Chapter Summaries

Ambro destroyed the Gold Strength Clan but failed to find the treasure, while Spirit Hall’s powerful team defeated Noah Academy and left Tie Li’s group worried about the competition. Kaiqi met with a senior Great Soul Arena figure, who revealed that he planned to take away the Soul Masters she had recommended after the competition.

• Ambro defended the destruction of the Gold Strength Clan to Huang Xi, who resolved to report him to the royal family.
• News of the clan’s destruction reached Tie Li’s group, who advanced directly because their scheduled opponents had been eliminated.
• Tie Li’s group watched Spirit Hall defeat Noah Academy in ten minutes, and Tie Li recognized a female Soul Master with the Golden-Waisted Flying Swallow Martial Soul.
• Tie Li and Zhang Yang discussed Kaiqi’s changed behavior and the rewards for second place.
• Kaiqi met Director Ao and an elderly Great Soul Arena figure, who praised her help in securing the treasure before Ambro and said he would take the Soul Masters she had recommended.

The Rock Team faced the Giant Stone Team again, this time with Zhang Yang revealed as a three-ring Soul Elder. Tie Li and his teammates seized control of the fight, leaving the Giant Stone Team with several members injured or incapacitated.

• The Rock Team and the Giant Stone Team exchanged taunts before the match, and Tie Li recalled the opponents’ abilities and weaknesses.
• The host introduced the Rock Team as the team that had already lost to the Giant Stone Team, then received a warning from a staff member and turned pale.
• Zhang Yang revealed his three Soul Rings and took flight, prompting Li Yao to order the Giant Stone Team to focus on him.
• Tie Li clashed with Li Yao using Thunderclap Break, while a teammate’s wolf claws wounded Li Yao.
• The Rock Team’s Agility Attack-type Soul Elder eliminated the Giant Stone Team’s auxiliary Soul Master and injured its two defensive members.
• Zhang Yang struck Sun Yutao with Darkness Impact as he attempted to fly, while Dolangbu’s Vines struggled against Weinuosi’s Ghost Vine.

Tie Li and the Rock Team defeated the Giant Stone Team and secured second place, then faced Spirit Hall Team in the final. Tie Li opened the individual arena battle against Ma Yuzhou, whose defensive Martial Soul countered Tie Li's hammer as Ma Yuzhou rolled toward him.

• Tie Li knocked Sun Yutao unconscious, and the Rock Team eliminated Li Yao before humiliating Weinuosi until the Giant Stone Team surrendered.
• Kaiqi arrived after the victory, then led the Rock Team to the final against Spirit Hall Team the next day.
• The teams drew an individual arena battle, and Kaiqi set the Rock Team's fighters in order with Tie Li first.
• Tie Li faced Ma Yuzhou, a level-thirty-three Defense Battle Soul Elder whose Giant Woolly Elephant Martial Soul absorbed Tie Li's Thunder Hammer attack.
• Ma Yuzhou rolled rapidly toward Tie Li, who dismissed his hammer and prepared to use his Second Soul Skill, Thunderclap Break.

Tie Li was eliminated by Ma Yuzhou after injuring him, and Zhang Yang also lost, leaving the team’s individual fights mostly defeated. Kaiqi then took the main team to the Great Soul Arena’s hundred-year treasury to choose spirit materials, where Tie Li and Zhang Yang found Whale Rubber.

• Tie Li used lightning and his hammer’s horn to injure Ma Yuzhou, but Ma Yuzhou hardened his body and knocked Tie Li off the Soul Fighting Platform.
• Zhang Yang fought Ma Yuzhou and lost narrowly, though Ma Yuzhou could not continue defending the platform.
• After the team’s other fighters were defeated, Kaiqi led the main team to the Great Soul Arena treasury to select spirit materials.
• Tie Li searched the hundred-year treasury for useful materials while Zhang Yang found a row of Whale Rubber and called him over.
• Tie Li considered choosing Whale Rubber and searched its corners for a rare, dust-covered ten-thousand-year piece.

Tie Li, Zhang Yang, Youhe, and Dolangbu were recruited by the Great Soul Arena and taken from Benoa City by Elder Cheng, who was revealed to be the Ghost Dove carrying a ten-thousand-year soul bone. Martial Soul Hall ambushed them, and after Ghost Dove sent the four away with iron boxes, Tie Li was attacked while fleeing with an empty box.

• Kaiqi left Tie Li, Zhang Yang, Youhe, and Dolangbu with Supervisor Ao at the Great Soul Arena in Benoa City.
• Supervisor Ao introduced Elder Cheng, who offered the four cultivation at Howling Cave Island in exchange for binding their interests to the Great Soul Arena.
• Elder Cheng tried to take the four away at night, but Niergé and Martial Soul Hall intercepted him, seeking the ten-thousand-year soul bone.
• Elder Cheng gave each of the four an iron box and blasted them in separate directions, telling them to take the soul bones and wait for him.
• Tie Li discovered his box was empty and fled from a pursuing soul master, who refused to believe him and attacked him with a scorching spear.
• Tie Li was badly wounded but survived the spear strike, with the soul power damaging his organs.

Tie Li killed the five-ringed Soul King who had wounded him, then fled with the man’s storage ring and collapsed from his injuries. He woke in a wooden cabin after Steward Liu and a young miss rescued him, and learned that the young miss had brought him there secretly.

• Tie Li used the Thunder Python inner core to recover enough strength to attack the Soul King with the Thunder Python Horn and his right leg bone skill, killing him.
• Tie Li took the Soul King's storage ring and fled, fearing that the Great Soul Arena would search him for the soul bone.
• After rushing through the night, Tie Li collapsed in the grass and was found by a young miss and Steward Liu.
• Tie Li woke in a clean wooden cabin, washed, changed clothes, and thanked Steward Liu for saving him.
• Steward Liu told Tie Li that the young miss had brought him back secretly because she feared the master's anger.

Tie Li recovered in Ancient Sword City, strengthened his Soul Power, and set out for Gengxin City while Jiuhe searched for Dolangbu and the missing soul bone. Dolangbu evaded the Great Soul Arena’s informants and used his corrupted vine to drain a corpse, growing more powerful.

• Tie Li ate whale glue, recovered enough to reach Soul Power level twenty-five, and left the noble family’s residence that night.
• Tie Li learned he was in Ancient Sword City near the border between the Heaven Dou Empire and the Star Luo Empire, then stayed at an inn and examined the storage ring he had taken from a Soul King.
• Over the next six months, Tie Li healed, traded the fire-element treasures for lightning materials, rose to level twenty-seven, and decided to travel to Gengxin City.
• Jiuhe ordered the Great Soul Arena supervisors to search for Dolangbu, knowing the soul bone was not with Tie Li and suspecting Dolangbu had disappeared with it.
• Dolangbu killed a Great Soul Arena informant and drained the corpse with his black-mucus-covered vine, increasing his Soul Power.

Tie Li traveled with Mason’s convoy toward the Star Luo Empire and learned about Gengxin City’s famed weapons. Near the border, the Black Armor Sect confronted the convoy, and Tie Li and the others launched an attack.

• Tie Li joined Mason’s convoy, using his Snowwind Trading House employment record to ease their border crossing while keeping his identity concealed.
• Mason showed Tie Li a weapon forged in Gengxin City, and Tie Li tested how it could channel his lightning Soul Power.
• The convoy crossed the border inspections and camped for the night after Mason explained the tolls and risks of transporting valuable goods.
• The Black Armor Sect surrounded the convoy and demanded to escort it; their leader revealed himself as a Soul Elder, backed by six Soul Masters.
• Tie Li summoned his Martial Soul, the other Soul Masters followed, and Mason ordered the convoy members to attack.

Tie Li helped the caravan defeat and kill the Black Armor Sect attackers, then reached Hadrian City and set out for Gengxin City. After stopping for the night in a small town, he received a note revealing the town had an Underground Trading Market.

• Tie Li killed the Black Armor Sect's Three-Ring Soul Elder and helped Mason's group defeat the remaining attackers.
• Tie Li took his share of the attackers' coins, and the caravan burned the bodies before continuing on.
• Mason paid Tie Li ten Gold Soul Coins and added the Feather Weave Trading House's seal to his record booklet in Hadrian City.
• Tie Li left Hadrian City on foot and reached a small town before nightfall.
• Tie Li found a note slipped beneath his inn-room door stating that the town had an Underground Trading Market.

Tie Li visited the Underground Trading Market, bought a Thunderstone, and watched an auction where he could not afford the items. He left with a cheap iron bracelet made through a technique he suspected was the hundred forging, then heard soul power clashes erupt behind him.

• Tie Li concealed his identity, entered the Underground Trading Market, and bought a Thunderstone for ten gold soul coins.
• A gaunt giant announced an auction, and Tie Li followed the crowd inside as bidders bought a Tiger Bone Blade and considered Countess Sko's necklace.
• Tie Li decided to leave when he realized he could not afford the auction items, just as the Thunder Dragon Meditation Method came up for bidding.
• Tie Li returned to the stalls and bought an ordinary iron bracelet whose many hammerings reminded him of the hundred forging his father had mentioned.
• Tie Li left the market, then heard two people arguing as violent soul power clashes broke out behind him.

Tie Li escaped a clash over the Thunder Dragon Meditation Method, but the wounded gaunt man tracked him to the inn and attacked. Tie Li killed him with his Soul Bone, took his treasures and the Meditation Method, then left for Gengxin City.

• Tie Li fled after seeing the gaunt man fight off a group of Soul Masters who sought his Meditation Method.
• The gravely wounded gaunt man followed Tie Li to the inn, but attacked a decoy and was met by Tie Li's ambush.
• Tie Li used his Right Leg Bone Soul Skill to destroy the gaunt man's spear and kill him.
• Tie Li searched the corpse, finding a three-gem Storage Soul Tool and the Thunder Dragon Meditation Method.
• Tie Li burned the corpse outside town and reached Gengxin City at sunrise.

Tie Li arrived in Gengxin City to improve his forging and found an apprenticeship at Mu Xin’s blacksmith shop. Mu Xin accepted him warily, while Tie Li settled in and continued practicing the Thunder Dragon Meditation Method.

• Tie Li entered Gengxin City seeking thunder-attributed ore and a chance to improve his forging skills.
• Tie Li found a quiet blacksmith shop recruiting Soul Master apprentices and met Mu Qianqian, who arranged a room for him.
• Mu Qianqian introduced Tie Li to her father, Mu Xin, who confirmed his two Soul Rings and accepted him as an apprentice.
• Mu Xin planned to make Tie Li’s first day of forging difficult, believing he would soon quit.
• Tie Li returned to his room and practiced the Thunder Dragon Meditation Method as he recalled how the Wind Thunder Sect developed its Martial Souls and techniques.

Tie Li trained as a blacksmith under Mu Xin for three years, using his forging hammer to improve his strength and cultivation until he reached rank thirty. Mu Xin arranged for Tie Li to seek his third, millennium-level soul ring in the Golden Iron Forest.

• Mu Xin tested Tie Li's forging and taught him to use his legs to conserve strength while striking iron.
• Tie Li discovered that forging with his lightning-attributed martial soul imbued metal with lightning and gave him a slight increase in soul power.
• Tie Li endured the blacksmith's work for three years, learned from Mu Xin, and broke through to rank thirty.
• Mu Xin offered to help Tie Li obtain his third soul ring, and Mu Qianqian revealed that he had already asked Uncle Yu to assist.
• Tie Li said he needed a millennium-level third soul ring, and Mu Xin identified the Golden Iron Forest as a suitable place to hunt for one.

Tie Li entered Golden Iron Forest with Mu Xin and Yu Can to search for a suitable third Soul Ring, but after several fruitless days they encountered Soul Masters fleeing a swarm of Thousand Jun Ants. The chapter left the Viscount Fino steward facing Yu Can’s arrow as the ants closed in.

• Tie Li prepared his reinforced inner armor and lightning-enhancing arm guard before leaving with Mu Xin and Yu Can for Golden Iron Forest.
• Yu Can warned Tie Li to stay close, then used his Soul King strength to drive away several Soul Beasts, none of which suited Tie Li.
• After three days without finding a suitable Soul Beast, Yu Can and Mu Xin led Tie Li deeper into the forest.
• The trio came across Soul Masters pursued by Thousand Jun Ants, and Yu Can recognized that a thousand-year ant could provide Tie Li with a fitting Soul Ring.
• The Viscount Fino steward demanded help, but Yu Can aimed an arrow at him; the steward used a Soul Skill to block it, delaying his escape from the ants.

Tie Li and his companions lured the Thousand Jun Ant swarm away so Yu Can could enter its nest and capture the thousand-year Thousand Jun Ant Queen. Tie Li absorbed its spirit ring, drawing nearby soul beasts with a strange fragrance, and emerged with a lightning-wreathed Forging Hammer that had become much heavier.

• Tie Li persuaded Yu Can to enter the Thousand Jun Ant nest while he and Mu Xin distracted the swarm using the terrain and falling boulders.
• Yu Can fought his way out of the nest carrying the severely wounded Thousand Jun Ant Queen, and the group escaped to the forest’s outer region.
• Tie Li killed the Thousand Jun Ant Queen and began absorbing its thousand-year spirit ring while Yu Can and Mu Xin guarded him.
• A fragrance from Tie Li attracted nearby soul beasts, which Yu Can and Mu Xin fought until the scent faded and the beasts retreated.
• Tie Li completed the absorption and revealed a new spirit skill as his lightning-wreathed Forging Hammer became more than twice as heavy.

Tie Li tested the strength of his new third Soul Skill, then obtained a false identity through Gengxin City's black market. He prepared to leave for Nuoding City to learn the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer before Tang San arrived, leaving the blacksmith shop with Mu Xin and Mu Qianqian expecting his eventual return.

• Tie Li discovered that Qian Jun Transformation boosted his strength, defense, and attributes by fifty percent, and Yu Can and Mu Xin admired its power.
• After returning to Gengxin City, Yu Can, Mu Xin, and Tie Li caught up on the blacksmith shop's piled-up orders while Mu Qianqian glared at them for leaving her to work alone.
• Tie Li bought a genuine Soul Master booklet and imperial certificate under the false identity Wan Li from a black-market merchant.
• Tie Li planned to travel to Nuoding City before Tang San arrived so he could secretly learn the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer and avoid raising suspicion.
• Tie Li told Mu Xin and Mu Qianqian he was leaving temporarily, packed the clothes Mu Qianqian had made, and departed with his completed lightning-enhancing arm guards.

Tie Li rode a stolen Hornscale Horse toward Nuoding City, avoiding guarded roads by planning to cross into the Heaven Dou Empire near the Star Dou Great Forest. He stopped at a remote inn, where he discovered the innkeeper and bandits were plotting to rob him, and killed them when they attacked.

• Tie Li bought a Hornscale Horse in an underground black market and escaped its former owners, then fed it Thunder Python meat to keep it moving.
• Tie Li chose a route around the Star Dou Great Forest to avoid border soldiers and reached a remote town with only one inn.
• The innkeeper led Tie Li's Hornscale Horse away and told a group of bandits about Tie Li's two storage rings; they prepared drugged food and planned to rob him.
• Tie Li noticed the inn's knife marks and killed the innkeeper when the man returned with food.
• A burly bandit and several accomplices attacked Tie Li, but Tie Li smashed the leader aside, broke their weapons, and killed three attackers with his Forging Hammer.
• The remaining bandits saw Tie Li's two yellow soul rings and one purple soul ring and realized he was a Soul Elder.

Tie Li traveled through the outskirts of the Star Dou Great Forest, where he helped a poor boy obtain his first Soul Ring. He then intervened when a Soul Hunting Group betrayed Steward Liu and a young noble lady, killing their leader with his Forging Hammer.

• Tie Li entered the Star Dou Great Forest to cross between the two nations and gave a dying Ironclad Rat to a young boy, who absorbed its Soul Ring.
• After several days of travel, Tie Li heard Steward Liu and a young noble lady confronting a Soul Hunting Group that had killed their servants and planned to rob them.
• Tie Li attacked the nine Soul Masters with arrows, killing three and severely wounding three others while the short leader burrowed underground to evade him.
• The Soul Hunting Group's leader burst from the ground beneath Tie Li, but Tie Li leaped away and struck him with his lightning-charged Forging Hammer.
• Tie Li shattered the leader's defensive barrier and smashed him into the ground, leaving him spitting blood and broken organs.

Tie Li killed the hunting party’s attackers, escorted Steward Liu and the noble young lady back to Ancient Sword City, and refused their invitation to join them. After he settled into an inn, masked Soul Masters broke in to kill him, and Tie Li fought back.

• Tie Li killed the short man and one fleeing Soul Grandmaster, then helped Steward Liu capture the remaining attacker and return to Ancient Sword City with the noble young lady.
• Tie Li handed the captive to Steward Liu, refused his invitation to visit the family, and checked into an inn.
• Masked Soul Masters burst into Tie Li’s room and attacked him while he slept.
• Tie Li killed one intruder with his Forging Hammer and used his first and third Soul Skills to fight the four surviving Soul Masters in the cramped room.

Tie Li killed the remaining attackers and fought a dangerous Blood Sword wielder who could rapidly heal from his injuries. Tie Li escaped when the man did not pursue him, and Dolangbu revealed that he had given the young man his power.

• Tie Li killed the wounded attacker, then faced a handsome young man who questioned his origins and admitted to gaining power by killing relatives.
• The young man summoned a Blood Sword and attacked Tie Li, whose Thunder Hammer and forging techniques countered the sword’s sharpness.
• The young man attempted a surprise strike, but Tie Li’s armor blocked the blade as Tie Li crushed his chest with a hammer blow.
• The young man healed his severe injuries in moments, and Tie Li escaped on the Hornscale Horse when he did not give chase.
• Dolangbu emerged from the shadows, seized the young man by the neck, and reminded him who had given him his power.