Chapter Summaries

Lou Xu proposed founding the Artisan Soul Academy, while Xu Xingxuan agreed to send Xu Youyou as a student. Outside, Tai Tan attacked Lou Xu over Tang Hao’s body, but Xiong Jun killed him.

• Xu Youyou demonstrated Star Transformation, which strengthened Lou Xu and shielded him, before he proposed the Artisan Soul Academy to Xu Xingxuan.
• Xu Xingxuan accepted the plan for Xu Youyou to join the academy’s first class, expected to open in six or seven years.
• Lou Xu gave Xiao Wu permission to get a copied beginner’s rune manual after she asked to study runes.
• Xu Xingxuan explained that she wanted Xu Youyou to learn Runic Forging to help secure the Xu Family’s future.
• Tai Tan arrived to mourn Tang Hao and attacked Lou Xu, but Xiong Jun caught his Great Strength Gorilla avatar and killed him.

Tang Yuehua told Tang Xiao and Tang Ming that Tang Hao had been killed in Gengxin City, and the Clear Sky Sect abandoned any hope of recovering his remains. Lou Xu left the city with Xiong Jun and Xiao Wu carrying Spirit Hall’s Six Sovereigns Token, while Bibi Dong ordered her followers to track them and seethed over Qian Daoliu’s influence.

• Tang Yuehua returned to the Clear Sky Sect and told Tang Xiao and Tang Ming that Tang Hao had died and his body was hanging in Gengxin City.
• Tang Xiao refused Tang Yuehua’s request to retrieve Tang Hao’s body, deciding the Clear Sky Sect could not risk confronting the expert guarding the city.
• Lou Gao gave Lou Xu a Spirit Hall Elder Token and a Storage Soul Tool before Lou Xu departed Gengxin City with Xiong Jun and Xiao Wu.
• Lou Xu studied his route toward Fasinuo Province and worked on manuals for third- and fourth-tier runic forging as the carriage headed north.
• Bibi Dong ordered Spirit Hall branches to monitor Lou Xu and rejected a proposal to attack Lou Gao while Gengxin City was unguarded.

Bibi Dong grew furious after Qian Daoliu blocked her from confronting the Blacksmith Association, while Lou Xu took Xiao Wu and Xiong Jun to the cave holding Ah Yin. Lou Xu claimed Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor Soul Bone and ordered Xiao Wu to uproot her, leaving Xiao Wu terrified that he would send her away.

• Bibi Dong received a Rakshasa Oracle offering fifty percent compatibility and free access to the Inheritance Gate if she devoured an unknown deity’s aura.
• Lou Xu led Xiao Wu and Xiong Jun to the waterfall cave near Holy Soul Village, where Xiong Jun sensed a weak plant-type Soul Beast inside.
• Lou Xu revealed that the Blue Silver Emperor was Ah Yin, Tang Hao’s wife, and found the hidden Hundred-Thousand-Year Blue Silver Emperor Right Leg Bone behind a hollow section of wall.
• Xiao Wu pleaded with Lou Xu not to hurt Ah Yin, but Lou Xu rebuked her and threatened to send her back to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Xiao Wu tearfully uprooted Ah Yin, put her in a flowerpot, and brought her to Lou Xu.

Lou Xu and Xiong Jun left the mountain with Xiao Wu and the Blue Silver Emperor plant, then encountered Tang San, whose Blue Silver Grass reacted to the plant. Lou Xu revealed where he had found it and left Tang San with questions, hinting they would meet again.

• Lou Xu asked Xiong Jun whether Ah Yin’s seed could grow into a new Blue Silver Emperor, and Xiong Jun said he would need to consult the Myriad Demon King.
• Lou Xu gave Xiao Wu a handkerchief to clean herself, and she happily followed him and Xiong Jun down the mountain.
• Tang San’s Blue Silver Grass reacted to the Blue Silver Emperor in Xiao Wu’s flowerpot, and he asked to see it before Lou Xu identified himself and named the waterfall cave where they found it.
• Tang San watched Lou Xu and the others leave, then saw his Blue Silver Grass point after them and hurried home to find his father.
• Xiong Jun warned Lou Xu that Tang San had studied his weak points, while Lou Xu said Tang San would eventually need to repay his father’s debt and should recognize his family while he still could.

Lou Xu met Ning Fengzhi and Xue Qinghe to discuss the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect’s request for Runic Weapons and the Blacksmith Association’s plans for an academy. Xue Qinghe left intrigued by Lou Xu and his forging, while Ning Fengzhi went to discuss the proposal with the emperor.

• Lou Xu introduced Xiong Jun to Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong, whose attempt to probe Xiong Jun’s strength left him frightened.
• Ning Fengzhi offered to buy Runic Weapons and the Runic Forging method, but Lou Xu refused to sell the method and explained that it could be taught at the planned Artisan Soul Academy.
• Xue Qinghe offered to petition Xue Ye for land and a name for a Heaven Dou branch academy, while privately suspecting Lou Xu might see through his identity as Qian Renxue.
• Lou Xu spoke of the Soul Bones Xue Ye had offered to secure the Lou family’s support, prompting Xue Qinghe to consider involving the Spirit Hall in the academy.
• Ning Fengzhi left to discuss the Blacksmith Association’s position with Xue Ye, and Xue Qinghe invited Lou Xu to visit the Eastern Palace.
• After the group departed, one carriage turned around three streets away, and its passenger asked Uncle Gu why he had stayed silent.

Lou Xu explained rune circuits to Xiao Wu, then revealed to Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong how divine artifacts could protect support-type soul masters. He proposed a partnership with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect, setting a price and conditions for the artifacts.

• Xiao Wu questioned Lou Xu about connecting runes, and he explained the dangers of overloading a circuit and how it could be used as an explosive.
• After guests returned, Lou Xu told Xiao Wu to stay hidden and went to meet Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong.
• Lou Xu explained that divine artifacts made from inscribed soul bones could grant rune-based abilities, scale with the wielder's soul power, and be passed down safely.
• Ning Fengzhi and Gu Rong considered how divine artifacts could protect the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect's vulnerable support-type soul masters.
• Lou Xu offered either cooperation or a one-off deal, pricing each divine artifact at five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones, with three required as a deposit and secrecy as a condition.

Lou Xu secured a partnership with the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect and received four soul bones, while Xue Qinghe secretly moved toward poisoning Xue Ye despite Qian Daoliu's warnings. After converting three soul bones into life energy, Lou Xu broke through to Quasi-Soul Elder and began forging a divine artifact.

• Ning Fengzhi agreed to provide five Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones and asked Lou Xu to admit Ning Rongrong to the future academy; Lou Xu accepted on strict terms.
• Xue Qinghe received Qian Daoliu's warning to abandon the infiltration plan but ordered Ci Xue to poison Xue Ye.
• Xue Ye granted Xue Qinghe an abandoned alchemy workshop for the Lou family's academy, and Xue Qinghe later received the soul bones from She Long.
• The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect delivered a deposit and four soul bones to Lou Xu, including a forty-thousand-year Flame Lord right arm bone.
• Lou Xu converted three ordinary Ten Thousand Year Soul Bones into life energy, gained fifty Tank Engine stacks, and broke through to Quasi-Soul Elder.
• Lou Xu prepared to forge a divine artifact, while Xiao Wu complained that his hammering was too noisy.

Lou Xu finished forging Sheen, an Intermediate Divine Artifact, and sent it to his grandfather in Gengxin City. He then found Xue Qinghe asleep in the reception room and spoke with him over a meal, leaving the two together at the Heaven Dou City branch.

• Lou Xu completed Sheen, a sword that stored soul power and released it in a powerful slash, and Xiong Jun tested its strength.
• Lou Xu promised to forge Xiong Jun a stronger artifact after reaching Soul King, one powerful enough to help kill Di Tian.
• Lou Xu packed Sheen with a letter and ordered the steward to send both to his grandfather in Gengxin City.
• Lou Xu remembered Xue Qinghe was waiting, then found him asleep and covered him with a blanket.
• Xue Qinghe woke sharply, recognized Lou Xu, and thanked him before they shared a meal and discussed the palace and the branch.

Xue Qinghe probed Lou Xu about Spirit Hall and offered him a fief and two soul bones, but Lou Xu refused to join and chose to remain with his grandfather. After Xue Qinghe left, Lou Xu learned the crown prince was a level forty-four woman with a Six-Winged Angel Martial Soul, while Qian Renxue resolved to rekindle Spirit Hall as poison slowly weakened Xue Ye.

• Xue Qinghe asked Lou Xu about the expert who had intervened in Gengxin City and tried to recruit him by praising Spirit Hall's care for talent.
• Lou Xu refused to join Spirit Hall, saying he would rather guard his grandfather's legacy and spend his life blacksmithing.
• Xue Qinghe gave Lou Xu a western outskirts land deed and two high-quality soul bones, then asked to be considered his friend.
• Xiong Jun told Lou Xu that the crown prince was level forty-four and had a hidden winged-man scent, with a level ninety-three snake and level ninety-four fish guarding outside.
• Qian Renxue removed her disguise and wondered why her heart had stirred, then learned the poison would kill Xue Ye in five to ten years.
• Qian Renxue dismissed Ci Xue and resolved to rekindle Spirit Hall.

Lou Xu delayed returning to Gengxin City while pursuing leads about the Immortal Herb and Ah Yin, while Tang San tried to join a rune-forging apprenticeship in Nuoding City. After Manager Wang recognized Tang Hao’s hammer technique and expelled him, Tang San decided Lou Xu might be an enemy and vowed to investigate his father’s affairs.

• Lou Xu read a letter reporting progress on rune-forging research and decided to remain in Heaven Dou City to pursue the Dugu Family, the Ye Family, and the Immortal Herb before visiting the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Shi San told Tang San about a rune-forging apprenticeship and arranged for him to try out at Nuoding City’s largest blacksmith shop.
• Tang San used the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer during the purification test, impressing Manager Wang until he recognized the technique as Tang Hao’s.
• Manager Wang accused Tang San of being Tang Hao’s son and expelled him, saying the rune-forging master would not take him as an apprentice.
• Tang San buried the refined iron he had collected, resolved to investigate Tang Hao and the Blue Silver Grass, and vowed to kill Lou Xu if he learned Lou Xu was involved.

Lou Xu defeated a 6,800-year-old Crystal Bear, absorbed its Soul Ring, and gained the Flame Crystal Seal skill. After he reunited with Xiao Wu, Er Ming arrived and asked her to return home with him.

• Xiong Jun led Lou Xu and Xiao Wu to a Crystal Bear’s territory and told Lou Xu he had to defeat the wounded beast himself to earn its Soul Ring.
• Lou Xu used his Martial Soul, clone, and Soul Bone skills to break through the Crystal Bear’s defenses and kill it.
• Lou Xu endured the Crystal Bear’s violent Soul Ring absorption, rose to level thirty-two, and gained the Flame Crystal Seal skill.
• Lou Xu tested Flame Crystal Seal by crystallizing and shattering a tree, then absorbed the Crystal Bear’s corpse and gained life energy.
• Er Ming arrived, recognized Xiong Jun, and greeted Xiao Wu, who told him she was fine.
• Er Ming asked Xiao Wu to return home with him because he and Da Ming missed her.

Lou Xu asked the Myriad Demon King how to preserve Ah Yin’s Blue Silver Emperor bloodline without letting her thrive or strengthen his enemy. The Myriad Demon King killed Ah Yin to create two Blue Silver Seeds, and Lou Xu left with half and her soul bone.

• Er Ming accepted that Xiao Wu would stay with Lou Xu and left to speak with Da Ming.
• The Myriad Demon King arrived and acknowledged Lou Xu’s rapid growth and his earlier underestimation of him.
• Lou Xu asked how Ah Yin’s remaining power could create a new Blue Silver Emperor, and the Myriad Demon King explained how the seed could empower a soul master or nurture another emperor.
• The Myriad Demon King offered to remove Ah Yin’s divine soul mark in exchange for half of her Blue Silver Seed, and Lou Xu agreed that she had to die.
• The Myriad Demon King drained Ah Yin into a seed, split it in two, gave one half to Lou Xu, and sent the other toward the Blue Silver Forest.
• The Myriad Demon King crushed Ah Yin’s divine soul, and Lou Xu called her death the first of five planned for five.