Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lin returned to Jia Ma Holy City and asked Fatty Yuan about obtaining Sixth-grade Magic Core Crystals for research. Fatty Yuan explained that such materials were rare because powerful humans and Magical Beasts maintained an uneasy truce, leaving Jiang Lin without a clear source.

• Jiang Lin returned to Jia Ma Holy City and entered the Artifact Forgers Guild after showing the soldiers his fourth-grade Young Qilin Profound Weapons Master badge.
• Jiang Lin learned from Fatty Yuan that Teacher Hu Lei had not returned and that his forged alchemy cauldron was waiting in the storeroom with Haimo.
• Fatty Yuan asked whether Jiang Lin had met the Misty Cloud Sect Master, and Jiang Lin said they had cooperated during his raid on the Purple Crystal Winged Lion King's home.
• Jiang Lin asked Fatty Yuan for a Sixth-tier Magic Core or a used Sixth-grade Magic Core Crystal to study.
• Fatty Yuan warned Jiang Lin that Sixth-tier Magic Cores were dangerous and scarce, explaining that human experts avoided killing Sixth-order Magical Beasts to preserve their truce.

Jiang Lin collected his fourth-rank Alchemy Cauldron and considered ways to obtain high-tier Magic Core materials for artifact forging. He sent supplies to Xiao Yi Xian while reflecting on the growing demands of his Forging Fire Art.

• Fatty Yuan explained that high-tier Magic Cores were scarce and suggested Jiang Lin seek Magic Core Fossils from the Mittel Family or post a bounty for preserved crystals.
• Jiang Lin collected his Crimson Alchemy Cauldron from Haimo and joked that he would eventually share pills with the guild.
• Jiang Lin sent Mist Eagle to deliver the Storage Ring of common first-grade pill ingredients to Xiao Yi Xian in Qingshan Town.
• Jiang Lin noted that his cultivation had reached One-star Great Dou Shi, but most of his Dou Qi went toward body tempering and the fourth-rank Forging Fire Art was slowing his progress.

Jiang Lin discovered that the Forging Fire Art was transforming his blood and removing the remaining signs of his Spirit Clan heritage. Meanwhile, Hu Lei visited Soul Craftsman and entered his master’s hall.

• Jiang Lin cultivated the Forging Fire Art and realized it expanded with his cultivation while refining his Spirit Clan bloodline.
• Jiang Lin’s blood turned crimson-gold, and the last cyan in his eyes disappeared as he ended his cultivation.
• Hun Ke’er gave three Soul Pearls to the black-robed souls gathered outside the residence, and they fought over them.
• Hun Ke’er explained that Soul Craftsman made Soul Pearls to help unstable souls and warned Hu Lei that his master was in a poor mood.
• Hu Lei entered the grand hall and saw Soul Craftsman, a Nine Revolution Dou Venerate known as the Vessel Venerable.

Hu Lei visited Vessel Venerable Soul Craftsman to report that his young apprentice had inherited the Azure Profound Universe Cauldron and ask for guidance. Soul Craftsman set a future test for the apprentice and warned Hu Lei to leave the Central Continent, revealing that the Soul Clan’s situation was far more dangerous than Hu Lei had realized.

• Hu Lei told Vessel Venerable Soul Craftsman that his fifteen- or sixteen-year-old apprentice had mastered Spirit Forging, become a Fourth-rank Profound Weapons Master, and received the Azure Profound Universe Cauldron.
• Soul Craftsman said Hu Lei should bring the apprentice to meet his grand-apprentice once he reached the sixth rank, but required Hu Lei to reclaim the cauldron if the apprentice failed the test.
• Soul Craftsman warned Hu Lei to avoid the Central Continent because anyone below Venerable strength could die there without knowing why.
• Hu Lei asked whether Soul Craftsman wanted him to preserve the Soul Artifact Mo School’s inheritance in the borderlands, and Soul Craftsman agreed that was one way to understand his plan.
• Hu Lei realized that Soul Craftsman’s information suggested the Soul Clan members under his command were effectively marked for death, then recognized the imprisoned flame as an elite Dou Venerate-strength Void Devouring Flame Sub-flame.

The Soul Craftsman marked Hu Lei as his student and began teaching him the Super-grade Soul Artifact technique, Soul Slaying Sword. In Jia Ma Imperial Capital, Jiang Lin searched for high-level Magic Core Crystals until Fatty Yuan revealed that a legendary Artifact Forger’s thousand-year-old connection to the Snake People might point them toward a Heavenly Flame in the Tagor Desert.

• The Soul Craftsman gave Hu Lei a Seal Mark, drove off a Half-Saint, and promised to teach him how to forge the Soul Slaying Sword.
• Jiang Lin placed bounty missions with the Jia Ma Imperial Family, the Mittel Merchant Guild, and the Artifact Forgers Guild for high-level Magic Core Crystals, but found none available.
• Fatty Yuan explained that a legendary guild president had once settled the Snake People in the Tagor Desert after secretly studying their fallen kin.
• Fatty Yuan told Jiang Lin that the guild president’s records said a Snake People Queen’s bloodline could transform within a Heavenly Flame.
• Jiang Lin and Fatty Yuan inferred that the Heavenly Flame planted in the Tagor Desert a thousand years earlier might have grown by now.

Fatty Yuan told Jiang Lin that the Snake People Tribe’s connection to the Tagor Desert came from a legendary Artifact Forger’s research into the Green Lotus Core Flame. Jiang Lin abandoned plans to seize it by force and focused on finding another Crystal Core to support his growing physique, before Fatty Yuan later brought him news of a possible source.

• Fatty Yuan explained that an ancient Artifact Forger had linked the Snake People Tribe to the Green Lotus Core Flame and assigned them the Tagor Desert, where it could be born.
• Fatty Yuan deduced that a lotus seed from the Green Lotus Core Flame had been consumed by the Snake People Queen a thousand years earlier.
• Jiang Lin decided not to compete with Gu He or Queen Medusa for the flame and considered using his Artifact Forgers Guild connections to arrange a deal for Xiao Yan.
• Jiang Lin realized his physique had reached the Dou Ling level while his cultivation remained at Da Dou Shi, creating a growing strain on his Dou Qi.
• Jiang Lin went to the Artifact Forgers Guild library to search for help and, a week later, Fatty Yuan told him someone was willing to put up their own ancestor for sale.

Jiang Lin met A'mo, who sought his help curing his sister's Moon Frenzy in exchange for the Buli Wolf Clan's Sixth-grade Magic Core Crystal. Jiang Lin agreed to examine her, then learned that their ancestor had Wood Element Dou Qi while A'jie had Wind Element.

• Jiang Lin welcomed A'mo at the Artifact Forgers Guild and asked what he wanted in return for the Sixth-grade Magic Core Crystal.
• A'mo explained that he and his sister came from the Buli Wolf Clan, whose ancestors had once produced a Dou Emperor.
• A'mo revealed that A'jie suffered increasingly severe Moon Frenzy and might not live past a hundred.
• A'mo offered the clan's Sixth-grade Magic Core Crystal if Jiang Lin could cure A'jie, and said the High Priest had approved the trade.
• Jiang Lin agreed to examine A'jie and asked what element their ancestor had.
• A'mo said their ancestor had Wood Element Dou Qi, and Jiang Lin noted that A'jie had Wind Element instead.

Wolf Boy A'mo brought Jiang Lin to a Buli Wolfman caravan market, hoping the physician could help an injured tribesman. Jiang Lin agreed to consider attaching a replacement arm if suitable materials could be found, while keeping his true purpose for visiting the Buli Tribe concealed.

• A'mo led Jiang Lin through a sandstorm to a small market at the edge of the Tagor Desert.
• A'mo introduced Jiang Lin to Kui Qing and the Buli Wolfmen as a physician from Jia Ma Holy City.
• When the Buli Wolfmen asked if Jiang Lin could regrow severed limbs, he clarified that he could only attach a new arm if suitable materials were available.
• Kui Qing apologized and offered compensation for Jiang Lin to help the wolfman who had lost an arm in a magical beast attack.
• Jiang Lin agreed to see what he could do and reflected that revealing his reason for visiting the Buli Tribe could expose A'mo's sister's situation to nearby powers.

Jiang Lin traveled with A'mo and the Buli Wolfmen toward their home in the Black Mountain Hills, observing their desert journey and cultivation. On the third night, he sensed the wind rising and opened his Red-Gold Eyes to look into the murky sky.

• Kui Qing explained that yellow sand weather made travel dangerous because Sand Worms could ambush travelers beneath the sand.
• After the storm passed, Jiang Lin joined the Buli Wolfmen as they traveled through the desert at night on a Desert Boat Cart.
• A'mo spoke of his hope to join the army and reclaim the northern grasslands, and Jiang Lin reflected on the Jia Ma Empire's history.
• Over the next two or three days, Jiang Lin observed the Wolfmen's cultivation and wondered whether techniques could compress a Magic Core after birth.
• On the third night, Jiang Lin opened his Red-Gold Eyes when the wind rose.

Jiang Lin guided Kui Qing’s wolfmen through a dangerous nighttime sandstorm after sensing a powerful magical beast ahead. The group avoided a Third-tier Desert Yellow Armor Scorpion, while Jiang Lin proved that his medical skills also included a deadly bow shot.

• Kui Qing led the wolfmen onward through the sudden sandstorm, and the group fought off Sand Worms while guarding their weaker members.
• Jiang Lin sensed a Third-tier magical beast ahead and warned Kui Qing that it was likely a Desert Yellow Armor Scorpion.
• Kui Qing trusted Jiang Lin’s judgment and ordered the group to turn toward the front left.
• Jiang Lin used his Black Feather Heavy Bow to kill a second-tier Desert Worm with a single shot, and Kui Qing collected its Magic Core.
• A young female wolfman questioned whether Jiang Lin was really a doctor, and Jiang Lin called his shot cranial surgery.

Jiang Lin led Kui Qing and the wolfmen through a sandstorm while evading a Desert Yellow Armored King Scorpion, then accompanied A'mo to Buli City. He and A'mo headed to check on A'mo's sister, A'xiao.

• Jiang Lin examined Sand Worm Magic Cores and guided the group around dangerous desert beasts while shooting down worms in their path.
• A Giant Scorpion attacked, but a wolfman knocked it aside as the group broke through the sandstorm and escaped the pursuing Desert Yellow Armored King Scorpion.
• Kui Qing explained the threat the King Scorpion posed to the nearby tribes, and the group continued toward the Black Mountain Hills.
• After two trouble-free days, Jiang Lin and A'mo reached Buli City, where Jiang Lin showed his Qilin mercenary badge.
• A'mo apologized for Jiang Lin's difficult journey, and Jiang Lin told him they should check on his sister, A'xiao.

Jiang Lin accompanied A'mo to the Buli Wolf Clan and agreed to treat A'xiao's Moon Frenzy Sickness in exchange for the clan's ancestral Sixth-grade Magic Core Crystal. As Jiang Lin refined A'xiao's bloodline with the Forging Fire Art, High Priest Buli reflected on how the era of the Eight Human Emperors had shaken the Beast Domain clans.

• A'mo brought Jiang Lin to the Buli Wolf Clan's manor, where they learned High Priest Buli was waiting at the Ancestral Hall.
• A'mo found his unconscious sister A'xiao beside High Priest Buli and explained that Jiang Lin had come to treat her Moon Frenzy Sickness.
• Jiang Lin secured the clan's ancestral Sixth-grade Magic Core Crystal as payment if he could resolve A'xiao's bloodline problem.
• Jiang Lin examined A'xiao and used the Forging Fire Art and his Crimson Gold Flame to refine her rare Spiritual Bloodline.
• High Priest Buli recognized Jiang Lin's unusual skill and lamented the decline of her clan as she recalled the era of the Eight Human Emperors.

As Little Fire refined the Buli bloodline in A'xiao, Jiang Lin questioned High Priest Buli about inherited bloodlines and how Great Emperors created new races. Her account of a fallen human imperial clan sparked Jiang Lin’s interest in the connection between source qi, laws, and clan-wide bloodline ascension.

• Jiang Lin asked High Priest Buli whether golden families possessed inherited Spiritual Bloodlines and how those bloodlines formed.
• High Priest Buli explained that powerful beings could break their bloodline shackles, but only Great Emperors could create races by leaving inherited bloodlines.
• Jiang Lin connected her explanation to source qi, which enabled Dou Di to grasp Heaven and Earth’s laws and spread their Dao through their bloodline relatives.
• Jiang Lin asked High Priest Buli to tell him more about an ancient human imperial clan that had fallen.

Jiang Lin discovered that A'xiao’s ancestral beast-level bloodline caused her Moon Frenzy Sickness because her increasingly human physique could not withstand its violent dou qi. He explained that she might need to reach Dou Wang to adapt and presented a medicinal pill, while privately worrying that the Xiao Clan’s attempt to reach Dou Di by extracting Imperial Blood had set a dangerous precedent.

• High Priest Buli told Jiang Lin that an ancient clan leader had extracted his entire clan’s Imperial Blood in a failed attempt to become Dou Di.
• Jiang Lin connected the account to the Xiao Clan and worried that the other Ancient Clans might have learned about Source qi during the blood extraction.
• Jiang Lin finished collecting A'xiao’s bloodline data and diagnosed her Moon Frenzy Sickness as a mismatch between her violent ancestral bloodline and her Buli People physique.
• Jiang Lin explained that A'xiao might need to reach Dou Wang before she could withstand the dou qi in her bloodline.
• Jiang Lin took out a medicinal pill for A'xiao.

Jiang Lin offered High Priest Buli a Sixth-grade Purple Spirit Marrow Cleansing Crystal Pill, saying it could strengthen A'xiao’s meridians enough to withstand the Dou Qi inside her. High Priest Buli accepted his offer to trade the pill for the Buli Tribe’s Sixth-grade Magic Core Crystal, and Jiang Lin set out to find Xiao Huohuo.

• A'mo questioned whether Jiang Lin’s crystal-like Purple Spirit Crystal Pill was really a pill, and Jiang Lin explained that it was a special Crystal Pill.
• Jiang Lin told A'mo that the Sixth-grade Purple Spirit Marrow Cleansing Crystal Pill was suited to A'xiao and could strengthen her meridians over one or two years.
• Jiang Lin explained the pill’s Purple Spirit Crystal ingredients and claimed it was worth at least as much as a complete Sixth-tier Magic Core.
• High Priest Buli hesitated over the unfamiliar pill, but agreed to trade it for the Sixth-grade Magic Core Crystal for the Buli Tribe’s future.
• Jiang Lin left to find Xiao Huohuo and show off his Dual Crystal Core.

Jiang Lin left Buli City and spent a week refining the Sixth-grade Wood Element Magic Core Crystal in a desert cave. Meanwhile, Gu He led a group back toward the Snake People Tribe to seek the Heavenly Flame, but he spotted a flash of azure light in the desert.

• Jiang Lin disguised himself, flew into the wilderness, and found a cave where he began refining the Buli Wolfman Magic Core with Source Crystal in the Azure Profound Universe Cauldron.
• Jiang Lin worked on refining the Crystal Core for seven days in the cave.
• Gu He led his Heavenly Flames search party, including an Azure Winged Dou Huang, toward Queen Medusa to try negotiating for the Heavenly Flame again.
• Gu He reasoned that the Heavenly Flame was probably the nineteenth-ranked Green Lotus Core Flame and hoped to obtain it without attracting rivals.
• Gu He noticed a flash of azure light in the desert and wondered who was forging artifacts there.

Jiang Lin hid from Gu He’s party, then followed them toward the desert’s center while testing the Water and Wood Element Crystal Cores and the limits of his cultivation. He concluded that the cores improved the efficiency of the fourth-tier Forging Fire Art and wondered whether Lei Feng Bing counted toward its cultivation formula.

• Jiang Lin hid beneath the sand as Gu He and his party searched for the hidden Artifact Forger, then emerged after they left and flew after them.
• Jiang Lin used his Water Element Crystal Core to fly, while noting that its explosive power strained his meridians and was difficult to control.
• Jiang Lin replenished his Dou Qi with the Dou Qi Furnace and examined how his Water and Wood Element Crystal Cores absorbed energy and affected his meridians.
• Jiang Lin calculated that two Crystal Cores raised his Forging Fire Art cultivation efficiency to one-quarter and considered the help of his Crystal Pill.
• Jiang Lin wondered whether Lei Feng Bing counted toward the relationship between the Forging Fire Art and Crystal Cores.

Jiang Lin and Xiao Yan watched Gu He’s group confront the Snake People guards at the Desert Temple, where Queen Medusa appeared. Gu He offered her pills in exchange for the Green Lotus Core Flame, leaving the negotiations unresolved.

• Jiang Lin flew across the desert at night and spotted Gu He and his companions hiding near the Desert Temple.
• Xiao Yan and Yao Chen observed the guarded temple and saw Gu He’s group arrive with a Dou Emperor.
• Gu He’s party nearly fought the Snake People guards, but the presence of the Dou Emperor held them back.
• Queen Medusa appeared above the temple and confronted Gu He’s group.
• Gu He offered Queen Medusa two Dou Ling Pills and a Form Transformation Pill for the Heavenly Flame.

Gu He and Xiao Yan entered the Desert Temple amid a battle with the Snake People to seek the Green Lotus Core Flame, while Jiang Lin watched from afar. The temple collapsed as Queen Medusa began her transformation inside the Heavenly Flame, leaving her people grieving beneath the dawn.

• Queen Medusa refused Gu He's offer because she intended to use the Heavenly Flame to transform herself.
• The black-robed Dou Emperor shattered Queen Medusa's apparent body and led the assault on the Desert Temple.
• Gu He rushed into the city while Yan Shi and Feng Li held off the Snake People leaders, and Xiao Yan slipped inside unseen.
• Jiang Lin recognized Xiao Yan and Yao Chen entering the temple and watched the battle from a distant dune.
• The Desert Temple collapsed, and Queen Medusa screamed as she struggled inside the Green Lotus Core Flame while the Snake People watched in grief.

As Queen Medusa’s evolution appeared to end in failure, she emerged as a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python while Xiao Yan gathered the contents of her Storage Ring. He found the Companion Purple Crystal Source’s source crystals and a Sixth-Order Fire Element Magic Core, leaving him with the materials Jiang Lin needed to refine a Crystal Core as danger mounted outside the barrier.

• Jiang Lin prepared his Black Feather Heavy Bow while human and Snake People Tribe fighters continued battling outside the Purple Light Screen.
• A Seven-Colored Snake emerged from Queen Medusa’s charred serpent body and rushed toward Xiao Yan, but Yao Chen’s Cold White Flame stopped it.
• Yao Chen identified the snake as a Seven-Colored Heaven Swallowing Python and urged Xiao Yan to collect the loot before the barrier fell.
• Xiao Yan found two source crystals from the Companion Purple Crystal Source in Queen Medusa’s Storage Ring, while the snake gulped down some of the remaining liquid.
• Yao Chen pointed out that Queen Medusa’s charred corpse contained the Sixth-Order Fire Element Magic Core Xiao Yan needed to have Jiang Lin refine a Crystal Core.