Chapter Summaries

Luo Can traveled to Skywater City to meet with the Shui Clan, whose traditions and reputation for beauty worried Qian Renxue. After entering Skywater Academy unnoticed, he revealed himself to its dean and asked her to take him to the Shui Clan.

• Qian Renxue warned Luo Can that the Shui Clan might try to seduce him, and he promised to return within three days.
• Luo Can brought the six girls to the Inner Pavilion Courtyard, then flew north toward Skywater City.
• Luo Can arrived in Skywater City, rejected an inn receptionist's advances, and used mental power to make her forget them.
• Luo Can entered Skywater Academy by altering the perceptions of its students and staff, then found the dean in her office.
• Luo Can introduced himself as the master of Fate Defying Pavilion and asked the dean to take him to the Shui Clan.

Luo Can visited Skywater Academy and asked Shui Xinrou to take him to the Shui Clan, whose unusual custom of recruiting accomplished male Spirit Masters intrigued him. After the clan members gathered to admire him, an elder questioned Shui Xinrou about his identity.

• Shui Xinrou recognized Luo Can as the Fate Defying Pavilion's Pavilion Master and reluctantly agreed to lead him to the Shui Clan.
• Female students at Skywater Academy admired Luo Can as Shui Xinrou escorted him through the academy and out of the city.
• Shui Xinrou explained that the Shui Clan invited exceptional male Spirit Masters to father children who would be raised by the clan, and Luo Can asked about the resulting half-sisters.
• Shui Clan members crowded around Luo Can, but several elders dispersed them when they arrived.
• The leading white-haired elder asked Shui Xinrou who Luo Can was.

Luo Can visited the Shui Clan and demanded that it join the Fate Defying Pavilion, then used his overwhelming power and Spirit Ring configuration to demonstrate the danger of refusing. He offered the clan a path to greater strength, including the possibility of Martial Soul Evolution, leaving its leaders stunned.

• Shui Xinrou introduced Luo Can as an honored guest, and the elders summoned Clan Head Shui Xinhen.
• Luo Can told the Shui Clan leaders he wanted the clan to join the Fate Defying Pavilion, and they reacted with suspicion and hostility.
• Luo Can immobilized everyone in the council hall and revealed five black and four red Spirit Rings, terrifying the Shui Clan.
• Luo Can promised the Shui Clan two Title Douluo powerhouses within ten years in exchange for refining pills and completing missions.
• Luo Can offered access to rare resources, including qualifications for Martial Soul Evolution, and Shui Xinhen, Shui Xinrou, and the elders were stunned.

Luo Can proved the Mystic Water Pill could cleanse impurities and improve Soul Power, persuading the Shui Clan to join the Fate Defying Pavilion. Shui Xinhen then asked him to accept Shui Bing'er as his disciple.

• Shui Xinhen asked Luo Can for proof that he could help evolve the Shui Clan's Martial Souls, and he offered a Mystic Water Pill for testing.
• Shui Xinhen gave the pill to a Shui Clan woman whose Soul Power was level nineteen, and she writhed in pain as the pill expelled impurities from her body.
• The woman broke through to level twenty and found that her cultivation speed had nearly doubled, indicating her Innate Soul Power had improved.
• Shui Xinhen, Shui Xinrou, and the elders declared the Shui Clan's allegiance to the Fate Defying Pavilion and bowed to Luo Can.
• Shui Xinhen asked Luo Can to accept Shui Bing'er as his master.

Luo Can tested Shui Bing'er with the Illusion Tower and accepted her as his disciple after she completed all one thousand steps. He prepared to leave for Fate Defying Pavilion with Shui Bing'er, while arranging for Shui Xinhen and Shui Xinrou to bring the Shui Clan and Skywater Academy’s outstanding graduates into the pavilion.

• Luo Can agreed to consider Shui Bing'er as a disciple if she passed his Illusion Tower test.
• Shui Xinhen brought Shui Bing'er and her younger sister, Shui Yue'er, to the discussion hall.
• Shui Bing'er entered the Illusion Tower and endured the increasingly difficult waterway until she completed one thousand steps.
• Luo Can pulled Shui Bing'er from the tower, revived her with Fate-Defying Lake Water, and accepted her as his disciple.
• Luo Can said he would take Shui Bing'er to Fate Defying Pavilion and gave Shui Xinhen half a year to bring at least one-third of the Shui Clan there.
• Luo Can told Shui Xinrou to continue overseeing Skywater Academy and promised monthly resources in exchange for its outstanding graduates joining Fate Defying Pavilion.

Luo Can brought Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to the Fate Defying Pavilion after arranging for the Shui Clan to join. He instructed Ye Qingyu to prepare a new branch hall and residential area for the clan’s relocation, expected to begin within half a year.

• Luo Can persuaded Shui Xinrou to recommend Skywater Academy’s best graduates to the Fate Defying Pavilion, then agreed to bring Shui Yue'er along with Shui Bing'er.
• Shui Xinhen and the clan elders began planning their relocation, but realized Luo Can had not told them where the Fate Defying Pavilion was; Shui Xinrou suggested they locate it through Luo's Herb Shop.
• Luo Can flew with Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to Baican Village, where he explained that the Shui Clan would become the pavilion’s largest branch hall.
• Luo Can introduced the sisters to Ye Qingyu and told her to have Niu Gao prepare a branch hall and housing for at least eight hundred people.

Luo Can brought Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to the Inner Pavilion Courtyard, where Shui Bing'er joined as his personal disciple and Ning Rongrong felt discouraged by the gap between their test results. Luo Can later went to Qichen Academy, where Qian Renxue teased him about returning early from the Shui Clan.

• Luo Can brought Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er to the Inner Pavilion Courtyard and gave Shui Yue'er the status of an Inner Pavilion Disciple.
• Xiao Xiao celebrated reaching level twenty-seven, while Ning Rongrong and Wang Dong'er admitted they had not yet broken through.
• Ning Rongrong learned that Shui Bing'er had passed Luo Can's test by walking one thousand steps and withdrew into herself after comparing that with her own limit of six hundred.
• Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er welcomed Shui Bing'er, while Shui Yue'er cheered Ning Rongrong up by calling her Senior Sister and letting her show off her pagoda.
• Luo Can sent Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er to show Shui Bing'er around, then traveled to Qichen Academy to find Qian Renxue.
• Qian Renxue greeted Luo Can at the academy's Martial Soul awakening ceremony and teased him about returning early from the Shui Clan.

Luo Can reunited with Qian Renxue, told her about recruiting the Shui Clan and taking Shui Bing'er as a disciple, then watched the nineteenth batch of orphans awaken their Martial Souls. The ceremony revealed that Fate Defying Valley had greatly improved the children’s Martial Souls and Innate Soul Power, while Du Bisi claimed a child with a Body Martial Soul for the Body Sect.

• Qian Renxue kissed Luo Can and asked about his trip to the Shui Clan, and he explained that the clan had joined the Fate Defying Pavilion after seeing the Mystic Water Pill’s effects.
• Luo Can told Qian Renxue that he had accepted Shui Bing'er as a disciple after she walked one thousand steps in the Illusion Tower, while Shui Yue'er would train in the Inner Pavilion Courtyard first.
• Qian Renxue reported that the nineteenth batch of children had awakened strong Martial Souls and Innate Soul Power, including three children whose Blue Silver Grass had become Blue Silver King.
• A child named Li Dalong awakened a right-arm Body Martial Soul with rank-six Innate Soul Power, and Du Bisi immediately recruited him into the Body Sect.
• Luo Can observed that the children’s Martial Souls and Innate Soul Power were improving the longer they stayed in Fate Defying Valley.

Luo Can fished up several rare treasures while cultivating with spirit beasts on Lake Heart Island, including a dragon marrow and a hundred-thousand-year torso soul bone. His sixtieth cast brought up a Netherworld Spider Emperor soul spirit, which he identified to Qian Renxue as Bibi Dong’s.

• Luo Can left the spirit awakenings and went to Lake Heart Island, where the Three-Eyed Golden Lion and Golden-Haired Lion Mastiff asked him to create an energy tide for cultivation.
• Luo Can activated the energy tide, drawing dozens of spirit beasts to cultivate around him as he fished.
• Luo Can caught a Sheng Huan Pill on his eighth cast and swallowed it, increasing the age of his sixth spirit ring by ten thousand years.
• Luo Can caught dragon marrow on his seventeenth cast and put it away to ask Di Tian about its effects before letting the Three-Eyed Golden Lion or Scarlet King use it.
• Luo Can caught coldheart iron mother and a hundred-thousand-year Torso Soul Bone, then continued fishing after Qian Renxue joined him.
• On his sixtieth cast, Luo Can caught a hundred-thousand-year Netherworld Spider Emperor soul spirit and told Qian Renxue it was Bibi Dong’s.

Luo Can caught the near-death Limit Douluo Long Yeyue, whose twin Bright Holy Dragon and Dark Holy Dragon martial souls made her exceptionally powerful. After he told Qian Renxue about Long Yeyue’s disastrous past decisions, they agreed she was too dangerous to keep, and Luo Can ordered the system to dismantle her for Points.

• Qian Renxue recognized that Luo Can’s Netherworld Spider Emperor Soul Spirit suited Bibi Dong, and Luo Can warned that Bibi Dong would need strong mental power to contract it safely.
• Luo Can told Qian Renxue to advise Bibi Dong to cultivate the Purple Demon Eye and strengthen her mental power before attempting the contract.
• With seconds left in his Fishing session, Luo Can hauled up the orange-quality catch: the near-death Long Yeyue, a Limit Douluo with twin Bright Holy Dragon and Dark Holy Dragon martial souls.
• Luo Can recounted Long Yeyue’s reckless actions at Shrek, her retreat during the Holy Spirit Cult’s attack, and her suicide during the Abyssal war, leaving Qian Renxue alarmed.
• Luo Can decided Long Yeyue was too dangerous to keep and ordered the system to dismantle her for Points.

Luo Can dismantled Long Yeyue, then returned to Fate Defying Valley with Qian Renxue, who later urged Bibi Dong to prepare her mental power for a hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit. The next day, Luo Can left the valley for the Soul Tool Hall to check on Ju Zi and the metal purification work.

• Luo Can dismantled Long Yeyue and gained 450,000 Points along with the Bright Holy Dragon and Dark Holy Dragon Martial Soul Essences.
• Qian Renxue reported the strong results of the children's Martial Soul awakenings, then joked about locking Luo Can in a secret chamber to get pregnant before telling him that over three hundred orphans would arrive in half a month.
• Qian Renxue told Bibi Dong to stop cultivating Soul Power and focus on mental power so she could safely contract a hundred-thousand-year Soul Spirit.
• Luo Can finished fishing, left Fate Defying Valley, and went to the Soul Tool Hall to see Ju Zi and check the metal purification work.
• Luo Can found Lou Gao forging metal while Ju Zi examined the materials and Xuan Ziwen recorded the changes; they were starting with tungsten steel, refined steel, and ordinary iron.

Luo Can explained that spiritual metal required a forger’s Soul Power, mental power, and life force, then guided Lou Gao and Xuan Ziwen in forging tungsten steel with Fate Reversal Water. Their experiment produced exceptionally dense, pure metal with a radiant glow, but it still lacked true spirituality, so Luo Can supplied more water and urged them to continue.

• Ju Zi showed Luo Can the refined metals forged by Lou Gao and explained that their progress had stalled because the metals lacked spirituality.
• Luo Can explained spiritual awakening and gave Lou Gao Fate Reversal Water to use during forging.
• Lou Gao infused tungsten steel with Soul Power and mental power as Xuan Ziwen added Fate Reversal Water, while Ju Zi recorded the changes.
• After two hundred strikes, the tungsten steel emitted a stable white light and became far denser and purer than their previous work.
• Xuan Ziwen and Lou Gao tested the metal and found that it still lacked autonomous spiritual fluctuations.
• Luo Can gave Lou Gao twenty more bottles of Fate Reversal Water and told him and Xuan Ziwen to keep forging until they produced spiritual tungsten steel.

Luo Can advised Yang Wudi on strengthening his weaknesses and asked him to train Shui Yue'er to refine Mystic Water Pills, promising a mental-power-enhancing recipe in return. Yang Wudi rushed off to find Shui Yue'er, while Cheng Gang decided to test Yang Gang as a potential disciple when he returned.

• Lou Gao, Xuan Ziwen, and Ju Zi used Fate Reversal Water to continue forging spiritual metal, while Luo Can left them to their work.
• Cheng Gang defeated Yang Wudi in combat training and advised him to improve his defense and consider using a Soul Tool.
• Luo Can agreed that Yang Wudi should strengthen his physique and told him to ask Ju Zi or Xuan Ziwen about forging a speed-type Soul Tool.
• Luo Can asked Yang Wudi to train water-element members of the Shui Clan to refine Mystic Water Pills and promised him a recipe to increase mental power.
• Yang Wudi hurried to find Shui Yue'er, while Cheng Gang asked Luo Can for a disciple recommendation.
• Luo Can recommended Yang Gang, and Cheng Gang decided to test him when he returned from the Icebound Forest.

Yang Wudi accepted Shui Yue'er as his disciple and took her to the Medicine Hall to study pill refining. At the training ground, Xiao Xiao showed Shui Bing'er the power of Thunderclap Bombardment Fist and convinced her to choose it as her Self-Created Soul Skill, just before their Master arrived.

• Yang Wudi found Shui Yue'er in the Inner Pavilion Courtyard and accepted her as his disciple in pill refining.
• Ning Rongrong encouraged Shui Yue'er to accept the opportunity, and Yang Wudi led her back to the Medicine Hall.
• Luo Can found Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Shui Bing'er practicing at the Grand Competition venue's Spirit Beast training ground.
• Xiao Xiao defeated a pack of thousand-year Gale Demon Wolf phantoms and explained how her Thunderclap Bombardment Fist could pierce a Spirit Beast's head.
• Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao explained that Thunderclap Bombardment Fist did not require a lightning-type martial soul, and Shui Bing'er agreed to choose it.
• Their Master appeared, and Xiao Xiao, Wang Dong'er, and Shui Bing'er greeted him respectfully.

Luo Can brought Shui Bing'er into Fate Defying Valley and introduced her to his disciples and the powerful Spirit Beasts on Lake Heart Island. He then led her to an icy cave, where he said something inside could evolve her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul.

• Luo Can examined Shui Bing'er's Ice Phoenix Martial Soul and decided to raise its ice attribute to Ultimate Ice.
• Luo Can returned with Shui Bing'er to Fate Defying Valley, where his disciples welcomed her and agreed to teach her cultivation techniques.
• Luo Can took Shui Bing'er across Fate-Defying Lake to Lake Heart Island and introduced her to its powerful Spirit Beasts.
• Luo Can led Shui Bing'er to an ice-covered cave and told her that something inside could evolve her Martial Soul.

Luo Can brought Shui Bing'er to cultivate in the cold of a cave containing Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow, where she began strengthening her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul. After returning her to the Disciple Courtyard, he spent the night with Qian Renxue and later met Ju Zi at Lake Heart Island to ask about her forging.

• Luo Can explained that the Ice Jade Scorpion possessed Ultimate Ice and said Shui Bing'er could eventually reach that level by adapting to the cold from Ten-Thousand-Year Mysterious Ice Marrow.
• Luo Can asked the Ice Jade Scorpion to watch over Shui Bing'er as she cultivated in the cave, and Shui Bing'er endured the cold until she could no longer continue.
• Shui Bing'er reported that the cold had accelerated her cultivation and made her Ice Phoenix Martial Soul easier to control, and Luo Can set her a goal of reaching the cave's depths within half a year.
• Luo Can returned Shui Bing'er to the Disciple Courtyard, where Tang Ya teased him before helping Shui Bing'er inside.
• Qian Renxue pulled Luo Can into a secret chamber to research procreation, and afterward Luo Can went fishing at Lake Heart Island.
• Ju Zi joined Luo Can at the lake after leaving the forging room, and he asked whether she had managed to forge spiritual Tungsten Steel.

Luo Can fished Mu Chen, a Saint Craftsman from twenty thousand years in the future, out of the water and showed him an eighty-thousand-year Spirit Bone. Mu Chen learned he could not return to his wife, daughter, and disciples because he had been brought to the era before Tang San became a god.

• Ju Zi showed Luo Can two spiritually radiant pieces of Tungsten Steel, then fell asleep against his shoulder after returning for more Fate Reversal Water.
• Luo Can fished up Mu Chen, a Level Eight Saint Craftsman and forging teacher from the era of Douluo Dalu III.
• Mu Chen woke among powerful Spirit Beasts and questioned Luo Can about where he was and how he had arrived.
• Luo Can fished up an eighty-thousand-year Spirit Bone, convincing Mu Chen that his fishing claim might be true.
• Mu Chen asked Luo Can to send him back to his family and disciples, but Luo Can revealed that Mu Chen was twenty thousand years in the past.

Luo Can recruited Mu Chen, a Battle Armor Master from another era, to guide Ju Zi and the others in forging Spirit-Forged Metal. Mu Chen agreed after Luo Can promised to repair his foundation, reunite him with his family, and provide resources, and the chapter ended with Ju Zi introducing him to Lou Gao and Xuan Ziwen.

• Luo Can explained that his Fishing ability had randomly brought Mu Chen from another era and asked him to guide their Battle Armor research.
• Mu Chen agreed to stay after Luo Can promised to repair his foundation, reunite him with his wife and daughter, and provide resources.
• Mu Chen asked Luo Can to fish out his disciple Tang Wulin, and Luo Can readily agreed.
• Ju Zi woke after the Fishing ended and showed Mu Chen the team's Tungsten Steel, which he recognized as Thousand-Forged metal.
• Mu Chen said he could help the team forge Spirit-Forged Metal, and Ju Zi brought several hundred bottles of Fate Reversal Water to Lou Gao and Xuan Ziwen before introducing Mu Chen.

Mu Chen joined the Soul Tool Hall as chief consultant and began assessing its forging techniques, while Xiao Xiao completed Origin Flame body forging and prepared for a powerful Third Spirit Ring. Luo Can then visited the Medicine Hall and found Yang Wudi struggling to teach Shui Yue'er.

• Ju Zi appointed Mu Chen chief consultant of the Soul Tool Hall, and Mu Chen asked Lou Gao, Ju Zi, and Xuan Ziwen to demonstrate their Thousand Forging techniques.
• Luo Can guided Xiao Xiao through Origin Flame body forging, repeatedly tempering and restoring her body with flame and vitality.
• Xiao Xiao completed the forging with her Soul Power Level at twenty-eight and a physique strong enough for a Ten Thousand Year Spirit Ring, though Luo Can warned her that her mental power was not ready for one.
• Luo Can told Xiao Xiao she could safely absorb a nine-thousand-nine-hundred-and-ninety-nine-year Spirit Ring, and she excitedly chose that for her Third Spirit Ring.
• Luo Can visited the Medicine Hall and overheard Yang Wudi correcting Shui Yue'er as she mixed incompatible and poisonous medicinal herbs.
• Yang Wudi gave up on teaching Shui Yue'er other medicines for the moment and told her to focus on water-element medicinal herbs.

Luo Can set Shui Yue'er on a safer path to learning medicine while considering her talent for poison-making, then received the captured White-Eyed Demon Tiger King from Dugu Bo's butler. He sent Dugu Bo and Ji Juechen sealed rewards and turned to hear about the Fate Defying Pavilion's third batch of orphans.

• Yang Wudi complained to Luo Can that Shui Yue'er carelessly mixed medicinal herbs, so Luo Can ordered her to learn water-element medicines before touching other herbs.
• Luo Can considered having Tang Ya teach Shui Yue'er poison-making if she showed talent for it.
• Ye Qingyu introduced Dugu Bo's butler, who delivered the Containment Disk holding the captured White-Eyed Demon Tiger King.
• The butler reported that Dugu Bo was working with Xue Qinghe and that more than eight hundred people had registered for the advanced academy in Heaven Dou City.
• Luo Can gave the butler sealed iron boxes containing a Ten Thousand Year Soul Bone each for Dugu Bo and Ji Juechen, plus diluted Qiankun Creation Pill elixir.
• Ye Qingyu asked about the third batch of orphans after Luo Can explained that the sealed rewards could not be opened safely by anyone else.