Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi demonstrated how he processed Deep Sea Silver and cyan scales, then showed the Heavenly Craft Academy’s onlookers a powerful metal-disc projectile that pierced several targets. The chapter ended with Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, and the others stunned by the damage.

• Liu Erlong watched Ling Yi draw a hair-thin silver-gray filament from molten metal and examine the materials on the forging table.
• Liu Erlong recognized Ling Yi’s dark rod as Cold Heart Iron Essence and marveled at the filament’s length and toughness.
• Ling Yi identified the filament as Deep Sea Silver and threaded a cyan scale fragment onto it.
• The next day, Ling Yi stood in the academy’s metallic Mimetic Cultivation Ground while Yang Shelly, Ah Yin, Ah Rou, Liu Erlong, Tang Yuehua, Tie Futu, Lou Gao, and others watched.
• Ling Yi flicked a silver disc from his cyan-gloved hand, and it pierced three metal statues before striking a pillar, leaving the onlookers gasping.

Ling Yi tested the lightning-powered Railgun and discovered that its electric arcs strengthened his body and created a magnetic field that let him move at tremendous speed and lift enormous weights. After he ended the experiment, Lou Gao and Tie Futu inspected his Cyan Glove, and Ling Yi gave Yang Shelly a smaller one to try.

• Lou Gao asked Tie Futu if he could block Ling Yi's attack, and Tie Futu said he could not.
• In Star Dou Great Forest, Er Ming used a metal hammer to beat the three Thousand Jun Ant Emperor brothers on his own.
• Ling Yi tested the Railgun at Heavenly Craft Academy and found that his lightning power could propel a metal pellet and make him dash more than thirty meters in an instant.
• Ling Yi felt the electric arcs strengthen his body and create a magnetic field, then lifted a metal statue weighing more than three thousand catties.
• Tie Futu and Lou Gao rushed over to inspect Ling Yi's Cyan Glove, and Ling Yi gave Yang Shelly a smaller glove to try.

Ling Yi tested the faint lightning and magnetic force he could now generate after creating the Thunder Hand, while reflecting on Yang Shelly’s new thunder-attribute cultivation path and the limits of the Breaking Clan’s traditional spear training. He returned to Lingyun Residence as the three women continued cultivating.

• Ling Yi sensed a small current within his body and judged it too weak to meaningfully strengthen his already powerful physique.
• Ling Yi accelerated a metal coin with pale golden currents, watched it travel five kilometers before burning into a shard, and briefly controlled other coins with magnetic force.
• Ling Yi returned to Lingyun Residence after practicing the Railgun, Thunder Mode, and his control of lightning and magnetism for half a month.
• Ling Yi noted that Yang Shelly had embraced a thunder-attribute cultivation route after he planned her path beyond Soul King.
• Ling Yi recalled that Dugu Bo found Yang Wudi’s spear attacks direct and forceful, while Ling Yi’s Eight Edges Armor Piercing Spear made evasion seem impossible.

Yang Shelly, Ah Yin, and Ah Rou fought in Spring Breeze and Rain while Liu Erlong watched and compared herself to the powerful women. The battle left Liu Erlong determined to train harder, so she took Tang Yuehua to Lava Cave to cultivate.

• Yang Shelly used Thunder Hand against Ah Yin, who relied on Blue Silver Domain and the vitality of Spring Breeze and Rain to resist her.
• Ah Rou used her Teleport skill to harass Yang Shelly while the two stronger women continued their fight.
• Tang Yuehua asked Liu Erlong who was more likely to win, and Liu Erlong silently admitted neither Yang Shelly nor Ah Yin was someone she could defeat.
• Liu Erlong left Spring Breeze and Rain with Tang Yuehua and announced they were going to Lava Cave to cultivate.
• Liu Erlong asked Tang Yuehua to play the zither for her while she trained.

Tang Hao listened to Tang Yuehua’s music and learned that his Soul Power had reached level 70, while she praised Ling Yi and provoked his jealousy. He went to report his breakthrough to Tang Zhen, whose worsening cough left Tang Hao helping suppress the forces in his chest.

• Tang Yuehua played the Golden Harp for Tang Hao, using her music and Noble Circle domain to soothe his restrained killing intent.
• Tang Yuehua praised Ling Yi’s music and mentioned the harp he had made for her, aggravating Tang Hao’s jealousy.
• A disciple summoned Tang Hao to the Council Hall, where Tang Zhen confirmed that he had heard Tang Hao reached level 70.
• Tang Hao confirmed his breakthrough, and Tang Zhen celebrated before breaking into a severe coughing fit.
• Tang Hao pressed a Soul Power-infused hand to Tang Zhen’s back and helped suppress the two forces in his chest.

Clear Sky Sect prepared an imposing team to help Tang Hao hunt his seventh soul ring, while Bibi Dong traveled to Yelin City and Yu Xiaogang continued searching for a way to improve his cultivation. The chapter left Bibi Dong headed for the Great Spirit Arena and Yu Xiaogang focused on improving a herbal bath prescription.

• Clear Sky Sect's Grand Elder led several elders to take Tang Hao to Lost Trace Grand Canyon to hunt his seventh soul ring.
• Bibi Dong arrived in Yelin City by boat and chose to visit the Great Spirit Arena before exploring the lantern festival.
• Yu Xiaogang reflected on his stalled cultivation and his studies of forging and herbal knowledge.
• Yu Xiaogang considered improving the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's Herbal Bath prescription to strengthen his body and help his soul power break through.

Bibi Dong faced Hao Te in a Yelin Great Spirit Arena match, where her greater Soul Power and Death Spider Emperor gave her advantages over his Snow Soul Demon Bear. The battle began with Hao Te attacking, and Bibi Dong countered with her Death Spiderweb Restraint.

• The host announced the sixth one-on-one match between Bibi Dong and Hao Te, who had won four matches in a row.
• Hao Te and Bibi Dong entered the arena, and the spectators were astonished by Bibi Dong’s youth and strength.
• Hao Te assessed Bibi Dong’s advantages, then revealed his Level 43 Snow Soul Demon Bear while Bibi Dong revealed her Level 46 Death Spider Emperor.
• Hao Te covered himself with Ice Armor Protection and used Frost Heavy Strike to send icicles toward Bibi Dong.
• Bibi Dong used Death Spiderweb Restraint to envelop the approaching icicles in poisonous webs.

Bibi Dong defeated Hao Te in the Yelin Great Spirit Arena through relentless attacks and careful control of the fight, then explored Yelin City’s night market. There, she encountered Yu Xiaogang arguing with a stall owner about the age of a Blue Silver Grass.

• Bibi Dong countered Hao Te’s attacks with her soul skills while Yu Xiaogang watched from the stands, admiring her and worrying that his own abilities would bring shame to his clan.
• Bibi Dong wore Hao Te down with successive attacks and won the match, prompting cheers and debate among the spectators.
• Bibi Dong wandered through Yelin City’s busy night market, trying on accessories and sampling snacks.
• Yu Xiaogang accused a stall owner of misrepresenting a Blue Silver Grass as fifty years old, and the owner angrily denied deceiving customers.
• Yu Xiaogang pointed to the grass and began explaining, “As everyone knows, Blue Silver Grass...”

Yu Xiaogang arrived at Lingyun City and surveyed its strategic location, formidable defenses, and orderly streets, judging its soldiers to be elite. From Green Cloud Mountain, Ling Yi looked down on the newly completed city, whose population had only just exceeded 180,000.

• Yu Xiaogang studied a map and recognized that Lingyun City stood near the center of the Douluo Continent, between the Heaven Dou Empire, the Star Luo Empire, and the Star Dou Great Forest.
• An old farmer offered Yu Xiaogang a ride into the city, but Yu Xiaogang declined and walked to the gate while the donkey cart followed.
• Yu Xiaogang observed Lingyun City's heavily defended gates and walls and concluded that Ling Yi commanded an elite army of likely retired border soldiers.
• Yu Xiaogang walked through Lingyun City and noted its orderly streets and buildings.
• Ling Yi surveyed Lingyun City from Green Cloud Mountain and reflected that the recently completed city held just over 180,000 people.

Ling Yi noticed Yu Xiaogang in Lingyun City while Yu Yi returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan as a Soul Emperor and was freed from guarding him. In a memory of Yelin City, Yu Xiaogang met Bibi Dong after she rescued him, and their shared admiration for Ling Yi brought them closer.

• Ling Yi spotted Yu Xiaogang in Lingyun City and searched the area for the Soul King who had once guarded him, but found no sign of that person.
• Yu Yi returned to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, registered his new Soul Emperor strength, and gained a higher level of treatment and release from guarding Yu Xiaogang.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled how Bibi Dong had stopped a vendor from beating him and checked on his injuries in Yelin City.
• Yu Xiaogang waited for Bibi Dong at Yelin Great Spirit Arena for several days, then offered her his improved Trauma Medicine after one of her matches.
• Bibi Dong praised Yu Xiaogang for improving the medicine, became excited when he praised Ling Yi, and introduced herself; Yu Xiaogang told her his name.

After Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang about Ling Yi and his Martial Soul Research Institute, Yu Xiaogang visited the institute and accepted Ling Yi’s invitation to join. Ling Yi introduced him to Liu Hao, a recovering researcher whose remarkable memory made him a valuable companion.

• Bibi Dong told Yu Xiaogang about Ling Yi’s achievements and suggested that Ling Yi might help with his unusual Martial Soul.
• Yu Xiaogang found the Martial Soul Research Institute, where Ling Yi recognized him from their meeting five years earlier and invited him to join.
• Yu Xiaogang accepted Ling Yi’s invitation after considering the institute and Ling Yi’s patient manner.
• Ling Yi told Liu Hao to keep resting because his body had not recovered from severe mental exhaustion, and gave him Mind Nourishing Incense to aid his recovery.
• Ling Yi introduced Liu Hao to Yu Xiaogang as the institute’s strongest brain and offered to help Yu Xiaogang find information through him.

Yu Xiaogang met several researchers at Lingyun Library, where Er Yuexuan questioned his background and his unusual Storage Soul Tool. Meanwhile, Ling Yi prepared the Nine Shao Tuning Soul Guidance Array for Wei Yi to test, warning him not to shoulder the Wu Family’s burden alone.

• Liu Hao introduced Yu Xiaogang to Shang Wenqing and Er Yuexuan at the library.
• Shang Wenqing tried to ease the awkward meeting, while Er Yuexuan criticized Yu Xiaogang and speculated about his background.
• Liu Hao teased Er Yuexuan about his bad temper and the nickname “11 Xuan.”
• Ling Yi finished carving the Soul Guidance Array in Room 404 and confirmed that its patterns were correct.
• Wei Yi agreed to test the Nine Shao Tuning Soul Guidance Array, and Ling Yi gave him a crystal to crush if he could not endure it.

Ling Yi activated the Nine Shao Tuning Soul Guidance Array to help Wei Yi endure the thunder-like sound produced by his Taiyi Bell. As Wei Yi sheltered inside his martial soul, Ling Yi reflected on his creation of the Qi and Blood Martial Path and the challenge of developing a safe method to train the internal organs.

• Ling Yi activated the Nine Shao Tuning Soul Guidance Array as Wei Yi summoned and enlarged his Taiyi Bell.
• The array absorbed the bell's sound waves and turned them into increasingly powerful thunderclaps that tested Wei Yi.
• When blood appeared at his mouth, Wei Yi stopped enduring the thunder and hid inside his Taiyi Bell.
• Ling Yi reflected on how he had developed Two Forms Fist and systematized the Manifested Strength, Hidden Strength, and Transforming Strength realms.
• Ling Yi considered extending the Qi and Blood Martial Path to train the internal organs, which ordinary physical exercises could not strengthen effectively or safely.

Ling Yi tested the Nine Shao Tuning Soul Guidance Array on Wei Yi to develop a Douluo version of the Tiger Form Spirit Communication Technique, then examined the physical changes caused by the thunder resonance. Wei Yi recovered, and Ling Yi confirmed that his organs and bone marrow had improved, leaving his strength expected to grow with proper nutrition.

• Ling Yi used the Nine Shao Tuning Soul Guidance Array to expose Wei Yi to intense thunder resonance while the Taiyi Bell tried to shield him.
• Ling Yi stopped the array after ten breaths and used Third Soul Skill - Ceaseless Growth to help Wei Yi recover from bleeding from his seven apertures.
• An hour later, Xingkong Hui and A Huan tested Wei Yi's breathing and used their martial souls to examine his body.
• Xingkong Hui reported that Wei Yi's lungs and other organs had grown stronger, while A Huan detected a slight increase in his bone density and possible changes to his bone marrow.
• Ling Yi sensed Wei Yi's body and reassured Wu Xian that Wei Yi's bone marrow and blood production had improved, and that proper nutrition would help him grow stronger.

Ling Yi left the newly founded Martial Soul Research Institute after warning Wei Yi to rest and arranging for his condition to be monitored. At the institute, Yu Xiaogang struggled to understand why his revised Trauma Medicine became far more effective after Ling Yi advised him to adjust the amounts of its ingredients.

• Ling Yi told Wei Yi to avoid going out and arranged for Xingkong Hui and A Huan to monitor his recovery.
• Er Yuexuan told Liu Hao that Yu Xiaogang’s improved Trauma Medicine cost thirty times as much as the ordinary version because he used older, more expensive ingredients.
• Liu Hao and Er Yuexuan questioned Yu Xiaogang’s herbal talent but acknowledged that Ling Yi had already assigned him to the research project.
• Yu Xiaogang recalled Ling Yi’s advice to vary the quantities of older herbs rather than simply use more of them.
• Yu Xiaogang wondered why his latest Trauma Medicine achieved ten times the effect at ten times the cost.

Yu Luomian told Yu Yuanzhen that Yu Xiaogang was in Lingyun City, a city built by Ling Yi, whose influence reached across Douluo Continent’s major factions. Yu Yuanzhen grew suspicious when he learned that Xiaogang had gone there after an encounter with Spirit Hall in Yelin City.

• Yu Luomian reported that Yu Xiaogang was currently in Lingyun City.
• Yu Yuanzhen considered Ling Yi’s broad alliances and the influence of the new city he had built.
• Yu Yuanzhen asked how Xiaogang had reached Lingyun City.
• Yu Luomian explained that Xiaogang had encountered Spirit Hall members in Yelin City and then traveled to Lingyun City.
• Yu Yuanzhen questioned why Spirit Hall had become involved with Xiaogang again.

Yu Yuanzhen reviewed Yu Xiaogang’s aimless travels and grew angry that he had abandoned blacksmithing to study herbs and join Ling Yi’s Martial Soul Research Institute. After Yu Luomian persuaded him that Ling Yi might be currying favor with the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan by crediting Yu Xiaogang for their Super Trauma Medicine, Yu Yuanzhen ordered people to monitor Lingyun City and keep watch over his son.

• Yu Yuanzhen read a report detailing Yu Xiaogang’s years of drifting between blacksmithing and herbal studies without improving beyond Rank 29.
• Yu Yuanzhen condemned Yu Xiaogang for leaving blacksmithing and joining Ling Yi’s Martial Soul Research Institute, which he viewed as a gathering of weak martial souls.
• Yu Luomian pointed out that Yu Xiaogang had helped develop Super Trauma Medicine and argued that Ling Yi had publicly credited him.
• Yu Luomian suggested Ling Yi was using Yu Xiaogang’s accomplishment to win the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan’s goodwill, and Yu Yuanzhen accepted the possibility.
• Yu Yuanzhen ordered more people sent to Lingyun City to observe Ling Yi’s city and keep an eye on Yu Xiaogang.

Ling Yi returned to the City Lord Manor and watched Ah Rou and Liu Erlong test their combat skills in a fierce sparring match. As their battle drew his attention, Yang Shelly and Ah Yin briefly lost focus in their own duel.

• Ling Yi's information had helped the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan believe Yu Xiaogang had earned recognition for his forging talent and work on Super Trauma Medicine.
• Ling Yi arrived at the Martial Arts Arena and found Yang Shelly fighting Ah Yin while Ah Rou fought Liu Erlong.
• Ah Rou used her Invincible Golden Body and teleportation against Liu Erlong's Bloodthirsty Flames, while Liu Erlong countered with Dragon Wags Tail and her dragon claws.
• Ah Rou's Bewitchment failed when Liu Erlong kept her eyes shut, and the two continued exchanging attacks with their combat techniques.
• Ling Yi focused on Ah Rou and Liu Erlong's match, causing Yang Shelly and Ah Yin to briefly falter in their duel.

Yang Shelly teased Ling Yi about watching Ah Rou and Liu Erlong, and he answered by correcting her assumptions and teaching her a lesson. The next day, the women returned to cultivation and work in Lingyun City, while their alliances and private suspicions remained in place.

• Yang Shelly accused Ling Yi of having thoughts about Ah Rou and Liu Erlong, and Ling Yi insisted he had been studying their combat techniques.
• Ling Yi recited “Ode to Limestone” and used it to instill his upright spirit in Yang Shelly.
• Ah Yin focused on Soul Power cultivation, while Ah Rou developed her combat techniques and Liu Erlong chose to help build Lingyun City.
• Yang Shelly arrived at the Martial Arts Arena near noon, where Ah Rou and Liu Erlong gave her meaningful looks.
• Ah Yin went to the Blue Silver Kingdom to cultivate, and Ah Rou and Liu Erlong exchanged a glance as the women’s alliances and rivalries remained evident.

Ling Yi demonstrated his Martial Soul Fusion Skill with Yang Shelly, helping her refine her spear technique before heading to the Blue Silver Valley to find Ah Yin. He reflected on Lingyun City’s need for more residents and resources as the city continued to develop.

• Ling Yi watched Yang Shelly practice the Thirteen Armor Piercing Spears and judged that her technique still had flaws against experienced combatants.
• Ling Yi and Yang Shelly fused their Martial Souls into the Blue Silver Overlord Spear, then practiced the spear technique together until Yang Shelly’s Soul Power ran out.
• Ling Yi released the fusion, gave Ah Rou and Liu Erlong instructions, and left for the Blue Silver Valley.
• Ling Yi considered why he had chosen Lingyun City as his home and development base rather than Blue Silver Territory, Gengxin City, or Heaven Dou City.
• Ling Yi noted that Lingyun City needed more people and supplies, while Ah Yin and Ah Rou managed its junior and intermediate Soul Master academies.