Chapter Summaries

Su Mo’s friends met Ye Xinglan, whose Shrek status and openly affectionate behavior toward him intensified their rivalry. Ye Xinglan insisted on following the elaborate date itinerary she had prepared, leaving Su Mo surrounded by jealous glares and Gu Yue startled by how far in advance she had planned.

• Ye Xinglan introduced herself as a Shrek Inner Court disciple, intimidating Xu Xiaoyan and Mu Xi and prompting Xu Xiaoyan to consider calling Wu Sidu for backup.
• Ye Xinglan and Gu Yue sized each other up as rivals while Su Mo tried to defuse the tension.
• Ye Xinglan sent Su Mo her carefully prepared Skysea City itinerary, which was filled with romantic date spots and couple activities.
• Su Mo suggested finding somewhere nearby to eat, but Ye Xinglan refused and revealed she had reserved Sea Breeze Kiss Revolving Restaurant a month earlier.
• Gu Yue raised an eyebrow at the reservation date, realizing it coincided with Wu Zhangkong informing them about the Tianhai Grand Competition.

After Ye Xinglan joined Su Mo, Xu Xiaoyan and Mu Xi competed for his attention, while Yu Longxin grew furious after failing to bring Ye Xinglan back. Shen Yi encouraged Yu Longxin to challenge Su Mo, secretly hoping the incident would provoke her protective senior brother into punishing him.

• Ye Xinglan tried to link arms with Su Mo, but Xu Xiaoyan and Mu Xi took his arms first, prompting Ye Xinglan to mark them as rivals.
• Yu Longxin returned to the Shrek lounge and damaged a wall in anger over Ye Xinglan drawing her sword against him for Su Mo.
• Ning Yu explained the conflict to Shen Yi, who told Yu Longxin that Su Mo would eventually become his Shrek junior.
• Yu Longxin decided to register for the individual competition so he could confront Su Mo, and Shen Yi warned him not to go too far.
• Shen Yi told Ning Yu she intended to use Yu Longxin to provoke her protective senior brother into teaching him a lesson if he hurt Su Mo.

Su Mo, Ye Xinglan, Xu Xiaoyan, Mu Xi, and Gu Yue went to find dinner, but Xu Xiaoyan and Mu Xi prevented Ye Xinglan from getting Su Mo alone at a couples’ restaurant. At the barbecue stall, Ye Xinglan claimed the seat beside Su Mo and tied an apron around him, provoking the girls watching across the table.

• Xu Xiaoyan stopped the group at Sea Breeze Kiss and pointed out that it was a couples’ restaurant, while Ye Xinglan said she had reserved seats just for herself and Su Mo.
• Xu Xiaoyan rejected Ye Xinglan’s suggestion that she and Mu Xi eat elsewhere, and Mu Xi offered to reimburse Ye Xinglan for the reservation.
• Ye Xinglan clarified that the reservation had cost five hundred thousand Federation Coins, and Su Mo suggested the group eat at a nearby barbecue stall instead.
• Ye Xinglan quickly took the seat beside Su Mo at the barbecue stall and proudly looked toward Xu Xiaoyan and Mu Xi.
• Ye Xinglan tied an apron around Su Mo, while Xu Xiaoyan and Mu Xi watched in stunned disbelief and Gu Yue had already shown her displeasure by stomping on Su Mo’s foot.

After dinner, Su Mo and the others walked along the beach before Ning Yu revealed that Yu Longxin had entered the individual competition to ambush Su Mo. She showed them a level-five Invincible Barrier, a device thought to be lost for thousands of years.

• Ye Xinglan, Xu Xiaoyan, and Mu Xi fussed over Su Mo during dinner, then the group walked along Skysea City's coastline.
• Ning Yu greeted Ye Xinglan at the Ragnar Hotel and introduced herself to Su Mo as the young sect master of the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.
• Ning Yu told Su Mo and the others that Yu Longxin had entered the individual competition to ambush him, and Ye Xinglan worried that Su Mo would be in danger.
• Ning Yu said Shen Yi could not control Yu Longxin, then took out a silver capsule and identified it as a level-five Invincible Barrier.
• Gu Yue questioned how Ning Yu could possess an Invincible Barrier when its manufacturing technique had supposedly been lost thousands of years earlier.

Ning Yu offered Su Mo a level-five Invincible Barrier to protect him, explaining that the rare Soul Tool came from the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect’s ancient stockpile. Su Mo declined, and Ning Yu left the barrier with Ye Xinglan, who hoped he would take it.

• Ning Yu explained that the Invincible Barrier’s production technique had been lost after Golden Crystal mines were exhausted, but the Nine Treasures Glazed Tile Sect had stockpiled many of them.
• Ning Yu offered Su Mo an Invincible Barrier, but he declined and asked why she was helping him.
• Ning Yu said she disliked Yu Longxin and wanted Su Mo to owe her a favor, then revealed that she knew Mu Xi was Saint Craftsman Mu Chen’s daughter.
• Ning Yu left the Invincible Barrier with Ye Xinglan and departed, while Su Mo recognized her shrewd effort to win their favor.
• Ye Xinglan urged Su Mo to take the barrier, but he said he did not need it and playfully rubbed her cheek.

Su Mo reassured Ye Xinglan that he would face Yu Longxin, while Xu Xiaoyan described his strength and Mu Xi blushed at his teasing. When Su Mo returned to his room, he found evidence that an uninvited visitor had been there, and a mysterious voice answered him.

• Su Mo praised and teased Ye Xinglan and Xu Xiaoyan, then told Ye Xinglan he would not withdraw from his match against Yu Longxin.
• Xu Xiaoyan revealed that Su Mo was a level thirty-two Soul Elder and had defeated a hundred-year Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear without taking damage or using a soul skill.
• Ye Xinglan grew excited at the thought of discussing swordsmanship with Su Mo, and the group left to prepare for the next day's competitions.
• After the others left, Su Mo called Mu Xi cute and pinched her cheek, making her blush and flee.
• Su Mo found a strand of hair on the floor in his room and realized someone had entered, and a mysterious voice asked whether she had been discovered.

Na Nali confronted Su Mo to question him about the attempt on Tang Wulin, then planted a Soul Seed in his spiritual world to force his obedience. She began interrogating him about the assassination and Leng Yulai’s reasons for killing Shadow Demon.

• Su Mo recognized Na Nali but pretended not to know her and refused to help her.
• Na Nali used her pressure on Su Mo, became intrigued by his resistance, and planted a Soul Seed in his spiritual world.
• Na Nali explained that the Soul Seed threatened Su Mo’s life unless he obeyed her and suffered it sprouting to demonstrate its power.
• Na Nali asked Su Mo what had happened during the assassination attempt on Tang Wulin.
• Na Nali continued investigating Leng Yulai’s motives, noting that killing another Holy Spirit Cult member could bring Leng Yulai punishment.

After Na Nali demanded that Su Mo investigate Tang Wulin's attack, Su Mo summoned reinforcements and went to the Tianhai Grand Competition's forging venue. There, Mu Xi spotted him and rushed over, leaving Mu Chen displeased as he watched them reunite.

• Na Nali ordered Su Mo to learn the details of Tang Wulin's attack by the next day, then disappeared.
• Su Mo called a mysterious contact and ordered them to reach Ragnar Hotel before the following night.
• Su Mo registered for the forging competition and waited at a secluded platform, hoping to attract Mu Chen's attention.
• Mu Xi arrived at the venue with Tang Wulin and endured a young blacksmith's persistent chatter.
• Mu Xi recognized Su Mo, ran over to him, and asked why he was there while Mu Chen watched with a dark expression.

At a forging competition, Su Mo revealed far greater skill than he had claimed, impressing Mu Xi and Mu Chen. Yuan Baoer arrived and declared that she would take Su Mo as her disciple, leaving Mu Chen surprised.

• Zheng Tianlin showed hostility toward Su Mo, and Mu Xi angrily sent him away.
• Mu Xi offered to support Su Mo after he said he was running out of money, then encouraged him to keep up with her in the competition.
• Su Mo recognized the Blue Pregnancy Copper and used the organizers' hammer to purify it with precise, rhythmic strikes.
• Mu Chen watched Su Mo forge and recognized his genuine skill.
• Yuan Baoer appeared, told Mu Chen she would take Su Mo as her disciple, and reasoned that Su Mo likely had no teacher because he lacked his own forging hammer.

Yuan Baoer decided to take Su Mo as her disciple, partly to support Mu Xi’s relationship with him, while Su Mo left Mu Xi to forge and headed to his individual match. At the Appraisal Room, judges discovered that Tang Wulin’s Blue Pregnancy Copper had reached an astonishing ninety-nine percent purity, leaving everyone stunned.

• Yuan Baoer told Mu Chen she intended to take Su Mo as her disciple because of his forging talent and to help Mu Xi stay close to him.
• Su Mo reminded Mu Xi to begin forging, then left the venue for his individual match after confirming she could handle Hundred Refinement.
• Mu Chen entered the Appraisal Room and learned that Tang Wulin had completed Superior Hundredfold Forging on Blue Pregnancy Copper in one minute and six seconds.
• A testing staff member brought in another Blue Pregnancy Copper sample, and the judges identified it as a possible Supreme Hundredfold Forging result.
• A silver-haired judge examined the sample and announced that its purity had reached ninety-nine percent, with almost no resistance to Soul Power flow.

Duan Xuan’s association discovered that Su Mo had forged Blue Pregnancy Copper with ninety-nine percent purity, earning him a place on the Glory Monument, but learned he was not a member and would need to consent before the association could claim the metal. Meanwhile, Su Mo arrived at the Soul Battle arena just before his preliminary match against Liu Zhao.

• Duan Xuan ordered the Blacksmith Association staff to identify the blacksmith who had forged the ninety-nine-percent-purity Blue Pregnancy Copper and send the metal to headquarters.
• Xiao Liu discovered that the blacksmith was Su Mo, an unregistered nonmember, and Mu Chen recognized his name.
• Duan Xuan asked Mu Chen where Su Mo lived, but Mu Chen refused and explained that Yuan Baoer planned to take Su Mo as her disciple.
• Su Mo entered the crowded Soul Battle arena, where Long Hengxu hurriedly briefed him about Liu Zhao and his Fierce Tooth Tiger Martial Soul.
• Su Mo stopped Long Hengxu’s briefing and headed to his match arena as his preliminary match approached.

Su Mo defeated Liu Zhao with an illusion technique, drawing Yu Longxin’s attention before their match the next day. Yuan Baoer then asked Su Mo to become her forging disciple, and he agreed after learning she would not make him forge or study.

• Su Mo used his Sharingan to make Liu Zhao walk off the arena, winning their match.
• Yu Longxin confronted Su Mo, assessed him as a spiritual-type Soul Master, and challenged him for the next day.
• Su Mo ignored Yu Longxin and left, while news of the challenge spread through the competition venue.
• Yuan Baoer stopped Su Mo and asked him to become her disciple and learn forging.
• Su Mo explained that forging seemed repetitive, and Yuan Baoer promised not to force him to forge or study.
• Yuan Baoer appealed to Su Mo until he agreed to become her disciple.

Yuan Baoer celebrated taking Su Mo as her disciple and revealed the news to Mu Xi, who was astonished. Mu Xi then told them Su Mo had forged Blue Pregnancy Copper at a record ninety-nine percent purity, and Su Mo innocently asked whether that was difficult.

• Yuan Baoer brought Su Mo to the Ragnar Hotel to celebrate taking him as her disciple and give him a welcome gift.
• Mu Xi greeted Su Mo enthusiastically, then blushed and let go of his arm when she noticed Yuan Baoer watching.
• Yuan Baoer announced that Su Mo was now Mu Xi's junior brother and explained that she had taken him as a disciple because she saw his talent.
• Yuan Baoer told Mu Xi she hoped Su Mo might become a Divine Craftsman under her guidance, then asked how they had done in the forging competition.
• Mu Xi told Yuan Baoer that Su Mo had forged Blue Pregnancy Copper with an unprecedented purity of ninety-nine percent and earned a place on the Glory Monument.
• Su Mo asked whether reaching ninety-nine percent purity was difficult, leaving Yuan Baoer and Mu Xi stunned.

Su Mo explained how he used earth element to enlarge impurities and refine Blue Pregnancy Copper to ninety-nine percent purity, impressing Yuan Baoer and Mu Chen with a safer, simpler alternative to Soul Power Resonance Forging. Yuan Baoer claimed Su Mo as her disciple, while Mu Xi remained insecure about her place beside him.

• Yuan Baoer took Su Mo and Mu Xi to a private room so Su Mo could explain his refining method away from onlookers.
• Su Mo explained that injecting earth element enlarged tiny impurities so hammering could remove them.
• Yuan Baoer praised Su Mo's method as safer and easier to learn than Soul Power Resonance Forging, then embraced him excitedly.
• Mu Chen entered, heard the explanation, and looked at Su Mo with keen interest.
• Yuan Baoer declared Su Mo her disciple and stopped Mu Chen from objecting, prompting him to question whether her decision had been hasty.

Yuan Baoer made Su Mo her disciple and warned him to hide his extraordinary forging talent, while Mu Chen gave him a valuable piece of Hengyuan Fire Phase. Later, Na Nali tried to punish Su Mo for ignoring her orders, but he overpowered and pinned her to the floor.

• Yuan Baoer told Su Mo to conceal his forging talent until he reached Titled Douluo, then sent him and Mu Chen out so she could speak with Mu Xi.
• Mu Chen stopped Su Mo, addressed him as an elder, and gave him a piece of Hengyuan Fire Phase as a meeting gift.
• After Su Mo spent the afternoon carrying shopping bags for Yuan Baoer and the others, he returned home exhausted.
• Na Nali confronted Su Mo for failing to investigate Tang Wulin and tried to activate the Soul Seed in his spiritual world.
• Su Mo resisted Na Nali's Soul Seed, sealed her Soul Power, and pinned her to the floor before asking how she wanted to die.

Su Mo interrogated Na Nali after overpowering her and used a mind-reading technique to learn why she had come to Eastsea City. Na Nali escaped, only to discover that the landscape below her had become a vast primeval forest.

• Su Mo had Ning Bei suspend Na Nali, slapped her, and threatened her until she stopped resisting.
• Su Mo read Na Nali's memories and learned that she had come to investigate Leng Yulai's prolonged stay in Eastsea City, then witnessed Leng Yulai destroy evidence after Shadow Demon's failed assassination of Tang Wulin.
• Su Mo told Ning Bei to release Na Nali, and Na Nali apologized before fleeing as a crimson bolt of lightning.
• Na Nali tried to hide in nearby mountains, then realized there should be no mountains near Skysea City and saw a boundless primeval forest below her.

Su Mo trapped Na Nali in his small world and forced her to become his subordinate, while Ning Bei branded her soul with a curse that could punish betrayal. Su Mo also placed a tongue seal on her to prevent her from revealing information about him and Ning Bei.

• Na Nali realized Su Mo had trapped her in a small world with no other living beings and hurried back before she could be stranded there.
• Su Mo asked Ning Bei whether he had found traces of the Ice God in the Far North, and Ning Bei said he had found nothing beyond an Ice Jade Scorpion shell.
• Na Nali asked Su Mo what he wanted and immediately chose to become his subordinate rather than die.
• Ning Bei branded Na Nali's soul with Blood Demon Curse Kill and demonstrated its agony when Su Mo suspected she might betray him.
• Su Mo placed an improved Cursed Tongue Eradication Seal on Na Nali so she could not reveal information about him or Ning Bei.

Su Mo agreed to revive Na Nali’s parents and used their bodies to prepare for the resurrection, leaving her eager to see them the next day. After Na Nali was sent away, Su Mo and Ning Bei examined a shell from the Far North and identified it as belonging to an Ice Jade Empress Scorpion.

• Su Mo offered Na Nali a wish after binding her to prevent her from revealing secrets, and she asked him to revive her parents.
• Su Mo agreed and asked Na Nali to bring out her parents’ bodies, which she had preserved in crystal coffins.
• With Na Nali’s permission, Ning Bei collected blood from the bodies, and Su Mo told her to return the next day to see her parents revived.
• Ning Bei transported Na Nali to an uninhabited stretch of Eastsea City’s coastline, where she excitedly anticipated seeing her parents again.
• Ning Bei showed Su Mo a frozen shell recovered from the Far North, and Su Mo recognized it as the shell of an Ice Jade Empress Scorpion.

Su Mo discovered the Ice Empress's remains and preserved blood drops that might belong to her and the Snow Empress, then focused on preparing for Yu Longxin. The next day, he traveled with Eastsea Academy to the stadium, where Long Hengxu worried about his match against Shrek's stronger disciple.

• Su Mo identified the remains as likely belonging to the Ice Empress after finding the inscription “Ice Ice will always love... Xue'er?” on the shell.
• Ning Bei pointed out blood drops preserved in both eye sockets, and Su Mo considered using them to summon the Ice Empress and Snow Empress before deciding to focus on Tang San's family.
• Su Mo returned to the Ragnar Hotel, read Ye Xinglan's detailed information about Yu Longxin's abilities, thanked her, and told her to delete the messages and files.
• Ye Xinglan happily reread Su Mo's reply and celebrated having helped him.
• The next morning, Su Mo rode to Eastsea Stadium with Gu Yue, Xu Xiaoyan, Mu Xi, Tang Wulin, and others, while Long Hengxu asked whether he could beat Yu Longxin.
• Su Mo confidently promised Long Hengxu that he would win, and Long Hengxu told him to do his best.

Su Mo arrived at Skysea Stadium for his match with Yu Longxin and learned that the Skysea Alliance had turned their arranged bout into a major public spectacle. He bargained for three treasures from the Tianhai Treasury, then entered a packed stadium where Yu Longxin had overwhelming crowd support.

• Reporters surrounded Su Mo outside Skysea Stadium, and Long Hengxu rushed him inside.
• Wu Yuan explained that the Skysea Alliance had publicized the match and postponed the other events to exploit the attention.
• Su Mo negotiated with Wu Yuan for three items from the Tianhai Treasury in exchange for competing.
• Wu Yuan led Su Mo toward the stadium entrance as the packed crowd cheered loudly for Yu Longxin.