Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi rested with Yang Shelly and Ah Yin before heading into the woods to cultivate unusual Blue Silver Grass. He used an ultrasonic positioning method to confirm Ah Yin had not followed him, then began taking equipment from his Ruyi Treasure Sack.

• After lunch, Ling Yi built a small hut and hammocks, then rested for an hour while Yang Shelly and Ah Yin slept nearby.
• Ling Yi told Yang Shelly to cultivate or spar with the Wind Shadow Leopard, then went deeper into the woods alone.
• Ah Yin considered following Ling Yi but decided against spying on him and secretly accelerated the growth of nearby Blue Silver Grass.
• Yang Shelly approached the Wind Shadow Leopard with her Long-handled Scythe Martial Soul as the beast prepared to fight.
• Ling Yi used an amplification soul tool to emit ultrasonic sound waves and confirmed that Ah Yin had not followed him.
• Ling Yi took various items from his Ruyi Treasure Sack in the open meadow.

Ling Yi tended his original and mutated Blue Silver Grasses and reflected on his research into the Ruyi Treasure Sack and his plans to collaborate with Lou Gao and Tie Futu. He built a concealed, ventilated underground metal chamber and took out a coffin-shaped metal box.

• Ling Yi reviewed his growing collection of Blue Silver Grass varieties and worried that the Ruyi Treasure Sack could not serve as the portable plantation he wanted.
• Ling Yi considered asking Lou Gao and Tie Futu to help him develop a small-farm-like Storage Soul Tool using the Ruyi Treasure Sack and Soul Tools.
• Ling Yi injected Soul Power into each Blue Silver Grass to nourish its growth, finishing as dusk approached.
• Ling Yi silently checked his surroundings, opened a concealed hole, and expanded it into an underground chamber.
• Ling Yi recovered his strength, lined the chamber with metal plates, and took out a coffin-shaped metal box from the Ruyi Treasure Sack.

Ling Yi cultivated a Blood Devouring Blue Silver Grass around Ming He’s still-living body to produce Blood Essence Fruits, then returned to camp and noticed that several Blue Silver Grass stalks had grown rapidly. He suspected Ah Yin was responsible but chose to wait and see what she did next.

• Ling Yi fed Ming He’s body a nutrient solution, causing the Blood Devouring Blue Silver Grass to draw out his vital blood and Soul Power as two Blood Essence Fruits began to ripen.
• Ling Yi estimated that he would harvest both Blood Essence Fruits before reaching Gengxin City.
• Ling Yi packed away his dormant Blue Silver Grass and cultivation supplies, then restored the grassland before returning to camp.
• Ling Yi noticed that several Blue Silver Grass stalks beneath a tree had grown as if they were decades old and suspected Ah Yin had changed them.
• Ling Yi returned to Yang Shelly and Ah Yin, while Ah Yin anxiously hoped he had not noticed the altered plants and gripped the Wind Shadow Leopard’s fur more tightly.

Tang Hao honed his forging skills at Haoyang Cliff and impressed Tai Tan with a battle-axe head powerful enough to damage a metal pillar. Their conversation was interrupted by Tang Yuehua’s mournful qin music, while an author’s note clarified the story’s interpretation of her soul power.

• Tang Hao continued training after his defeat on Seagod Island and forged a battle-axe head with the Clear Sky Hammer.
• Tai Tan tested the axe head against a metal pillar and praised Tang Hao’s forging skill as that of a Blacksmith Grandmaster.
• Tai Tan reflected that Tang Hao’s talents in cultivation, combat, and forging far surpassed those of other geniuses.
• Tang Hao and Tai Tan heard Tang Yuehua playing the qin and recognized the sadness in her music.
• The author explained that Tang Yuehua’s soul power was written to suit the plot and invited readers to point out any overlooked canon details.

Ling Yi and Yang Shelly arrived in Gengxin City and headed to the Blacksmith Association Headquarters. There, Ling Yi unexpectedly reunited with Xiang Guyun, whose Soul Power had risen to Level 9.

• Ah Yin left Ling Yi and Yang Shelly before they reached Gengxin City, and Yang Shelly was glad she had gone.
• Ling Yi and Yang Shelly entered Gengxin City, where Ling Yi gathered information as they made their way toward the Blacksmith Association Headquarters.
• Yang Shelly remarked on the Blacksmith Association’s prominent headquarters and recalled Ling Yi’s connection to Divine Blacksmiths Tie Futu and Lou Gao.
• Xiang Guyun recognized Ling Yi outside the headquarters, and Ling Yi greeted him and asked how he and the other brothers had been doing.
• Ling Yi noticed that Xiang Guyun had reached Level 9 Soul Power, just one step short of Level 10.

Ling Yi reunited warmly with Xiang Guyun at Blacksmith Association Headquarters and introduced Yang Shelly, whose Clear Sky Sect connections made Xiang Guyun cautious. The three exchanged formal greetings, and Ling Yi left Xiang Guyun and Yang Shelly on cordial terms.

• Xiang Guyun welcomed Ling Yi with a joyful embrace and told him that all their brothers had married.
• Yang Shelly saw Ling Yi laughing freely and felt he seemed more genuine and approachable.
• Xiang Guyun noticed Yang Shelly and teased Ling Yi with a look, but became cautious after hearing she was a Three-Ring Soul Elder from the Breaking Clan under Clear Sky Sect.
• Ling Yi introduced Xiang Guyun to Yang Shelly and described him as a fellow townsman who had joined Blacksmith Association to learn forging.
• Xiang Guyun asked Yang Shelly to call him Old Xiang or Old Yun, and Ling Yi gently stepped in when she began to object.

Ling Yi and Yang Shelly explored the Blacksmith Association Headquarters, where Ling Yi explained the trading floors and his connection to Lou Gao. On the second floor, Ling Yi spotted a cloudy crystal containing golden material and learned from the shopkeeper, Si Long, that it was Ban Jing Fa Jin.

• Xiang Guyun wondered whether Ling Yi had truly become a Soul Elder, and Treading Snow reacted with apparent contempt.
• Ling Yi and Yang Shelly entered the Blacksmith Association Headquarters and browsed its busy first-floor trading hall.
• Ling Yi described the headquarters’ five floors and explained how the association’s trading areas worked.
• Ling Yi and Yang Shelly explored the second-floor shops, where Ling Yi admired rare metals and forged works.
• Ling Yi stopped at a cloudy crystal containing golden material, and Si Long identified it as Ban Jing Fa Jin priced at one thousand two hundred Gold Soul Coins.

Ling Yi met Si Long at the Blacksmith Association and revealed that he was Lou Gao’s former student, prompting Si Long to lead him and Yang Shelly to the fifth floor. As they arrived, a short, round figure emerged from a forging room.

• Ling Yi bought a piece of Ban Jing Fa Jin from Si Long for 1,200 Gold Soul Coins and asked whether President Lou Gao was at headquarters.
• Ling Yi introduced himself, and Si Long recognized him as Lou Gao’s praised martial uncle and greeted him respectfully.
• Si Long told Ling Yi that Lou Gao and Tie Futu were on the fifth floor, then led Ling Yi and Yang Shelly upstairs.
• Si Long opened the heavy metal door after knocking its coded sequence, and a short, round figure stepped out of a nearby forging room as they reached the fifth floor.

Ling Yi reunited with Lou Gao in Gengxin City after five years apart, and the two immediately resumed their warm, familiar relationship. Lou Gao took Ling Yi to meet his master and inspect the results of their forging research, while Yang Shelly observed how happy Ling Yi seemed.

• Lou Gao recognized Ling Yi after Si Long brought him and Yang Shelly to the forging workshop.
• Ling Yi greeted Lou Gao warmly and recalled how Lou Gao had taught him about forging and the wider Douluo Continent five years earlier.
• Lou Gao complained that Ling Yi’s letters had given him and Tie Futu many tasks, but dismissed Ling Yi’s apology and said they had achieved results on his forging ideas.
• Lou Gao hurried Ling Yi toward Number One Forging Room to meet Tie Futu and see their work, while Ling Yi signaled for Si Long and Yang Shelly to follow.
• Yang Shelly told Si Long that Ling Yi seemed genuinely at ease and joyful in Gengxin City.

Ling Yi met Tie Futu, his martial uncle and a renowned blacksmith, at the Blacksmith Association and noticed that the Soul Saint was near the end of his life despite his strength. The chapter ended with Lou Gao welcoming Ling Yi and his companions into Number Three Forging Room.

• Tie Futu set down his hammer, met Ling Yi, and praised him after Ling Yi formally greeted him as his martial uncle.
• Tie Futu sent Lou Gao to take Ling Yi to Number Three Forging Room while he finished his work.
• Ling Yi walked with Lou Gao, Si Long, and Yang Shelly and reflected on his discovery that Tie Futu’s life force was nearly exhausted.
• Ling Yi wondered whether a hidden injury could explain Tie Futu’s frail condition despite his Soul Saint-level strength.
• Lou Gao ushered the group into Number Three Forging Room and apologized to Yang Shelly for overlooking her.

Ling Yi demonstrated his mastery of Metal Resonance by forging a spiritual Thousand Refinement alloy, stunning Tie Futu and impressing Lou Gao. He urged Lou Gao to delay announcing Spirit Refinement until the Blacksmith Association had enough trained blacksmiths and could withstand other factions’ attention.

• Ling Yi completed the final piece in a set of thirteen spiritual metal alloys, forging it with Metal Resonance.
• Tie Futu praised Ling Yi’s forging skills and marveled that he had learned Metal Resonance after seeing it once.
• Lou Gao recalled how Ling Yi had quickly mastered the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique after a single demonstration.
• Lou Gao asked Ling Yi when they should reveal Spirit Refinement to the association and the continent.
• Ling Yi advised waiting because the association lacked enough trained blacksmiths and would be vulnerable to rival factions seeking the new technique.

Ling Yi discussed the next steps for reforming blacksmithing with Lou Gao and Tie Futu after they successfully developed thirteen types of Spiritual Metal. He urged them to make Spirit Refinement a standard on the path to becoming a Divine Craftsman and to integrate blacksmiths into the Soul Master system rather than challenge its standing.

• Tie Futu rebuked Lou Gao for his impatience, then asked Ling Yi what the blacksmiths should do next with their Spirit Refinement research.
• Ling Yi praised Lou Gao and Tie Futu for developing thirteen types of Spiritual Metal with distinct attributes and Soul Power-enhancing properties.
• Ling Yi explained that Spirit Refinement should become a path and evaluation standard for reaching Divine Craftsman rank, not a system to launch on its own.
• Ling Yi argued that blacksmithing's low status stemmed from the continent's preference for Soul Masters and their strength, wealth, and power.
• Ling Yi reminded Lou Gao that the reform should raise the standing of blacksmiths without challenging Soul Masters, instead making blacksmithing a complementary path within their system.

Ling Yi discussed plans to raise the blacksmith profession’s status and urged Lou Gao and Tie Futu to turn Spiritual Metal into tools for Soul Masters. After hearing about their flawed Soul Guidance Array experiments, Ling Yi said the results were not scrap and needed more suitable applications.

• Ling Yi explained his reform ideas to Lou Gao and Tie Futu, easing Tie Futu’s concern that the Blacksmith Association might face retaliation from established Soul Master powers.
• Ling Yi asked about their Soul Guidance Array research, and Lou Gao admitted their early experiments had produced few usable results.
• Lou Gao described an experimental furnace that exploded and a gravity-imbued hammer that became too heavy to lift or swing.
• Lou Gao showed Ling Yi other imperfect creations, including bellows, a saber, and an anvil fitted with Soul Guidance Arrays.
• Ling Yi asked to examine the creations and told Lou Gao and Tie Futu that the arrays had not failed but needed suitable applications.

Ling Yi studied the newly discovered Soul Guidance Array patterns and investigated why the Ram Horn Hammer maintained its gravity amplification without apparent power consumption. The hammer offered several promising avenues for research, while an unidentified figure approached Gengxin City.

• Lou Gao and Tie Futu supplied Ling Yi with around ten new Soul Guidance Array patterns, despite their experiments producing mostly unusable Soul Tools.
• Ling Yi returned to the Number Three Forging Room with the Ram Horn Hammer and found Yang Shelly cultivating intensely; he used his Blue Silver Grass to restore her vitality.
• Ling Yi accidentally lifted the extremely heavy hammer onto the workbench and then examined its internal Gravity Soul Guidance Array pattern.
• Ling Yi considered whether the hammer drew in ambient energy, had developed a form of spirituality, or still contained the Soul Power Lou Gao had infused into it.
• A figure moved through the crowds outside Gengxin City toward its gate.

Ling Yi reunited with Ah Yin at the Blacksmith Association Headquarters after she returned to Gengxin City. They agreed she could call him by name and he could call her little sister, and the chapter ended with Ling Yi warning that Wind Shadow might be targeted for its Soul Ring.

• Ling Yi searched the crowded lobby with Lakenas and spotted Ah Yin after she called out to him.
• Ah Yin appeared in a blue gauze skirt, and Ling Yi acted surprised to see her dressed as a girl.
• In a VIP booth, Ling Yi quoted a poem that Ah Yin misinterpreted, leaving her embarrassed and glaring at him.
• Ling Yi asked to call Ah Yin his little sister, and she agreed while reflecting on how her view of him had changed.
• Ah Yin told Ling Yi she had left Wind Shadow in an uninhabited mountain forest before coming to find him.
• Ling Yi explained that bringing Wind Shadow into Gengxin City could attract people seeking its Soul Ring, alarming Ah Yin.

Ling Yi and Lou Gao completed the Azure Wood Battle Armor, a soul-guiding suit that drew on ambient energy to amplify strength, speed, and defense. After testing it himself and letting the others try it, Ling Yi confirmed its success, though Tie Futu found that his Martial Soul Avatar largely overrode its effects.

• Ling Yi, Lou Gao, and Tie Futu finished forging the Azure Wood Battle Armor from Spiritual Metal components inscribed with Ling Yi’s soul-guiding array runes.
• Ling Yi activated the armor, which assembled around him, then tested its strength, speed, and defenses against explosions in the forging room.
• Yang Shelly and Ah Yin tested the armor and gained combat abilities comparable to Soul Ancestors, while Lou Gao and Tie Futu gained strength matching their cultivation realms.
• Tie Futu discovered that using his Martial Soul Avatar rendered most of the armor’s amplification negligible, but Lou Gao remained pleased with the result.
• The chapter ended with the Blacksmith Association group celebrating the armor’s success.

Ling Yi discovered that the Blacksmith Association had nearly exhausted its funds producing Azure Wood Battle Armor, but its Secret Vault held rare materials worth far more. Lou Gao explained why the association had preserved the treasures, and Ling Yi noticed a strange pale-blue gemstone on a shelf.

• Ling Yi learned that the Blacksmith Association could not afford more Azure Wood Battle Armor after producing twelve sets.
• Ling Yi entered the Secret Vault with Lou Gao and saw shelves of rare materials alongside chests of Gold Soul Coins.
• Lou Gao explained that the materials were difficult to sell and that only Divine Craftsmen could make full use of them.
• Lou Gao described how even powerful Divine Craftsmen had failed to work the Deep Sea Silver Silver Mother.
• Ling Yi stopped before a fist-sized pale-blue gemstone whose shining surface seemed to hold starlight.

Ling Yi recognized that Starry Sky Stone might serve as a substitute for the extinct Space Gem in Storage Soul Tools and planned to test it. Lou Gao offered to obtain smaller pieces, while Ling Yi cautioned him against assuming the Dai Family would part with its rare stone.

• Lou Gao explained that Starry Sky Stone contained spatial energy but had long been considered unusable.
• Ling Yi compared the large Starry Sky Stone with the Space Gems in his Storage Soul Tool and concluded they were the same type of material.
• Lou Gao eagerly asked whether Starry Sky Stone could replace Space Gem, and Ling Yi said he would study smaller pieces first.
• Ling Yi explained that his Space Stabilization Soul Guidance Array Pattern research had stalled because substitute materials could not support opened spaces.
• Lou Gao promised to have Si Long bring Starry Sky Stones from the high-level trading area and suggested buying up the stones across the continent.
• Ling Yi warned that the White Tiger Dai Family was unlikely to give up its palm-sized Starry Sky Stone merely for a modest sum.

Ling Yi successfully used a Starry Sky Stone to expand a tiny Subspace, but its collapse carved through heavy metal with devastating force. After his companions feared for his safety, Ling Yi wondered whether he could turn the spatial destruction into a weapon capable of threatening a Titled Douluo.

• Ling Yi engraved a Space Expansion Soul Tool Array and used a Starry Sky Stone to fill the tiny Subspace it created with spatial energy.
• The Subspace expanded inside the stone to roughly the size of an infant's head before a faint crack signaled trouble.
• Ling Yi shielded himself with an ultra-high-strength metal plate as the spatial force silently cut away a large section of it and the workbench.
• Lou Gao shouted in excitement while Tie Futu, Yang Shelly, and Ah Yin reacted with shock, and Yang Shelly checked that Ling Yi was unharmed.
• Ah Yin urged Ling Yi to stop his dangerous research, but Ling Yi considered solidifying the spatial force into a weapon powerful enough to challenge a Titled Douluo.

Ling Yi sensed an emergency and found Tie Futu collapsed in the Number One Forging Room. After stabilizing his breathing, Ling Yi and Lou Gao discovered that Tie Futu had used the Forbidden Blood Spirit Metal Inquiry Technique, which consumed lifespan to reveal a mineral’s properties.

• Ling Yi abruptly stopped his Storage Soul Tool experiment and ran to Number One Forging Room after sensing something was wrong.
• Ling Yi and Lou Gao found Tie Futu collapsed beside the furnace, barely breathing.
• Ling Yi used Ceaseless Growth to stabilize Tie Futu’s breathing.
• Lou Gao saw Tie Futu’s bleeding palm and recognized that he had used the Blood Spirit Metal Inquiry Technique.
• Lou Gao explained that the Forbidden Art consumed the user’s essence, spirit, vitality, and lifespan, and realized it explained Tie Futu’s unusually extensive research into Spiritual Metal.