Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming bid against Lou Gao for a large Earth Vein Flame Crystal at the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House, eventually winning it for 550,000 Gold Soul Coins. Lou Gao violated auction rules to ask about examining and buying part of the crystal, and Chen Ming intervened to invite him to talk.

• Chen Ming recognized the Earth Vein Flame Crystal's value and began bidding for it at the auction.
• Lou Gao raised the price against Chen Ming, but Chen Ming outbid him and secured the crystal for 550,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Lou Gao introduced himself as president of the Blacksmith Association and asked to examine the crystal and buy one-fifth of it for 200,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• The auction administrator and a Soul Saint guardian went to escort Lou Gao out for breaking auction rules.
• Chen Ming contacted them telepathically and asked the administrator to let Lou Gao come to his room for a talk.

Chen Ming met with Lou Gao at the Heaven Dou Royal Auction House and asked whether he and the Blacksmith Association had studied how to awaken metal’s spirituality through forging. The chapter ended with Chen Ming seeking to explore the advanced forging path that could turn metal into artifacts capable of growing alongside Soul Masters.

• Chen Ming used Spiritual Sound Transmission to summon Lou Gao, startling the auction house manager and its Soul Saint.
• The manager escorted Lou Gao to Private Room Six while the Soul Saint avoided getting involved.
• Chen Ming welcomed Lou Gao, introduced himself as the Poison Douluo's grandson-in-law, and poured him wine.
• Lou Gao's unusual intuition warned him of Chen Ming's power, while Chen Ming recognized Lou Gao's talent.
• Chen Ming asked whether Lou Gao and the Blacksmith Association had researched awakening metal's spirituality and creating artifacts that could grow with Soul Masters.

Chen Ming demonstrated to Lou Gao how to awaken the Metal Spirituality in Board Crystal Gold, giving the aging divine craftsman hope of advancing his art. Lou Gao asked Chen Ming to accept him as a disciple, while Chen Ming proposed that they work together.

• Chen Ming explained his plans to forge a complete set of divine artifacts and sought Lou Gao's help with battle armor.
• Lou Gao admitted that he could sense Metal Spirituality but had never found a way to awaken it, and he feared blacksmithing had reached its limit.
• Chen Ming used Extreme Fire and Extreme Ice Soul Power to awaken the Metal Spirituality inside Board Crystal Gold.
• Lou Gao sensed the awakened spirituality, broke down in tears, and asked Chen Ming to accept him as a disciple.
• Chen Ming stopped Lou Gao from kneeling and explained that he knew little about blacksmithing but wanted to seek his help.

Chen Ming discussed forging with Lou Gao, who recognized Chen Ming’s potential to surpass the Divine Craftsman realm and asked to join his faction. Chen Ming founded the Soul Hall and invited Lou Gao to become an elder.

• Chen Ming discussed blacksmithing with Lou Gao and learned that Lou Gao had advanced beyond Thousand Forging but had not reached Spirit Forging.
• Lou Gao explained that Tang Hao and Titan had stopped advancing in forging, while he had continued to develop his skills and realm.
• Lou Gao refused to take Chen Ming’s golden sphere as payment for teaching him and instead offered his knowledge in exchange for seeing Chen Ming’s future research.
• Lou Gao asked whether Chen Ming had a faction he could join, and Chen Ming decided to establish one to develop blacksmithing and support Soul Masters.
• Chen Ming named his faction the Soul Hall and asked Lou Gao to join as an elder.

At the Heaven Dou Royal Auction, Chen Ming bought rare dragon ores before confronting the sale of a nine-year-old Dragon Person Girl. He bid against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Third Elder, while the elder recognized Chen Ming as the Soul Master who had thwarted him before.

• Chen Ming bought Dragon Blood Stone for 220,000 Gold Soul Coins and Dragon Scale Stone for 210,000 as research materials.
• The auction’s twentieth item was revealed as a captive Dragon Person Girl, whose Red Dragon Martial Soul and lineage were presented as valuable for breeding.
• Chen Ming resolved to abolish slavery before becoming a god, and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s Third Elder bid ten million Gold Soul Coins for the girl.
• Chen Ming raised the bid to ten million five hundred thousand Gold Soul Coins, angering the Third Elder.
• The Third Elder recalled Chen Ming’s past victories and his own worsening standing within the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.

At an auction, a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elder bid on the Dragon Person Girl as a gift for Yu Tianheng, while Chen Ming and Ning Fengzhi entered the bidding. Ning Fengzhi’s bid aimed to save the girl and preserve her bloodline for the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect.

• A Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elder bid ten million five hundred and ten thousand Gold Soul Coins on the Dragon Person Girl, intending to present her to Yu Tianheng.
• Chen Ming countered with ten million five hundred and twenty thousand Gold Soul Coins, undeterred by the elder’s display of power.
• Ning Fengzhi joked with Sword Douluo about buying the girl for Bone Douluo, who arrived with Ning Rongrong.
• Ning Rongrong asked Ning Fengzhi to save the suffering girl, and he agreed to bid for her.
• Ning Fengzhi offered twelve million Gold Soul Coins, seeking to bring the Dragon Person Girl into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and preserve her bloodline.

At the auction, Gu Rong punished a Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elder for threatening another bidder, then opened a spatial rift to Room Six and discovered Chen Ming. Ning Fengzhi recognized Chen Ming and greeted him, while Gu Rong kept the rift open and left the conversation to Ning Fengzhi.

• The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan elder raised his bid to 12.01 million Gold Soul Coins and threatened the rival bidder.
• Gu Rong tore through the wall into Room Four, recognized the elder, and knocked him to the floor with a palm of Soul Power.
• Gu Rong sensed someone probing the spatial fluctuations and opened a rift into Room Six, where he found Chen Ming and Lou Gao.
• Ning Fengzhi recognized Chen Ming as Dugu Bo's grandson-in-law, and Chen Ming greeted Ning Fengzhi, Chen Xin, and Gu Rong respectfully.
• Gu Rong returned to his seat but maintained the spatial rift as Ning Fengzhi took over the conversation with Chen Ming.

Ning Fengzhi met Chen Ming and Lou Gao in Chen Ming’s room, where their polite conversation revealed little until Chen Ming disclosed that Dugu Bo had reached level ninety-four. Ning Fengzhi responded by bringing Ning Rongrong to Chen Ming while Bone Douluo questioned Lou Gao, who kept the reason for his visit secret.

• Ning Fengzhi entered Chen Ming’s room, recognized Lou Gao, and exchanged courteous introductions with the Blacksmith Association president.
• Ning Fengzhi and Chen Ming traded probing but uninformative remarks while Lou Gao watched Chen Ming uneasily.
• Ning Rongrong took over bidding for Ning Fengzhi when the auction offered a ten-thousand-year Purple Origin Fruit.
• Chen Ming told Ning Fengzhi that Grandpa Dugu had broken through to level ninety-four and was advancing toward level ninety-five.
• Ning Fengzhi brought Ning Rongrong to Chen Ming, while Bone Douluo questioned Lou Gao, who concealed what had happened between him and Chen Ming.

Chen Ming met Ning Rongrong at an auction and resolved to keep her from aiding Tang San. When the final lot was revealed as a Thousand Year Soul Bone, he rejected Ning Fengzhi’s offer to buy it, saying he would wait for better-quality Soul Bones.

• Ning Fengzhi introduced Ning Rongrong to Chen Ming, and she greeted him before becoming intrigued by his talent and looks.
• Chen Ming reflected on Ning Rongrong’s future loyalty to Tang San and decided he could not allow her to support him.
• Sword Douluo bought the Purple Origin Fruit for sixteen and a half million Gold Soul Coins.
• The auctioneer presented a 7000-Year Poison Pouch Leopard Right Arm Bone with the attached skill Fangs of Extreme Poison.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to buy the Soul Bone for Chen Ming, but Chen Ming refused, calling its quality too poor and saying he would seek suitable Soul Bones later.
• Ning Fengzhi asked what Chen Ming had come to the auction for.

Chen Ming demonstrated his research into Martial Souls by creating a tiny semi-independent life form from Soul Power, Life Force, Spiritual Power, and spirituality. Ning Fengzhi and the others were left speechless as Chen Ming withdrew its spiritual foundation and it dissolved back into him.

• Ning Fengzhi criticized Yu Xiaogang’s Ten Core Competencies and questioned Chen Ming’s claim to research Martial Souls and Soul Masters.
• Chen Ming formed a tiny scorpion from his powers and infused it with spirituality, giving it basic thought and the ability to move independently.
• Ning Fengzhi examined the scorpion, while Bone Douluo and Sword Douluo took turns inspecting it.
• The scorpion returned to Chen Ming after Gu Rong withdrew his Soul Power, and Chen Ming removed its spirituality, causing it to dissolve.
• Ning Fengzhi, Bone Douluo, and Sword Douluo fell silent, while Ning Rongrong and Lou Gao pretended to understand the demonstration.

Chen Ming demonstrated his ability to give Soul Power a semi-independent spirit, then explained his understanding of Martial Souls and the laws behind them to Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo. His insights helped the two Titled Douluo approach breakthroughs, while Ning Fengzhi realized Chen Ming had likely helped Dugu Bo advance and considered recruiting him.

• Chen Ming showed Ning Fengzhi that he could separate part of his soul, give it to Soul Power, and restore it unharmed.
• At Ning Fengzhi’s request, Chen Ming explained his views on Martial Souls and Soul Power.
• Ning Fengzhi, Sword Douluo, and Bone Douluo listened as Chen Ming’s explanations resolved many of their long-standing questions.
• Bone Douluo neared a breakthrough beyond Level Ninety-Five, while Sword Douluo felt his sword path advance.
• After Chen Ming stopped speaking, Ning Fengzhi realized he had likely guided Dugu Bo’s rapid rise to Level Ninety-Four and weighed recruiting Chen Ming against the danger of provoking Dugu Bo.

Ning Fengzhi offered Chen Ming a Seven Treasure Token and let him examine the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul. Chen Ming discovered that the Pagoda was a complete, unusually stable, attribute-less amplifier that could bear laws but could not use them beyond forming enhancement skills.

• Ning Fengzhi opened negotiations with Chen Ming about his research into the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul.
• Ning Fengzhi gave Chen Ming a Seven Treasure Token that granted him elder-equivalent status and the right to command affiliated Soul Masters below Soul Saint rank.
• Chen Ming accepted the token and asked to examine Ning Fengzhi's Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda Martial Soul.
• Ning Fengzhi summoned his Martial Soul and allowed Chen Ming to sense its essence despite his instinctive resistance.
• Chen Ming found that the Pagoda was complete and exceptionally stable, and that its Soul Rings could not transform it but only produce enhancement-type soul skills.

Chen Ming examined Ning Fengzhi’s Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda and concluded that its extreme stability, rather than any flaw, fixed its cultivators’ limit at level 79. He believed it could be changed by adding two layers, but lacked the means to do so, and Ning Fengzhi offered him Rongrong and the sect’s partnership if he could solve the problem.

• Chen Ming determined that Soul Rings could enhance the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda but could not alter its structure or grant it a soul beast’s abilities.
• Chen Ming speculated that the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda might have originated in another world and been assimilated by the Douluo World.
• Chen Ming concluded that the pagoda’s complete stability had fixed its limit at level 79 and that expanding it into a Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Pagoda would require adding two layers.
• Ning Fengzhi confirmed that the pagoda had never mutated across generations and asked Chen Ming whether it could be changed.
• Chen Ming said the method existed but was extremely difficult, and Ning Fengzhi offered Rongrong’s hand in marriage and the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s support if Chen Ming succeeded.

Chen Ming outlined three ways to overcome the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda’s limitations, recommending Immortal Herbs or divine medicines as the most practical route. Ning Fengzhi considered searching for dragon relics and invited Chen Ming to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, while Lou Gao’s admiration for Chen Ming grew.

• Chen Ming described seeking divine intervention as the upper strategy, using Immortal Herbs or divine medicines as the middle strategy, and forcing and guiding Martial Soul mutations across generations as the lower strategy.
• Chen Ming suggested that herbs with sun, moon, star, or dragon attributes—or a Dragon Pill—might alter the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda.
• Ning Fengzhi recalled the sect’s dragon remains and past failed attempt to evolve a Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda with a fire-attributed Immortal Herb.
• Ning Fengzhi invited Chen Ming to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and inspect its rare ores and treasures, and Chen Ming agreed to visit another day.
• Ning Fengzhi, Ning Rongrong, and the Sword and Bone Titled Douluo left through the closing Space Rift, while Lou Gao’s admiration for Chen Ming deepened.

Chen Ming examined his auction purchases and entrusted Lou Gao with forging a weapon from the Earth Vein Flame Crystal. He and Dugu Bo then visited the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, where Ning Fengzhi and the two Guardian Douluo awaited them.

• Chen Ming examined the Dragon Scale Stone, Dragon Blood Stone, and Earth Vein Flame Crystal, then asked Lou Gao to forge him a weapon from the crystal.
• Chen Ming told Dugu Bo about meeting Ning Fengzhi and agreed to visit the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect with him.
• Chen Ming informed Dugu Yan that he would be away, and he and Dugu Bo traveled to the sect the next morning.
• Chen Ming and Dugu Bo presented their calling card at the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's mountain gate and were escorted inside.
• Elder Wang greeted Dugu Bo and said Ning Fengzhi and the two Guardian Douluo were waiting for them in the main hall.

Elder Wang brought Dugu Bo and Chen Ming to meet Ning Fengzhi and the Sword and Bone Douluos, then escorted them into a guarded underground treasury. The treasures inside revealed the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s immense wealth and included artifacts bearing traces of divine power, leaving Chen Ming shaken.

• Elder Wang led Dugu Bo and Chen Ming by carriage to meet Ning Fengzhi, the Sword Douluo, and the Bone Douluo.
• Ning Fengzhi and the two Douluos guided Dugu Bo and Chen Ming through guarded checkpoints to a secret chamber underground.
• The group entered the treasury and saw enormous stores of Refined Gold, Mithril, rare metals, and gemstones.
• Ning Fengzhi showed them crystallized Dragon Bones, Dragon Eggs, magical metals, a broken spearhead, and a bloodstained tusk.
• Chen Ming recognized four jade figures as hundred-thousand-year Azure Jade Birds and sensed divine power in several of the treasury’s artifacts.

Chen Ming accepted Ning Fengzhi’s gifts and examined the treasury’s rare artifacts, but the Thunder God’s artifact fragment stirred the Divine Throne and drew the God of Destruction’s attention. The God of Life began monitoring Douluo World, unaware that the Asura God’s secret plan there was already underway.

• Ning Fengzhi offered Dugu Bo and Chen Ming treasures in exchange for future help, and Chen Ming accepted on their behalf.
• Chen Ming examined the dragon remains and decided the Dragon Bone’s power was too risky for his plans to Become God.
• Chen Ming touched the purple crystal, briefly awakening a blurry lightning figure before the suspected divine artifact rejected his probing.
• The God of Destruction sensed the Thunder God’s Divine Throne stir in Douluo World and asked the God of Life to monitor the plane.
• The Asura God’s plan was already underway after he sent a carefully chosen pawn into Douluo Continent ten days earlier.

Chen Ming rejected the divine relics in the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's treasury and discovered that a peculiar metal could absorb Life Force and Soul Power, grow, and assimilate other substances. He turned it into a bracer and chose Colorless Spirit Crystal as his second item, considering how its power-conversion ability might work with his abilities.

• Chen Ming used Spirit Vision on the bloodstained tusk and saw the Asura God fighting Divine Beasts before the tusk fell to the Douluo Continent.
• Chen Ming decided the damaged tusk and the other divine items were not useful to him, then examined metal coiled around a stone pillar.
• Chen Ming fed the metal his Life Force and Soul Power, formed a connection with it, and transformed it into a bracer on his right wrist.
• Chen Ming told Ning Fengzhi that the bracer was his first choice and continued searching through the treasury.
• Chen Ming selected Colorless Spirit Crystal and considered using it to convert Soul Power or absorb and transform an enemy's attack.

Chen Ming chose two treasures from the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s vault, and Ning Fengzhi introduced him to the Dragon Person Girl and Ning Tie, a young disciple with the Treasure Jade Beast Martial Soul. The chapter ended with Chen Ming sensing Ning Tie’s unusual potential and the Dragon Person Girl’s formidable dragon power.

• Chen Ming selected two treasures, and Ning Fengzhi gifted them to Chen Ming and Dugu Bo.
• Dugu Bo showed his trust in Chen Ming’s choices, and the group joined Ning Fengzhi for a meal.
• Ning Fengzhi brought out the Dragon Person Girl and Ning Tie, explaining why he had summoned them for Chen Ming.
• Ning Tie introduced himself as a Level 10 disciple with the Treasure Jade Beast Martial Soul who had not yet absorbed a Soul Ring.
• Chen Ming sensed Ning Tie’s unusual Martial Soul potential and the Dragon Person Girl’s immense physical strength and pure Dragon Power.

Chen Ming examined Xiao Wu, a girl whose mutated dragon-type Martial Soul had left her unable to cultivate, and found a way to correct its underlying flaw. He began treating her with Extreme Fire Soul Power and a mark from his Spiritual Eye.

• Chen Ming approached Xiao Wu and introduced himself, using a soothing Spiritual Power fluctuation to ease her wariness.
• Xiao Wu told Chen Ming how she had been trafficked, abused, sold, and captured by soul masters after her Martial Soul awakening transformed her body.
• Ning Rongrong came to Xiao Wu's side, and Chen Ming promised he might be able to resolve her condition and let her cultivate normally.
• Chen Ming examined Xiao Wu and discovered that her dragon-transformed body and Martial Soul had trapped her between the states of a soul master and a soul beast.
• Chen Ming gathered and purified the fire Dragon Power in Xiao Wu's dantian with Extreme Fire Soul Power, then used his Spiritual Eye to mark her body and correct the source of her Martial Soul.