Chapter Summaries

As the Golden Scale Dragon Fish migration battered the Shunfeng Hao, Liu Feng and Ah Yin protected the ship and the group chose not to capture a huge fish that might have received divine blessings. At Golden Scale Lake, Dugu Xin and Bone Douluo waited downstream for the fish to finish spawning so they could mark survivors without disrupting the plan.

• Golden Scale Dragon Fish struck and breached the Shunfeng Hao, so Liu Feng and Ah Yin sealed the hole and reinforced the hull with their abilities.
• Ning Fengzhi spotted an enormous Golden Scale Dragon Fish with a horn-like protrusion and suggested capturing it, but Liu Feng insisted they follow the original plan and observe whether divine blessings existed.
• The Dragon Gate Festival drew Soul Masters and Soul Beasts to Golden Scale Lake, where they gathered to prey on exhausted fish after spawning.
• Dugu Xin refused Bone Douluo's offer to drive away the gathered creatures and proposed waiting downstream to mark surviving fish after they left the lake.
• Bone Douluo led Dugu Xin downstream, and the two waited quietly for their chance.

Golden Scale Dragon Fish spawned at Golden Scale Lake, endured a mass hunt and a bloody fight among themselves, then absorbed the blood and grew stronger. Dugu Xin and Bone Douluo poisoned the river downstream to mark every returning fish, completing the next stage of their plan.

• Golden Scale Dragon Fish gathered to spawn while Soul Beasts and Human Soul Masters waited along the shore.
• At dusk, Soul Beasts and Human Soul Masters attacked the exhausted fish and hunted for six hours before leaving.
• After the lake grew quiet, the surviving Golden Scale Dragon Fish turned on one another, then absorbed the blood in the water and transformed, growing larger and stronger.
• Dugu Xin and Bone Douluo emerged from hiding and watched the transformed fish swim downstream.
• Dugu Xin stirred a river vortex while Bone Douluo spread Dugu Xin's special poison through it, tainting every passing Golden Scale Dragon Fish.

Dugu Xin and Bone Douluo tracked the returning Golden Scale Dragon Fish to the Shunfeng Hao, where the group prepared a poison-and-net trap. As the vanguard approached, Dugu Bo began stirring up a poisoned vortex at the river mouth.

• Dugu Xin and Bone Douluo marked the downstream Golden Scale Dragon Fish and raced ahead to the river mouth, spotting the enormous horned Fish King leading the school.
• Dugu Xin told Liu Feng and the others about the migration and the fish’s transformation, while Ning Fengzhi urged Dugu Bo to prepare the trap.
• Dugu Bo entered the river and concealed poison in the riverbed silt, while Liu Feng and Ah Yin fused their Martial Souls and created a Blue Silver Fishing Net behind him.
• After two shichen, Bone Douluo announced that the vanguard was returning, and Liu Feng signaled Dugu Bo to act.
• Dugu Bo churned up a powerful vortex at the river mouth, drawing poisoned silt into the water as the fish school approached.

Dugu Bo, Liu Feng, and their allies captured the first two waves of Golden Scale Dragon Fish at the mouth of the Hercules River. After nearly three hundred fish were secured, Bone Douluo and Liu Feng advised ending the hunt and waiting for the remaining wave to pass.

• Ning Fengzhi ordered Xia Yang to steer the Shunfeng Hao away from Dugu Bo’s vortex and the approaching fish school.
• Dugu Bo trapped the Golden Scale Dragon Fish King in toxin-coated mud, and Bone Douluo used his spatial Soul Skill to catch it safely on the deck.
• Dugu Bo’s second vortex swept up most of the next wave, while Liu Feng’s Blue Silver Net caught the fish that escaped its edges.
• Dugu Bo and Liu Feng brought nearly three hundred Golden Scale Dragon Fish aboard the Shunfeng Hao.
• Bone Douluo said the third wave would arrive in half a day, and Liu Feng agreed that the group had caught enough fish.

Liu Feng dissected the Golden Scale Dragon Fish King and investigated the mysterious energy within its body alongside Ning Fengzhi and the others. They sensed that the energy was tied to the fish’s blood and life force, and Bone Douluo suggested it had changed form rather than disappeared, while Liu Feng recognized it as Blood Qi Energy.

• Liu Feng dissected the Golden Scale Dragon Fish King, examined its unusually hard scales and bones, and collected its crimson blood and horn.
• Ning Fengzhi found no usable core, and Liu Feng explained that the fish’s strength came from its muscles and bones.
• Liu Feng and Ning Fengzhi used Soul Power and Spiritual power to detect energy distributed through the fish’s spine, flesh, and blood.
• Ah Yin, Dugu Bo and Son, Dugu Xin, and Bone Douluo examined the corpse and sensed the fish’s energy and life force fading after its death.
• Bone Douluo argued that the energy had taken another form, and Liu Feng recognized it as Blood Qi Energy from his years of cultivation.

Liu Feng explained how Golden Scale Dragon Fish cultivated bodily Blood Qi Energy rather than Soul Power, then led the group to investigate the mystery beneath Golden Scale Lake. The group returned to the lake with tens of thousands of live fish and began recreating the earlier bloody scene to uncover the lake’s secret.

• Bone Douluo, Ah Yin, and the others disagreed over what energy remained in the dead Golden Scale Dragon Fish until Liu Feng explained its Blood Qi Energy and bodily life force.
• Dugu Xin asked whether the strange disturbance at Golden Scale Lake had been caused by the fish’s cultivation, and Liu Feng suggested either instinctive bloodline cultivation or a secret beneath the lake.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed returning live fish to Golden Scale Lake and using fish blood to investigate the legend of the God of Strength, and Bone Douluo transported the group and their fish upstream.
• Bone Douluo caught Golden Scale Dragon Fish along the Hercules River for six hours, bringing tens of thousands to Golden Scale Lake by nightfall.
• Liu Feng and Dugu Xin agreed that the fish should kill one another to stimulate their energy, and Bone Douluo released the fish into the lake.

Dugu Xin poisoned the Golden Scale Dragon Fish Swarm into slaughtering one another, but Ah Yin and Bone Douluo found no divine secret at Golden Scale Lake. After the group feasted aboard the Shunfeng Hao, Ning Fengzhi set Gengxin City as their next destination, and Liu Feng resolved to investigate the Eight Treasures Ruyi Armor.

• Bone Douluo released half the Golden Scale Dragon Fish into the lake and killed the rest, and Dugu Xin used his Azure Phosphorus Red Poison to make the swarm attack and devour one another.
• As the surviving fish gathered beneath the moon and released golden-red light, Bone Douluo and Ah Yin searched the lake but found only natural spatial circulation and blood qi absorption.
• Ning Fengzhi reassured Liu Feng that the group had not left empty-handed, and Bone Douluo transported them back to the Shunfeng Hao.
• Cook David served the Golden Scale Dragon Marrow Stew and other fish dishes, and the group and sailors felt the meal's blood qi strengthen them.
• Ning Fengzhi proposed sailing to Gengxin City the next morning, and Liu Feng decided to find out whether the Eight Treasures Ruyi Armor had been forged.

Liu Feng and his companions arrived in Gengxin City, the Star Luo Empire’s metalworking capital, and followed Ning Fengzhi to the Blacksmith Association Headquarters. They explored its trading hall as Ning Fengzhi explained the association’s services and planned to buy weapons for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• After three months of travel, Liu Feng, Ning Fengzhi, and their companions reached Gengxin City.
• Ning Fengzhi introduced the city’s blacksmithing trade and said he needed to buy weapons for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.
• Dugu Bo said he wanted to find a Divine Craftsman to improve his Serpent Cane, while Dugu Xin stayed by his father.
• Liu Feng and Ah Yin agreed to accompany Ning Fengzhi to the Blacksmith Association.
• The group entered the association’s headquarters, where Ning Fengzhi described the floors and explained how the trading hall operated.

Ning Fengzhi led Liu Feng and the others through the Blacksmith General Association, showing them its trading floors and escorting them to a luxurious VIP room. While they waited for the association’s president, Yi Tianxing opened the secret gate to the fifth floor.

• Ning Fengzhi explained the first floor’s Triple Authentication system and used his sect token to lead the group up the VIP staircase.
• On the second floor, Ning Fengzhi showed Liu Feng the high-tier shops and their costly weapons and rare metals.
• Yi Tianxing checked Ning Fengzhi’s token, then guided the guests to the fourth-floor VIP hall, where a maid seated them in a private room and served tea and wine.
• Yi Tianxing climbed to the fifth-floor gate and opened it by tapping its patterned nodes in a precise sequence.

Yi Tianxing brought Lou Gao to meet Ning Fengzhi and his disguised companions at the Blacksmith Association, where they finalized a weapon order and requested information about the Forge God Mountain Range. Ning Fengzhi then warned Lou Gao to keep their visit secret, and Lou Gao agreed before Liu Feng signaled him to stop as he was leaving.

• Yi Tianxing informed Lou Gao that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect guests had arrived and were waiting in the VIP room.
• Lou Gao met Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, Dugu Bo, and the other guests, then sent Yi Tianxing away so he could speak with them.
• Ning Fengzhi said the group wanted to finalize the year's weapon order and learn about the Forge God Mountain Range, and Lou Gao promised to prepare maps and information.
• Ning Fengzhi paid for the order with a Golden Soul Card, and Lou Gao agreed to deliver the goods according to the previous standards.
• Ning Fengzhi demanded that Lou Gao and the association keep the visit secret, and Lou Gao promised no one else would learn of it.
• As Lou Gao was about to leave, Liu Feng raised a hand to stop him.

Liu Feng offered an unused Soul Bone to Lou Gao in exchange for the Eight Treasures Ruyi Armor, while Dugu Bo commissioned him to repair his serpent cane. The armor would take three years to forge without a rare catalyst, so Ning Fengzhi agreed to find a Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle heart, and the group planned to meet again after receiving information from the Blacksmith Association.

• Dugu Bo tested Lou Gao's skill by giving him his serpent cane, and Lou Gao found hidden cracks and promised to restore it within seven days.
• Liu Feng presented an unused Eight Hundred Year Right Leg Soul Bone and asked Lou Gao to make defensive armor in exchange for it.
• Lou Gao revealed that he could forge the Eight Treasures Ruyi Armor from Memory Metal, but the work would take at least three years without a Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle heart.
• Ning Fengzhi agreed to handle finding the Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle, which would reduce the armor's construction time to one year.
• Liu Feng gave Lou Gao the Soul Bone as a deposit, and Ning Fengzhi told the others to explore the city and meet in his room that night after information arrived.

Liu Feng and Ah Yin explored Gengxin City, where Liu Feng bought Ah Yin a set of wedding headdresses, before joining Ning Fengzhi and the others to discuss their expedition. The group planned to investigate the Forge God Mountain Range and hunt a Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle, leaving for the mountains at dawn.

• Liu Feng used his Soul Sage pressure to clear a path through a crowd, and he bought Ah Yin a set of gold and silver wedding headdresses.
• Liu Feng and Ah Yin returned to the Golden Hotel and admired its luxurious suite and view of Gengxin City.
• Ning Fengzhi revealed that the group's main objective was to search the Forge God Mountain Range for information about the Forge God.
• Dugu Xin, Ah Yin, Liu Feng, and Bone Douluo described how their abilities could help investigate the mountain range.
• Ning Fengzhi shared Lou Gao's clue that a Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle likely lived in the southern Dead Volcano Group, and Liu Feng proposed hunting it for its heart.
• Ning Fengzhi ordered everyone to rest and set the group's departure for dawn.

Liu Feng and his group traveled through the Forge God Mountain Range toward the Cinder Volcanoes to hunt the Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle and investigate clues about God. They reached the volcanic region, where Bone Douluo warned that the beast could become enraged and draw strength from the surrounding magma.

• Liu Feng learned from a merchant that downhill mine carts rolled by themselves while Soul Masters hauled empty carts back uphill for pay.
• After resting, Liu Feng's group followed the Blacksmith Association's map through the mountain range, where Liu Feng observed that many local Soul Beasts had Earth attributes.
• Ning Fengzhi explained that Earth Attribute Soul Beasts made up most of the range's population and said the area's unusual nature made it a destination in their search for clues about God.
• On the fifth day, Ning Fengzhi identified the Cinder Volcanoes as the Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle's habitat, and the group encountered intense heat and glowing volcanic rock.
• Bone Douluo explained that Molten Mountain Dragon Turtles could awaken underground fires and gain energy from magma, then instructed the group to conceal their presence as they entered the volcanoes.

Liu Feng and Ah Yin searched the central volcano for the Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle and drew a fifty-thousand-year beast out of its Lava Lake. The battle began in the cave, where Liu Feng urged Ah Yin to lure it away from its home ground without using her full strength.

• Liu Feng, Ah Yin, Ning Fengzhi, Gu Rong, Dugu Bo, and Xin'er split into three groups to investigate the revived volcanoes.
• Liu Feng and Ah Yin found a hidden cave beneath the central volcano and followed it to a Lava Lake where Ah Yin sensed a powerful Soul Beast.
• A red-black platform rose from the Lava Lake, and Ah Yin struck it with her Blue Silver Overlord Spear, provoking the Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle to emerge.
• Liu Feng warned Ah Yin that the dragon turtle had cultivated for fifty thousand years as it attacked them with a ball of magma.
• Ah Yin exchanged ranged attacks with the dragon turtle while Liu Feng urged her to lure it out of the cave and conserve her Soul Power.

Ah Yin and Liu Feng fought together to subdue and kill the Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle in the Lava Lake cave. Liu Feng harvested its heart and began processing the corpse.

• Ah Yin bound the Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle with her Blue Silver Chains and Thorn Cage, and Liu Feng fused his Soul Rings to summon Dragon-Patterned Roots that strengthened the restraints.
• Ah Yin used Flight to carry the struggling dragon turtle from the Lava Lake and slam it against the cave's edge, breaking its bindings.
• Ah Yin and Liu Feng combined their Blue Silver Domains to suppress the dragon turtle, then pinned it down with thirteen Blue Silver Overlord Spears.
• Ah Yin unleashed her Ninth Soul Skill, radiant light, and killed the Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle, leaving a Black Soul Ring behind.
• Liu Feng removed the dragon turtle's heart, stored it in his Soul Tool, and began processing the corpse.

Liu Feng and his companions returned from the volcanoes with two Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle hearts and delivered them to Lou Gao for the Eight Treasures Ruyi Armor. After Lou Gao promised to finish at least two sets within a year, the group set out again to investigate the Forge God Mountain Range.

• Liu Feng carefully processed the fifty-thousand-year Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle and stored its scales, shell, bones, and jade-colored heart.
• Liu Feng and Ah Yin reunited with Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo Gu Rong, Dugu Bo, and Dugu Xin, who revealed that Dugu Xin had obtained a heart from a sixty-thousand-year Molten Mountain Dragon Turtle.
• The six returned to Gengxin City, where Liu Feng and Ning Fengzhi gave both hearts to Lou Gao, who said he would gather the needed metals and deliver at least two sets of Eight Treasures Ruyi Armor within a year.
• The next morning, Liu Feng, Ah Yin, Bone Douluo Gu Rong, Dugu Xin, Ning Fengzhi, and Dugu Bo set out to investigate the Forge God Mountain Range.
• The group reached the mountain range and followed a different route along the rails at the back of the trading square.

After a year of searching the Forge God Mountain Range without finding its secret, Liu Feng and his companions prepared to leave, but their final exploration of a valley uncovered a vast underground ruin. Liu Feng had reached level 79, and the chapter ended with Bone Douluo Gu Rong revealing his discovery.

• Liu Feng and the others spent a year searching the Forge God Mountain Range, finding rare plants, minerals, and soul beasts but no sign of its secret; Liu Feng's soul power reached level 79.
• Ning Fengzhi suggested they return to collect the Eight Treasures Ruyi Armor and move on, and Liu Feng agreed to search one more day before leaving.
• Ah Yin proposed a picnic and bath, so the group headed to a valley near the Cassas Mountain Range to explore before relaxing.
• The six found no deep pool in the valley, and Dugu Xin uncovered earthquake cracks beneath the vegetation with his poison domain.
• Bone Douluo Gu Rong emerged from space and announced that he had discovered vast ruins beneath the valley.

Bone Douluo brought Liu Feng and the others through a silver-white energy shield into the underground ruins, where Liu Feng cleared the dust and uncovered the remains of earlier explorers. The group entered the ruins together, wary of the dangers ahead.

• Bone Douluo revealed that the ruins lay five hundred meters underground inside a powerful energy shield and offered to take the group in with his space soul skill.
• Bone Douluo transported the group through the earth, and Ning Fengzhi boosted his power so they could break through the shield's spatial turbulence and reach the ruins.
• After landing inside, Liu Feng used Gusty Step to sweep away the dust while avoiding unstable stone pillars.
• The cleared ground exposed a deep trench filled with white bones and rusted swords, and Bone Douluo warned the group to be careful.
• Liu Feng told his companions to stay together, and they followed him deeper into the ruins.

Liu Feng and the others explored ancient ruins, learned about the continent’s lost Soul Tool civilization, and climbed an altar where a mysterious Silver-white Ancient Tree appeared. They discovered the tree was visible only while standing at the altar’s summit, leaving its purpose unknown.

• Ning Fengzhi identified murals depicting ancient battles and explained that ancient people had used Soul Tools, but the metals needed to make them had largely been depleted.
• The group emerged from the corridor and found a towering altar, which Ning Fengzhi said was likely used for ancient worship.
• Ning Fengzhi led everyone up the altar, where they found only steps and stone walls until a Silver-white Ancient Tree appeared at the summit.
• The tree sent the words "Silver-white Ancient Tree" into everyone’s minds, astonishing Liu Feng and Dugu Xin.
• Liu Feng stepped between the summit and the stairs and found that the tree vanished from the stairs and reappeared at the summit, prompting everyone to test the effect.

Liu Feng and the others discovered that a Silver-white Ancient Tree was a sealed Demon Tree whose energy-draining power had killed the priests guarding the altar. When the seal began to fail and Liu Feng’s attack could not stop the tree from healing, Bone Douluo proposed drawing the ruins into Space-time Turbulence, and he teleported the group away as the altar collapsed.

• Liu Feng, Ning Fengzhi, and the others found seven dead priests beside an ancient cauldron and learned that their Soul Power had been drained to sustain the shield above the altar.
• Ah Yin found inscriptions explaining that the Silver-white Ancient Tree had arrived in Space-time Turbulence, consumed lives, and been sealed by nine priests using a Soul Tool that powered the shield.
• The Silver-white Ancient Tree erupted into a frenzy, and Liu Feng used Ring Fusion, Dragon Blast, and Rebirth from Fire to attack it, but the tree healed its wound by devouring energy.
• Bone Douluo concluded that the group had weakened the seal by breaking through the shield and proposed triggering Space-time Turbulence to pull the ruins into it.
• As the seal continued to collapse, Bone Douluo used his Eighth Soul Skill, Space Dragon, to teleport Liu Feng and the others away while the ancient tree and altar descended into chaos.