Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lin showed Hu Jia how to alter a Fire Crystal Card and gave her 100,000 Fire Energy before heading to the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower to inspect it. Hu Jia tested her new fortune by buying cultivation pills and left with a large haul.

• Hu Jia led Jiang Lin to the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower and explained how Fire Energy and the academy's black cards worked.
• Jiang Lin altered Hu Jia's Fire Crystal Card, raising its balance to 100,000 Fire Energy despite her warning that black cards could not transfer energy.
• Jiang Lin told Hu Jia to spend carefully and went into the tower to look for a place to establish an artifact forging room.
• Hu Jia bought a large bag of cultivation-aiding pills from an Alchemy Department senior, spending over 10,000 Fire Energy.

Jiang Lin explored the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower and discovered that its Fallen Heart Flame sparks helped purify his Dou Qi and accelerate the fusion of his Five Elements Dou Qi. Elder Yan stopped him from entering the lowest level, then offered him an artifact-forging chamber where he could work.

• Jiang Lin cultivated on the tower’s upper floors and found that the increasing concentration of Heart Fire improved the fusion of his Five Elements Dou Qi.
• Jiang Lin reached the stairway to the lowest level, where Elder Yan warned him that the active Heavenly Flame could injure anyone who descended without sufficient strength.
• Jiang Lin introduced himself as Spirit Artisan and explained that he had agreed to help restart Jia Nan Academy’s Artifact Forging Department in exchange for access to the Qi Refining Tower.
• Elder Yan offered Jiang Lin the artifact-forging chamber on that level, which he had used when he was younger.
• Jiang Lin considered conducting soul research at Jia Nan Academy, and Pei Xuan said he had developed the Soul Devouring Technique because he could not defeat others.

Jiang Lin explored the Heaven Burning Qi Refining Tower’s artifact forging room and found a Sky Yin Cushion made from rare Sky Yin Kui Wood. He then began cultivating amid the room’s Heart Flames, drawing the scattered sparks into a blazing field around him.

• Jiang Lin entered the artifact forging room and used his Spiritual Sense to examine the tower’s layout and the room’s remains.
• Pei Xuan identified the room’s cushion as Sky Yin Kui Wood, a rare Eighth-order material with powerful vitality and yin properties.
• Jiang Lin claimed the Sky Yin Cushion and tested it, but found that it only made his seat cold and removed it before cultivating.
• Jiang Lin activated his Fire Spirit Colored Lotus and began absorbing the intense Heart Flame in the room.
• Jiang Lin’s Dou Qi surged outward as his suction stirred the scorching air and ignited the scattered Heart Flame sparks throughout the chamber.

Jiang Lin cultivated in the Heavenly Incineration Artifact Forging Chamber and accidentally formed a stable Fallen Heart Flame Childfire inside his body, greatly accelerating his cultivation while continuing to burn his Dou Qi. He wondered how to disperse it, while Pei Xuan refused to approach the dangerous flame.

• Jiang Lin absorbed the tower’s Heart Flame through his Forging Fire Art and Soul Refining Art, causing cultivators above him to notice that the Heart Flame had weakened.
• Jiang Lin realized his condensed starlight flame was a true Fallen Heart Flame Childfire and inferred that the chamber’s design could create one safely.
• Jiang Lin found that the childfire accelerated his cultivation and body tempering, then recognized the tower as an enormous Heavenly Flame furnace.
• Jiang Lin worried that the childfire would keep consuming his Dou Qi and urged Pei Xuan to absorb it.
• Pei Xuan refused, fearing the childfire and the Spirit Fire inside Jiang Lin that could counter him.

Jiang Lin refined the Fallen Heart Flame Childfire inside the Heavenly Incineration Artifact Forging Chamber, strengthening his Dou Qi and body. As he left, he explained his idea of Life Artifacts to Pei Xuan and admitted he genuinely wanted to turn powerful people like Xiao Yan into artifacts.

• Jiang Lin sealed himself off from the outside Heart Flame and let his Dou Qi wear down the Fallen Heart Flame Childfire inside him.
• Jiang Lin spent half a day refining the childfire, increasing his Dou Qi cultivation, physical strength, and Five Elements Dou Qi fusion.
• Jiang Lin told Pei Xuan that refining the childfire could help him reach Dou Wang within a month, but Pei Xuan warned that the process would cause a huge commotion.
• Jiang Lin said he wanted to take the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower with him and eventually turn it into a Heaven-and-Earth artifact.
• Jiang Lin explained that Life Artifacts were growable materials linked to their user, then told Pei Xuan he truly wanted to refine Xiao Yan into a Dou Artifact.

Jiang Lin explained his plans for developing a universal Life Artifact cultivation method and argued that independent thought, not a body's material, determined who counted as a person. Later, he studied energy through his Spiritual Sense and found evidence that ordinary materials could transform into higher-tier ones.

• Jiang Lin told Pei Xuan that he wanted to develop a foundational method that could cultivate the soul, Dou Qi, and the body, and explained why he planned to test it on a suitable girl.
• Jiang Lin reassured Pei Xuan that beings with independent thought were people regardless of whether their bodies were flesh, metal, or natural spirits.
• Jiang Lin found Hu Jia waiting outside the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower and led him to the Inner Academy's Artifact Forging Department.
• Jiang Lin meditated under the night sky and used his Spiritual Sense to observe the colorful energy particles in the air.
• Jiang Lin compared a second-tier Burning Stone with the seventh-tier Burning Flame Goldstone and concluded that they were made of the same material, suggesting materials could grow or transform.

Jiang Lin theorized that Spiritual Particles were a fundamental energy beneath Dou Qi and possibly the lowest-grade form of Source Qi. After Pei Xuan acknowledged the theory’s logic, Jiang Lin found a path toward cultivating Spiritual Particles and refining magical treasures.

• Jiang Lin considered how Spiritual Particles might relate to souls, Heavenly Flames, and Dou Qi, then asked Pei Xuan to assess his theory that Dou Qi cultivation was incomplete.
• Pei Xuan found Jiang Lin’s abstract argument about Heavenly Flames and Spiritual Artifacts surprisingly persuasive.
• Jiang Lin proposed that Spiritual Particles were the foundational form of Source Qi, and Pei Xuan recognized that Source Qi was not a sufficient explanation for the particles.
• Jiang Lin connected his theory to his earlier ideas about humans, demi-humans, Magic Cores, and the Spirit Clan, completing his line of reasoning and attaining enlightenment.
• Jiang Lin decided to search for ways to absorb and raise Spiritual Particles, hoping to use them to refine magical treasures.

Jiang Lin updated Jia Nan Academy’s outdated artifact-forging curriculum and began teaching Hu Jia and the academy’s apprentices. While cultivating in the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower, he realized that human Spiritual Particles could potentially be condensed into a Human Core, then amused Pei Xuan with an evil laugh.

• Jiang Lin replaced Jia Nan Academy’s outdated artifact-forging materials with a new commentary and told Hu Jia to secure teaching resources for the reopened department.
• Jiang Lin instructed Hu Jia and the artifact-forging apprentices to study their foundations and promised to teach them Feather Sheath Wings if they worked hard.
• Jiang Lin encouraged the apprentices to visit the Jia Ma Artifact Refining Guild, prompting Hu Jia to remind him that the academy had invited him to reopen its department.
• Jiang Lin cultivated in the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower and concluded that human Spiritual Particles could be refined into a Human Core.
• Jiang Lin told Pei Xuan that his experience at not being human brought him closer to the Great Dao, then supplied the missing evil laugh.

After half a month of studying and teaching at Jia Nan Academy, Jiang Lin received the Sky Burning Fire Control Art and shared a basic Profound-grade Spirit Forging Method with Elder Yan. Elder Yan offered him the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower’s design blueprints, but Jiang Lin declined them for now.

• Elder Yan gave Jiang Lin the Sky Burning Fire Control Art after the academy noticed his work on the Artifact Forging Department’s teaching materials.
• Jiang Lin explained that the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower followed the same foundational principles as other artifacts and gave Elder Yan a basic Profound-grade Spirit Forging Method.
• Jiang Lin asked Elder Yan to cultivate the method and help teach the Artifact Forging Department’s students.
• Elder Yan offered Jiang Lin a Soul Jade Slip containing the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower’s design blueprints in exchange for inspecting the tower.
• Jiang Lin recognized the blueprints’ value but refused to accept them without anything to trade in return.

Jiang Lin cultivated in the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower and began questioning how cultivation pills worked, suspecting that they increased Spiritual Particles rather than Dou Qi directly. Pei Xuan connected his reasoning to Danqizi, and Jiang Lin realized the Spirit Summoning Method belonged to the Alchemist system.

• Jiang Lin entered the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower and cultivated, advancing to Seven-star Dou Ling while his body cultivation neared the fifth tier.
• Jiang Lin examined a Dou Ling Pill and wondered how its ingredients and effects related to the growth of cultivation.
• Jiang Lin proposed that cultivation pills increased Spiritual Particles and questioned how pill resistance developed.
• Pei Xuan told Jiang Lin he had become fixated on appearances and asked whether he remembered Danqizi.
• Jiang Lin realized that the Spirit Summoning Method was part of the Alchemist system.

Jiang Lin realized he had neglected alchemy and recognized that mastering its principles could advance his artifact-forging path. He tested a black-patterned metal shard with Pei Xuan, confirming that the shard could absorb traces of soul power, but he was left wondering how to distribute the technique.

• Jiang Lin admitted that he had overlooked alchemy because pills had little effect on him, and Pei Xuan pointed out his habit of dismissing things before understanding them.
• Jiang Lin connected the Spirit Summoning Technique and Pill Lightning principles to the future growth of his Life Artifact system, potentially raising its limit to the eighth tier.
• Jiang Lin decided to consult Yao Chen about alchemy and Pill Lightning after Yao Chen came to the Inner Academy.
• Jiang Lin asked Pei Xuan to test a revised Black Patterned Metal Shard while Jiang Lin's soul was approaching Spiritual Metamorphosis.
• Pei Xuan swallowed and spat out the shard, which gained a faint trace of Soul Power as Pei Xuan's own soul aura weakened slightly.
• Jiang Lin confirmed the test had worked and wondered how he could spread the technique.

Jiang Lin developed the Heart Refining Cushion, a cultivation aid that secretly collected small portions of users’ souls as a sustainable soul tax. He planned to supply about a hundred cushions to Jia Nan Academy, while considering a partnership with the Soul Hall to expand beyond it.

• Jiang Lin used a Heart Refining Cushion to hide his soul-tax technique inside a popular cultivation aid that sped up cultivation and protected users from Heart Fire.
• Jia Nan Academy students praised Spirit Artisan for renting out the cushions for ten Fire Energy per day, and Su Qian and the others accepted their benefits.
• Jiang Lin extracted Soul Threads from the cushions, purified them into Soul Essence, and explained to Pei Xuan why charging for the cushions made students more grateful than giving them away.
• Jiang Lin forged more Fourth-Grade Mysterious Artifact cushions and planned to make about a hundred for Jia Nan Academy.
• Jiang Lin considered opening franchise stores with the Soul Hall to collect the cushions and expand their use outside the academy.

Jiang Lin’s body completed its transformation into a Spirit Body inside the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower, triggering a crisis that made the tower’s Heart Flame disappear. Xiao Yan escaped the tower after Yao Chen warned him not to approach the Fallen Heart Flame, while Jiang Lin’s breakthrough left the story poised for a confrontation over the tower’s power.

• Jiang Lin’s Heart Refining Cushions boosted Inner Academy students’ cultivation while draining their souls, and he considered expanding his operation with Hun Ke’er’s advice.
• Jiang Lin’s body suddenly shuddered in the Heavenly Incineration Artifact Forging Chamber, shattered the surrounding Starfire Blaze, and began emitting terrifying bloodflames.
• Pei Xuan fled Jiang Lin’s body as a Bloodflame Lotus Platform formed around him and drew all the Heart Flame out of the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower.
• The tower’s cultivators fled toward the exit, while Xiao Yan considered investigating the disturbance and Yao Chen warned him that the Fallen Heart Flame was too dangerous.
• Xiao Yan heeded Yao Chen’s warning and left the tower, reflecting on his past setbacks as Yao Chen mentioned seeking help from the Spirit Artisan.

Xiao Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy and stood near Xiao Xun'er, but the guilt surrounding Jiang Lin’s death had left him unable to speak to her as before. The chapter left Xiao Xun'er watching him from the crowd, lonely as he kept his distance.

• Xiao Yan emerged into the Qi Refining Plaza, nodded to Xiao Xun'er, and joined his Outer Academy friends without speaking to her.
• Xiao Yan recalled his battle with the Blood Sect, his damaged weapons, and how Yao Chen had saved him from the siege.
• Xiao Yan remembered that Xiao Xun'er had confessed Ling Ying sent the report that led the Gu Clan to alert the Spirit Clan about Jiang Lin.
• Xiao Yan understood that Ling Ying had caused the misunderstanding and that Xiao Xun'er had accepted the blame to protect him, but he still associated the Heavenly Flame Profound Weight Ruler with Jiang Lin's death.
• Xiao Xun'er watched Xiao Yan talk with his friends and felt lonely as he kept his distance from her.

The elders and students learned that Artisan Elder had deliberately caused the Qi Refining Tower’s disturbance while preparing for a breakthrough, and the elders defended his work on the Heart Refining Cushions. As Xiao Xun'er left Xiao Yan in anguish, Jiang Lin’s breakthrough stirred the energy across the academy, and Yao Chen urged Xiao Yan to chase after him.

• The elders discovered that Artisan Elder had not exited the Qi Refining Tower, but Hu Jia relayed that he had warned her about the disturbance before attempting an important breakthrough.
• Su Qian and Elder Yan explained Artisan Elder’s work refining Heart Refining Cushions, changing the elders’ and students’ suspicion into acceptance.
• Su Qian sealed the Qi Refining Tower and sent the students away while Xiao Xun'er told Xiao Yan she would no longer bother him and ran off in tears.
• A vast energy vortex formed above the tower as Jiang Lin sensed his breakthrough and decided to tell the others he was forging artifacts.
• Yao Chen sensed the Five-colored Dou Qi and urgently told Xiao Yan to chase Jiang Lin, but Xiao Yan did not understand whom he meant.

Jiang Lin completed his transformation amid the Fallen Heart Flame and a bolt of Purple-Gold Thunder, reaching Dou Wang and forming a Divine Essence Spirit Fire with Inner Space. Little Fatty Lin unraveled the secret of his soul and dissipated, leaving Jiang Lin to conceal his success from the people outside.

• Jiang Lin endured the Fallen Heart Flame as his body formed a White Jade Spirit Body and Purple-Gold Thunder struck him.
• Jiang Lin broke through to Dou Wang, gaining a crimson-gold Dou Qi War Robe and eight Dou Qi Wings.
• Little Fatty Lin realized he was a naturally born soul with the potential to become an emperor, then scattered into spiritual grains of sand.
• Little Fatty Lin's disappearance merged spirit and flesh, completing Jiang Lin's transformation.
• Jiang Lin absorbed the lingering lightning and formed a Divine Essence Spirit Fire and Inner Space.
• Jiang Lin dismissed his new armor and wings and decided to pretend his artifact forging had failed.

Jiang Lin completed a transformation into a Spirit Body, with his soul fused into his body and his Dou Qi becoming Spiritual Dou Qi, while awakening Divine Essence Spirit Fire. He explained its powers to Pei Xuan and headed out of the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower, intending to nurture a soul sword and eventually forge a Life Artifact.

• Jiang Lin realized his transformation had made him powerful enough to challenge Jia Nan Academy, and he discovered that a bolt of heavenly lightning had helped fuse his soul with his Spirit Body.
• Jiang Lin examined Divine Essence Spirit Fire and recognized that it could purify materials, raise their spiritual grade, and reset the will of soul bodies.
• Jiang Lin retrieved the Soul Gathering Bead and told Pei Xuan about his new abilities, prompting Pei Xuan to react with shock and profanity.
• Jiang Lin connected Divine Essence Spirit Fire to the Soul Clan's Soul Essence and said he could now see how to nurture the soul sword and advance his cultivation.
• Jiang Lin left for the upper levels of the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower, planning to find a chance to claim it and use his awakened Spatial Talent to pursue a Life Artifact.

Jiang Lin emerged from the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower after an unsuccessful attempt to forge a Super-Class Profound Weapon, but said the experience had deepened his understanding of the Transcendental Path. He recognized Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er as promising candidates for his planned personalized natal Dou Artifacts, noting that both carried the aura of a Heavenly Flame.

• Jiang Lin told Su Qian and the Inner Academy elders that unexpected changes had prevented his forging attempt from succeeding, though he had learned more about Super-Class Profound Weapons.
• Su Qian promised that Jia Nan Academy would support Jiang Lin's research into the Transcendental Path.
• Jiang Lin noticed Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er in the crowd, while Yao Chen confirmed to Xiao Yan that the Spirit Artisan was Jiang Lin.
• Jiang Lin privately told Su Qian that he wanted to forge a natal Dou Artifact suited to each person and that Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er both carried the aura of a Heavenly Flame.

Jiang Lin recruited Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er as fire-tending boys, then watched their awkward reunion with Hu Jia before confronting Gu Xun'er. The chapter ended with Jiang Lin dropping a wounded man at Gu Xun'er's feet and declaring that he had long hated him.

• Jiang Lin asked Su Qian to invite Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er to join the Artifact Forging Department, and they agreed.
• Su Qian delivered Xiao Yan and Xiao Xun'er to Hu Jia, who eagerly tried to get close to Xiao Xun'er while Xiao Yan watched awkwardly.
• Jiang Lin revealed himself watching from the staircase, and Gu Xun'er accused him of targeting Xiao Yan after he identified her as a member of the Gu Clan.
• Jiang Lin explained that he only wanted to borrow their Heavenly Flames, then told Gu Xun'er he had long been looking for someone he hated.
• A black-clad man fell from upstairs at Gu Xun'er's feet, leaving her visibly shaken.

After breaking through, Jiang Lin used his enhanced senses and Ghost trait to sneak up on Ling Ying at Jia Nan Academy. He immobilized and sealed the Gu Clan guard, who realized Jiang Lin was the Spirit Artisan, and left him captive on a tree branch.

• Jiang Lin's senses evolved after his soul fused with his body, and he prepared to confront Ling Ying.
• Jiang Lin silently approached Ling Ying in the back mountains and used the Divine Essence Spirit Fire to cut off his control over his body.
• Ling Ying mistook Jiang Lin's flames for the Nihility Devouring Flame and revealed his connection to the Gu Clan while demanding to know whether the Soul Clan meant to oppose them.
• Jiang Lin used Ling Ying's own Dou Qi to seal his meridians and told him that he had been investigating the Spirit Artisan.
• Ling Ying recognized Jiang Lin as the Spirit Artisan, whom he had been secretly monitoring.