Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lin smelted Seventh Order materials in the Azure Profound Cauldron to forge a new artifact, nearly pushing the cracked cauldron to its limit. With Xiao Yan and Yao Chen helping, he began fusing the materials, and the cauldron unleashed a towering surge of energy.

• Jiang Lin spent three days smelting the Profound Weight Ruler and used Yao Chen's Bone Spirit Cold Fire to help melt the Heaven Burning Goldstone.
• The Azure Profound Cauldron's Pill Lightning cracks glowed under the strain, but the cauldron held together as Jiang Lin continued forging.
• Xiao Yan brought Yao Chen to Jiang Lin's room after Yao Chen recovered some Soul Power, while the guild redirected its Earth Fire to fuel the forge.
• Jiang Lin asked Yao Chen and Xiao Yan to position the Bone Spirit Cold Fire and Green Lotus Core Flame in opposite rotations as he began Spirit Forging.
• Jiang Lin activated Dou Qi Furnace and Forging Fire Art, and the two Heavenly Flames ignited the cauldron's accumulated energy in a powerful eruption.

Jiang Lin used the Green Lotus Core Flame and Bone Spirit Cold Fire to forge the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon inside the Azure Profound Cauldron, with Yao Chen’s Soul Power helping shape it. As the weapon took form, Jiang Lin’s soul projection puzzled over its infant-like appearance beside Yao Chen’s old-man soul body.

• Jiang Lin ignited the Earth Fire with both Heavenly Flames, triggering a powerful reaction that formed a flaming tornado around him.
• Yao Chen reassured Xiao Yan that Jiang Lin’s body could withstand the heat and used his Soul Power to observe the forging from inside the cauldron.
• Little Fatty Lin told Yao Chen that the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon could serve as his temporary physical vessel if he left a soul imprint on it.
• Yao Chen praised Jiang Lin’s design, which could let him act as an Artifact Spirit Old Grandpa and help Xiao Yan unlock the weapon’s peak and overload states.
• Little Fatty Lin compared his chubby infant-like soul projection with Yao Chen’s elderly form and wondered why his soul looked so different from his body.

Jiang Lin used Yao Chen’s Soul Power to forge the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon, then spent five days nurturing it as it cooled. The forging process ended with Jiang Lin still in the artifact-refining chamber.

• Jiang Lin asked Yao Chen for a tenth of his Soul Power to make the weapon exclusive to him, and Yao Chen agreed.
• Jiang Lin combined the Green Lotus Core Flame, Bone Spirit Cold Fire, and Gray-White Soul Flame to forge the cannon inside the Azure Profound Cauldron.
• Yao Chen explained the weapon’s cooling period and told Xiao Yan to leave a Green Lotus Core Flame seed before preparing for the Alchemist competition.
• Xiao Yan left the flame seed, then went outside to explain the situation to Yuan Bao and the others.
• After five days of nurturing the weapon, Jiang Lin opened his Red-Gold Eyes and declared the process over.

Jiang Lin completed the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler, forging a Super-Class Profound Weapon beyond the Dou Emperor level. He tested its weight and strength, leaving the weapon in hand and the forging room badly damaged.

• Jiang Lin finished adjusting the weapon while Yao Chen watched and explained how extraordinary the achievement was.
• Yao Chen urged Jiang Lin to open the Azure Profound Cauldron and see whether the forging had succeeded.
• Jiang Lin opened the cauldron, releasing a pillar of fire that revealed the newly forged Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler.
• Jiang Lin gripped the ruler and swung it, sending a gale through the room before smashing cracks into the floor as he planted it beside him.

Jiang Lin demonstrated the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler’s second form, explaining that its energy threshold was designed for Xiao Yan’s explosive Heavenly Flame power. After channeling immense energy into it, he opened the ruler’s rails and revealed the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon.

• Yao Chen examined Jiang Lin’s newly forged Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler and praised its hardness and craftsmanship.
• Jiang Lin raised the ruler and explained that its simplified circuits made the second form difficult to activate.
• Jiang Lin poured in his Dou Qi and used his Dou Qi Furnace to absorb Heaven and Earth Energy, building a powerful energy fiber inside the ruler.
• Jiang Lin told Yao Chen that the weapon normally required a Dou Emperor’s strength, but Xiao Yan could force it open with fused Heavenly Flames.
• The ruler split along its central rail as the gathered energy rotated and forced the weapon into its second form, the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon.

Jiang Lin explained how the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon used Heaven and Earth Energy and user-supplied Dou Qi to build a Dou Emperor-level attack. After Yao Chen tested the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler, he marveled at the potential of intelligent Spiritual Artifacts, and Jiang Lin reflected that different paths could lead to the same destination.

• Jiang Lin described how the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon's energy field gathered and balanced Heaven and Earth Energy to produce an attack comparable to a Dou Emperor's full-force strike.
• Jiang Lin explained that a user could manipulate the weapon's repulsion and pressure circuits to push its energy beyond its natural equilibrium.
• Yao Chen took the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler, examined it with his Soul Power, and entered it to test its energy field.
• The Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler briefly glowed and floated around Jiang Lin before Yao Chen spoke of his desire for an intelligent Spiritual Artifact.
• Jiang Lin said that Spiritual Artifacts, Emperor Pills, bloodlines, bodies, souls, and the legendary realm could be different roads leading to the same destination.

Jiang Lin discussed the nature of souls with Yao Chen after Yao Chen tested the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler, which let him move freely as an Artifact Spirit. Yao Chen praised Jiang Lin for treating souls and other beings as customers, while Jiang Lin turned his thoughts toward developing a Human Magic Core Project.

• Jiang Lin reflected that Dou Qi Continent techniques treated souls as resources or tools rather than living people.
• Yao Chen flew the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler and discovered that he could control it with Soul Power while entering and leaving it freely.
• Yao Chen explained that Soul Hall's habit of capturing and devouring soul bodies had made wandering souls feared and persecuted.
• Yao Chen praised Jiang Lin for treating humans, beastmen, magical beasts, and soul bodies as equal customers, though he also called him an evil Spirit Clan brat.
• Jiang Lin decided to pursue the Human Magic Core Project so humans could cultivate and sell Magic Cores like other races.

Yao Chen reconsidered his prejudices about artifact forging after seeing Jiang Lin’s unusual Soul Artifacts and cultivation, and he recognized the Forging Fire Art as a technique of Emperor Rank. He advised Jiang Lin to pursue the Fire Spirit Colored Lotus and offered to tell him of a place with Exotic Wood, while Jiang Lin considered abandoning Crystal Cores if he could gather Spiritual Roots of every attribute.

• Yao Chen observed that Jiang Lin’s Soul Artifacts differed from traditional Soul Clan weapons and suggested he might forge his own path.
• Yao Chen realized that the Spirit Clan’s Forging Fire Art was likely an Emperor Rank technique inherited from an ancient artifact cultivation system.
• Yao Chen acknowledged Jiang Lin’s formidable defenses and doubted he could defeat him at the same level.
• Yao Chen told Jiang Lin that the Fire Spirit Colored Lotus was a better long-term path than Crystal Cores and promised to reveal a place with Exotic Wood.
• Jiang Lin agreed that the Crystal Core path was too extreme and considered gathering Spiritual Roots of every attribute instead.

Jiang Lin left the forging room after advancing his plans to forge a weapon with Heavenly Flames, then joined Fa Ma, Jia Xing Tian, and the Artifact Forgers. As the group went to inspect his work, Yuan Bao and Ye Yu discussed whether Jiang Lin had made a genuine Mysterious Artifact.

• Jiang Lin considered how he would need increasingly higher-grade Crystal Cores to safely advance beyond the Dou Emperor realm.
• Jiang Lin changed clothes, left the forging room with the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler, and met Fa Ma, Jia Xing Tian, and the Artifact Forgers waiting outside.
• Jiang Lin asked his Senior Disciple Brother to clean the damaged forging room and put the losses on his tab before leaving with Han Yu and the others.
• Yuan Bao sealed the forging room, while Ye Yu used an array to reinforce its alloy iron door.
• Yuan Bao and Ye Yu decided to inspect Jiang Lin's weapon and wondered whether he had forged a genuine Mysterious Artifact.

Jiang Lin showed the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler to Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, and Han Yu, explaining that he had fused a soul into it with Soul Artifact techniques. The ruler finally responded to his command and rose above his head as Jiang Lin called out, “Light-Energy Convergence!”

• Jia Xing Tian told Jiang Lin that the Heavenly Flame burst from his experiment had lit up the sky over the Imperial City.
• Jiang Lin handed the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler to Jia Xing Tian, Fa Ma, and Han Yu, who noticed that it seemed almost alive.
• Jiang Lin explained that he had fused a soul from Xuan Xing’s Soul Gold Stone into the ruler and incorporated techniques from the Beast Spirit Array.
• Jiang Lin called for the ruler to demonstrate its power, but it initially remained motionless in Fa Ma’s hand.
• After Jiang Lin called it “Little Fire,” Yao Chen realized he was being addressed, made the ruler fly above Jiang Lin, and watched as Jiang Lin raised a hand and shouted, “Light-Energy Convergence!”

Jiang Lin revealed the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler’s cannon form, convincing Fa Ma and Jia Xing Tian that he was a genius Profound Weapon forger. He secured Yao Chen a new identity as an artifact spirit registered under Soul Hall’s records, and Jia Xing Tian ended the chapter by offering him a sixth-tier Magic Core.

• Yao Chen controlled the gathered heaven-and-earth Dou Qi, allowing the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler to split open and charge as the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon.
• Han Yu, Fa Ma, and Jia Xing Tian were stunned by the cannon’s power and by Jiang Lin’s ability to activate it without any visible Dou Qi.
• Fa Ma recognized that Jiang Lin had adapted techniques from the Beast Spirit Array, and Jiang Lin explained that he had borrowed some of its ideas.
• Jiang Lin presented Yao Chen as the Artifact Spirit of the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler, giving him an identity registered with the Artifact Forgers Guild and under Soul Hall’s records.
• Fa Ma and Jia Xing Tian praised Jiang Lin’s achievement and believed he would become a Sixth-tier Profound Weapon Master.
• Jia Xing Tian offered Jiang Lin a sixth-tier Mad Sand Earth Dragon King Magic Core, knowing he was collecting high-grade Magic Core Crystals.

Jiang Lin gave Xiao Yan the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon and explained how their partnership benefited them both, encouraging him to gather rare materials and prepare for the pill-refining competition. After Jiang Lin left, Yao Chen emerged from the cannon and asked Xiao Yan whether he had obtained a pill formula.

• Jiang Lin handed Xiao Yan the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon and said Gu He could no longer cause him much trouble over the Green Lotus Core Flame.
• Jiang Lin explained that he valued Xiao Yan’s Exotic Flame Green Lotus and asked him to look out for rare materials, especially Exotic Wood and Exotic Water.
• Jiang Lin urged Xiao Yan to grow stronger so he could help Xiao Yi Xian with her Calamity Poison Body, then told him to aim for the pill-refining competition championship.
• Yao Chen emerged from the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon and asked Xiao Yan whether he had obtained a pill formula.

Xiao Yan told Yao Chen about Fa Ma’s Three-pattern Green Spirit Pill formula and his plan to win the Alchemist Competition, but Yao Chen advised him to use the pills to improve his own cultivation and help Jiang Lin. Yao Chen concluded that Jiang Lin could take cultivation pills without developing drug resistance and urged Xiao Yan to gather materials so Jiang Lin could be fed pills to boost his Dou Qi.

• Xiao Yan told Yao Chen that Fa Ma had given him the Three-pattern Green Spirit Pill formula to help him win the Alchemist Competition.
• Yao Chen advised Xiao Yan to use some of the pills to break through and give the rest to Jiang Lin.
• Yao Chen explained that Jiang Lin’s body-tempering method might let him take cultivation pills without drug resistance, while Crystal Pills had little effect on him.
• Yao Chen reasoned that Jiang Lin’s Dou Qi realm was around Dou Ling and that his physique limited how far he could cultivate his Dou Qi.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan to gather Three-pattern Green Spirit Pill materials from the Alchemist Guild and Mittel Merchant Guild so Jiang Lin could take pills to raise his cultivation.

After refining the Gold Element Crystal Core, Jiang Lin cultivated the Forging Fire Art at full speed and contemplated the nature of humanity’s bloodline evolution. His thoughts carried him beyond the world’s perceived limits, leaving him closer to a Spirit Realm soul but uncertain what his experience meant.

• Jiang Lin began cultivating the Forging Fire Art after the Gold Element Crystal Core gave his physique enough energy to stop suppressing his Dou Qi cultivation.
• Jiang Lin reasoned that humans had been removed from the Magic Core system and wondered whether rapidly transforming an entire bloodline might amount to becoming an emperor.
• Jiang Lin’s insight triggered a strange state in which his consciousness seemed to rise beyond the Dou Qi Continent and into successive layers of darkness.
• Little Fatty Lin emerged from the experience with new cracks across his body and came one step closer to a Spirit Realm soul.
• Jiang Lin woke with red-gold light in his eyes, questioned whether he existed inside nested worlds, then washed and resumed cultivation.

While recording his forging insights, Jiang Lin reflected on his dangerous Hyper-dimensional Enlightenment State and concluded that humans shared a common origin in the First Dou Di. He identified a possible flaw in the Dou Qi system and ended with an insight about Danqizi’s Dou Crystal.

• Jiang Lin recorded his insights from refining the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler into the Lin Qi Jian Shi and considered why he had entered the Hyper-dimensional Enlightenment State.
• Jiang Lin concluded that the First Dou Di had abandoned his physical Magic Core and that humans inherited this change through their shared origin.
• Jiang Lin reasoned that Dou Qi Cultivators below Dou Wang retained a nonexistent Magic Core because their Dou Qi system preserved an outdated stage of the First Dou Di’s cultivation.
• Jiang Lin began writing down ways to exploit the apparent systemic flaw, then wondered whether Danqizi’s Dou Crystal used or repaired it.

Jiang Lin assessed his rapid cultivation and concluded that his bloodline and stabilized Forging Fire Art were making him stronger at an extraordinary rate. He ended his cultivation and prepared to share his notes with Vice President Han Yu and the others while considering his next goals.

• Jiang Lin swallowed his Gold Element Crystal Core and a high-grade Crystal Pill before entering cultivation.
• Jiang Lin calculated that he could reach five-star Great Dou Shi and late-stage three-star Dou Ling before the trip to the Misty Cloud Sect.
• Jiang Lin realized his cultivation speed might let him clear the Great Dou Shi realm within half a year and decided to seek Companion Purple Crystal Source rather than spend time searching for pills.
• Jiang Lin ended his cultivation, picked up his notes titled "Lin Qi Jian Shi," and prepared to give them to Vice President Han Yu and the others.
• Jiang Lin considered his trade with Jia Xing Tian for a sixth-order Magical Beast Magic Core and noted that both Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma wanted him to improve before they proceeded with their deals.

Jiang Lin agreed to consider Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma's requests for powerful Feather Sheath Wings, while planning to wait until he became a Dou Ling before fulfilling them. At the guild cafeteria, Yuan Bao told him that an important guild figure wanted to meet him, and Jiang Lin learned the visitor was a Fifth-rank Array Master.

• Jiang Lin agreed to take Jia Xing Tian and Fa Ma's artifact-forging requests, though he planned to delay action until he became a Dou Ling.
• Jiang Lin left seclusion and went to the Jia Ma Artifact Refining Guild's cafeteria, where Yuan Bao hurried over to meet him.
• Jiang Lin and Yuan Bao discussed Jiang Lin's unusual cultivation routine and his powerful physique.
• Yuan Bao said a prominent guild figure who had been away wanted to meet Jiang Lin.
• Jiang Lin guessed the visitor might be a beautiful female Artifact Forger, while Yuan Bao revealed the person was a Fifth-rank Array Master.

Jiang Lin gave Ye Yu a draft of his artifact-refining book, accepted Ye Yu’s Beast Spirit Array notes and materials, and returned to seclusion. A month later, Mr. Yao and a white-clad girl prepared to visit him in Jia Ma Holy City.

• Jiang Lin introduced Ye Yu to Yuan Bao and explained that he would publish his artifact-refining research under the name Qilin.
• Ye Yu revealed that he had also been Xuan Xin’s personal disciple, explained the danger of the Beast Spirit Array’s Soul Refining Method, and gave Jiang Lin array insights and materials.
• Ye Yu departed for Chuyun using his Four-leaf Feather Sheath Wings, and Jiang Lin returned to seclusion to continue refining his book.
• Jiang Lin made a fragrant pill, then a month later stared at four tri-colored pills and complained that he could not eat any more.
• Mr. Yao and a white-clad girl set out for Jia Ma Holy City, discussing how powerful Jiang Lin had become and how he had already solved a problem they once gave him.

Jiang Lin gave Xiao Yan pills and finished preparing his battle armor and weapon for the Misty Cloud appointment three days later. Xiao Yan looked forward to fighting Nalan Yanran, while Jiang Lin cautioned him not to underestimate her and hinted that Pei Xuan’s change had a deeper explanation.

• Xiao Yan gave Jiang Lin four Three-pattern Green Spirit Pills, and Jiang Lin gave Xiao Yan Fourth-grade Crystal Pills to temper his body.
• Xiao Yan explained that the Fire Element Crystal Core let him advance about one star per month as a Great Dou Shi and said he planned to reach Dou Ling before turning twenty.
• Jiang Lin warned Xiao Yan not to underestimate Nalan Yanran, who was also a Great Dou Shi and could benefit from the Crystal Pills he had given Yun Yun.
• Jiang Lin told Xiao Yan that his battle armor was nearly finished and that he had modified the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler so Xiao Yan could launch the Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon.
• Xiao Yan brought up Pei Xuan’s increased intelligence, and Jiang Lin said the answer had existed from the very beginning.

Xiao Yan arrived at Misty Cloud Sect for the Three-Year Agreement, realizing he no longer needed the contest to prove his worth and declaring that he would make the Xiao Family name resound across the Dou Qi Continent. Nearby, Jiang Lin prepared a dramatic entrance for him while Xiao Yi Xian and Mr. Yao watched.

• Xiao Yan climbed Misty Cloud Mountain and reflected that his old resentment toward Nalan Yanran and Misty Cloud Sect had faded as his strength and confidence grew.
• Xiao Yan declared that he had come to state an established fact and make the name Xiao Yan resound throughout the Dou Qi Continent.
• At the Misty Cloud Sect entrance, Xiao Yan announced himself as Xiao Yan of the Xiao Family.
• Jiang Lin told Xiao Yi Xian and Mr. Yao that he had prepared an entrance for Xiao Yan and opened a gap in the sect's mountain-protecting formation.
• Xiao Yi Xian teased Jiang Lin as the group turned their attention toward the Misty Cloud Sect plaza.