Chapter Summaries

At Maple Forest Orphanage, Lin Jin faced his Martial Soul awakening after watching the other children receive disappointing results. His awakening erupted into flames that even the Spirit Transmission Master's snow could not extinguish, leaving the nature of Lin Jin's Martial Soul unknown.

• The Spirit Transmission Master began awakening the orphanage children's Martial Souls, and most received ordinary souls with no innate Soul Power.
• One child awakened Blue Silver Grass with first-level Innate Soul Power, then the Spirit Transmission Master called Lin Jin in for his turn.
• During Lin Jin's awakening, crimson flames suddenly engulfed his body and appeared to burn even his Spiritual Power.
• The Spirit Transmission Master tried to suppress the flames with his Snowflake Martial Soul, but the snowflakes ignited and the heat threatened to spread into his own Soul Power and Spiritual Power.

Lin Jin’s Lotus Flower Flame absorbed the heat threatening Wang Tao and appeared to temper his Spiritual Power, while Wang Tao chose not to report the full details to the Spirit Pagoda. After the Spirit Transmission Master invited Lin Jin to join the Spirit Pagoda, Lin Jin went to tell the Dean he was leaving the orphanage.

• Lin Jin’s flames peeled away into a Crimson Lotus and drew the scorching heat from Wang Tao, restoring his Martial Soul and Spiritual Power.
• Wang Tao realized Lin Jin’s flames could temper Spiritual Power and weighed the rewards of reporting him against the risk of Lin Jin becoming an experimental subject.
• Wang Tao decided to conceal key details, told Lin Jin his Innate Full Soul Power made him a genius, and invited him to join the Spirit Pagoda.
• The Dean and the orphanage children celebrated Lin Jin’s talent and discussed the advantages of joining the Spirit Pagoda.
• Lin Jin visited the Dean that night and told her he was leaving.

Meng Canglan, Long Huantian, and Zhang Zhenpeng arrived at Maple Forest Orphanage to recruit Lin Jin, whose Innate Full Soul Power and Fire Element Lotus made him a coveted prodigy. When Dean Lin sent Lin Xiaocao to fetch him, Lin Xiaocao returned with news that Lin Jin was gone, and Dean Lin collapsed.

• Meng Canglan arrived at Maple Forest Orphanage and tried to impress Dean Lin while planning to recruit Lin Jin for the Spirit Pagoda and introduce him to Leng Yaozhu.
• Long Huantian and Zhang Zhenpeng arrived and argued with Meng Canglan over whether Lin Jin should join their academy or the Spirit Pagoda.
• Dean Lin told the three men that she could not decide for Lin Jin and sent Lin Xiaocao to call him.
• Lin Xiaocao returned and announced that Lin Jin was gone, shocking the three men and causing Dean Lin to collapse.

Lin Jin went to the Eastsea City Blacksmith Association to seek Mu Chen as a teacher, believing blacksmithing suited his Lotus Flower Flame Martial Soul and would help him gain strength and resources. After revealing his six-year-old age and Level Ten Soul Power, he convinced receptionist Yun Xiaoling that he was a genius, and she hurried him toward Mu Chen.

• Lin Jin chose to leave Maple Forest Orphanage rather than become Leng Yaozhu's disciple and went to the Blacksmith Association to learn blacksmithing.
• Lin Jin reasoned that blacksmithing could provide money, teach him to forge Battle Armor materials, and make use of the Lotus Flower Flame's purifying power.
• Lin Jin told Yun Xiaoling he wanted to see Mu Chen, but she initially mistook him for a child seeking charity and doubted his ability to smith.
• Lin Jin revealed his Lotus Flower Flame and Level Ten Soul Power, then explained that he was six years old and wanted to learn blacksmithing.
• Yun Xiaoling realized Lin Jin had Innate Full Soul Power and carried him upstairs to find Mu Chen.

Lin Jin sought out Mu Chen to learn forging, explaining that he needed money to help Maple Forest Orphanage. After confirming Lin Jin’s innate full Soul Power and powerful fire-type Martial Soul, Mu Chen recognized his exceptional potential and prepared to assess him further.

• Yun Xiaoling interrupted Mu Chen’s forging and brought Lin Jin to ask for instruction, accidentally nearly choking him while holding him.
• Mu Chen learned Lin Jin had Level Ten Soul Power and likely innate full Soul Power, then dismissed Yun Xiaoling and asked the boy about himself.
• Lin Jin introduced himself as an orphan from Maple Forest Orphanage and said he wanted to earn money to support it.
• Mu Chen checked information about Lin Jin, asked to see his Martial Soul, and saw a Crimson Lotus whose heat exceeded his own Blazing Sun.

Lin Jin demonstrated that his Crimson Lotus could purify Deep Silver to a level that astonished Mu Chen, who recognized his potential as a natural-born Level 3 Blacksmith and took him as a disciple. The chapter left Lin Jin eating a lavish meal with Mu Chen, reassured that his master would support Maple Forest Orphanage.

• Mu Chen asked Lin Jin to demonstrate his Martial Soul by tempering a piece of Deep Silver.
• Lin Jin used his Crimson Lotus to remove nearly all the metal’s impurities and reduce its volume to one-quarter before his Soul Power ran out.
• Mu Chen judged Lin Jin to have the potential to reach Thousand Refinement and offered to take him as his disciple, promising forging instruction and resources.
• Lin Jin accepted Mu Chen as his master, and Mu Chen took him to a private restaurant for a meal costing more than a million Federal Coins.
• Lin Jin asked about Maple Forest Orphanage, and Mu Chen promised to support it while Lin Jin focused on restoring his health.

After a month of training under Mu Chen, Lin Jin went with him to the East Sea Spirit Pagoda to obtain his first Spirit Soul, where Meng Canglan explained the role of Spiritual Power. Meanwhile, Mu Xi saw online that Mu Chen had taken a disciple and rushed home, leaving her exams behind.

• Lin Jin grew taller and stronger after a month of Mu Chen's body-nourishing training.
• Mu Chen brought Lin Jin to the East Sea Spirit Pagoda, where Meng Canglan greeted them and Mu Chen warned others not to target his disciple.
• News of Mu Chen and Meng Canglan personally accompanying Lin Jin spread across the forum, and Mu Xi discovered that her father had taken a disciple.
• Mu Xi called Mu Chen, got no answer, and left the Eastsea Academy Intermediate Division to go home instead of taking her exam.
• Meng Canglan explained that choosing a Spirit Soul required considering Spiritual Power, while Lin Jin trusted his Crimson Lotus's training had strengthened his own.

Lin Jin’s Spiritual Power test revealed that he had reached the Spirit Connection Realm, while Mu Chen used his connection to Zhen Hua to make Meng Canglan keep the result confidential. The chapter ended with Mu Chen explaining the risks of choosing a Purple Thousand-Year Spirit Soul as Lin Jin considered the displayed fire-attribute options.

• Meng Canglan tested Lin Jin’s Spiritual Power, and the reading climbed to 66, confirming he had reached the Spirit Connection Realm.
• Mu Chen told Meng Canglan, “My senior brother is Zhen Hua,” and Meng Canglan agreed to keep the test confidential.
• Lin Jin saw his test result and joined Mu Chen and Meng Canglan in viewing the fire-attribute Spirit Souls.
• Mu Chen explained that Lin Jin could support a Purple Thousand-Year Spirit Soul but warned that its three Spirit Rings could overwhelm his body.

Lin Jin chose a contaminated Fire Elemental Sprite, which Meng Canglan revealed was a Spirit Soul fused with its former master's Martial Soul and effectively half an Unyielding Spirit Soul. Despite warnings that previous candidates had failed to fuse with it, Lin Jin believed Lotus Flower Flame could purify it and insisted on his choice.

• Lin Jin examined the Spirit Souls and narrowed his choices to five, including an unusually expensive hundred-year Fire Spirit.
• Meng Canglan explained that the Fire Spirit was a contaminated Fire Elemental Sprite fused with its former master's Martial Soul, making it a failing half-Unyielding Spirit Soul.
• Meng Canglan warned Lin Jin that past candidates had failed to fuse with the Fire Elemental Sprite and urged him not to choose it.
• Lin Jin decided Lotus Flower Flame could purify the contamination and declared that he wanted the Fire Elemental Sprite.
• Meng Canglan questioned Lin Jin's decision and looked to Mu Chen to persuade him, while Mu Chen studied Lin Jin's reaction.

Lin Jin purified the contaminated Fire Elemental Sprite with Crimson Lotus, gained its trust, and fused with it to become a level 13 one-ring Spirit Master. As he began sensing his new Soul Skill, a woman burst into Mu Chen’s blacksmithing room, accusing him of causing rumors that her father was dead.

• Mu Chen persuaded Meng Canglan to let him buy both the Millennium Crimson Flame Demon Lotus and the contaminated Fire Elemental Sprite.
• Back at the Blacksmith Association, Lin Jin used Crimson Lotus to purify the Fire Elemental Sprite’s black energy.
• The Fire Elemental Sprite told Lin Jin she would follow him if he avenged her original Spirit Master, and Lin Jin nodded.
• Mu Chen supplied Lin Jin with stored Soul Power as the purification drained him.
• The purified Fire Elemental Sprite willingly fused with Lin Jin, raising him to level 13 and granting him his first Spirit Ring.
• A woman kicked open the door and angrily asked Mu Chen whether he knew the forums were saying her father was dead.

Lin Jin met Mu Xi, Mu Chen’s daughter, at the Blacksmith Association and was challenged to show his new Spirit Soul and skills. Their spar ended with Lin Jin revealing that he had concealed a Fire Elemental Sprite behind him, leaving Mu Xi caught off guard.

• Mu Xi arrived at the Blacksmith Association angry over an East Sea Forum argument, then met Lin Jin and learned he was Mu Chen’s new disciple.
• Mu Chen introduced Lin Jin as Mu Xi’s junior brother and asked her to look after him at Eastsea Academy.
• Mu Xi demanded Lin Jin earn her approval by fighting, and Mu Chen allowed them to spar in the sturdy blacksmithing room.
• Lin Jin used his Crimson Lotus’s first Spirit Skill, Flame Wrath, while Mu Xi dodged and countered with fireballs.
• Mu Xi declared Lin Jin defeated and prepared her second Spirit Skill, but Lin Jin shifted aside to reveal a Fire Elemental Sprite holding a Crimson Lotus behind him.

Lin Jin demonstrated that his Fire Elemental Sprite could use his soul skills, igniting Mu Xi’s Soul Power and Spiritual Power with the Lotus Flower Flame. After Lin Jin explained the flame’s beneficial effects, Mu Chen trusted him and agreed that Lin Jin should focus on becoming a Spirit Master while continuing his blacksmith training.

• Lin Jin’s Fire Elemental Sprite struck Mu Xi with a beam of fire, and Mu Chen intervened when her Soul Power and Spiritual Power caught fire.
• Lin Jin explained that the Lotus Flower Flame could refine a friend’s Soul Power and Spiritual Power, and Mu Chen accepted that Mu Xi would benefit.
• Lin Jin refused Mu Chen’s offer to find people for him to refine because he wanted to keep the ability secret.
• Mu Xi told Mu Chen she would focus on becoming a Spirit Master without neglecting blacksmithing, and Mu Chen approved her new direction.
• Mu Chen advised Lin Jin not to rely on the Lotus Flower Flame while learning Thousand Refinement, but agreed he should use it to forge himself a Forging Hammer.
• Mu Chen said he would carefully consider which Rare Metal would suit Lin Jin’s Thousand Refinement Forging Hammer.

After Mu Xi benefited from Lin Jin’s Lotus Flower Flame, Mu Chen warned them to keep its effects secret and began training Lin Jin in blacksmithing. The chapter ended with Lin Jin entering deep meditation while Mu Chen called Zhen Hua to ask for Ethereal Gold for Lin Jin’s first forging hammer.

• Mu Xi felt her soul and spiritual power improve after Lin Jin burned her, and Mu Chen warned her to keep the secret.
• Lin Jin said Wang Tao did not seem untrustworthy, and Mu Chen decided to begin teaching him blacksmithing.
• Mu Chen tested Mu Xi’s forging skills and had Lin Jin repeatedly swing a pair of tungsten steel hammers; Lin Jin persisted through more than a thousand strikes.
• Mu Xi left for the academy after Mu Chen examined her, while he taught Lin Jin forging precautions and personal experience.
• Lin Jin entered deep meditation while cultivating and reviewing the day’s gains.
• Mu Chen called Zhen Hua and asked him for ten or eight catties of Ethereal Gold.

Mu Chen prepared rare metals and a forging path suited to Lin Jin, who spent three years studying, cultivating, and training until he became a Level 1 Blacksmith and Spirit Master. After Mu Xi graduated from the Intermediate Department, Mu Chen set Lin Jin a demanding test: complete Thousand Refinement without using Martial Soul abilities or be expelled from his school.

• Mu Chen told Zhen Hua he needed Ethereal Gold for Lin Jin’s future, though he planned to give Lin Jin lighter Cloud Titanium for now.
• A month later, Lin Jin became a Level 1 Blacksmith, and Mu Chen gave him Cloud Titanium Forging Hammers before he enrolled at Eastsea Academy.
• Lin Jin trained in Soul Power and forging over the next three years while attending the Primary Department and practicing with Mu Xi.
• At nine, Lin Jin had already met the Primary Department’s graduation requirement, while Mu Xi graduated from the fourth year of the Intermediate Department as a Three-Ring Spirit Venerable.
• Mu Chen congratulated Mu Xi, then ordered Lin Jin to complete Thousand Refinement without Martial Soul abilities or be expelled from his school.

Nine-year-old Lin Jin demonstrated his forging ability before Mu Chen, Mu Xi, and Cen Yue, aiming to complete Thousand Refinement without using his Martial Soul. His rapid progress stunned Cen Yue as Lin Jin advanced beyond Hundred Refinement and continued forging Cloud Titanium.

• Mu Chen brought Lin Jin to his Forging Room and revealed that Lin Jin would attempt Thousand Refinement without relying on his Martial Soul.
• Mu Xi was shocked to learn that Lin Jin had already attempted Thousand Refinement and succeeded before.
• Lin Jin began forging Cloud Titanium, and Cen Yue watched as he smoothly completed Hundred Refinement.
• Lin Jin used fire-attribute Soul Power to continue forging, and Spirit Light appeared on the Cloud Titanium, showing he had reached Thousand Refinement.
• Lin Jin kept hammering as the patterns on the Cloud Titanium grew more orderly, while Mu Chen and Cen Yue watched in astonishment.

Lin Jin forged Cloud Titanium to First-Grade Thousand Refinement with an extraordinary five-foot Spirit Light, then fainted after the Blood Sacrifice made the metal merge with his Forging Hammers. Three days later, he woke and revealed that the hammers’ new effect was Spirit Awakening.

• Lin Jin’s forging advanced the Cloud Titanium to Thousand Refinement Grade 4, and Mu Chen warned Cen Yue to keep his talent secret from the Holy Spirit Cult.
• As Lin Jin continued forging, Lotus Flower Flame ignited around the metal, and Mu Chen urged him to perform a Blood Sacrifice when it began to produce Spirit Light.
• Lin Jin’s Blood Sacrifice brought forth five-foot Spirit Light, and the Cloud Titanium merged into his Forging Hammers, which developed a new effect as he fainted.
• Mu Chen carried Lin Jin to rest while Cen Yue returned to his duties and Mu Xi remained absorbed in a forging insight.
• Mu Xi forged Deep Silver until she removed nearly ninety-five percent of its impurities, and Mu Chen praised her progress.
• Three days later, Lin Jin woke and told Mu Chen that the Forging Hammers’ effect was Spirit Awakening.

After completing First Grade Thousand Refinement, Lin Jin received a Level 4 Blacksmith Badge from Mu Chen and spent the holiday training and shopping with Mu Xi. At Eastsea Park, his Spiritual Power broke through to the Late Spirit Connection Realm, where he sensed someone with a pair of black eyes.

• Mu Chen explained the value of Lin Jin's Spirit Awakening, awarded him a Level 4 Blacksmith Badge, and urged him to consolidate his foundation.
• Lin Jin reached Level 24, then practiced forging as part of his cultivation during the holiday.
• Mu Xi pulled Lin Jin away from his Forging Room, took him shopping, and brought him to Eastsea Park.
• Lin Jin's Spiritual Power advanced to the Late Spirit Connection Realm, and he sensed a pair of black eyes nearby.

Lin Jin encountered Gu Yue in Eastsea City, and their probing exchange escalated into a clash of mental power and elemental attacks. Lin Jin’s Lotus Flower Flame burned away every attack she unleashed, leaving Gu Yue shocked and both Mu Xi and Lin Jin aware of the flame’s extraordinary power.

• Lin Jin recognized Gu Yue and burned away the mental shockwave she sent toward him.
• Gu Yue used spatial control to appear before Lin Jin and attacked with a fireball, which he caught and extinguished in his Lotus Flower Flame.
• Gu Yue unleashed attacks with ice, earth, wind, light, and space, but Lin Jin’s flame ignited and annihilated every one.
• Mu Xi was stunned by Gu Yue’s control over six elements and by Lin Jin’s ability to erase her attacks, while Lin Jin felt the heavy energy cost of defending himself.
• Gu Yue claimed she could defeat Lin Jin even with One Ring, and Lin Jin sneered, having deliberately provoked her.

After Lin Jin defeated Gu Yue in Eastsea Park, she tried to continue the fight, but Mu Xi and the Public Security Department intervened. Lin Jin refused to give Gu Yue his name, and Mu Xi began planning how to deal with her when she enrolled at Eastsea Academy.

• Lin Jin summoned a Dual-Colored Lotus to stop Gu Yue from attacking again, while Mu Xi challenged Gu Yue and revealed her Spirit Rings.
• The Public Security Department’s Mechas arrived and took Lin Jin, Mu Xi, and Gu Yue in for questioning.
• The captain learned Lin Jin and Mu Xi’s identities and settled the matter by warning them to spar at the academy instead of in the park.
• Gu Yue blocked Lin Jin and Mu Xi as they left and demanded Lin Jin’s name, but he told her to wait until she could beat him.
• In a taxi, Mu Xi asked Lin Jin about Gu Yue and decided it would be easy to target her when she enrolled at Eastsea Academy.

Lin Jin accompanied Cen Yue to meet Tang Wulin, Mang Tian’s young disciple, and watched him earn a Level 3 Blacksmith assessment at nine years old. Cen Yue then urged Mu Chen to take Tang Wulin as a disciple, while Mu Chen tried to hand Cen Yue the presidency of the Blacksmith Association.

• Lin Jin joined Cen Yue on his way to meet the newly arrived disciple of Mang Tian, Tang Wulin.
• Cen Yue introduced Lin Jin to Tang Wulin, and Tang Wulin addressed him as Brother Jin.
• Tang Wulin passed his assessment by producing Thousand-Refinement Deep Silver, revealing himself as a nine-year-old Level 3 Blacksmith.
• Cen Yue sent Tang Wulin back, then called Mang Tian and Mu Chen to discuss the assessment.
• Cen Yue urged Mu Chen to take Tang Wulin as a disciple, and Mu Chen jokingly offered Cen Yue the Association presidency, prompting Cen Yue to curse at him.