Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Yan survived fusing the Heavenly Flames and creating the Buddha's Fury Lotus, Jiang Lin revealed that his Fire Spirit Colored Lotus could protect him from its flames. He told Yao Chen he planned to rebuild the Profound Weight Ruler into a weapon that could make the Buddha's Fury Lotus controllable.

• Jiang Lin checked on the unconscious Xiao Yan and summoned Yao Chen, who said that Xiao Yan's Heavenly Flame fusion had drained most of his Soul Power.
• Yao Chen praised Xiao Yan's Buddha's Fury Lotus, but Jiang Lin showed him the lotus barrier that had protected him from its flames.
• Jiang Lin explained that the Fire Spirit Colored Lotus and his body protected each other, letting him endure the Buddha's Fury Lotus's flames and withstand its blast.
• Jiang Lin announced that he would dismantle the Profound Weight Ruler and rebuild it with Heaven Burning Goldstone and energy-track technology to control the Buddha's Fury Lotus.

Jiang Lin explained to Yao Chen why he believed he could reforge the Profound Weight Ruler into a Super-Class Profound Weapon despite being a Fourth-rank Profound Weapons Master. He left Yao Chen facing Jiang Lin’s confident claim, backed by his advanced knowledge of materials and energy.

• Jiang Lin asked Ghostfire Old Man to help him reforge the Profound Weight Ruler using the Green Lotus Core Flame and Bone Spirit Cold Fire.
• Jiang Lin explained that the Profound Weight Ruler was a high-hardness blank weapon with weak Dou Qi suppression, and planned to rebuild it around Mysterious Heavy Divine Iron and Heaven Burning Goldstone.
• Yao Chen doubted that Jiang Lin could forge a Super-Class Profound Weapon at his current rank.
• Jiang Lin argued that he understood Mysterious Artifact principles and could pursue Super-Class weapons beyond the limits of his cultivation realm.
• Jiang Lin reviewed his progress in material and energy research, including his use of four elemental attributes and the resistance granted by his five elemental Crystal Cores.

Jiang Lin explained to Yao Chen how they could use a Buddha's Fury Lotus to activate the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon without melting it, then left after insisting he would make a Soul Gold home for Yao Chen. Yao Chen worried that Jiang Lin’s soul research would lead him toward the Soul Hall and tried to decipher the mystery behind his aliases.

• Jiang Lin explained that the cannon’s seventh-order materials would take time to reach their melting point, so they could launch the Buddha's Fury Lotus before the weapon was damaged.
• Yao Chen objected when Jiang Lin proposed forging him into Soul Gold as an Artifact Spirit, but Jiang Lin declared the idea settled and left the room.
• After Jiang Lin shut the door, Yao Chen watched the Azure Profound Cauldron absorb energy and checked on the recovering but unconscious Xiao Yan.
• Yao Chen feared Jiang Lin’s soul research would require powerful soul subjects and draw him toward the Soul Hall.
• Yao Chen reflected on Jiang Lin’s aliases—Ghost, Young Qilin, and Qilin—and wondered whether they concealed his origins and strengthened his sense of self.

Xiao Yan woke from his injuries and began recovering in the Artifact Forgers Guild while Yao Chen went into hibernation. Jiang Lin returned from the library without finding any Soul Gold in the guild, since the previous president had sent the last batch to the Misty Cloud Sect.

• Yao Chen explained that Jiang Lin had healed Xiao Yan’s meridians, then entered hibernation to recover his Soul Power.
• Xiao Yan reflected on his Buddha's Fury Lotus and began treating his injuries with pills and cultivation.
• Yuan Bao brought Xiao Yan food, explained the guild’s safety rules, and told him Jiang Lin had gone to the library.
• Jiang Lin returned and told Yuan Bao that the guild’s records showed its last Soul Gold had been sent to the Misty Cloud Sect more than ten years earlier.
• Yuan Bao suggested waiting for their teacher rather than asking the Misty Cloud Sect to return the Soul Gold, while Jiang Lin lamented the previous president’s gifts to the sect.

Jiang Lin prepared to visit the Misty Cloud Sect for a special material and advised Xiao Yan about hiding his strength. After leaving Jia Ma Holy City, he drew the attention of Jia Xing Tian and the Netherworld Flood Dragon Beast, who discussed the deadly explosion and the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s interest in a mysterious girl.

• Jiang Lin told Xiao Yan he trusted Fatty Yuan to help with problems in Jia Ma Holy City and explained that his standing with the Misty Cloud Sect and Jia Ma Imperial Family protected him.
• Jiang Lin contrasted Xiao Yan’s habit of disguising himself as weak with his own approach of concealing only his wings while remaining visibly powerful.
• Xiao Yan asked Jiang Lin to assess his Buddha's Fury Lotus, and Jiang Lin called it mediocre before offering to modify it into a long-range Dou Technique.
• Jiang Lin set out alone for the Misty Cloud Sect as a golden streak crossed the night sky above Jia Ma Holy City.
• Jia Xing Tian and the Netherworld Flood Dragon Beast identified a charred scale as belonging to the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor and discussed the Heavenly Snake Mansion’s interest in a girl and the explosion’s power.

Jiang Lin studied the Misty Cloud Sect’s guardian formation and gained new insights into the relationship between formations, artifacts, the Way, and the world. He climbed toward the sect, contemplating a path of cultivation that could forge a world into an artifact.

• Jiang Lin arrived at Misty Cloud Mountain before dawn and examined the Misty Cloud Sect’s Misty Mist Array with his Spiritual Eye.
• Jiang Lin compared the formation’s use of Heaven and Earth Energy to Earth-grade Dou Skills and reflected on how human power could understand and use the world’s rules.
• Jiang Lin concluded that an individual could surpass the world only by becoming a new whole, with the individual perishing as the world was reborn.
• Jiang Lin climbed the mountain and developed the idea of the Way of Artifacts: forging a city into a world and a world into a city.

Jiang Lin reflected on combining personal strength with artifacts, then visited Yun Yun at the Misty Cloud Sect and gave her a sack of Crystal Pills. He explained their body-tempering uses and left the reason for his visit unstated.

• A guild member mistook Jiang Lin, known as Young Qilin, for someone small and cute, and Jiang Lin offered a Body-Tempering Pill to learn who had spread the rumor.
• Jiang Lin visited Yun Yun in Yunlan Hall and apologized for her earlier mercy by giving her a sack of pills.
• Yun Yun opened the sack and suspected its crystal-clear pills were rocks.
• Jiang Lin explained that Crystal Pills were made from energy-containing crystals and herbs, refined with Fire-Gold Dou Qi, and chiefly used to temper the body.
• Jiang Lin said he had brought the pills for Yun Yun and her disciple to nourish their bodies.

Jiang Lin gave Yun Yun a bag of Body Tempering Crystal Pills and explained how they could strengthen her body and promote his crystal-pilling business. He prepared to discuss valuable Soul Gold with the Misty Cloud Sect master while the injured Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor decided it needed to leave Jia Ma Empire.

• Yun Yun hesitated to accept Jiang Lin’s bag of Body Tempering Crystal Pills, but he explained they could raise her body to the third tier and help her cultivation.
• Jiang Lin told Yun Yun the crystal pills were special Dou Artifacts that could be given to Misty Cloud Sect disciples to promote his product.
• Jiang Lin used the gift to warm Yun Yun up before discussing Soul Gold with her, and privately lamented that Xiao Yan’s Buddha's Fury Lotus had destroyed the Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor’s wings.
• The injured Eight-Winged Black Snake Emperor sneezed in its cave and ordered Green Barbarian to resolve the trouble and leave Jia Ma Empire so it could return to Heavenly Snake Mansion and shed its skin.

Jiang Lin visited the Misty Cloud Sect as the Artifact Forgers Guild’s Young Qilin and asked Yun Yun about Bright God Soul Gold, a rare material the sect had once possessed. Yun Yun had never heard of it, so Jiang Lin said he needed to speak with her master, the Old Sect Master, and the chapter ended with Yun Yun reacting in disbelief.

• Jiang Lin met Yun Yun in the Misty Cloud Hall after arriving openly as the Artifact Forgers Guild’s Young Qilin.
• Jiang Lin examined the hall’s hidden array connections and asked Yun Yun whether she knew of Bright God Soul Gold.
• Jiang Lin explained that the Soul Gold was a valuable Sixth or Seventh Order Material and that the guild’s records showed it had left storage more than twenty years earlier.
• Yun Yun said she had never heard of Bright God Soul Gold, and Jiang Lin asked to speak with her master, the Old Sect Master.
• Yun Yun reacted with disbelief when Jiang Lin said he wanted to find her master.

Jiang Lin sought Bright God Soul Gold from the Misty Cloud Sect, and Yun Yun learned that the old reserve supplies might be stored in the sect’s Life and Death Gate. Yun Miao confirmed the connection and suggested Jiang Lin could be told more about the secret realm, leaving him eager to learn what it contained.

• Jiang Lin asked Yun Yun to help him obtain Bright God Soul Gold, and she said she would consult the elders because Yun Shan could not be reached.
• Yun Yun explained that the Misty Cloud Sect might have reserve materials gifted by the former president of the Alchemist Guild, though Jiang Lin would need to exchange for them through the guild.
• Yun Yun asked the elders about the old supplies, and Yun Miao stepped forward to explain that they had been stored in the Life and Death Gate.
• Yun Miao said the supplies might include Soul Gold and that the Life and Death Gate’s formations were designed with materials provided by the former president.
• Yun Miao told Yun Yun that Jiang Lin could be told something about the Life and Death Gate because of his standing as the current Alchemist Guild president’s direct disciple.

Jiang Lin accompanied Yun Yun to the Life and Death Gate, hoping to identify the Bright God Soul Gold while learning the secret behind the Misty Cloud Sect’s mysterious gateway. He discovered that the gate was a Super-Class Array Artifact anchoring a secret realm in an unknown world, where Yun Shan might still be alive.

• Yun Miao admitted he had never seen Bright God Soul Gold, and Jiang Lin offered to search for it himself.
• Yun Yun agreed to take Jiang Lin to the Life and Death Gate and warned him to keep it secret.
• Yun Yun led Jiang Lin through a hidden passage and explained why the Misty Cloud Sect trusted him with its secret.
• Jiang Lin and Yun Yun reached the Bronze Wall, which Yun Yun identified as the Life and Death Gate.
• Jiang Lin recognized the gate as a Super-Class Array Artifact created by Xuan Xing to anchor a secret realm in an unknown world.

Jiang Lin and Yun Yun discovered a hidden storage ring containing rare materials, a gold-type Sixth-tier Magic Core, and a concealed scroll about array artifacts. Jiang Lin identified the items and connected the Magic Core to President Xuan Xing’s Golden Flame Eagle, whose fate preceded Xuan Xing’s disappearance.

• Yun Yun opened a hidden passage in the Bronze Wall and found an ancient Storage Ring.
• Jiang Lin used his Soul Power to inspect the ring and revealed three concealed items, including a scroll titled “Array Artifact Annotation.”
• Jiang Lin explained that the scroll had been hidden by a formation that only someone with sufficient Soul Power could detect, and Yun Yun returned it to him.
• Yun Yun identified the pale golden crystal as a rare Gold-type Sixth-tier Magic Core, and Jiang Lin recognized the ring’s other valuable contents as materials connected to Xuan Xing’s array work.
• Jiang Lin concluded that the Magic Core likely belonged to Xuan Xing’s Golden Flame Eagle, which had been killed by the Golden Goose Sect before Xuan Xing disappeared and Hu Lei took over the Jia Ma Artifact Refining Guild.

Jiang Lin recovered materials from the Bronze Door and promised to help repair the Misty Cloud Sect's Life and Death Gate if needed. After he left with Yun Yun, Yun Shan emerged from seclusion and warned her that war was coming.

• Jiang Lin told Yun Yun he would help repair the Life and Death Gate and explained why the remaining materials should stay with the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Jiang Lin asked Yun Yun to keep the Sixth-tier Magic Core and scroll secret, and Yun Yun used a token to transport them away from the Bronze Door.
• Yun Shan emerged from seclusion behind the Bronze Door and told Yun Yun to decide the Misty Cloud Sect's future herself.
• Yun Shan said Jiang Lin reminded him of Xuan Xing, revealed that Xuan Xing had died over twenty years earlier, and warned that the Golden Goose Sect's Dou Zong had likely recovered and war was coming.
• Yun Shan said he would find a way to avenge Xuan Xing if he had the chance.

Jiang Lin returned to the Artifact Forgers Guild, registered Bright God Soul Gold, and told Xiao Yan to pursue the Seven Illusions Azure Spirit Saliva at the Nalan Family. The two arranged for Xiao Yan to stay in the room next to Jiang Lin’s, while Jiang Lin revealed that a mysterious presence had been following Xiao Yan since Wutan City.

• Jiang Lin registered his Bright God Soul Gold with Klay, who credited its value to Jiang Lin’s account despite his low points balance.
• Xiao Yan told Jiang Lin that the Mittel Family had found Seven Illusions Azure Spirit Saliva in the Nalan Family’s possession, and Jiang Lin urged him to seek it as a reward for treating the Nalan Family’s old master.
• Jiang Lin told Xiao Yan to leave the Profound Weight Ruler with him and arranged for Xiao Yan to stay in room 405 beside his own room, 404.
• Xiao Yan wondered how Jiang Lin knew about the presence following him, and Jiang Lin said it had been there since Wutan City and was quite controlling.

Jiang Lin forged and swallowed a Gold Element Crystal Core, fulfilling a hidden prerequisite of the Forging Fire Art and restoring his rapid cultivation speed. He reached four-star Great Dou Shi while his physical realm advanced to late two-star Dou Ling, and he wondered about the Warm Jade pendant he wore.

• Jiang Lin forged a Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon blueprint while Xiao Yan refined healing pills beside him.
• After three days, Jiang Lin swallowed the Gold Element Crystal Core he had forged from the remaining Source Crystal.
• Jiang Lin confirmed he still lacked an earth-element Magic Core and Source Crystal but expected no bottleneck before Dou Ling.
• The four Crystal Cores boosted Jiang Lin's cultivation speed and strengthened his body, bringing his Dou Qi cultivation to four-star Great Dou Shi and his physical realm to late two-star Dou Ling.
• Jiang Lin considered the letter with Mr. Yao and touched the Warm Jade pendant that seemed to soothe the soul.

Jiang Lin reflected on the Warm Jade and his troubling memories of the Spirit Clan before Xiao Yan and Hai Bodong left the forging room. He began refining Mo Cheng into a fifth-tier puppet inside the Azure Profound Cauldron, which suppressed the Storage Ring’s spatial disturbance.

• Jiang Lin suspected that a letter from Mr. Yao held the truth about the Warm Jade and the Spirit Clan, and recalled that someone had extracted all his Spirit Blood.
• Xiao Yan told Jiang Lin that he had recovered, strengthened his control of the Green Lotus Core Flame, and advanced to Eight-star Dou Shi.
• Hai Bodong returned with a Storage Ring containing Mo Cheng’s body, then left with Xiao Yan as Jiang Lin sent them off.
• Jiang Lin decided to use Mo Cheng’s Five-star Dou Ling foundation and modified body to attempt a fifth-tier puppet with strength comparable to a Dou Wang.
• Jiang Lin heated the Azure Profound Cauldron and tossed in the Storage Ring, while its spatial patterns suppressed the disturbance inside.

Jiang Lin refined Mo Cheng in the Azure Profound Cauldron while absorbing Xuan Xing’s Array Artifact Annotation. He learned how the Misty Cloud Sect’s Life and Death Gate was stabilized and turned his attention to the Beast Spirit Array.

• Jiang Lin used the Azure Profound Cauldron and Earth Fire to refine Mo Cheng into a vessel-body puppet.
• Jiang Lin absorbed the Array Artifact Annotation, whose stored soul information briefly pressured him.
• Jiang Lin learned that Xuan Xing had used a Space Array Device to stabilize the Misty Cloud Sect’s collapsing secret realm and created the Void Profound Realm-Suppressing Array.
• Jiang Lin set aside the Life and Death Gate’s spatial principles until he had advanced his cultivation.
• Jiang Lin studied the Beast Spirit Array, which used a Magic Core, Soul Gold, and gathered Heaven and Earth Energy to summon powerful beast spirits.

Jiang Lin studied the Beast Spirit Array and considered using it with Crystal Cores, then focused on upgrading his Mystic Armor Puppet. Five days later, he finished a new body for Pei Xuan and prepared to test it.

• Jiang Lin determined that his Crystal Cores could power Beast Spirit Arrays but decided not to risk damaging them, and considered letting Xiao Yan try a smaller array instead.
• Jiang Lin examined the Beast Spirit Array’s soul-refining methods and noted its resemblance to the Soul Clan’s teachings.
• Jiang Lin used Earth Fire in the Azure Profound Cauldron to soften the Five-star Dou Ling puppet and fuse it with high-tier materials.
• Jiang Lin replaced parts of the puppet with stronger metals while preserving its Dou Qi meridians, creating a more heavily weaponized Second Generation Mystic Armor Puppet.
• Five days later, Jiang Lin removed the two-meter-tall puppet from the cauldron and called Pei Xuan out to test his new body.

Jiang Lin completed a Dark Gold Mystic Armor Puppet body for Pei Xuan and reactivated him with the Soul-Containing Parchment. He sent Pei Xuan with Xiao Yan to the Alchemist Guild competition while preparing to forge Xiao Yan an Exotic Fire Weapon.

• Xiao Yan entered Jiang Lin's refining room and was shocked by the second-generation Mystic Armor Puppet, while Jiang Lin explained how his puppet-making methods had changed.
• Jiang Lin summoned Heavy Armor Pei Xuan, removed his Soul-Containing Parchment to deactivate him, then placed it on the Dark Gold Mystic Armor Puppet.
• The parchment's Soul Threads and energy awakened Pei Xuan in his new Fifth Grade Dou Artifact body, and Jiang Lin stopped him from kneeling.
• Pei Xuan carefully took the armor and clothes from the First Generation Mystic Armor Puppet and put them on.
• Jiang Lin assigned Pei Xuan to accompany Xiao Yan to the Alchemist Guild competition, then said he would forge Xiao Yan an Exotic Fire Weapon.

Jiang Lin developed a new approach to Dou Artifacts by using external energy circuits to gather Heaven and Earth Energy without placing the full burden on a cultivator’s body. He concluded that his research could establish a new school of artifact forging and leave the world far more dangerous.

• Jiang Lin reviewed how cultivation techniques shaped Dou Qi Armor and how solidified Dou Qi could form energy circuits that drew on Heaven and Earth Energy.
• Jiang Lin reasoned that his Dou Qi Furnace was a primitive Earth-grade Dou Skill that let him maintain a powerful state and strengthen lower-grade techniques.
• Jiang Lin recalled testing external energy-assistance circuits on his Black Cavalry Armor and auxiliary patterns on his Black Feather Bow.
• Jiang Lin concluded that a Dou Artifact with materials strong enough to withstand the load could gather enough energy for even a Dou Wang to kill a Dou Emperor.
• Jiang Lin recognized that his ideas were sufficient to found a new school of artifact forging, which could make the world much more dangerous.