Chapter Summaries

Chu Xiu began learning forging from Tai Cai in Heaven Dou City and built a furnace and tools on the Deserted Island so he could practice there. He prepared to gather iron ore, though Ah Yin warned that powerful spirit beasts lived near the deposit.

• Chu Xiu entered Tai Cai's smithy, demonstrated his strength, and was accepted as an apprentice.
• Tai Cai taught Chu Xiu the basics of smelting ore, and Chu Xiu worked through the day before returning to the Deserted Island.
• Chu Xiu spent several nights learning forging in Heaven Dou City while building a shaft furnace and bone hammer on the island.
• Ning Rongrong, Shui Bing'er, and Ah Yin questioned Chu Xiu about his forging knowledge, while Qian Renxue quietly suspected something was unusual.
• Chu Xiu asked Ah Yin about the iron ore, and she reported that several nearby spirit beasts were at least thirty thousand years old.

Chu Xiu and Ah Yin mined high-purity iron ore and uncovered a starlight sapphire, then Chu Xiu forged his first iron ingot. Shui Bing’er's admiration maxed out his bond value, forming his second spirit ring and granting him a mutated ice phoenix martial soul.

• Chu Xiu teased Ah Yin on the way to a silverback gorilla's territory, then mined iron ore while she kept watch.
• Chu Xiu unearthed a starlight sapphire that he believed could help him craft magical artifacts, and gave it to Ah Yin to keep.
• After several failed attempts, Chu Xiu forged a satisfactory iron ingot with the help of the girls.
• Shui Bing'er admired Chu Xiu, raising her bond value to 100 and forming his second spirit ring.
• Chu Xiu proposed celebrating their entry into the Iron Age with a drinking feast, and Ah Yin offered to prepare dinner and fruit wine.

Chu Xiu got Ah Yin, Ning Rongrong, and Shui Bing’er drunk during a celebration, then returned to Heaven Dou City to test his Ice Phoenix martial soul. He revealed his four spirit rings to Tai Cai and the smiths, leaving them stunned by his strength and talent.

• Chu Xiu toasted Ah Yin, Ning Rongrong, Shui Bing’er, and Qian Renxue, while Qian Renxue warned him not to mistake her intentions.
• Chu Xiu carried the sleeping Ah Yin, Ning Rongrong, and Shui Bing’er into his room, then returned to the Douluo Continent.
• Chu Xiu visited Tai Cai at the Blacksmith Shop and said he planned to leave for a while, though he would return for guidance on forging soul tools.
• Chu Xiu told Tai Cai that he had lied about having a trash martial soul and released his Ice Phoenix martial soul with four spirit rings.
• Tai Cai and the smiths recognized Chu Xiu as an eighteen-year-old Soul Ancestor with a top-tier mutated martial soul and stared in disbelief.

Chu Xiu tested the combined strength of his Ice Phoenix and Nine Treasure Glazed Tile Pagoda martial souls, then returned to the island and discovered Ning Rongrong knew about his drunken scheme involving Shui Bing'er and Ah Yin. Ning Rongrong proposed a chastity belt for Qian Renxue, but Chu Xiu persuaded her to help him target Qian Renxue instead, just as Qian Renxue called him outside.

• Tai Cai refused to let Chu Xiu call him master at first, but accepted him as his disciple after Chu Xiu insisted their bond was lifelong.
• Chu Xiu tested his spirit skills outside Heaven Dou Imperial City and found his two martial souls could work together, giving him strength comparable to a top Soul King.
• Chu Xiu returned to the island, found Shui Bing'er, Ah Yin, and Ning Rongrong gone, and later learned Ning Rongrong had seen the two women naked after waking during the night.
• Ning Rongrong showed Chu Xiu her design for a chastity belt intended for Qian Renxue, but Chu Xiu convinced her he wanted to conquer Qian Renxue because he disliked her.
• Qian Renxue called Chu Xiu outside.

Chu Xiu investigated the fast-growing Spirit Rice and wild apple trees, then set out with Ah Yin to hunt a fire-attribute Spirit Beast. He discovered that their target was a mutated Magma Bear and waited for it to emerge from its magma pool.

• Qian Renxue told Chu Xiu that the Spirit Rice and wild apple trees had grown well but showed no signs of mutation, and he suspected they needed Spirit Beast blood.
• Chu Xiu asked Ah Yin to locate a nearby Spirit Beast, and she pointed him toward a fire-attribute beast beyond their previous mining site.
• Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er asked to join the hunt, but Chu Xiu went with Ah Yin alone.
• Ah Yin sensed increasing danger as they approached, and Chu Xiu used his enhanced sight to identify the target as a mutated Red Flame Bear with no more than ten thousand years of cultivation.
• Chu Xiu told Ah Yin to wait, entered Concealment, and watched the Magma Bear leave its pool after bathing in the magma.

Chu Xiu killed a mutated Magma Bear and obtained its Core, which granted a fire spiritual root. After consuming it, he suffered a dangerous reaction, and Ah Yin used the life-giving sap of her Blue Silver Emperor trait to keep him alive.

• Chu Xiu ambushed the Magma Bear as it left the magma pool, killed it, and dragged its corpse away with Ah Yin's help.
• Chu Xiu and Ah Yin collected three bundles of the bear's blood and recovered its Core from the corpse.
• Chu Xiu discovered that the 1,400-year-old Magma Bear Core granted a fire spiritual root and swallowed it.
• Chu Xiu convulsed as intense heat ravaged his body, and Ah Yin feared his life force was fading.
• Ah Yin used her Blue Silver Emperor sap to sustain Chu Xiu until he regained consciousness.

After Ah Yin used her Blue Silver Emperor fluid to revive and nourish Chu Xiu, he gained spiritual power and Bond Value. Ah Yin then revealed that the group was stranded on a vast, isolated island with many different terrains and no mainland in sight.

• Ah Yin explained that she had died shortly after giving birth to Tang San without ever nursing him, and that her Blue Silver Emperor fluid had remained since her resurrection.
• Chu Xiu drank Ah Yin's fluid, recovered, and gained spiritual power as well as thirty Bond Value points with her.
• Ah Yin carried the bags of Spirit Beast blood while Chu Xiu hauled the mutated Magma Bear's corpse back to camp.
• Qian Renxue, Shui Bing'er, and Ning Rongrong questioned where the enormous bear had come from, and Ah Yin explained that it lived in magma near the camp.
• Ah Yin confessed that she had explored the island and revealed that it was isolated, circular, over a hundred li wide, and contained varied terrain and extreme climates.

Chu Xiu discovered that he could cultivate magic power on the deserted island by absorbing energy from Spirit Rice and Ah Yin’s sap. After days of meditation, he formed a vortex in his dantian and created a flame with his magic power, leaving Ah Yin and the others astonished.

• Chu Xiu told Ah Yin, Qian Renxue, Shui Bing'er, and Ning Rongrong that he had made a promising discovery, but kept his theory of immortal cultivation to himself.
• Ah Yin, Shui Bing'er, and Qian Renxue used Spirit Beast blood to nourish the Spirit Rice field and wild apple tree, which produced mutated crops and seven mutated fruits.
• Chu Xiu and the four women ate the fruits, doubling the women’s strength and improving Chu Xiu’s mental power; he then gave Ah Yin the other mental power fruit.
• Chu Xiu used his enhanced mental power to direct the energy from Ah Yin’s sap into his dantian, where he formed a vortex after meditating for several days.
• Chu Xiu awakened and created a flame in his palm with his newly formed magic power, shocking Ah Yin, Qian Renxue, Shui Bing'er, and Ning Rongrong.

Chu Xiu revealed that he had learned to cultivate magic power, a new power system that could work despite the island suppressing soul power. Qian Renxue believed it might help them escape or even slay a god, while the women prepared to try cultivating and Chu Xiu openly chose to share a room with Ah Yin.

• Chu Xiu demonstrated a flame produced without soul power and explained that he had condensed it using magic power.
• Chu Xiu told the women that magic power came from forming an energy vortex in the dantian, and Qian Renxue gained 10 Bond Value points after believing it could help them escape and challenge a god.
• Ah Yin recognized similarities between Chu Xiu's vortex and a soul core, while Chu Xiu advised everyone to eat spirit rice and try sensing its energy.
• Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er looked forward to cultivating, and Qian Renxue decided to begin practicing the next day.
• Chu Xiu announced that he and Ah Yin would sleep in the same room, shocking Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er.

Chu Xiu told Ah Yin about Tang San after pressuring her to call him husband, then spent the night with her. The next day, Qian Renxue proposed exploring the mountain summit for stronger sources of energy, and Chu Xiu decided to develop a method for cultivating spiritual energy.

• Chu Xiu made Ah Yin call him husband by promising to tell her about Tang San, while Ning Rongrong left and Shui Bing'er advised him to soothe her later.
• Chu Xiu told Ah Yin about Tang San's achievements and his conflict with him, and Ah Yin offered to make up for her son's wrongs before Chu Xiu spent half the night with her.
• The next day, Qian Renxue suggested that stronger spirit beasts gathered near the summit because something there attracted them, and proposed searching for energy-rich plants.
• Chu Xiu warned that exploring the summit was too dangerous and said he would work out a way to circulate spiritual energy through the body so the others could cultivate.

Chu Xiu developed a cultivation method that let him draw Soul Power into his dantian without relying on his Martial Soul, then used the route of his Ice Seal Soul Skill to create a Fireball Technique. The Qi Refining Level One fireball nearly erased half a mountain, leaving Chu Xiu astonished by magic power’s strength.

• After lunch, Chu Xiu went to the Douluo Continent and experimented until he found a way to draw Soul Power through his meridians directly into his dantian.
• Chu Xiu repeatedly used Ice Seal and recorded the route his Soul Power took when activating the Soul Skill.
• Chu Xiu circulated his magic power along that route and created a fist-sized fireball.
• The fireball spread intense heat across the wasteland, scorching the ground and turning nearby vegetation to ash.
• Chu Xiu hurled the fireball at a distant mountain, where it erased nearly half the hill and left lava flowing down its slopes.
• Chu Xiu judged that even a Soul King might not survive a direct hit and grew excited about magic power’s future potential.

After spending the night researching, Chu Xiu created the Basic Qi Refining Art and returned to the Deserted Island to teach it to the others. Ah Yin successfully cultivated, revealing that she had an innate wood spiritual root.

• Chu Xiu met Tai Cai in Heaven Dou City and arranged to learn how to make soul tools from him in a few days.
• Chu Xiu returned to the Deserted Island after dark and told the women he had developed the Basic Qi Refining Art.
• Chu Xiu explained the cultivation method, and Ning Rongrong, Shui Bing'er, Qian Renxue, and Ah Yin began practicing it.
• Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er failed to sense spiritual energy, while Qian Renxue continued trying.
• Ah Yin gathered spiritual energy into her abdomen and used pale green light to make a small blade of grass grow as tall as she was.

Ah Yin discovered that her innate wood spiritual root let her cultivate magic power, confirming that immortal cultivation was a real system beyond the Deserted Island. Qian Renxue revealed she was Spirit Hall’s Angel Young Master, and Ning Rongrong maneuvered for Chu Xiu to help her cultivate, leaving Qian Renxue to decide whether to accept.

• Ah Yin used magic power to restore vitality, and Chu Xiu recognized that she had an innate wood spiritual root.
• Chu Xiu explained that Ah Yin had cultivated without a spiritual-root-granting Core, proving immortal cultivation existed independently of the Deserted Island.
• Qian Renxue asked Chu Xiu whether someone could guide the circulation of magic power as her mother had guided her soul power.
• Ning Rongrong questioned how Qian Renxue knew Spirit Hall’s secret technique, prompting Qian Renxue to reveal that she was Spirit Hall’s Angel Young Master.
• Ah Yin offered to guide Qian Renxue, but Ning Rongrong argued that Chu Xiu should help instead and taunted Qian Renxue about her status.
• Qian Renxue recognized Ning Rongrong’s provocation and weighed accepting Chu Xiu’s help to preserve unity.

Ning Rongrong persuaded Qian Renxue to teach Chu Xiu and Ah Yin Spirit Hall’s secret guiding method. Chu Xiu began guiding the spiritual energy in Qian Renxue’s body, and she grew increasingly attuned to its circulation.

• Ning Rongrong asked Qian Renxue whether she would kill the group to conceal their stranding, and Qian Renxue said she had planned to ask Chu Xiu for help.
• Ning Rongrong convinced Qian Renxue to teach both Chu Xiu and Ah Yin the guiding method.
• After dinner, Qian Renxue explained Spirit Hall’s secret technique to Chu Xiu and Ah Yin, who learned it.
• Qian Renxue lay facedown while Chu Xiu used the technique to guide the spiritual energy through her meridians.
• Qian Renxue told Chu Xiu not to stop, then focused on the circulation as she gradually adjusted to the sensation.

Chu Xiu guided Qian Renxue until she sensed spiritual energy and formed a magic-power vortex, awakening her light affinity. Her gratitude and respect raised her Bond Value to 80, leaving her able to wield a golden sword of light without her martial soul or soul power.

• After Ah Yin’s wood-affinity magic power caused a sense of rejection, she let Chu Xiu guide Qian Renxue instead.
• During a third circulation, Qian Renxue sensed spiritual energy on her own and began cultivating.
• Qian Renxue formed a magic-power vortex and created a golden sword of light without using her martial soul or soul power.
• Qian Renxue identified her affinity as light and said it resembled her Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul.
• Qian Renxue thanked Chu Xiu, and her gratitude and respect raised her Bond Value to 80.

Chu Xiu learned that Qian Renxue had mastered basic qi refinement and accepted her offer to consider serving Spirit Hall in exchange for becoming his woman. After she tested her Angel Soul Bone’s mental effects and offered him compensation, Chu Xiu kissed her, then returned to find Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er anxious to learn cultivation.

• Qian Renxue praised Chu Xiu’s abilities and asked him to become her aide in Spirit Hall, offering to try being his woman in return.
• Chu Xiu agreed to consider Qian Renxue’s proposal before they left the Deserted Island.
• Qian Renxue admitted she had tested a charm-like mental effect from her Angel Soul Bone and offered Chu Xiu compensation, so he chose to kiss her.
• Ning Rongrong asked whether Qian Renxue had learned qi refinement, and Chu Xiu revealed that she could already cultivate magic power.
• Ning Rongrong and Shui Bing'er asked Chu Xiu to guide them in cultivation.