Chapter Summaries

At Red Mountain Academy’s Martial Soul Awakening Day, Tang Linyuan awakened the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear and demonstrated Innate Full Soul Power. When Tang Wulin awakened Blue Silver Grass with only level-three Soul Power, Tang Linyuan silenced the crowd and promised to help his brother grow stronger as they left for home.

• Tang Linyuan entered the awakening room, where a domineering black spear appeared and he identified it as the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear.
• Tang Linyuan tested at Innate Full Soul Power and returned to encourage Tang Wulin before his turn.
• Tang Wulin awakened Blue Silver Grass with only level-three Soul Power, and onlookers mocked him.
• Tang Linyuan intimidated the crowd, assured Tang Wulin that his Blue Silver Grass was different, and vowed to support him.
• Tang Linyuan took Tang Wulin’s hand, and the brothers headed home together.

After Tang Wulin awakened Blue Silver Grass with third-rank Soul Power, Tang Linyuan proposed that the brothers learn forging to build Wulin’s confidence and help support their family. At Red Mountain Academy, Linyuan frightened a classmate who mocked Wulin, establishing his dominance in the classroom.

• Tang Ziran and Lang Yue comforted Tang Wulin after he revealed his Martial Soul and Soul Power, while celebrating Tang Linyuan’s Innate Full Soul Power and spear Martial Soul.
• Tang Linyuan asked his parents to let him and Tang Wulin learn forging from Mang Tian, demonstrating his strength and explaining that forging could help Wulin gain confidence and support their growing needs.
• At Red Mountain Academy, Wan Yunchao mocked Tang Wulin’s Blue Silver Grass and offered to pay him to pull weeds.
• Tang Linyuan confronted Wan Yunchao, threatened him with killing intent, and made him wet himself and break down sobbing.
• Tang Linyuan returned to his seat, and the class avoided him as Lin Ximeng arrived to find the students unusually quiet.

Tang Linyuan rescued the silver-haired Na'er from thugs and brought her home, where his family welcomed her. As Na'er stayed with the Tang family, Tang Linyuan resolved to find Mang Tian the next day and grow strong enough to protect his new family.

• Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin found Na'er surrounded by thugs, and Tang Linyuan defeated the men with his Tyrant Profound Divine Spear.
• Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin brought Na'er home, where Lang Yue bathed and changed her clothes.
• Tang Linyuan asked Tang Ziran to let Na'er stay if her family could not be found, and Tang Ziran agreed to treat her as family.
• Na'er thanked Tang Linyuan, who gave her braised pork and told her to eat instead of crying.
• That night, Tang Linyuan decided to find Mang Tian the next day and learn to wield a hammer.

Tang Linyuan helped Tang Wulin sense Soul Power at Red Mountain Academy and secured academy funding for a Soul Spirit ticket. After school, the brothers impressed Mang Tian with their forging tests, and he agreed to take them on as students.

• Tang Linyuan taught Tang Wulin and their classmates a breathing rhythm that helped them sense and absorb Soul Power.
• Lin Ximeng reported Tang Linyuan’s talents to the dean, who offered him Special-Class Preferential Treatment in exchange for future service to the academy.
• Tang Ziran took his sons to Mang Tian’s workshop, where Mang Tian challenged them to strike pig iron with heavy hammers.
• Tang Linyuan completed a thousand precise strikes in half an hour, while Tang Wulin pushed through pain to finish a thousand strikes and showed signs of his Golden Dragon King Bloodline awakening.
• Mang Tian praised both brothers and agreed to teach them forging.

Tang Linyuan began training Tang Wulin to cultivate through the surrounding Blue Silver Grass, while recalling his former life and using his Dragon Swallowing breathing technique to absorb Soul Power. By dawn, Wulin had improved, and the brothers headed home before another day of blacksmith training.

• Tang Wulin returned home with Tang Linyuan and Tang Ziran, where Lang Yue served dinner and Tang Ziran announced that Na'er had officially joined the Tang family.
• Tang Linyuan took Wulin to a field of Blue Silver Grass and taught him to sense the plants and cultivate through his Martial Soul.
• Tang Linyuan recalled his life as a spear master, his fatal wingsuit accident, and how his will crossed dimensions to become Tang Linyuan.
• Tang Linyuan practiced his Dragon Swallowing breathing technique and absorbed the surrounding energy while Wulin cultivated beside him through the night.
• At dawn, Wulin said his Soul Power had increased, and Tang Linyuan set his next blacksmithing goal at fifteen hundred hammer strikes.

Tang Linyuan learned that he would soon receive a random Soul Spirit, then impressed Mang Tian with his forging skill and helped Tang Wulin find control over his strength. Mang Tian took the brothers on as students and promised to make them custom forging hammers before their trip to the Spirit Pagoda.

• Lin Ximeng told Tang Linyuan that academy approval had been granted for him to draw a random Soul Spirit at the Spirit Pagoda branch next Wednesday.
• Mang Tian explained the principles of forging, and Tang Linyuan described how a smith should listen to metal's grain, weaknesses, and potential.
• Tang Linyuan forged a billet into highly refined iron in ten minutes, while Tang Wulin struggled to control his strength.
• Tang Linyuan guided Tang Wulin to moderate his blows and follow the hammer's rebound, allowing him to forge a smooth, even iron plate.
• Mang Tian named himself the brothers' teacher and promised to make each of them a custom forging hammer before their Spirit Pagoda visit.

Tang Linyuan prepared to obtain his first Soul Spirit at the Spirit Pagoda, with Mang Tian offering to pay for a suitable one if the academy-funded draw produced a poor result. He arrived at the tower with Mang Tian and Lin Ximeng, ready to begin the draw.

• Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin trained and forged through the week, while Na'er grew closer to their family.
• Lin Ximeng arrived to take Tang Linyuan to the Spirit Pagoda for his academy-funded Soul Spirit draw.
• Mang Tian joined them and offered to buy Tang Linyuan a suitable hundred-year Soul Spirit if the random draw produced a poor one.
• Tang Linyuan accepted Mang Tian's support and traveled with him and Lin Ximeng to the Spirit Pagoda.
• Tang Linyuan entered the Spirit Pagoda, where the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear within him stirred in response to the tower.

Tang Linyuan tested at Rank 10 Soul Power and Spirit Connection Realm spiritual power before drawing and absorbing an abandoned Millennium Soul Spirit. He left the Spirit Pagoda with a thousand-year first soul ring and headed back to forge.

• Tang Linyuan's Soul Power tested at Rank 10, and his spiritual power reached 118, astonishing the Spirit Pagoda staff, Mang Tian, and Lin Ximeng.
• Tang Linyuan drew a purple Millennium Soul Spirit identified as an incomplete Black Water Demon Python, which the staff warned was dangerous and impossible to fuse.
• Tang Linyuan recognized the python's faint Dark Demon Dragon bloodline and chose it despite Mang Tian and Lin Ximeng's objections.
• Tang Linyuan absorbed the violent Soul Spirit and subdued it with the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear, gaining a thousand-year first soul ring.
• Tang Linyuan told Mang Tian he had saved a million and left with him to return and forge.

Tang Linyuan showed Tang Wulin and Mang Tian the power of his Millennium Soul Ring and forged exceptionally pure Hundred-Refined Sinking Silver. After earning money from the workshop, he took Tang Wulin and Na'er to the night market, where the family celebrated his progress before heading home.

• Tang Linyuan summoned the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear and revealed his purple Millennium Soul Ring to Tang Wulin and Mang Tian.
• Tang Linyuan used his first Soul Skill, Tyrant Decision, to shatter a half-meter-thick alloy steel plate, then explained that absorbing the Black Water Demon Python's stored Life Energy had raised his Soul Power to Level Sixteen.
• Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin returned to forging, producing Hundred-Refined Sinking Silver and flawless Refined Iron, and Mang Tian paid them for their work and agreed to split future proceeds fifty-fifty.
• Tang Linyuan gave his father money for household expenses and took Tang Wulin and Na'er to the night market for a celebratory meal.
• Tang Linyuan set a goal of two thousand hammer strikes for the next day, and the siblings headed home joking together.

After fusing with the thousand-year Soul Spirit, Tang Linyuan discovered that the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear had remade it into a Tyrant Spear Companion Spirit and named it Xiao Mo. He tested Xiao Mo’s new armor-forming ability and resumed meditation, still planning to grow stronger.

• Tang Linyuan entered his sea of consciousness and called the black Soul Spirit away from the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear.
• He learned that the spear had stripped away the Soul Spirit’s former bloodlines, resentment, and toxins, reshaping it into his weapon’s companion spirit.
• Tang Linyuan named the reborn Soul Spirit Xiao Mo, and it wrapped around his arm as a black-gold armlet.
• Back in his room, Tang Linyuan used Xiao Mo to form a blade on his finger and sliced through the iron bedrail.
• Tang Linyuan considered his Soul Power, mutated Spear Spirit, and tempered body before returning to meditation.

Tang Linyuan entered the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear’s forbidden inner world and received its ancient inheritance, the Tyrant Scroll. By dawn, he had begun tempering his body and resolved to practice its first spear style, Mountain Collapse, as his path as the Tyrant Profound Spear God began.

• Tang Linyuan followed an ancient, desolate fluctuation from the Tyrant Profound Divine Spear into its inner world.
• Tang Linyuan witnessed the spear’s primordial power and learned that it embodied the laws of heaviness and termination.
• Tang Linyuan received the Tyrant Scroll, including the Primordial Body Casting Chapter and the Nine Calamity Annihilation Styles.
• Tang Linyuan began cultivating the Primordial Body Casting Chapter and felt his body grow denser and stronger.
• Tang Linyuan chose Mountain Collapse as his first style to practice and told his sleeping younger brother Wulin to get up.

After half a month of training, Tang Linyuan comprehended Mountain Collapse and used it to shatter a massive wave and part of a reef. Sky-Propping Douluo Yun Ming witnessed the strike, followed the brothers home, and decided to take Tang Linyuan as his disciple.

• Tang Wulin trained his strength by splitting waves with heavy hammers while Tang Linyuan tempered his body and practiced spear thrusts on the reefs.
• As a storm brought a towering wave toward him, Tang Linyuan realized Mountain Collapse meant striking the single point that held something together.
• Tang Linyuan used Mountain Collapse to collapse the wave, vaporize half a reef, and carve a trench through the sea, then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Yun Ming sensed Tang Linyuan's spear intent from above the clouds and was shocked that a six-year-old had touched the threshold of the Dao.
• Tang Wulin carried Tang Linyuan home, and Yun Ming secretly followed them, observed their family, and resolved to make Tang Linyuan his disciple.

Tang Linyuan met Yun Ming, who taught him the three realms of the spear Dao and gave him a token to bring to Shrek Academy in six years. After Yun Ming departed, Tang Linyuan’s spear intent began to change.

• Tang Linyuan sensed a powerful watcher and slipped out to the park without waking Tang Wulin or Na'er.
• When the hidden expert did not appear, Tang Linyuan demonstrated his spear techniques beneath the moon.
• Yun Ming appeared, praised Tang Linyuan’s form, and explained Spear Intent, Spear Soul, and Spear God.
• Yun Ming gave Tang Linyuan a Heaven Propping token and challenged him to master Spear Intent before bringing it to Shrek Academy in six years.
• After Yun Ming vanished, Tang Linyuan thrust his spear again and felt a new trace of command in its intent.

After two and a half years of training, Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin had become powerful fighters and skilled blacksmiths, while Na'er remained without an awakened Martial Soul. Tang Wulin reached Soul Power level ten, and the family prepared for him to seek a Soul Spirit the next day.

• Tang Linyuan trained at Black Reef Coast, reaching level twenty-eight and tempering his body while struggling to master the fourth style of the Nine Calamity Annihilation Styles.
• Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin forged metal at Mang Tian Workshop, and Mang Tian gave them their savings to fund Wulin's Soul Spirit.
• Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin protected Na'er from students who mocked her for not having a Martial Soul.
• Tang Wulin told Tang Ziran and Lang Yue that he had reached level ten, and Tang Linyuan used their blacksmithing savings to pay for a Soul Spirit.
• Tang Linyuan urged Wulin to endure whatever pain came during his Soul Spirit search the next day, and Wulin vowed to become stronger to protect his family.

Tang Wulin and Tang Linyuan visited the Spirit Pagoda to buy Tang Wulin his first Soul Spirit, where Tang Wulin’s mental power tested at 80. Guided by Tang Linyuan, Tang Wulin chose a Century-Old Emerald Dragon Snake, and the chapter ended with him preparing to fuse with it.

• Tang Linyuan brought Tang Wulin to the Spirit Pagoda’s VIP Soul Spirit purchase channel.
• Tang Wulin’s mental power test reached 80, astonishing the attendant and confirming his advanced Spirit Origin Realm.
• Tang Linyuan rejected the attendant’s plant-type recommendations and explained that Tang Wulin’s Blue Silver Grass needed life force and control.
• Tang Wulin sensed a Century-Old Emerald Dragon Snake and chose it for its strong vitality and life-attribute bloodline.
• Tang Linyuan paid 800,000 Federation Credits, and Tang Wulin received the Emerald Dragon Snake to fuse with after returning home.

Tang Linyuan guided Tang Wulin through the Emerald Dragon Snake fusion, which triggered a violent response from Tang Wulin’s dormant Golden Dragon King bloodline. Tang Wulin survived the awakening with greatly enhanced physical abilities and a mutated Blue Silver Grass martial soul, leaving Tang Linyuan anticipating their next breakthrough in forging.

• Tang Linyuan began Tang Wulin’s Emerald Dragon Snake fusion in their soundproofed cabin.
• The Emerald Dragon Snake’s life energy stimulated Tang Wulin’s dormant Golden Dragon King bloodline, causing intense pain and a dangerous surge of heat.
• The Emerald Dragon Snake protected Tang Wulin’s heart as its life force helped him endure the bloodline transformation.
• Tang Wulin awoke with increased strength and resilience, then crushed an iron bed railing without meaning to.
• Tang Wulin’s Blue Silver Grass mutated into Golden Vein Emerald Blue Silver Grass, and his Golden Emerald Dragon Bind could suppress enemies and heal allies.
• Tang Wulin ate high-energy jerky while Tang Linyuan anticipated a breakthrough in their forging realm the next day.

At Mang Tian Workshop, nine-year-old Tang Wulin achieved Thousand Refinement after his bloodline and Soul Spirit greatly boosted his strength and endurance. Tang Linyuan then Spirit Forged Star-Sky Black Iron, leaving Mang Tian to declare him a young grandmaster of forging.

• Mang Tian tested Tang Wulin's forging after his Soul Spirit absorption, and Tang Wulin used his increased strength and stamina to Thousand Refine Sinking Silver.
• Tang Linyuan revealed his plan to Spirit Refine Star-Sky Black Iron into a material capable of bearing his Spear Intent.
• Tang Linyuan used his transformed hands, Soul Power, and spiritual power to forge the metal without a hammer.
• The Star-Sky Black Iron awakened as spiritual metal and formed a five-meter pillar of light, completing Spirit Forging: Genesis.
• Tang Wulin caught the exhausted Tang Linyuan, and Mang Tian called him the forging world's young grandmaster.

After Tang Linyuan achieved Spirit Refinement, Mang Tian recognized he could no longer teach him and sent evidence of his talent to Cen Yue, hoping the Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua would take him as a disciple. Cen Yue verified the feat and rushed to bring it to the Blacksmith Association president.

• Mang Tian told Tang Linyuan and Tang Wulin that his teaching had reached its limits and that Tang Linyuan needed a greater master.
• Tang Linyuan affirmed that Mang Tian would always be his mentor, and Mang Tian sent Cen Yue an encrypted letter urging him to bring Tang Linyuan to Zhen Hua’s attention.
• Cen Yue read Mang Tian’s claim that a nine-year-old had achieved Spirit Refinement and initially doubted it.
• Cen Yue watched the holographic recording of Tang Linyuan Spirit Refining Star-Sky Black Iron and recognized the feat as genuine.
• Cen Yue rushed from his office toward the president’s office to report the discovery.

Cen Yue told Mu Chen and Zhen Hua that Mang Tian had discovered a nine-year-old Spirit Refinement grandmaster in Aolai City, and they watched footage confirming the boy's astonishing forging skill. Zhen Hua and Mu Chen set out for Aolai City to meet him, while the recording was secured as a top-level secret.

• Cen Yue rushed into Mu Chen's office and reported Mang Tian's discovery of a nine-year-old Spirit Refinement grandmaster in Aolai City.
• Cen Yue showed Mu Chen and Zhen Hua an unedited recording of the boy Spirit Forging Star-Sky Black Iron.
• Zhen Hua ordered Cen Yue to seal the recording as the Association's highest-level secret.
• Zhen Hua decided to travel from Heaven Dou City to Aolai City, while Mu Chen prepared to leave Eastsea City for the same destination.
• Mu Chen and Zhen Hua set out toward Aolai City to meet the young forging grandmaster.

Zhen Hua and Mu Ye traveled to Mang Tian Workshop to investigate reports that Tang Linyuan could perform Spirit Refinement. They watched Tang Linyuan forge Sinking Silver into Spirit Forged Deep Silver and left impressed as Zhen Hua introduced himself.

• Zhen Hua arrived in Eastsea City with Mu Ye and, after hearing Tang Linyuan was at Mang Tian Workshop, had Mu Ye fly them there with Mu Chen and Cen Yue.
• The four visitors secretly entered the workshop and saw Tang Linyuan using his Spirit-Forged Star-Sky Black Iron Hammers to forge Sinking Silver.
• Tang Linyuan completed Hundred Refinement and Thousand Refinement Grade One with three strikes, then awakened the metal’s spirit.
• Tang Linyuan noticed the visitors and asked how much longer they intended to watch.
• Zhen Hua praised Tang Linyuan’s forging and introduced himself.