Chapter Summaries

Jiang Lin explained how the Heavenly Fire Three Transformations, alchemy, and cultivation techniques could help him investigate Spiritual Particles and clarify his own path. Xiao Yan reached One-star Dou Ling and listened as Jiang Lin declared his intent to unite the achievements of past geniuses.

• Yao Chen realized the Heavenly Fire Three Transformations might spiritualize bloodlines, though he suspected the technique had limitations.
• Jiang Lin told Yao Chen that the technique and high-level alchemy together could help him study how Spiritual Particles were gathered and driven.
• Jiang Lin asked Yao Chen to let him study the Burning Art so he could understand its evolution and cultivation effects.
• Jiang Lin explained how his Forging Fire Art used spiritual pressure and refined inferior Spiritual Particles, and said he needed to compare various techniques to clarify his path.
• Xiao Yan stopped cultivating at One-star Dou Ling and listened as Jiang Lin said his advantage was standing above past geniuses and bringing their achievements together.

Xiao Yan asked Jiang Lin to make Spirit Pills for Xun'er, and Jiang Lin agreed after explaining their limits and how to use them. Jiang Lin also described how his synchronized physique and Dou Qi formed his Spirit Body Realm, which he hoped would eventually balance with his Spirit Realm soul.

• Xiao Yan agreed with Yao Chen to let Jiang Lin open-source the technique.
• Xiao Yan asked Jiang Lin to make Spirit Pills for Xun'er, and Jiang Lin agreed after confirming she could keep the matter secret.
• Jiang Lin explained that Spirit Pills increased cultivation without side effects but needed time to be absorbed, then asked Xiao Yan and Yao Chen for herbs suited to cultivation pills.
• Jiang Lin told Xiao Yan that Spirit Pills could reach the fifth rank, while ordinary pills might reach the seventh or eighth tier.
• Jiang Lin explained that his physique and Dou Qi were now dynamically synchronized as his Spirit Body Realm, and he aimed to balance it with his Spirit Realm soul.

Jiang Lin’s Divine Essence Spirit Fire and pill-making abilities reminded Yao Chen of the legendary Spirit Infusion Immortal Gourd, while Xiao Yan learned how his own bloodline might connect him to another Spiritual Artifact. The chapter ended with Jiang Lin complaining that it had taken him a month to reach two-star Dou Wang.

• Xiao Yan returned to Jia Nan Academy with three Spirit Pills and considered giving one to Gu Xun'er to help her break through to Dou Ling.
• Yao Chen told Xiao Yan that Jiang Lin’s abilities resembled the Spirit Infusion Immortal Gourd’s power to upgrade materials and return the acquired to the innate.
• Yao Chen explained that the Xiao Clan’s Spiritual Artifact was the combat-focused Profound Qi Umbrella, and suggested Xiao Yan might instead follow the path of the Exotic Fire Heavenly Seal Tower by collecting Heavenly Flames.
• Yao Chen said Jiang Lin’s cultivation would be slower because his realm represented the world’s lower limit, while Xiao Yan could advance quickly by gathering Heavenly Flames.
• Jiang Lin returned to the artifact-forging chamber and complained that it had taken him a month to reach two-star Dou Wang, including a breakthrough aided by a Dou Wang Pill.

Hun Ke'er read Soul Craftsman's instructions, retrieved the Soul Spirit Art, and concluded that he had entered seclusion to break through to Dou Saint. She then realized his doubts about ninth-tier Artifact Forging had kept him from advancing, while his breakthrough threatened to push events beyond her control.

• Hun Ke'er burned Soul Craftsman's letter and read his instructions to cultivate the Soul Spirit Art, take the Soul Suppressing Sword to the Ancient Sea Trial, leave the Soul Clan, and find Yao Chen and the Black Demon Cauldron.
• Hun Ke'er entered Ink Hall through a secret passage and retrieved the Soul Spirit Art from a hidden compartment.
• Hun Ke'er considered Soul Craftsman's long life, his place in the Soul Clan's plans, and his apparent decision to enter seclusion to break through to Dou Saint.
• Hun Ke'er realized Soul Craftsman's bottleneck came from his doubts about ninth-tier Artifact Forgers and the Spirit Clan's Saint Artifact method.

Hun Ke'er learned that Soul Craftsman had forged a path of Soul Artifacts capable of rivaling the Spirit Clan's Path of Sacred Artifacts. With the Soul Spirit Art and a new inheritance, she left Ink Hall to meet an Innate Soul Spirit in the Western Domain.

• Soul Craftsman’s history revealed that he had reached the limits of the Path of Sacred Artifacts and needed to create his own path to forge true ninth-rank Soul Artifacts.
• Hun Ke'er realized Soul Craftsman’s path of Soul Artifacts could stand alongside the Spirit Clan’s Path of Sacred Artifacts by joining an Artifact Forger with a Soul Artifact.
• Hun Ke'er read the Soul Spirit Art, which could help souls transcend and allow the Soul Swords’ artifact souls to develop their own intelligence.
• Hun Ke'er understood that the Soul Spirit Art could free her from the Soul Clan’s Dao marks and let her become its final seed.
• Three flying swords pierced Hun Ke'er’s forehead, leaving four fan-shaped sword marks, and she bowed to Ink Hall before leaving for the Western Domain to meet an Innate Soul Spirit.

Jiang Lin refined high-grade spirit pills while developing his Theory of Spiritual Qi, and Zi Yan secretly followed him in hopes of obtaining one. He gave pills to Zi Yan and the Seven-Colored Snake, then showed Xiao Yan a fire-element Spirit Furnace that prompted concerns about how it could affect the world’s energy.

• Zi Yan timidly asked Jiang Lin to return her Form Transformation Pill without hitting her, then admitted she had followed them to seek his pure cultivation pills.
• Jiang Lin explained his classifications of Spiritual Qi and how his methods raised the purity of spirit pills beyond ordinary alchemy.
• Jiang Lin gave Zi Yan a spirit pill, and the Seven-Colored Snake emerged from Xiao Yan’s sleeve to receive one too.
• Jiang Lin gave Xiao Yan a fire-element Spirit Furnace, and Xiao Yan worried that combining Spirit Furnaces with the Nine-One Qi Gathering Array would make the world’s energy circulate idly.

Jiang Lin explained how the Divine Essence Spirit Fire could refine ultra-pure Spirit Stones and proposed charging cultivators one Spirit Stone for a year of access to the Nine-One Qi Gathering Array. Xiao Yan grasped the enormous scale of Jiang Lin’s scheme, eagerly attached himself to Jiang Lin, and tried to recruit Zi Yan as well.

• Jiang Lin explained that Spirit Stone absorption losses were really a matter of purity and that the Divine Essence Spirit Fire could refine highly efficient Spirit Stones.
• Jiang Lin proposed charging each cultivator one realm-appropriate Spirit Stone per year to use the Nine-One Qi Gathering Array, estimating that the fee represented about five percent of a cultivator’s annual cultivation.
• Xiao Yan calculated the potential worldwide revenue and recognized how much cultivation time Jiang Lin could collect, on top of the Array’s Soul Tax.
• Xiao Yan knelt and begged to follow Jiang Lin, convinced Jiang Lin’s cultivation path could rapidly advance his followers.
• Jiang Lin kicked Xiao Yan away, and Xiao Yan went to explain Spirit Stones, pills, and Qi Gathering Arrays to Zi Yan in hopes of bringing her into Jiang Lin’s circle.
• Jiang Lin kicked Xiao Yan and Zi Yan away when they clung to his legs.

Jiang Lin refined a heavily modified Imperial Pill to provoke Pill Lightning and study the forces behind it. As he observed the lightning, he questioned why heaven had struck him only once when he became an artifact.

• Jiang Lin considered using Zi Yan, Xiao Yan, Jia Nan Academy, and the Jia Ma Empire to build his own power while pursuing his research.
• Jiang Lin began refining a modified Imperial Pill in the rear mountains of Jia Nan Academy, drawing dark clouds and Pill Lightning.
• Xiao Yan asked Yao Chen about the pill, and Yao Chen identified its quality as that of a high-grade seventh-tier pill.
• Jiang Lin studied the Pill Lightning and connected it to the energy threshold and spiritual grade of the pill.
• Jiang Lin wondered why heavenly lightning had struck only once when he broke through to Dou Wang and began to suspect his exposed aura had affected the Heavenly Dao.

Jiang Lin discovered that Pill Lightning could purify a spirit pill, then deliberately redirected the remaining bolts onto himself using a technique that mimicked the pill’s energy. As he endured the lightning, he began developing a body-tempering method and sensed the yin spiritual qi hidden within the tribulation.

• Jiang Lin watched Pill Lightning raise his spirit pill’s purity and activate its spirituality, but recognized that another strike would ruin it.
• Jiang Lin tossed away the Azure Profound Cauldron and speculated that the lightning contained yin spiritual qi capable of complementing yang spiritual qi.
• Jiang Lin raised his middle finger toward the thunderclouds, and the next bolt veered away from the pill and struck him.
• Yao Chen recognized that Jiang Lin was using the Imperial Pill’s pill-condensing technique to trick the Pill Lightning into targeting him, while Xiao Yan misunderstood the gesture.
• Jiang Lin endured further bolts, sensed his spiritual grade rising, and realized he could use the Lightning Summoning Secret Method to create a body-tempering method.

Jiang Lin completed a seventh-tier spirit pill and absorbed its Heavenly Dao Lightning, strengthening his cultivation and revealing more about spiritual qi. He gave Zi Yan his evolved Eight Extremes Collapse, a cultivation method capable of breaking through different types of dou qi shields.

• Jiang Lin deduced how Pill Lightning gave high-tier spirit pills intelligence and drew two bolts of Heavenly Dao Lightning into himself.
• Jiang Lin collected the completed white spirit pill and sensed his Spirit Body cultivation rising toward a breakthrough.
• Jiang Lin demonstrated his strength as the high-tier magical beasts fled, while Xiao Yan and Zi Yan congratulated him.
• Jiang Lin took back the saliva-covered Azure Profound Cauldron from Zi Yan and gave her an Eight Extremes Collapse manual.
• Xiao Yan discovered that Jiang Lin's Eight Extremes Collapse had become a cultivation method that could break the elemental restraint between different types of dou qi.

Jiang Lin renamed his secret art Eight Desolations Strength and explained how it broke through battle qi defenses while reinforcing the user's own. Yao Chen urged Xiao Yan to master it and develop his Fire Lotus Cannon into a key role on Jiang Lin's growing team.

• Jiang Lin renamed Eight Extremes Collapse as Eight Desolations Strength and explained its offensive and defensive principles to Xiao Yan and Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan realized the secret art explained how Jiang Lin had hurt her and eagerly asked whether she could use it to hurt him in return.
• Yao Chen recognized the value of Eight Desolations Strength and advised Xiao Yan to focus on long-range Dou Techniques and Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus Cannon.
• Yao Chen declared that Xiao Yan's Mysterious Flame Xuan Heavy Cannon should become a Life Artifact and encouraged him to take off.

Jiang Lin spent a month organizing the Theory of Spiritual Qi and the Theory of Destiny Artifacts, setting out a framework for explaining cultivation and spiritual qi. Pei Xuan discovered the unfinished work and was stunned by its scope and value.

• Jiang Lin returned to the Heaven-Burning Jiang Lin Refining Tower and began compiling the Theory of Spiritual Qi and the Theory of Destiny Artifacts while refining pills and Heavenly Dao Lightning.
• Jiang Lin used patterns across cultivation arts, pills, and other techniques to propose the Spirit Seal and theories for how living beings gained the ability to cultivate.
• Jiang Lin entered a month-long state of enlightenment and wrote down his explanations of spiritual qi and cultivation.
• Pei Xuan read the unfinished Theory of Spiritual Qi and questioned whether Jiang Lin had written it.
• Jiang Lin confirmed that he had written it, and Pei Xuan recognized its extraordinary value.

After reading Jiang Lin’s Theory of Spiritual Qi, Pei Xuan realized his soul could cultivate by absorbing dou qi through a Ghost Cultivator technique and became determined to draw Yao Chen into the Ghost Path. Jiang Lin noticed Pei Xuan’s soul had turned gray and wondered whether the two ghosts were Black and White Impermanence, while Pei Xuan resolved to forge his own path by first disrupting Yao Chen’s.

• Pei Xuan realized Jiang Lin’s achievements and Theory of Spiritual Qi had helped him understand that his unusual soul could cultivate using dou qi.
• Pei Xuan concluded that Heavenly Flames, especially the Bone Spirit Cold Fire, could convert dou qi into soul power and form the basis of Ghost Cultivator techniques.
• Jiang Lin explained that the Theory of Spiritual Qi could offer insight into Yao Chen’s resurrection, which could be achieved with three Heavenly Flames and a powerful expert’s remains.
• Pei Xuan protested that Yao Chen must not abandon ghosthood and insisted they should all become ghosts together.
• Jiang Lin noticed Pei Xuan’s gray soul and wondered whether Pei Xuan and Yao Chen were Black and White Impermanence.
• Pei Xuan declared that he would forge his own path, and Jiang Lin asked if that meant digging up Yao Chen’s path of humanity.

Jiang Lin began testing whether a Life Artifact could replace the core formed during cultivation, using Hu Jia as his first candidate. He explained that the artifact might eventually gather energy on its own, potentially allowing humans to cultivate more like Magical Beasts.

• Jiang Lin agreed to help Pei Xuan research ghost cultivation if Pei Xuan could persuade Yao Chen to join him.
• Jiang Lin prepared Seventh Order materials and invited Xiao Yan, Gu Xun'er, and Hu Jia to the Burning Heaven Artifact Forging Chamber.
• Jiang Lin chose Hu Jia, whose cultivation had reached the peak of Nine-star Da Dou Shi, to begin nurturing a Life Artifact.
• Jiang Lin explained that a Life Artifact might replace the core formed when a cultivator advanced from Da Dou Shi to Dou Ling.
• Xiao Yan realized that a compatible Life Artifact might function as a Magic Core and allow humans to cultivate on their own.

Jiang Lin began forging an Azure Spirit Sword inside the Azure Profound Cauldron, using four Heavenly Flames and the Divine Essence Spirit Fire to refine its spiritual energy and carve Spirit Seals. As the sword neared completion, he prepared Hu Jia for the final step, which would take place inside her body and might draw lightning.

• Jiang Lin filled the Azure Profound Cauldron with materials and combined his Divine Essence Spirit Fire with the Fallen Heart Flame, Golden Emperor Burning Heaven Flame, Green Lotus Core Flame, and Bone Spirit Cold Fire.
• The four Heavenly Flames spun together inside the cauldron, forming a small four-colored flame cauldron around an Azure Spirit Sword as the Divine Essence Spirit Fire purified their spiritual energy.
• Pei Xuan sent an avatar into Yao Chen's Storage Ring and explained his ghost-spirit path and Jiang Lin's Theory of Spiritual Qi to Yao Chen.
• Jiang Lin added a purified Soul Pill containing Hu Jia's Soul Power, then used the flames and alchemy techniques to carve Spirit Seals into the Azure Spirit Sword.
• Jiang Lin warned Hu Jia that the final step would happen inside her body and might summon lightning, and told her not to panic.

Jiang Lin prepared Hu Jia to cultivate a Life Artifact by laying four-colored spiritual threads through his body with the Spirit Nurturing Art. After stabilizing the spiritual pathways, Jiang Lin prepared to begin the next step of the process.

• Hu Jia panicked when Jiang Lin proposed using Heavenly Dao Lightning, but Jiang Lin reassured him and Hu Jia agreed to proceed.
• Jiang Lin injected a strand of semi-pure four-colored spiritual thread into Hu Jia and had him circulate the Spirit Nurturing Art.
• As Hu Jia cultivated, Jiang Lin arranged spiritual mark meridians through his body, using Divine Essence Spirit Fire as insulation around the threads.
• Jiang Lin reflected that semi-pure Heavenly Flame threads could preserve different flame properties while combining their effects into a stable four-channel path.
• Jiang Lin told Hu Jia to prepare for the next step.

After completing Hu Jia’s Life Artifact, Jiang Lin explained its Spatial Spirit Mark and how the Wood Spirit Sword could grow. He left Hu Jia with the chance to nurture it, while planning to use the Sky Yin Cushion to help Xiao Yi Xian next.

• Jiang Lin finished engraving the Life Artifact’s Spirit Seals and spiritual-mark meridians into the Azure Spirit Sword and Hu Jia’s body.
• Jiang Lin drew a sword-shaped Spatial Spirit Mark on Hu Jia’s lower abdomen and explained that it held a Life Artifact space for her Wood Spirit Sword.
• Xiao Yan suggested Jiang Lin leave his own exclusive mark on Hu Jia, so Jiang Lin threatened to design a special Spatial Spirit Mark for Xiao Yan.
• Jiang Lin explained that the Wood Spirit Sword could change size and potentially grow as Hu Jia nurtured it.
• Jiang Lin considered moving on to Xiao Yi Xian after Hu Jia’s artifact was complete, planning to take the Sky Yin Cushion to protect her from Artifact Lightning.

Jiang Lin forged the Wood Spirit Sword into Hu Jia as her Life Artifact, rebuilding her meridians with spiritual traces and protecting her with Five Elements Spirit Gauze. The artifact awakened a powerful spiritual tide across Jia Nan Academy, and Hu Jia broke through to one-star Dou Ling.

• Jiang Lin wrapped the Wood Spirit Sword in Divine Essence Spirit Fire and implanted it in Hu Jia’s lower abdomen.
• Jiang Lin drew energy through the Nine-One Qi Gathering Array and used Five Elements Dou Qi and Divine Essence Spirit Fire to reinforce Hu Jia’s body.
• Hu Jia circulated her cultivation method as spiritual traces formed throughout her body and connected to the Azure Spirit Sword in her Dantian.
• The Azure Spirit Sword released a spiritual tide that spread across Jia Nan Academy and drew an Energy Tide into Hu Jia.
• Hu Jia absorbed the energy and broke through to one-star Dou Ling.

Jiang Lin used Heavenly Dao Lightning to refine the Azure Spirit Sword in Hu Jia’s Dantian, granting the Life Artifact spirituality. Hu Jia barely survived the first bolt, and Jiang Lin prepared to draw the next lightning strikes away from him.

• Jiang Lin explained that the Azure Spirit Sword’s energy density drew in Heaven and Earth Energy and that his Life Artifact could raise spiritual grade by imitating Magical Beasts.
• Heavenly Dao Lightning struck through the Sky Burning Artifact Forging Tower and passed through Hu Jia to reach the Azure Spirit Sword in his Dantian.
• The lightning refined the Azure Spirit Sword and gave it spirituality, forming an innate closeness to Hu Jia that led it to refine lightning harming him.
• Jiang Lin protected Hu Jia with the Five Elements Spirit Gauze, Divine Essence Spirit Fire, and Sky Yin Cushion as the first bolt left Hu Jia barely alive.
• Jiang Lin concealed Hu Jia’s aura and formed a lightning-drawing hand seal to make Heavenly Dao Lightning target him instead.

Jiang Lin redirected Hu Jia’s Life Artifact tribulation onto himself, then used Wood Element Dou Qi to save the badly injured Hu Jia. Xiao Yan recognized the experiment’s benefits and its risks, while Jiang Lin explained what Hu Jia would need to withstand future tribulations.

• Jiang Lin used the Lightning-Drawing Seal to draw two Heavenly Dao Lightning bolts onto his middle finger instead of Hu Jia.
• Hu Jia survived the tribulation but lost consciousness with his body badly charred, and Jiang Lin treated him with Wood Element Dou Qi and covered him with his robe.
• Gu Xun’er questioned the danger of Jiang Lin’s method, while Xiao Yan eagerly examined Hu Jia’s growing vitality and improved absorption of Heaven and Earth Energy.
• Xiao Yan concluded that Hu Jia’s weak physical body caused the danger and that reaching the third tier of physical cultivation should make future tribulations manageable.
• Jiang Lin agreed but explained that a Life Artifact’s initial strength also determined the Lightning Tribulation’s intensity.