Chapter Summaries

Su Xun returned from Han Tianyi’s exhausting spiritual training, and Leng Yaozhu explained how Elder Han might eventually connect him with the Body Sect. After Su Xun’s spiritual power improved with a night’s sleep, Leng Yaozhu began teaching him and Na’er about battle armor.

• A Black-and-White Millstone dragged Su Xun into Han Tianyi’s spiritual training, and he returned exhausted that evening.
• Leng Yaozhu explained that Elder Han might introduce Su Xun to the Body Sect’s sect master if Su Xun continued studying diligently.
• Su Xun slept until noon and woke with clearer senses and considerably increased spiritual power.
• Su Xun teased Na’er about sleeping late, fought her off when she pounced, and later subdued her again after lunch.
• Leng Yaozhu ended the afternoon’s posture training by telling Su Xun and Na’er that powerful soul masters also needed battle armor.

Leng Yaozhu advised Su Xun and Na'er on choosing second professions, recommending mecha design for Su Xun and mecha repair for Na'er. Su Xun asked to try forging as well as mecha design, and Leng Yaozhu agreed on the condition that he would give up the extra pursuit if it went poorly.

• Leng Yaozhu explained the four second professions and recommended mecha design for Su Xun because his unusual martial soul would be difficult for others to accommodate.
• Leng Yaozhu told Na'er to learn mecha repair, and Na'er decided she liked the idea of coasting along.
• Su Xun asked which second profession had the greatest potential, and Leng Yaozhu said blacksmithing was the hardest to advance in and had the highest potential.
• Su Xun reasoned that he wanted to forge his own battle armor and rely on himself rather than depend on others.
• Su Xun asked Leng Yaozhu to let him try both forging and mecha design, and she agreed while requiring him to abandon the extra pursuit if it did not go well.

After three years of intense training, Su Xun and Na'er hunted an Evil Eye Tyrant, and Na'er gave Su Xun its external soul bone. Su Xun absorbed it successfully, gaining a blood-red eye mark and a major increase in spiritual power, while Na'er demanded compensation for giving up the prize.

• Su Xun and Na'er found an Evil Eye Tyrant in the Primary Spirit Ascension Platform, and Na'er killed it with her Silver Dragon Spear.
• Na'er retrieved the Evil Eye Tyrant's external soul bone and gave it to Su Xun, despite its potential to match her spatial abilities.
• Su Xun explained that he still had not absorbed a second soul spirit because Night Owl could not form a second ring and no compatible spirit had been found; Leng Yaozhu had recently found a lead.
• Su Xun absorbed the external soul bone, which merged with him and left a blood-red eye mark between his brows.
• Na'er sensed Su Xun's spiritual power surge and demanded compensation for handing over the soul bone.

Su Xun absorbed the Night Owl External Soul Bone, and his Spiritual Power reached 1,024. Leng Yaozhu learned that a copper-eating, black-and-white bear-like beast had been located beyond the East Sea, giving them a lead on his next Soul Spirit, and the group set out to prepare for the journey.

• Su Xun and Na'er completed the Night Owl fusion, and Leng Yaozhu praised their teamwork before asking how Su Xun felt.
• Su Xun tested his Spiritual Power and recorded a reading of 1,024.
• Leng Yaozhu received confirmation of a bear-shaped beast beyond the East Sea that matched Su Xun's description and said it appeared only under certain conditions.
• Na'er urged them to leave at once, while Leng Yaozhu said the trip could help Su Xun awaken his Body Root and stop holding himself back.
• Qiangu Dongfeng dismissed a subordinate's objection to Su Xun receiving the Evil Eye Tyrant's Eye and privately warned Leng Yaozhu not to make things difficult for him.

Leng Yaozhu brought Su Xun and Na'er to the hidden East Sea Purple Bamboo Forest so Su Xun could find a Soul Spirit. Su Xun found a Black-and-White Bear whose aura seemed to carry a dragon’s presence, and it agreed to become his Soul Spirit as he began forming the Soul Spirit Formation.

• Leng Yaozhu took Su Xun and Na'er through a spatial gateway into the East Sea Purple Bamboo Forest, a small world hidden in a spatial crack.
• Leng Yaozhu spotted a Black-and-White Bear eating Purple Bamboo Shoots and judged that Su Xun could absorb it despite its apparent dimness.
• Na'er sensed a dragon aura from the Black-and-White Bear, surprising Leng Yaozhu and Su Xun.
• Su Xun approached the bear as his Body Root activated, and the bear sculpture in the Six Roots Tribulation Soil's Origin Mindscape trembled.
• Su Xun asked the Black-and-White Bear to become his Soul Spirit, and it nodded as he began forming the Soul Spirit Formation.

Su Xun formed a Soul Spirit contract with the Black-and-White Bear and gained a mysterious black-and-white qi power that resembled an External Soul Bone. His soul power rose to level thirty, and Leng Yaozhu asked what his new Soul Skill was.

• Su Xun connected with the Black-and-White Bear as the Soul Spirit Formation transformed the beast into a Soul Spirit.
• Black-and-white qi enveloped Su Xun, and Na'er and Leng Yaozhu suspected it might be an unusual External Soul Bone.
• The qi sank into Su Xun, enlarging him briefly as he gained a purple Soul Ring and a black-and-white taiji-like Soul Ring, then broke through to level thirty.
• Na'er resented Su Xun's rapid advancement, and Leng Yaozhu scolded her for complaining after urging him to become a Soul Grandmaster.
• Leng Yaozhu tested Su Xun's strengthened body and sensed that his Body Root had also greatly enhanced his ability to affect others' senses.
• Su Xun said he felt strong enough to knock down a three-thousand-year Soul Beast with one punch, and Leng Yaozhu asked about his second Soul Skill.

Su Xun explained his Body Desire: Yin-Yang Calamity Soul Skill and revealed the Divine Dragon Qi he had gained, then traveled back toward the Douluo Continent with Leng Yaozhu and Na'er. During the journey, he nudged Leng Yaozhu to consider that her missing sister Leng Yulai might be with the Holy Spirit Cult, while Leng Yaozhu reminded him that their three-year agreement was due for assessment.

• Su Xun showed Leng Yaozhu how Body Desire: Yin-Yang Calamity converted bodily desire and tactile sensations into powers that could strengthen his body and affect others.
• Su Xun identified the black-and-white qi as Divine Dragon Qi, a peculiar External Soul Bone that nourished him and could augment tangible attacks.
• Na'er tried a Purple Bamboo Shoot, found it unbearably astringent, and asked Su Xun for water before Leng Yaozhu carried them off Purple Bamboo Island in the Black Phoenix Mecha.
• As Su Xun studied his Divine Dragon Qi during the return journey, Leng Yaozhu told him that her younger sister Leng Yulai had disappeared years ago.
• Su Xun suggested that Leng Yaozhu search among secretive organizations, leading her to suspect that Leng Yulai had joined the Holy Spirit Cult.
• Su Xun comforted Leng Yaozhu, who teased him before warning that she would punish him if he had not met the terms of their three-year agreement.

After reaching level thirty, Su Xun asked Han Tianyi whether his spiritual power could support a ten-thousand-year Four-Eared Macaque and multiple powerful soul spirits. Han Tianyi assured him he could, and Leng Yaozhu confirmed that studying defective specimens had been the real reason Han Tianyi joined the Spirit Pagoda.

• Su Xun considered absorbing the fifteen-thousand-year Mutant Four-Eared Macaque and asked Han Tianyi to assess him.
• Han Tianyi told Su Xun that he could absorb the Four-Eared Macaque and raise his other two soul spirits to the ten-thousand-year level.
• Han Tianyi explained that he had studied soul beasts by absorbing defective specimens from the Spirit Ascension Platform.
• Han Tianyi cited Huo Yuhao's seven hundred-thousand-year soul spirits and said Su Xun's spiritual power could support multiple soul spirits.
• Han Tianyi invited Su Xun to visit him for techniques to reduce the strain on his spiritual power.
• Leng Yaozhu confirmed that Han Tianyi had joined the Spirit Pagoda to study defective specimens and had recycled most of them afterward.

Su Xun consulted Han Tianyi about managing multiple soul spirit contracts, then smoothly absorbed his third soul spirit, a mutated Four-Eared Macaque. His new soul skill, Listen to the Truth, let him hear other people’s hidden thoughts, including thoughts that left him flustered.

• Su Xun demonstrated his activated body root and Little Po to Han Tianyi, who examined the bear but found nothing unusual.
• Han Tianyi explained two ways to keep soul spirit contract imprints separate: compartmentalize them in the Sea of Consciousness or transfer them to a soul bone, and he recommended Su Xun’s Evil Eye Tyrant’s Eye.
• Su Xun absorbed the fifteen-thousand-year-old mutated Four-Eared Macaque without difficulty while Na'er and Leng Yaozhu watched.
• Su Xun’s ears became crystalline, and he discovered that his enhanced hearing let him hear Na'er’s secret thoughts.
• Su Xun identified the new ability as Listen to the Truth and explained it to Leng Yaozhu, then wondered what she had meant by “biting into.”

Su Xun entered the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform to raise Night Owl and Little Abao to the ten-thousand-year level, using his spiritual power and control over the three desires to hunt soul beasts. After Little Abao advanced and Night Owl neared the same milestone, Su Xun spotted an Ice-Fire Demon Tiger and prepared to attack it.

• Su Xun entered the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform while Leng Yaozhu and Na'er watched from the connection room.
• Su Xun killed a Wind Baboon with his physical strength and Divine Dragon Qi, then absorbed its spiritual energy.
• Su Xun hunted soul beasts across the platform, and Little Abao advanced to the ten-thousand-year level.
• Su Xun moved deeper into the platform and brought Night Owl to just over a hundred years short of the ten-thousand-year level.
• Su Xun spotted a flying Ice-Fire Demon Tiger with an estimated cultivation of more than four thousand years and concealed himself to approach it.

Su Xun used three desire-based Soul Skills to trap the Ice-Fire Demon Tiger in an illusion and killed it with one punch, but a Tyrant Dragon appeared before he was extracted from the Spirit Ascension Platform. Back in the Link Room, his Soul Spirits began evolving as Leng Yaozhu caught him, while Na'er feared he was dying.

• Su Xun waited until the Ice-Fire Demon Tiger was immersed in his illusion of a wounded White Tiger, using the Illusory Color Net and his desire-based Soul Skills to deepen its deception.
• Su Xun broke the illusion with a dragon roar and killed the unresisting Ice-Fire Demon Tiger with one punch, draining his Spiritual Power and Soul Power.
• A Tyrant Dragon charged toward Su Xun, but a white light extracted him from the Spirit Ascension Platform before it could reach him.
• Leng Yaozhu and Na'er watched Su Xun emerge from the Link Pod, and Na'er blushed after accidentally seeing him undressed.
• Su Xun pretended to collapse as his Soul Spirits began digesting the spiritual energy and evolving, while Leng Yaozhu caught him and Na'er panicked that he might die.

Su Xun meditated on his gains while Leng Yaozhu and Na'er joined him for a trip to the snack street. Leng Yaozhu experienced another breakthrough in her state of mind, then detected and destroyed a plant that had been used to spy on them, though its watcher escaped.

• Su Xun observed that the Night Owl, Little Abao, and Four-Eared Macaque had awakened in the Six Roots Tribulation Soil's Origin Mindscape, with the Four-Eared Macaque still transforming under Changyou's influence.
• Na'er hurried Su Xun and Leng Yaozhu out to use her all-you-can-eat voucher, and Leng Yaozhu scolded Su Xun after he accidentally entered her room while she was changing.
• Na'er feasted along the snack street as Su Xun paid, while Leng Yaozhu reflected on their life together and broke through another state-of-mind barrier.
• Leng Yaozhu sensed surveillance from an inconspicuous green plant and destroyed it with Phoenix Cry, but she found no trace of the watcher.
• Su Xun recognized that Leng Yaozhu was concealing her concern and suggested that they all head home.

Di Tian learned that Leng Yaozhu’s breakthroughs had made the Myriad Demon King unable to watch Na’er, so he left the decision about her future to the recovering Silver Dragon King. At the Spirit Pagoda, Su Xun used his new cultivation breakthrough to attempt spirit forging, drawing Leng Yaozhu to watch as his work continued.

• The Myriad Demon King told Di Tian that Leng Yaozhu’s rising spiritual power had exposed his surveillance of Na’er, though Na’er still showed no sign of recovering her memories.
• Di Tian ended the Myriad Demon King’s watch and said the recovering Silver Dragon King would decide what to do next.
• Su Xun visited Jin Yue on the Spirit Pagoda’s forty-ninth floor and said his cultivation breakthrough might let him advance his forging.
• Su Xun used his Blood Sacrifice Forging Hammers to forge nether silver, quickly producing the signs of first-grade thousand refinement.
• Jin Yue suspected Su Xun was attempting spirit forging, and Leng Yaozhu arrived to ask how his forging was going.

Su Xun completed Creation Spirit Forging on his first attempt, earning the rank of Level Five Forging Grandmaster and impressing Leng Yaozhu. After Jin Yue left, Leng Yaozhu teased Su Xun and reassured him that she would not harm Jin Yue, leaving Su Xun to ask whether he had passed their three-year assessment.

• Jin Yue told Leng Yaozhu that Su Xun had surpassed what he could teach and revealed Su Xun's forging achievements and attempt at Spirit Forging.
• Su Xun forged the nether silver through Creation Spirit Forging, forming a two-way resonance that produced a metal creation bearing traces of his power.
• Leng Yaozhu sealed the room and ordered Jin Yue to keep Su Xun's forging talent secret, and Jin Yue agreed.
• Jin Yue declared Su Xun a Level Five Forging Grandmaster, said he had taught him everything he could, and left after Su Xun thanked him.
• Leng Yaozhu teased Su Xun, then reassured him that she would not make things difficult for Jin Yue before Su Xun asked whether he had passed their assessment.

After half a year of training, Su Xun mastered Jin Yue’s forging knowledge, and Han Tianyi took him away in his Black Brain mecha. Leng Yaozhu learned that Gu Yue was the daughter of a Titled Douluo called Demon Dragon and set out with Na’er for Eastsea City.

• Su Xun told Leng Yaozhu that Han Tianyi had summoned him, then left for the ninety-fifth floor while Na’er stayed to train.
• Han Tianyi praised Su Xun, brought him outside the Spirit Pagoda, and flew away with him in his Black Brain mecha.
• Pei Hai informed Leng Yaozhu that Gu Yue came from a secluded family and that her mother was a Titled Douluo titled Demon Dragon.
• Leng Yaozhu arranged a meeting with Gu Yue’s family after recalling Gu Yue’s remarkable performance and their request to contact Spirit Pagoda leaders.
• Leng Yaozhu invited Na’er to go out without Su Xun, then told her they were heading to Eastsea City, making Na’er uneasy.

Su Xun traveled with Han Tianyi to Heaven Dou City for a possible second awakening of his Six Desires Immortal and met Divine Craftsman Zhen Hua. Han Tianyi hinted that Su Xun had a fateful connection with Zhen Hua, leaving the Divine Craftsman curious.

• Han Tianyi explained that the Body Sect hoped Su Xun's Six Desires Immortal could help it recover, though he was unsure whether Su Xun was ready for a second awakening.
• Han Tianyi and Su Xun arrived at the Blacksmith Association in Heaven Dou City, where Zhen Hua came out to greet them.
• Zhen Hua asked whether Su Xun was Han Tianyi's disciple, and Su Xun said Leng Yaozhu was his teacher while he also studied under Han Tianyi.
• Han Tianyi explained that Su Xun excelled in both spiritual power and blood energy, then told Zhen Hua that Su Xun had a fateful connection with him.

Su Xun demonstrated his forging skill to Zhen Hua, revealing astonishing talent that made the Divine Craftsman offer to train him as his successor. Han Tianyi worried that Zhen Hua wanted Su Xun to devote himself entirely to forging, while Su Xun had far broader potential.

• Su Xun told Zhen Hua that he studied forging as his second profession and offered to demonstrate his skill.
• Zhen Hua led Su Xun and Han Tianyi to his private forging room and invited Su Xun to use any metal there.
• Su Xun revealed his blood-sacrificed Spirit Forging hammers and forged nether silver for nearly two hours.
• Su Xun completed flawless Spirit Forging, producing spiritual radiance that rose fourteen feet above the metal.
• Zhen Hua urged Su Xun to study under him, promising to make him a Divine Craftsman before twenty-five and eventually hand him the Blacksmith Association presidency.
• Han Tianyi grew concerned that Zhen Hua wanted Su Xun to focus only on forging instead of cultivating his other talents.

Su Xun refused Zhen Hua’s offer to make him a full-time blacksmith, but Zhen Hua agreed to guide him in forging while Han Tianyi brought Mu Ye to meet him. Mu Ye resisted Han Tianyi’s proposed Academy Path for the Body Sect, leaving the possibility of recruiting Su Xun unresolved.

• Su Xun declined Zhen Hua’s request to join the Blacksmith Association as a dedicated blacksmith, explaining that being a soul master came first.
• Han Tianyi warned Zhen Hua that Su Xun was deeply connected to Leng Yaozhu and that his martial soul was valuable to the Body Sect; Su Xun revealed his three soul rings, including two black rings.
• Zhen Hua accepted Su Xun’s decision and offered to answer his forging questions and provide special guidance.
• Mu Ye arrived at the Blacksmith Association in his red divine-grade mecha and eagerly searched for the disciple he thought Han Tianyi had found for him.
• Han Tianyi stopped Mu Ye from approaching Su Xun and explained the situation, then proposed an Academy Path instead of a Sect Path; Mu Ye resisted the idea because of the Body Sect’s suspicions about Shrek.

Mu Ye agreed to make an exception and teach Su Xun the Body Secret Art after seeing his Six Desires Immortal martial soul and hearing his promise to help the Body Sect. The story then shifted to Eastsea City, where Leng Yaozhu arrived at the East Sea Spirit Pagoda with a reluctant Na'er.

• Han Tianyi urged Mu Ye to prioritize the Body Sect's future and consider Su Xun's martial soul before deciding whether to teach him the Body Secret Art.
• Su Xun revealed his Six Desires Immortal martial soul, astonishing Mu Ye with its six faculties and its resemblance to the Body Sect's ideal supreme body martial soul.
• Mu Ye drunkenly imagined recruiting Hu Jie and Zhen Hua to support Su Xun, and Han Tianyi jolted him out of the fantasy.
• Su Xun promised to help the Body Sect when needed, and Mu Ye agreed to make an exception and impart the Body Secret Art.
• Leng Yaozhu arrived at the East Sea Spirit Pagoda with a resistant Na'er, where they faced Pei Hai, an alluring woman, and a black-haired girl.

Na'er feared that Gu Yue was her other half, Gu Yuena, and resolved to resist being absorbed, while Leng Yaozhu brought her to meet Gu Yue in the East Sea. After learning about Gu Yue’s rare Seven-Colored Dragon martial soul, Leng Yaozhu considered taking her as a disciple and imagined her joining Su Xun’s future companions.

• Na'er recalled her mission and feared that Gu Yuena would absorb her, then decided she would fight to protect her life with Su Xun and Leng Yaozhu.
• Leng Yaozhu scolded Na'er for glaring at Gu Yue and warned her to behave when meeting the talented girl.
• Leng Yaozhu landed with Na'er before Pei Hai, Ji Zi, and Gu Yue, who introduced herself and her Elemental Master martial soul.
• Ji Zi explained that Gu Yue’s martial soul was a mutation of the Rainbow Dragon, wielding seven elements and granting strong spiritual power, and asked Leng Yaozhu to take her as a disciple.
• Leng Yaozhu considered Gu Yue’s potential and imagined her and Na'er supporting Su Xun, then quietly hummed over her plans.