Chapter Summaries

Ye Ling completed Mending Heaven Pavilion’s influence mission and received a new mission to recruit Divine Craftsman Lou Gao as he traveled to Gengjin City with Zhu Zhuqing and Tai Tan. After paying a Spirit Hall toll to enter the city, Ye Ling hinted that the guards would regret taking the money.

• Ye Ling received a Youth Soul Master Five Consecutive Summon Card after completing his influence mission, then triggered a mission to subdue Lou Gao for a Compendium of Soul Spirit Methods.
• Ye Ling, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tai Tan arrived at Gengjin City, where Tai Tan explained its blacksmithing trade and economic importance.
• Spirit Hall guards demanded an entry fee from the group and claimed the money belonged to Spirit Hall.
• Ye Ling told Tai Tan to pay the fee, and the group entered Gengjin City.
• Ye Ling told Tai Tan that the guards would have difficulty keeping the money they had taken.

Ye Ling and Tai Tan discussed Spirit Hall’s growing power before a street hawker’s shoddy dagger sparked a confrontation in Gengjin City. After Ye Ling stopped the hawker from attacking Zhu Zhuqing, Miles, the city’s Martial Soul Hall Bishop, arrived and ordered Ye Ling to release him.

• Ye Ling reassured Tai Tan that Mending Heaven Pavilion’s strength and Soul Tools could eventually rival Spirit Hall, though Tai Tan remained unconvinced.
• Tai Tan and Kong Deming exposed the hawker’s silver dagger as poorly made, and Tai Tan challenged his claim that it came from Lou Gao’s disciple’s disciple.
• The humiliated hawker charged through the crowd and stabbed at Ye Ling, but the dagger broke against him.
• Ye Ling seized the hawker by the throat as Miles arrived with Martial Soul Hall knights and ordered Ye Ling to release him.

Ye Ling confronted the corrupt Martial Soul Hall Bishop Miles in Gengjin City and learned that Martial Soul Hall was watching Mending Heaven Pavilion after its Grand Enshrined suffered a loss. He spared Miles’s life at the Blacksmith Association’s request but decided to cripple his Soul Power.

• Ye Ling killed the middle-aged man who had attacked someone, then faced Miles’s order to arrest him and seize Zhu Zhuqing.
• Titan and Kong Deming subdued the Martial Soul Hall Deacons with their auras, and Ye Ling had Kong Deming pierce Miles’s arm to force him to talk.
• Miles revealed that Spirit City had ordered close surveillance of Mending Heaven Pavilion because its Grand Enshrined had suffered a loss there.
• Si Long arrived and asked Titan and Ye Ling to spare Miles for the sake of the Blacksmith Association.
• Ye Ling agreed to spare Miles’s life but declared that he would cripple Miles’s Soul Power as punishment.

Ye Ling crippled Miles and argued that the Blacksmith Association shared responsibility, then persuaded Si Long to take the group to meet Lou Gao. The group reached Lou Gao’s forging room, where Si Long announced Tai Tan’s arrival.

• Ye Ling struck Miles in the dantian, crippling him, and told Si Long that the Mending Heaven Pavilion and Blacksmith Association had acted together.
• Si Long denied the Blacksmith Association’s involvement, but Ye Ling used Tai Tan’s honorary vice presidency to pressure him into taking the group to Lou Gao.
• Si Long arranged for Miles to be returned to Spirit Hall, then led Ye Ling, Tai Tan, and Kong Deming to the Blacksmith Association.
• Kong Deming inspected the rare metals on the second floor, and Ye Ling reminded him that they could only buy what they needed.
• Si Long led the group to a private forging room on the fifth floor and announced Tai Tan’s arrival to his teacher, Lou Gao.

Ye Ling and Titan visited Lou Gao to recruit the Blacksmith Association to help mass-produce weapons for Mending Heaven Pavilion. Lou Gao tested a Soul Guiding Ray Gun and agreed its power was impressive, while Ye Ling proposed developing an alloy to reduce its reliance on rare metals.

• Lou Gao tried to shut the visitors out, but Titan persuaded him to inspect a weapon from Mending Heaven Pavilion.
• Kong Deming handed Lou Gao a Soul Guiding Ray Gun, which Lou Gao examined and identified as being made mainly from Blazing Sun Iron.
• Kong Deming explained how to use the gun, and Lou Gao fired it through a suit of armor and into the iron door.
• Lou Gao praised the gun's power but noted that its materials and production would make mass production difficult.
• Ye Ling said they wanted to use the Blacksmith Association's forging skills to create an alloy comparable to rare metals.

Ye Ling showed Lou Gao how Soul Tools worked and explained that their core formations could make them cheaper to produce. Lou Gao became eager to learn more, and Ye Ling left Kong Deming in Gengjin City to teach him, while hinting that Mending Heaven Pavilion would welcome him.

• Ye Ling asked Lou Gao whether blacksmithing could combine ordinary and rare metals to lower Soul Tool costs.
• Lou Gao used his Refining Hammer and Spirit Skill to dismantle Kong Deming's short gun, then examined its components and core formation.
• Ye Ling explained that different core formations gave Soul Tools different abilities, but refused to disclose Mending Heaven Pavilion's secrets.
• Ye Ling revealed that he had also hoped to recruit blacksmiths and buy rare metals at a discount, prompting Lou Gao to accuse him of trying to lure him to Heaven Dou City.
• Ye Ling introduced Kong Deming as the Grand Enshrined of Mending Heaven Pavilion's Soul Guiding Hall and said he would remain in Gengjin City to discuss Soul Tools with Lou Gao.
• Lou Gao declared that he would seek instruction from Kong Deming and learn the secrets of Mending Heaven Pavilion's Soul Tools.

Bibi Dong learned that Ye Ling and Silver Moon Douluo were in Gengjin City and sent the matter to the Worship Hall after warning Yue Guan against using Martial Soul Hall to seek revenge. Qian Daoliu explained Mending Heaven Pavilion’s strength to Golden Crocodile just as the Worship Hall received Bibi Dong’s request to handle Ye Ling’s actions.

• Yue Guan reported that Ye Ling had arrived in Gengjin City, gravely injured Miles, and become closely involved with the Blacksmith Association.
• Bibi Dong rejected Yue Guan’s attempt to have Martial Soul Hall punish Mending Heaven Pavilion and said she would notify the Worship Hall.
• Bibi Dong privately vowed that nothing would stop her once she completed her divine trials.
• Qian Daoliu told Golden Crocodile that he had withdrawn from Mending Heaven Pavilion because it had a Level 99 Support-type Peerless Douluo and a Level 98 Super Douluo with three 100,000-year spirit rings.
• A messenger told Qian Daoliu that Bibi Dong wanted the Worship Hall to handle Ye Ling and the Titled Douluo accompanying him in Gengjin City.

Qian Daoliu sent Golden Crocodile Douluo to Gengjin City to cripple Silver Moon Douluo in retaliation for a bishop’s injury. Meanwhile, Ye Ling uncovered the Blacksmith Association’s delay tactics and learned Zhu Zhuqing wanted to travel with him to the Heaven Dou Empire.

• Qian Daoliu ordered Golden Crocodile Douluo to go to Gengjin City and cripple Silver Moon Douluo.
• Titan told Ye Ling that the Blacksmith Association had bought the requested metals but was delaying their delivery.
• Ye Ling told Titan to keep negotiating and wait two more days.
• Zhu Zhuqing asked to go with Ye Ling to the Heaven Dou Empire because she did not want to return home.
• Ye Ling explained that the Blacksmith Association was delaying delivery because it feared Martial Soul Hall’s response and wanted Lou Gao to learn Soul Tool technology.

Ye Ling tried to persuade Lou Gao and the Blacksmith Association to cooperate with Mending Heaven Pavilion, promising a Titled Douluo’s protection. Golden Crocodile Douluo arrived in Gengjin City and challenged Ye Ling and Silver Moon Douluo, while an unknown middle-aged man worried about retrieving a second miss.

• Kong Deming praised Lou Gao’s forging talent and said his methods might let Mending Heaven Pavilion replace rare metals with forged alloys.
• Lou Gao confronted Kong Deming about the incomplete Soul Tool instructions, and Ye Ling exposed the Blacksmith Association’s attempt to delay Mending Heaven Pavilion’s shipment and avoid Martial Soul Hall’s wrath.
• Ye Ling offered to station a Titled Douluo in Gengjin City if the Blacksmith Association cooperated with Mending Heaven Pavilion, but Lou Gao hesitated to accept.
• Golden Crocodile brought the injured Miles to the Blacksmith Association and summoned Ye Ling and Silver Moon Douluo to come out and answer him.
• An ordinarily dressed middle-aged man at Gengjin City’s gate worried that a conflict between Martial Soul Hall and Mending Heaven Pavilion could prevent him from retrieving the second miss.

Golden Crocodile Douluo confronted Ye Ling over Mending Heaven Pavilion’s attack on Miles, but Lou Gao’s accusations and accounts exposed the bishop’s corruption. After Golden Crocodile destroyed the evidence and injured Lou Gao, Kong Deming killed Miles, and the dispute escalated as both Douluo revealed 100,000-Year Spirit Rings.

• Ye Ling and Lou Gao met Golden Crocodile Douluo outside the Blacksmith Association, where Golden Crocodile demanded an explanation for Miles’s injuries.
• Ye Ling accused Miles of bullying people and extorting wealth, and Lou Gao presented accounts showing Miles had taken more than ten million Gold Soul Coins from the Blacksmith Association.
• Golden Crocodile sent Lou Gao flying and destroyed the account books, while Miles denied the accusations.
• Kong Deming trapped Miles in a Silver Light Barrier and killed him, prompting Golden Crocodile to threaten Mending Heaven Pavilion.
• Golden Crocodile and Kong Deming each revealed a 100,000-Year Spirit Ring as they prepared to face one another.

Kong Deming fought Golden Crocodile in the sky above Gengjin City, using his Silver Moon abilities to withstand the stronger Douluo’s attacks. The battle continued as Kong Deming unleashed a barrage of silver light against Golden Crocodile.

• Golden Crocodile overpowered Kong Deming in their Soul Power clash, but Ye Ling assured Tai Tan and Lou Gao that Kong Deming could hold his own in combat.
• Kong Deming summoned his Silver Moon Martial Soul and blocked Golden Crocodile’s Crocodile King’s Trample with the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier.
• Golden Crocodile used his Martial Soul Avatar and struck with Golden Crocodile Sky-Tearing Claw, while Kong Deming countered with Silver Moon Tide.
• Golden Crocodile’s claw and tail failed to harm Kong Deming through the barrier, which redirected the claw and absorbed the tail strike.
• Kong Deming activated Moonlight Condensation, sending countless silver beams down onto Golden Crocodile.

Kong Deming used the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier to overpower and badly wound Golden Crocodile Douluo, who escaped after losing an arm and dropping a spirit bone. With Spirit Hall’s accountability over, Lou Gao agreed to cooperate with Mending Heaven Pavilion if it stationed a Titled Douluo above Level 95 in Gengjin City.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo’s Golden Scale Armor failed to stop the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier’s beams, leaving him badly wounded.
• Kong Deming’s Ninth Soul Skill, amplified by the barrier, shattered Golden Crocodile Douluo’s attack, forcing him to use his Eighth Soul Skill to survive.
• Golden Crocodile Douluo tried to flee and attacked Ye Ling and the others, but Kong Deming blocked the strike; the barrier then dissolved Golden Crocodile’s arm, and he escaped while dropping a spirit bone.
• Kong Deming gave the spirit bone to Ye Ling and apologized for failing to capture Golden Crocodile Douluo.
• Ye Ling asked Lou Gao whether the Blacksmith Association would cooperate with Mending Heaven Pavilion, and Lou Gao agreed on the condition that a Titled Douluo above Level 95 garrison Gengjin City.

Ye Ling secured Lou Gao and the Blacksmith Association for Mending Heaven Pavilion, then sent Zhu Zhuqing home with Zhu Jin. After using the Youth Soul Master Five Consecutive Summon Card, he assigned the five summoned young soul masters to different roles and planned to obtain his Third Spirit Ring.

• Ye Ling agreed to Lou Gao's condition, and Lou Gao joined Mending Heaven Pavilion along with the Blacksmith Association.
• Kong Deming exposed Zhu Jin, a steward from the Netherworld Grand Duke's Mansion, who had tracked down Zhu Zhuqing.
• Zhu Zhuqing agreed to return with Zhu Jin, while Ye Ling warned him against the Star Luo Empire trying to claim Gengjin City.
• Ye Ling ordered Lou Gao, Titan, and Kong Deming to restore order in Gengjin City, then used the summon card to obtain Long Aotian, Vina, Ji Juechen, Xu Jiujiu, and Ye Guyi.
• Ye Ling assigned Ji Juechen and Ye Guyi to Mending Heaven Academy and sent Long Aotian, Vina, and Xu Jiujiu to Gengjin City, then resolved to obtain his Third Spirit Ring.

After Golden Crocodile Douluo returned to Spirit Hall gravely wounded and missing his right arm, Qian Daoliu planned to seek the lost Soul Bone back from Mending Heaven Pavilion. In Gengjin City, Ye Ling assigned missions to Long Aotian, Vina, and Xu Jiujiu, then prepared to travel with Kong Deming to the Far North Ice Plains for his Third Spirit Ring.

• Golden Crocodile Douluo told Qian Daoliu that Silver Moon Douluo had defeated him with a strange shield and taken his right arm, leaving his Soul Power Level at 89.
• Qian Daoliu asked Xue'er to try to exchange Golden Crocodile's Soul Bone back and ordered Heaven Dou City Spirit Hall to contact Mending Heaven Pavilion, promising to go himself if negotiations failed.
• Ye Ling tasked Long Aotian and Vina with helping Mending Heaven Pavilion take control of Gengjin City and the Blacksmith Association, while Xu Jiujiu would infiltrate the Star Luo Empire.
• Ye Ling told Long Aotian and Vina to bring Jin Peng to Gengjin City and instructed them to have Sister Lexuan keep Ji Juechen and Ye Guyi hidden after they returned.
• Ye Ling confirmed that he and Kong Deming would leave for the Far North Ice Plains to obtain his Third Spirit Ring, relying on Titan to guard Gengjin City.

Ye Ling and Kong Deming traveled to the Extreme North so Ye Ling could pursue a Third Spirit Ring from the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, planning to make it sacrifice itself. As they lost their way and followed a disturbance, Lan Yuerou and her daughter Yue'er fled a thirty-thousand-year Frost Mane Ice Ridge Pig nearby.

• Ye Ling explained that he wanted a powerful, high-cultivation Third Spirit Ring and proposed targeting the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, which had over three hundred thousand years of cultivation.
• Ye Ling planned to have Kong Deming injure the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, then use his Eye of the Candle Dragon to control it and make it sacrifice itself.
• Kong Deming agreed to help but warned Ye Ling to abandon the plan if it failed.
• Ye Ling and Kong Deming got lost in the snowy wilderness, then sensed a disturbance and headed toward it.
• Lan Yuerou fled with her daughter Yue'er after a thirty-thousand-year Frost Mane Ice Ridge Pig attacked them.

Ye Ling and Kong Deming rescued Lan Yuerou and her daughter in the Far North, then accepted Lan Yuerou’s guidance to Skywater City. After she offered them a stay at the Shui Family residence, Lan Yuerou asked whether they had heard of the Xuanming Sect.

• Lan Yuerou used her Fifth Soul Skill against a Frost Mane Ice Ridge Pig, but a silver attack killed the beast before it could reach her and her daughter.
• Ye Ling and Kong Deming revealed themselves, and Lan Yuerou identified herself as the wife of Shui Sheng, head of the Shui Family of Skywater City.
• Kong Deming crushed the beast’s corpse into bloody mist, revealing a rare forty-thousand-year-old Torso Bone, which Ye Ling told him to keep.
• Lan Yuerou led Ye Ling and Kong Deming out of the Extreme North and then to Skywater City.
• Lan Yuerou offered Ye Ling and Kong Deming lodging at the Shui Family residence, and Ye Ling asked her to state what she wanted.
• Lan Yuerou asked Ye Ling and Kong Deming whether they had heard of the Xuanming Sect.

Ye Ling and Kong Deming encountered Lan Yuerou, who asked them to help the Shui Family against the Xuanming Sect. After learning the real cause of the conflict and being offered the family’s map of the Extreme North, Ye Ling agreed to help and told Lan Yuerou to lead them to the Shui Family.

• Lan Yuerou recognized that Kong Deming was likely a Titled Douluo and bowed to ask him to save the Shui Family.
• Ye Ling rebuked Lan Yuerou for trying to morally pressure them into the Shui Family’s conflict, but paused when she offered a map marking Spirit Beast groups and a Cold Marrow Earth Vein.
• Ye Ling questioned why the Xuanming Sect could threaten the Shui Family despite its strength and asked whether Lan Yuerou had the authority to offer the map.
• Lan Yuerou revealed that a Xuanming Sect Titled Douluo had wanted Shui Bing'er as his disciple, and that her husband had been gravely injured after refusing.
• Ye Ling agreed to help the Shui Family in exchange for the map and told Lan Yuerou to take them there.

Ye Ling arrived at the Shui Family hall as Xu Hao and an eight-ringed elder threatened Shui Bing'er and her family. He exposed the elder as an Evil Soul Master, and the chapter ended as the elder’s skeletal black-turtle avatar began destroying the hall.

• Xu Hao demanded that Shui Bing'er join the Xuanming Sect, threatening the Shui Family while the elder’s aura froze the hall.
• Ye Ling, Lan Yuerou, and Kong Deming entered, and Lan Yuerou rushed to protect Shui Bing'er.
• Xu Hao recognized Ye Ling and tried to persuade him to stay out of the Xuanming Sect’s affairs.
• Ye Ling said the Mending Heaven Pavilion would act against Evil Soul Masters, and Kong Deming used Silver Moon Evil-Breaking to expose the elder.
• The elder transformed into a massive skeletal black turtle, collapsing the Shui Family’s main hall.

Ye Ling captured Xu Hao after Kong Deming killed the skeletal Evil Soul Master, then learned the Xuanming Sect and Skywater City Spirit Hall might be connected to the Evil Soul Masters. A system mission tasked him with exterminating the Evil Soul Masters hidden in the Extreme North, and he set out to confront the local Spirit Hall bishop.

• Kong Deming trapped the skeletal Xuanming Turtle Soul Douluo in the Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier and crushed him to powder despite his Xuanming Blood Sea soul skill.
• Ye Ling questioned Xu Hao, discovered he was not an Evil Soul Master, and ordered the group to take him along to the Skywater City Spirit Hall Branch.
• Ye Ling received a system mission to exterminate the Evil Soul Masters hidden in the Extreme North, with the Xuanming Sect identified as their core and Spirit Hall suspected of infiltration.
• Lan Yuerou identified the Skywater City bishop as Wei Shuoqiu, a Seven-Ringed Soul Sage, and said Spirit Hall had been annexing small and medium soul master families.
• Ye Ling ordered Lan Yuerou to lead him to Wei Shuoqiu, and she agreed.

Ye Ling and Kong Deming confronted Skywater City’s Martial Soul Hall bishop, Wei Shuoqiu, over his ties to the Fallen Ones and the Evil Soul Masters. After Wei Shuoqiu tried to escape, Ye Ling concluded the Extreme North had been infiltrated and called for outside help.

• On the way to Skywater City, Ye Ling asked Kong Deming about the Evil Soul Masters, and Kong Deming said they had been hidden from view in this era.
• At the Skywater City Spirit Hall Branch, Kong Deming used his Soul Power to summon the bishop, Wei Shuoqiu.
• Ye Ling accused Wei Shuoqiu of neglecting his duties and colluding with the Fallen Ones, citing the Evil Soul Master and the Xuanming Sect’s expansion.
• Ye Ling used Candle Dragon's Dominion on Xu Hao, who revealed that Wei Shuoqiu had long been one of theirs.
• Wei Shuoqiu tried to flee, but Kong Deming’s Silver Moon Divine Light Barrier stopped him.
• Ye Ling asked Kong Deming to contact the Heaven Dou Empire and Martial Soul Hall for help wiping out the Evil Soul Masters in the Extreme North.