Recaps

Lin Xia left Yu Xiaogang and traveled to Gengjin City, where his talent for identifying ores earned him Lou Gao as a teacher and access to abundant resources. As Lin Xia and Lou Gao tested Larvitar’s ability to dig and prospect in an abandoned mine, Larvitar reacted intensely to a seemingly barren rock wall.

• Lin Xia rejected Yu Xiaogang’s offer, left the academy with Larvitar, and trained by eating minerals until he reached Soul Power Level Ten.
• Lin Xia visited Spirit Hall for certification and a subsidy, then went to the Blacksmith Association to seek membership.
• Lin Xia identified Star Gold Essence by tasting it, impressing Lou Gao, who made him his fifth disciple and gave him a Storage Soul Tool filled with resources.
• Lin Xia explained that ore strengthened him and Larvitar, and Lou Gao began searching for a suitable Yellow Storm Rat Soul Beast for Lin Xia’s first Soul Ring.
• Lin Xia settled into the association and Larvitar learned Dig, prompting Lin Xia to propose using it to search for mineral deposits.
• Lou Gao warned Lin Xia about the dangers of underground prospecting but agreed to supervise a test in a familiar abandoned mine.
• Larvitar dug through a collapsed passage, revealing miners’ remains that Lou Gao collected.
• Larvitar reacted strongly to a dark-brown rock wall, although Lou Gao found only ordinary barren rock when he inspected it.

Lin Xia and Larvitar uncovered rare ores, gained a powerful Sandstorm Soul Skill, and helped Lou Gao navigate Spirit Hall’s threat to the Blacksmith Association. Their experiments with firearms and Soul Tools advanced the Association’s craft, but left the Soul Tool Mech unfinished as they prepared to search for more rare metals.

• Larvitar uncovered a vein of Purple Lightning Iron, which Lin Xia collected and later shared with Lou Gao for research and forging.
• Lin Xia learned that Miles was pressuring the Blacksmith Association and persuaded Lou Gao to seek Spirit Hall’s protection despite his old ties to Tai Tan.
• Lou Gao took Lin Xia and Larvitar to hunt Yellow Storm Rats, and Lin Xia absorbed the fourteen-hundred-year Soul Ring of the pack leader.
• Lin Xia and Larvitar revealed their First Soul Skill, Sand Raising, and combined their storms to cover five hundred meters.
• Lin Xia mastered basic forging and designed a Handgun, which Lou Gao built and tested with ordinary Bullets and powerful Thunder Fire Bullets.
• Lou Gao and Lin Xia kept their firearms secret and struggled to develop a Soul Tool Mech while Ghostly Shadow investigated Miles and confirmed the Association’s submission to Spirit Hall.
• Lin Xia proposed that Soul Tool patterns connected Soul Power with metal, and Lou Gao used Star Sand powder, Mithril, and Adamantite to forge a working Storage Soul Tool.
• Lou Gao and Lin Xia replicated several Soul Tools but ran short of suitable Rare Metals, so Lou Gao proposed taking Lin Xia and Larvitar to prospect for Void Stone and other special ores.

Lin Xia and Lou Gao recovered stolen assets, explored for rare ores, and uncovered materials that strengthened Lin Xia and Larvitar while advancing Lou Gao’s plans for a Soul Tool Mech. At Norton Volcano, they absorbed Sun Essence and transformed, then faced a growing threat from beneath the earth.

• Lou Gao received Miles’s confiscated assets from Ghostly Shadow, while Lin Xia declined to return to Spirit Hall and chose to remain in Gengjin City.
• Lin Xia and Lou Gao explored Black Rock Valley, where they killed a Black-patterned Profound Rock Python and discovered that its scales strengthened Lin Xia and Larvitar.
• Larvitar broke through the python’s maze and uncovered a Void Stone vein, whose energy helped Lin Xia and Larvitar reach Level Eighteen and develop Thunder Punch.
• Lou Gao showed Lin Xia his Soul Tool Arrays and proposed building a Mecha, then the two set out with Larvitar to find ores for its power source and frame.
• Larvitar led them to several valuable ore deposits before guiding them toward Norton Volcano, where their descent revealed a powerful vein of Sun Essence.
• Larvitar called Lin Xia into the Sun Essence’s blazing energy, and both consumed the ore as Lou Gao fought off the volcanic Soul Beasts.
• Lin Xia rose with red-gold bones and new powers, while Larvitar emerged with a crimson-gold carapace and golden flames.
• Lin Xia and Larvitar combined their power into a Flame Sandstorm as Soul Beasts charged under the influence of a creature underground, forcing Lou Gao to flee through the cave wall.

Lin Xia and Larvitar awakened the Phoenix God’s power, and Lin Xia persuaded Lou Gao to accept the Phoenix Divine Trial. After Lou Gao survived its first trial and began a five-year training period, Lin Xia headed west to hunt a Sandstorm Wyrm King for his second Soul Ring, only to discover its escape ability.

• Lin Xia and Larvitar endured the Sun Essence Ore Vein’s destruction and were remade by the Flame Giant Bird, which left them with matching Phoenix Marks.
• Lin Xia identified the Flame Giant Bird as the God of Phoenix and persuaded Lou Gao to accept the Phoenix Divine Trial in his place.
• Lou Gao survived the “Bathed in Fire” trial by confronting the divine flames with his lifelong craftsman’s will, then emerged with a renewed body, an evolved Martial Soul, and Soul Douluo strength.
• Lou Gao received a second trial requiring him to remain on the mountain for five years, while Lin Xia promised to continue their Soul Tool research and left to seek a second Soul Ring.
• Lin Xia and Larvitar crossed the volcanic belt and reached the Far West Desert, where Lin Xia tracked the Sandstorm Wyrm King to its nesting grounds.
• Larvitar and Lin Xia battered the Sandstorm Wyrm King with fire and close-range attacks, but its Quicksand Abyss trapped them and its body began to contract as they prepared to finish it.
• The Sandstorm Wyrm King disintegrated into thousands of Small Sandstorm Wyrms, and Lin Xia and Larvitar raised a vast wall of Phoenix-flamed sand to block their escape.