorbed fire-, gold-, and water-element Dou Qi, giving him an advantage in cultivation speed.
• Xiao Yan resolved to catch up to Jiang Lin, while Xiao Yi Xian also decided to work harder and began cultivating.
• Jiang Lin realized that the Pale Blue Crystal Core raised his Dou Qi absorption efficiency from one-eighth to one-quarter and gradually helped his body resist Water Element Dou Qi.
• Jiang Lin concluded that Crystal Cores could help a Spiritual Artifact adapt to different Dou Qi attributes, and he set aside his plan to forge himself a Crystal Core weapon.
• After another month, Xiao Yan used Yao Chen’s medicinal pills to break through to Dou Master, while Jiang Lin advanced to Da Dou Shi.

After reaching One-star Great Dou Shi, Jiang Lin gave Xiao Yan a set of armor and taught him a secret technique before Xiao Yan left to train in Black Iron City and the Tagor Desert. The chapter ended with Jiang Lin demonstrating Armor Integration by assembling his armor into a Black Armored Knight.

• Jiang Lin reached the One-star Great Dou Shi realm, and Xiao Yan told him he was leaving to visit Black Iron City before traveling to the Tagor Desert.
• Jiang Lin gave Xiao Yan dragon-scale fist armor and asked him to deliver another pair to Rock Tiger in Black Iron City.
• Xiao Yan asked Jiang Lin to spar, but Jiang Lin offered to teach him an original secret art instead.
• Jiang Lin gave Yao Chen a Soul Jade Slip and armor plates, explaining that Xiao Yan would receive a Fire-enhancing armor set to practice with.
• Jiang Lin demonstrated the Heaven-Tier secret skill Armor Integration, assembling armor pieces around himself into a Black Armored Knight.

Jiang Lin and Yao Chen equipped Xiao Yan with Black Flame Battle Armor and Four-leaf Wings, then Jiang Lin tested Xiao Yan’s new armor in combat. The fight ended with Xiao Yan learning to protect his wings, while Jiang Lin envied his armor’s AI.

• Jiang Lin donned his Black Armored Knight armor and explained how Armor Integration worked as Yao Chen used Soul Power to fit Xiao Yan with armor.
• Yao Chen completed Xiao Yan’s Black Flame Battle Armor and attached four wings taken from the Four-leaf Feather Sheath Wings.
• Xiao Yan boasted that his armor was cooler than Jiang Lin’s, and Jiang Lin silently prepared to test him.
• Xiao Yan charged Jiang Lin, who redirected his punch and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Jiang Lin warned Xiao Yan not to expose his wings when he lacked a speed advantage, and Yao Chen detached and stored the wings.

Jiang Lin trained Xiao Yan in the Black Flame Battle Armor, exposing Xiao Yan’s lack of close-combat skill despite his armor’s defenses. Yao Chen recognized Jiang Lin’s mastery of varied techniques and resolved to seek a fire-element Crystal Core for Xiao Yan.

• Xiao Yan repeatedly asked Jiang Lin to avoid certain techniques during their spar, but Jiang Lin used footwork and a slap to knock him down.
• Jiang Lin demonstrated that Xiao Yan needed to incorporate Dou Techniques into his attacks, then overwhelmed him with controlled punches and a water-element technique.
• Xiao Yi Xian watched in surprise as Xiao Yan struggled against Jiang Lin, while Yao Chen concluded that Xiao Yan needed to learn more physical-combat Dou Techniques.
• Yao Chen marveled at Jiang Lin’s ability to use a Water Element Crystal Core to activate water-element techniques and decided to find Xiao Yan a fire-element Crystal Core.

Jiang Lin modified Xiao Yan’s Flame Splitting Wave Ruler into the water-element Earth-grade technique Wave Severing and overwhelmed him in their spar. He then demonstrated an advanced Overlapping Waves technique, though he said its violent energy was not yet controllable enough for combat.

• Xiao Yan and Jiang Lin clashed with their heavy weapons, and Jiang Lin noticed the water vapor around his sword.
• Jiang Lin gained an insight into Flame Splitting Wave Ruler and modified it into the Earth-grade Wave Severing technique.
• Jiang Lin’s Wave Severing clashed with Xiao Yan’s flaming attack and sent Xiao Yan flying, leaving his armor scratched.
• Jiang Lin advised Xiao Yan to learn techniques suited to his fighting style, then demonstrated how mastering one ability could strengthen him.
• Jiang Lin advanced Wave Severing into Overlapping Waves, but said its energy was too difficult to control for actual combat.

Jiang Lin had Xiao Yan spar against the heavily armored Pei Xuan, forcing him to rely on footwork and strategy rather than simply tanking attacks. As Xiao Yan continued fighting, Jiang Lin returned to the workshop to prepare a more vivid, supposedly macho color for Xiao Yan’s armor.

• Jiang Lin explained that his Die Lang Slash was too complex for a Da Dou Shi to master and asked Yao Chen and the others to keep his abilities secret.
• Jiang Lin ordered Pei Xuan to spar with Xiao Yan, and Pei Xuan knocked Xiao Yan down and caught the Profound Weight Ruler with one hand.
• Xiao Yan abandoned his weapon and used his speed to evade Pei Xuan, gradually improving his footwork and battle tactics.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yi Xian that Pei Xuan’s stacked body and armor made him exceptionally difficult to hurt, and that the fight was strengthening Xiao Yan’s combat foundation.
• Jiang Lin went to sort ores and began preparing a brighter, macho-exclusive color for Xiao Yan’s battle armor.

After Xiao Yan left for further training, Jiang Lin took Xiao Yi Xian to Qingshan Town before flying to Jia Ma Holy City. Mr. Yao revealed that Xiao Yi Xian’s origins and sealed Calamity Poison Body were tied to Chuyun, and swallowed a pill to repair his Dantian as he prepared to return there with her.

• After three days of training, Xiao Yan said goodbye to Jiang Lin, Pei Xuan, and Xiao Yi Xian and set out on his own.
• Jiang Lin flew Xiao Yi Xian to Qingshan Town, where she told him that Yao Chen had given her a pill to treat Mr. Yao’s damaged Dantian.
• Jiang Lin shared lunch with Mr. Yao and Xiao Yi Xian, then left for Jia Ma Holy City to retrieve the alchemy cauldron.
• Mr. Yao told Xiao Yi Xian that Jiang Lin had survived as an infant against the odds and that Jiang Lin’s mother had sealed Xiao Yi Xian’s Calamity Poison Body and brought her to Jia Ma.
• Mr. Yao said they would return to Chuyun, where Xiao Yi Xian could learn about her origins and improve her strength, then swallowed the pill to repair his Dantian.