Chapter Summaries

Lu Guan awakened a terrifying four-eyed, six-handed body martial soul and five ancient weapons, along with innate full soul power. After recognizing the power as that of Chi You, the War God, he resolved to test how far it could take him in the Dragon King era.

• At the Eastsea City Spirit Pagoda, Lu Guan stepped forward for his six-year-old martial soul awakening while his father, Lu Beixuan, encouraged him.
• During the ceremony, Lu Guan’s body transformed, giving him four eyes and six hands and frightening the awakening master and crowd.
• Five ancient bronze weapons appeared in Lu Guan’s hands: Ge, Shu, Ji, Qiu, and Yi.
• Wu Jing tested Lu Guan’s soul power and announced that he had innate full soul power, prompting the crowd to congratulate Lu Beixuan.
• Lu Guan recognized his martial soul as Chi You’s power and resolved to see whether the War God could help him rise in the Dragon King era.

After recording Lu Guan’s War Master’s Demonic Body, Wu Jing gave him a Storage Soul Tool and a check, and Lu Guan returned home to investigate his martial soul. He discovered its Nine Li War Fog and the War Master’s Heart Art, then began channeling soul power into its five bronze weapons.

• Wu Jing recorded Lu Guan’s martial soul and gave him a Storage Soul Tool containing a five-hundred-thousand-credit check.
• Lu Guan saw Lu Beixuan boasting about his awakening to acquaintances outside the Spirit Pagoda and went home without interrupting him.
• Lu Guan manifested the War Master’s Demonic Body and released a dense fog that heightened his senses and made his body feel stronger.
• Lu Guan named the fog Nine Li War Fog and drew it back into his body.
• Lu Guan summoned five ancient bronze weapons and received the War Master’s Heart Art, then channeled soul power into the weapons.

Lu Guan practiced the Weapon Lord's Heart Art, then went with Lu Beixuan to the Spirit Pagoda to shop for a Soul Spirit. Meanwhile, a silver-haired girl sensed an ancient battle aura from the Spirit Pagoda and struggled to choose between following it and the distant call drawing her toward the sea.

• Lu Guan tested the five forms of the Weapon Lord's Heart Art, wrecking the courtyard before his Soul Power ran out.
• Lu Beixuan returned with roast chickens, saw the damage, and asked Lu Guan about choosing a Soul Spirit.
• Lu Guan revealed that the Spirit Pagoda had given him a bracelet holding five hundred thousand federal dollars, and Lu Beixuan decided to buy a hundred-year Soul Spirit.
• Lu Beixuan took Lu Guan to the Spirit Pagoda's second floor, where Deacon Zhao explained the Soul Spirit prices and called for a spiritual power test.
• A silver-haired girl who had lost her memory sensed an ancient battle aura from the Spirit Pagoda and hesitated between following it and going toward the sea.

Lu Guan tested at a spiritual power of 69 and chose the dangerous Darkbone Bloodwing Tiger soul spirit despite warnings that it had injured other children. When the fusion began, the vicious tiger attacked him in his mental world, and Lu Guan prepared to fight back.

• Deacon Zhao measured Lu Guan's spiritual power at 69 and called him a prodigy.
• Deacon Zhao recommended bear- or elephant-type soul spirits, but Lu Guan found the Darkbone Bloodwing Tiger in a secluded display case.
• Deacon Zhao explained that the tiger had once been a ten-thousand-year soul spirit whose extraction had damaged it, and that its malice had injured children who tried to fuse with it.
• Lu Guan insisted on choosing the tiger, persuaded Lu Beixuan to trust him, and paid for the soul spirit.
• Lu Guan opened the sealed box and entered his mental world, where the Nightmare Bloodwing Tiger lunged at him.
• Lu Guan opened two shadowy eyes in his forehead and summoned four phantom arms to confront the tiger.

Lu Guan absorbed the Nightmare Bloodwing Tiger and gained Bloodbone Demon Wings, then used his new power to rescue Na'er from thugs in Eastsea City. Na'er's unexpected appearance unsettled his assumptions about the story, while Lu Beixuan took her home as his daughter.

• Lu Guan subdued and absorbed the Nightmare Bloodwing Tiger, awakening his Bloodbone Demon Wings and gaining the ability to fly.
• Lu Guan and Lu Beixuan left the Spirit Pagoda, and Lu Guan told his father about his new flight skill.
• Lu Guan rushed into an alley and defeated three thugs who were surrounding a silver-haired girl.
• The girl introduced herself as Na'er, and Lu Guan realized her appearance in Eastsea City contradicted what he expected from the story.
• Lu Beixuan decided to take Na'er home, and Lu Guan followed them.

After bringing Na'er home, Lu Guan decided to learn forging so he could use his Body Martial Soul and War Lord Heart Method to create Battle Armor. At the Blacksmith Association, he revealed his six-armed War Lord Demon Body and asked Instructor Lin Mu for five more hammers.

• Lu Beixuan and Lu Guan brought Na'er home, where Xu Ran welcomed her and celebrated Lu Guan's innate full Soul Power and scholarship.
• Lu Guan resolved to pursue forging, reasoning that his strength, six hands, and War Lord Heart Method made it the best secondary profession for him.
• Lu Guan went to the Eastsea City Blacksmith Association and met third-rank blacksmith Lin Mu, who explained the basics of metal purification and forging.
• Lu Guan easily lifted a fifteen-jin hammer, surprising Lin Mu with his strength as a Body Martial Soul user.
• Lu Guan activated the War Lord Demon Body, grew four additional arms and two extra eyes, and asked Lin Mu for five more forging hammers.

Lu Guan used his six arms to forge pig iron, developing a rapid vibration technique that expelled impurities before Mu Chen guided him through the final shaping. The metal reached Hundred Refinement, and Lu Guan’s forging talent drew the Eastsea City Blacksmith Association president’s attention.

• Lu Guan took six fine iron hammers and began striking red-hot pig iron, first deforming it with excessive force.
• Lu Guan changed his hammering rhythm and used interwoven blows to send vibrations through the metal and expel impurities.
• Mu Chen heard the unusual forging rhythm, found Lu Guan in the beginner forging room, and recognized his six-armed Body Martial Soul and the metal’s approach to Hundred Refinement.
• Mu Chen advised Lu Guan to listen to the metal, steady it with two hands, and guide the other four hammers along its grain.
• Lu Guan followed Mu Chen’s guidance and forged the pig iron into silvery-white metal, achieving Hundred Refinement.

Six-year-old Lu Guan impressed Mu Chen by forging hundred refinement metal and became his disciple. At the Eastsea Junior Soul Master Academy, Lu Guan’s frightening martial soul display terrified his classmates, but Wang Daxiong later confronted and insulted him.

• Lu Guan forged hundred refinement pig iron, prompting Mu Chen to offer to take him as a disciple, and Lu Guan accepted.
• Mu Chen watched Lu Guan train in the private forging room over the following days.
• Lu Beixuan sent Lu Guan into his first-year, Class One at the Eastsea Junior Soul Master Academy with money and clothes altered for his extra limbs and wings.
• At Lin Feng’s class introduction, Lu Guan revealed his innate full soul power, hundred-year soul ring, four eyes, six arms, and bone wings, frightening his classmates and teacher.
• After class, Wang Daxiong and his two lackeys mocked Lu Guan’s appearance, and Lu Guan silently admired Wang Daxiong’s nerve.

Lu Guan continued developing his forging skills while Mu Chen sought help from Zhen Hua, who said Mu Ye had just left after Leng Yaozhu visited. After spending the weekend with Na'er, Lu Guan encountered Mu Ye, the Body Sect Master, who had come to see his martial soul.

• Lu Guan subdued Wang Daxiong without activating his soul power and warned him to stay quiet in class.
• Lu Guan completed a Hundred Refinement, but Mu Chen stopped him from attempting Thousand Refinement because his soul power was too weak to withstand the recoil.
• Mu Chen called Zhen Hua to ask about Mu Ye, but learned Mu Ye had left after Leng Yaozhu visited.
• Lu Guan took Na'er out for snacks instead of going forging, then brought her home through a quiet alley.
• Mu Ye confronted Lu Guan, asked to see his martial soul, and introduced himself as the current Body Sect Master.

Lu Guan revealed his mutated body martial soul to Mu Ye, who offered to take him as a disciple and train him while Mu Chen continued teaching him forging. At the Blacksmith Association, Lu Guan discovered that Leng Yaozhu had shared his awakening information with Mu Ye, and Leng Yaozhu noticed Na'er as she prepared to leave.

• Lu Guan showed Mu Ye his War Lord Demon Body, impressing him with its extra arms, bone wings, and forehead eyes.
• Mu Ye offered Lu Guan the Body Sect's resources and manuals, and Lu Guan insisted that Mu Chen would remain his teacher for life.
• Mu Ye agreed that Mu Chen would continue teaching forging while he trained Lu Guan, then flew Lu Guan and Na'er to Eastsea City in his red mecha.
• At the Blacksmith Association, Lu Guan met Leng Yaozhu, who had provided Mu Ye with information about his martial soul awakening.
• Mu Ye acknowledged that he owed Leng Yaozhu a favor, and she noticed Na'er as she turned to leave.

Leng Yaozhu offered to take Na'er as her disciple, but Na'er initially refused because she wanted to stay with Lu Guan. After Lu Guan persuaded her that becoming Leng Yaozhu's disciple would let her visit him in Heaven Dou City, Na'er agreed, and the group set out to inform her parents and complete the arrangements.

• Leng Yaozhu sensed Na'er's extraordinary talent and asked her to become her disciple, but Na'er refused to leave Lu Guan.
• Lu Guan offered to persuade Na'er and her parents, securing a favor from Leng Yaozhu in return.
• Lu Guan explained that Na'er could visit him in Heaven Dou City if she became Leng Yaozhu's disciple, and Na'er agreed.
• Mu Ye proposed going to Na'er's home to explain the arrangement and handle the formalities, and Mu Chen joined them as Lu Guan's forging teacher.
• Lu Guan, Na'er, Leng Yaozhu, Mu Ye, and Mu Chen left the Blacksmith Association together.

Lu Guan and Na'er left Eastsea City with their new mentors, Mu Ye and Leng Yaozhu, bound for Heaven Dou City and the Spirit Pagoda Headquarters. As the children slept aboard Mu Ye's God-Level Mecha, he reflected on the Body Sect's future and his hopes for Lu Guan.

• Mu Ye and Leng Yaozhu persuaded Lu Beixuan and Xu Ran to let Lu Guan and Na'er leave with them for training.
• Mu Ye summoned his Red God-Level Mecha, and Na'er asked to ride in it instead of traveling with Leng Yaozhu.
• Mu Ye flew the children and Leng Yaozhu toward Heaven Dou City, explaining to Lu Guan that Battle Armor was stronger than mechas for individual combat.
• Lu Guan and Na'er fell asleep, and Mu Ye ordered Red to pilot the mecha toward Heaven Dou City.
• Mu Ye told Red that Lu Guan gave him hope for the Body Sect's future, and Red promised to remain by his side.

Na'er stayed at the Spirit Pagoda while Lu Guan went with Mu Ye to the Body Sect’s base in Heaven Dou City and began training in its Innate Secret Method. As Lu Guan endured the painful medicinal bath, Mu Ye arranged to seek financial support from Zhen Hua and prepared to call Mu Chen.

• Na'er clung to Lu Guan before Leng Yaozhu took her into the Spirit Pagoda, and Lu Guan flew with Mu Ye to Heaven Dou City.
• Mu Ye showed Lu Guan the Body Sect’s underground base and explained second awakenings and the costly, dangerous Innate Secret Method.
• Lu Guan agreed to practice the method and endured a painful medicinal bath while Mu Ye watched.
• Mu Ye called Zhen Hua and described Lu Guan’s forging talent, then proposed that Zhen Hua support the child’s cultivation.
• After agreeing that Zhen Hua could meet Lu Guan, Mu Ye called his old friend Mu Chen.

Lu Guan rapidly absorbed a powerful medicinal bath, impressing Mu Ye with the potential of his War Lord Demon Body and the Innate Secret Method. Over the next three years, he trained through medicinal baths, forging, and combat, with Zhen Hua supporting his costly development.

• Mu Ye tricked Mu Chen into promising resources for Lu Guan by claiming Zhen Hua wanted to take him as a disciple.
• Lu Guan absorbed nearly all the medicinal power in a potent bath in under an hour, and Mu Ye realized his complete War Lord Demon Body could absorb it throughout his body at once.
• Lu Guan emerged feeling immense strength, and Mu Ye said he would beat the medicinal power into his marrow.
• Over three years, Lu Guan trained through medicinal baths, forging, and combat at the Body Sect's temporary headquarters in Heaven Dou City.
• Zhen Hua supported Lu Guan after witnessing him forge starry sky meteoric iron through Hundred Refinement and Thousand Refinement in one continuous session.
• Someone called out to Lu Guan, saying they had come to see him.

Lu Guan broke through to rank 30 while Na'er and A Ruheng waited outside his room. To obtain his third soul ring, he entered the Nightmare Darkwing Tiger’s inner space and began confronting nightmares, where two blood-red versions of himself appeared.

• Na'er arrived to visit Lu Guan, and A Ruheng told her that Lu Guan was making a breakthrough.
• Lu Guan shattered the rank-30 barrier and became a three-ring Soul Elder after Mu Ye had held him back to strengthen his foundation.
• Lu Guan entered his inner space and found that the Nightmare Darkwing Tiger had recovered to a thousand-year level after being nourished by his War Lord Demon Body.
• The Nightmare Darkwing Tiger offered Lu Guan the power of nightmares, and Lu Guan agreed to comprehend them and subdue its bloodline.
• Lu Guan awoke in a pitch-black realm and saw two blood-red figures identical to himself emerge from the darkness.

Lu Guan defeated two heart demons in his mental trial and learned that the Nightmare Darkwing Tiger carried stolen origin blood from the beast Nightmare. He awakened [Nightmare Lure], a Soul Skill that turned enemies’ fears into Nightmare Wraiths within his Nine Li War Fog, and reached level thirty-one.

• Lu Guan fought two heart demons that copied his War Lord Demon Body and Five Weapons, then overwhelmed them with his War Lord Heart Method and destroyed them.
• The Nightmare Darkwing Tiger explained that its Nightmare origin blood came from the beast Nightmare and that Lu Guan would have to face the source to master nightmares.
• Lu Guan awakened his third Soul Skill, [Nightmare Lure], which manifested enemies’ fears as Nightmare Wraiths inside the Nine Li War Fog.
• Lu Guan realized the new skill turned his war fog into a force for group combat and stabilized at level thirty-one as a three-ring Soul Elder.

After completing his breakthrough, Lu Guan returned to Eastsea City with Na'er and visited the Blacksmith Association, where Mu Xi challenged him to forge Black Gold. He demonstrated Hundred Refinement in six strikes, leaving Mu Xi stunned.

• Na'er rushed into Lu Guan's room after his breakthrough, then fled when she realized he was naked.
• Na'er told Lu Guan that Leng Yaozhu was going to Eastsea City, so they could return home together.
• Lu Guan went to the Eastsea City Blacksmith Association and learned that Mu Chen was away.
• Mu Xi, Mu Chen's daughter, challenged Lu Guan to forge a difficult piece of Black Gold so she could find fault with his work.
• Lu Guan activated his War Lord Demon Body and used six hammers to complete Hundred Refinement in six strikes, stunning Mu Xi.

Lu Guan advanced his forging to half a step into Spirit Forging, and Mu Chen gave him his Saint Craftsman Notes. At the Spirit Pagoda, Na'er learned that Leng Yaozhu had come to Eastsea City to meet a gifted girl named Gu Yue and asked to challenge her.

• Lu Guan flawlessly completed first-grade Thousand Refinement on black gold, then attempted Spirit Forging but produced only a half-step result.
• Mu Xi identified the missing resonance step in Lu Guan's attempt, and Mu Chen emerged to witness his disciple's achievement.
• Mu Chen gave Lu Guan his Saint Craftsman Notes, and Lu Guan left the Blacksmith Association for the Spirit Pagoda to meet Na'er.
• Leng Yaozhu told Na'er about the nine-year-old Gu Yue, whose spiritual power was extraordinary and whose martial soul was Elemental Control.
• Na'er asked to fight Gu Yue, then stopped in surprise when Leng Yaozhu named her.

Na'er panicked when Leng Yaozhu said Gu Yue was coming to Eastsea City, so she persuaded Lu Guan to fight in her place. Lu Guan confronted Gu Yue at Eastsea Academy and revealed his overwhelming strength, leaving the spar about to begin.

• Na'er learned Gu Yue was in Eastsea City and feared she would lose when asked to test Gu Yue's strength.
• Lu Guan agreed to fight Gu Yue, partly to test his new Soul Skill, and Na'er urged him not to hold back.
• Lu Guan found Gu Yue at Eastsea Academy and challenged her to a fight.
• Gu Yue sensed Na'er's presence overhead and prepared to fight, while Lu Guan displayed three purple Soul Rings.
• Lu Guan activated his War Lord Demon Body, manifested four extra arms, opened his Demon Eye, and summoned the war fog.

Gu Yue fought Lu Guan in his Nine Li War Fog, using elemental control and space to evade his powerful attacks. When Lu Guan trapped her with Shadow Trace, Gu Yue formed a destructive orb from four elements, leaving its power unresolved.

• Lu Guan spread Nine Li War Fog around Gu Yue, and she attacked him with wind, earth, fire, and ice while keeping her distance.
• Lu Guan opened his Bloodbone Demon Wings and dove at Gu Yue, who escaped the impact by using her space element.
• Leng Yaozhu watched with Na'er and wondered how many of the nine great elements Gu Yue had mastered.
• Lu Guan used Shadow Trace to emerge from Gu Yue's shadow and trap her with his six arms and five weapons.
• Gu Yue combined wind, fire, earth, and water into a destructive orb that Lu Guan recognized as resembling Buddha's Fury Fire Lotus.