Chapter Summaries

Nan Feng returned to Blacksmith Village with Ye Lingling, reunited with Old Chen, and gained a Meteoric Iron Core that strengthened the first floor of his Bronze Tower. He left the next day for Gengxin City, still needing four more Soul Power levels to open the tower door and help Xiao Wu.

• Nan Feng arrived at Blacksmith Village with Ye Lingling and reunited with Old Chen, who welcomed them and shared a meal with him.
• Old Chen gave Nan Feng a Meteoric Iron Core, and Old Huai explained that it contained the Power of the Stars.
• Nan Feng absorbed the core’s essence into the Bronze Tower, securing the first-floor hinge and reducing Tower Suppression’s Soul Power cost by ten percent.
• Nan Feng and Old Chen worked at the anvil together before Nan Feng packed and left gold coins for his father.
• Nan Feng and Ye Lingling parted at a fork in the road, agreeing to meet again in Heaven Dou City.
• Nan Feng headed northwest with his Soul Power at level sixteen, four levels short of opening the tower door and helping Xiao Wu touch the seal.

Nan Feng and Ye Lingling reached Gengxin City, where Nan Feng found a thousand-year-old Cold Iron Core in a scrap heap and used its Spiritual Power to strengthen the Bronze Tower. The tower's first-floor door was nearly prepared, but Nan Feng still needed to raise his Soul Power from level sixteen to twenty before it could open.

• Nan Feng and Ye Lingling traveled from Blacksmith Village to Gengxin City and visited the Blacksmith Association.
• Nan Feng found a thousand-year-old Cold Iron Core buried in scrap iron and bought it for thirty copper coins.
• Nan Feng removed the slag shell from the Cold Iron Core at the association's practice forge, and the old master praised the find.
• Nan Feng drew the Cold Iron Core's Spiritual Power into the Bronze Tower, strengthening its base and improving Tower Suppression.
• Old Huai told Nan Feng that the first-floor door would open when his Soul Power reached level twenty, so Nan Feng planned to keep cultivating.

Nan Feng found the missing calculations for the Compression Method at Gengxin City's black market and rescued Dugu Yan from three thugs. After carrying her to an inn, he received her Purple-Patterned Meteoric Iron and learned from Old Huai when it could help unlock the tower's abilities.

• Nan Feng went to the black market in an abandoned mine pit and bought a booklet containing the calculations missing from the stone chamber notes in Nuoding City.
• Nan Feng recognized Dugu Yan's weakened Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison and defeated the three Soul Elders who had cornered her.
• Dugu Yan explained that she had been drugged to suppress her Soul Power, then offered Nan Feng the Purple-Patterned Meteoric Iron in exchange for taking her to her inn.
• Nan Feng carried Dugu Yan to an inn in the north of the city, where she gave him the iron and asked him not to tell her grandfather she had been drugged.
• Old Huai told Nan Feng to wait until level twenty to use the Spiritual Power sealed in the iron to awaken Treasure-Appraising Spirit Light, and to leave the third-level door until level forty.
• Nan Feng returned to his inn and meditated, noting that he had four Soul Power levels left before reaching level twenty.

Nan Feng, Dugu Yan, and Ye Lingling traveled toward Heaven Dou City when an Iron-Spined Bear blocked their route. Nan Feng killed it using Tower Suppression and the Compression Method, found a Soul Bone, and left the fight injured but closer to opening the tower’s first door.

• Dugu Yan told Nan Feng that Spirit Hall members had targeted her to pressure her grandfather, and Ye Lingling said traces of the drug were still in Dugu Yan’s meridians.
• Nan Feng sensed an Iron-Spined Bear in a mountain passage and told Dugu Yan and Ye Lingling to stay back while he fought it.
• After the bear injured him, Nan Feng poured his Soul Power into Tower Suppression, pinned the bear in place, and killed it with his iron hammer and short staff.
• A Soul Ring rose from the bear and dissipated because Nan Feng was only level sixteen, while he found a dark red Soul Bone under its armor.
• Dugu Yan bound Nan Feng’s ribs, and she told him she did not regret giving him the Purple-Patterned Meteoric Iron before the three continued toward Heaven Dou City.

Nan Feng fused the Purple-Patterned Meteoric Iron, completing the Treasure-Appraising Spirit Light and advancing to level eighteen. After discovering Star-Patterned Copper in Gengxin City, he returned to cultivation, still two levels away from the tower's first evolution and helping Xiao Wu with her seal.

• Nan Feng drew the Purple-Patterned Meteoric Iron's Spiritual Power into his tower over three days, awakening the Treasure-Appraising Spirit Light and raising his Soul Power from level sixteen to level eighteen.
• Ye Lingling noticed Nan Feng's new perceptive ability and learned that he had gained two levels while fusing the ore.
• Nan Feng used his improved perception to search Gengxin City and bought a hidden piece of Star-Patterned Copper for twenty copper coins.
• Nan Feng decided to save the Star-Patterned Copper for later and learned from Old Huai that the second level's Power of Devouring had partly opened, while the third level still needed a new opportunity.
• Nan Feng began cultivating, focused on reaching level twenty so the tower could evolve and help him deal with Xiao Wu's seal.

Nan Feng reached level twenty and hunted a 2,100-year-old Ghost-Faced Spider King to obtain his Second Soul Ring and two Soul Bones. He returned toward Gengxin City at level twenty-five, with the tower’s first floor fully open and Old Huai warning that his Third Soul Ring would need to be at least ten thousand years old.

• Nan Feng broke through to level twenty, but Old Huai told him he needed a Second Soul Ring to advance further.
• Nan Feng lured the Ghost-Faced Spider King out of its cave, suppressed it with Tower Suppression, and killed it with his short staff.
• Nan Feng endured three days and nights of agony to absorb the Spider King’s 2,100-year Soul Ring, reaching level twenty-four and gaining Tower Suppression: Spirit Binding.
• Nan Feng found and fused the Spider King’s hand External Soul Bone, gaining Tiger Claw · Star Shattering and Space Rending.
• Nan Feng absorbed a 2,100-year Left Arm Soul Bone, strengthened his Bone Spike skill, and reached level twenty-five.
• Old Huai warned Nan Feng that he would need a Third Soul Ring of at least ten thousand years at level thirty, and Nan Feng left the quarry for Gengxin City.

After reaching level thirty, Nan Feng traveled to Sunset Forest to hunt a twelve-thousand-year Earth Fierce Bear King for his Third Soul Ring. He prepared an ambush and launched his attack as the bear emerged from its cave.

• Nan Feng spent months strengthening and compacting his Soul Power, reaching level thirty and becoming unable to progress without a Third Soul Ring.
• Nan Feng left Gengxin City and found the Earth Fierce Bear King in a mountain hollow on the outskirts of Sunset Forest.
• Nan Feng spent five days scouting the bear’s habits and the terrain, then planted three Soul Power bombs in the clearing outside its cave.
• Before dawn on the sixth day, Nan Feng readied himself behind a tree and waited for the bear to leave its cave.
• When the Earth Fierce Bear King poked its head out, Nan Feng darted from behind the tree.

Nan Feng killed the Fierce Bear King and absorbed its twelve-thousand-year Soul Ring despite his severe injuries, reaching level thirty-four. He recovered as the tower’s second floor opened fully and the Power of Creation began seeping through a crack in the third-floor doors.

• Nan Feng used Soul Power bombs and the Power of Mountain Suppression to wound the Fierce Bear King, then killed it by driving his short staff into a gap in its neck plates.
• Old Huai warned Nan Feng that absorbing the twelve-thousand-year Soul Ring at level thirty could destroy him, but Nan Feng began the absorption anyway.
• Nan Feng used the tower’s suppression and devouring powers to withstand the Soul Ring’s violent energy and crush the bear king’s remnant will.
• Nan Feng absorbed the Soul Ring, rose from level thirty to level thirty-four, and fully opened the tower’s second-floor doors.
• The third-floor doors opened a narrow crack, and the Power of Creation began healing Nan Feng’s hidden injuries and letting him perceive the seal within Xiao Wu’s Martial Soul.

After absorbing the Fierce Bear King's Soul Ring, Nan Feng reached level thirty-four and gained the Tower Realm · Creation skill, which suppressed enemies and nurtured allies. He returned to Gengxin City to recover and train, then sensed a powerful fire-attribute Soul Master in Heaven Dou City, where his path would next lead.

• Nan Feng recovered overnight beside the Fierce Bear King's corpse, reached level thirty-four, and gained the pure-black Third Soul Ring and Tower Realm · Creation.
• Nan Feng explored the tower's awakened powers, sensed the seal on Xiao Wu's Martial Soul, and learned that opening the third-floor door fully at level forty could let him help evolve others' Martial Souls.
• Nan Feng found an earth-attribute inner core in the Fierce Bear King's body, kept it for the fourth floor's Power of Return to Origin, and left the mountain hollow.
• Nan Feng returned to Gengxin City, healed and stabilized his Soul Power, then spent half a month practicing alone after Ye Lingling left for Heaven Dou City and Dugu Yan returned to the Dugu Family.
• Nan Feng used Treasure-Appraising Spirit Light to sense a powerful, scorching fire-attribute presence in Heaven Dou City, which Old Huai identified as at least Soul Saint level.

Nan Feng met Liu Erlong on the road to Heaven Dou City, where she learned his Soul Rings far exceeded Yu Xiaogang’s stated limits. They traveled toward the city together, and Liu Erlong invited him to Blue Tyrant Academy to discuss Yu Xiaogang’s theories.

• Nan Feng encountered Liu Erlong in Sunset Forest, and she sensed his ten-thousand-year third Soul Ring.
• Nan Feng told Liu Erlong he was thirteen, had level thirty-four Soul Power, and his Bronze Tower had helped him withstand a twelve-thousand-year Soul Ring.
• Liu Erlong learned Nan Feng’s first and second Soul Rings were nine hundred and twenty and two thousand one hundred years old, both beyond Yu Xiaogang’s limits.
• Nan Feng asked whether Liu Erlong was close to Yu Xiaogang, and she denied it before continuing toward Heaven Dou City with him.
• Liu Erlong asked whether Nan Feng’s tower could suppress other things and invited him to Blue Tyrant Academy to discuss how much of Yu Xiaogang’s theories were true.

Nan Feng explained to Liu Erlong why Yu Xiaogang's Soul Ring age theory did not account for exceptions like his suppressive tower, and she accepted his reasoning after sharing how the theory had limited her own cultivation. He left Blue Tyrant Academy with an offer of help and planned to settle in Heaven Dou City and cultivate to level forty so he could help Xiao Wu reach the seal.

• Liu Erlong brought Nan Feng to Blue Tyrant Academy and questioned him about Yu Xiaogang's theory of Soul Ring age limits.
• Nan Feng explained that the theory generalized from past data and did not account for changing conditions or special Martial Soul abilities like his tower's suppression.
• Liu Erlong described how Yu Xiaogang's predicted limits for her Scarlet Dragon Martial Soul had led her to believe she was stuck at level seventy-eight.
• Liu Erlong showed Nan Feng Yu Xiaogang's handwritten calculations, then said she believed Nan Feng's explanation and offered to help him in Heaven Dou City.
• Nan Feng left the academy and resolved to find a place to stay and cultivate from level thirty-four to level forty before helping Xiao Wu touch the seal.

Nan Feng secretly watched the Shrek Seven Devils in Suotuo City and discovered that Ye Lingling had joined Shrek Academy. After sensing the depth of Xiao Wu’s seal, he left determined to raise his Soul Power from level thirty-four to forty before trying to help her.

• Nan Feng arrived in Suotuo City and watched Shrek Academy from a nearby teahouse without approaching Tang San, Xiao Wu, or the others.
• Nan Feng observed the Shrek Seven Devils gathering and memorized their appearances as they headed to the Great Soul Arena.
• Nan Feng saw Ye Lingling enter Shrek Academy with a basket of medicinal herbs and chose not to contact her.
• Nan Feng learned that the Shrek students had won at the Great Soul Arena and told Old Huai that he was checking Xiao Wu’s seal without disrupting their growth.
• Nan Feng sensed Xiao Wu’s Martial Soul core from near the Great Soul Arena and found that her seal was wound around her origin power at least nine times.
• Nan Feng concluded that he needed to reach level forty and open the tower’s third-floor door before he could attempt to help Xiao Wu.

Nan Feng rescued Zhu Zhuqing from three Spirit Hall pursuers in Suotuo City and offered her a safe place to recover. After learning that Spirit Hall had a wider presence in the city, he returned to studying the tower, still six ranks short of the power needed to help Xiao Wu.

• Nan Feng spotted the wounded Zhu Zhuqing being cornered by three powerful men and used Tower Suppression to slow them.
• Zhu Zhuqing and Nan Feng defeated the pursuers, and she found a Spirit Hall token while Nan Feng recovered a letter detailing local outposts and targets.
• Nan Feng gave Zhu Zhuqing hemostatic powder, and she explained that Spirit Hall had pursued her from the Star Dou Great Forest because of her connection to Shrek.
• Nan Feng invited Zhu Zhuqing to recover in a spare room at his inn, and she accepted.
• Nan Feng reread the letter and entered the space inside the tower, noting that he needed six more Soul Power ranks to help Xiao Wu touch her seal.

Nan Feng broke into a hidden chamber beneath the Great Soul Arena and took a Shadow Leopard Soul Bone and a Space Marker Jade Talisman connected to the Divine Realm. He gave the Soul Bone to Zhu Zhuqing and planned to help her absorb it after her injury healed, while keeping the talisman and its coordinates.

• Nan Feng sensed a sealed spatial relic beneath the Great Soul Arena and entered the underground passages using a key he had taken from a Soul Ancestor.
• Nan Feng found a five-thousand-year Shadow Leopard Soul Bone and a Space Marker Jade Talisman, then escaped into a storeroom when two Spirit Hall Soul Masters arrived.
• Nan Feng learned from Old Huai that the jade talisman held coordinates to a Divine Realm checkpoint and that the Divine Realm had influenced it.
• Nan Feng returned to the inn and gave Zhu Zhuqing the Shadow Leopard Soul Bone, offering to help suppress its backlash when she absorbed it.
• Zhu Zhuqing accepted the Soul Bone and agreed to begin absorbing it after her shoulder healed, while Nan Feng kept the jade talisman and its coordinates.

Nan Feng helped Zhu Zhuqing fuse a five-thousand-year Shadow Leopard Left Leg Bone, allowing her to gain the Shadow Step skill. After Zhu Zhuqing left for the Star Luo Empire, Nan Feng recovered his Soul Power and planned to check on Shrek Academy before traveling to Heaven Dou City.

• Zhu Zhuqing returned to Nan Feng after her injuries healed and asked him to help her absorb the Shadow Leopard Left Leg Bone.
• Nan Feng used Tower Suppression to restrain the bone's energy while Zhu Zhuqing fused it with her Hell Spirit Cat Martial Soul.
• Zhu Zhuqing gained Shadow Step, a short-distance teleportation skill, and found that her speed had increased.
• Zhu Zhuqing gave Nan Feng a Soul Power restoration medicine and told him she was returning to the Star Luo Empire, offering him a favor in return for his help.
• Nan Feng sensed that the Power of Creation had widened the crack in the tower's third-level door and brought him closer to the seal within Xiao Wu's Martial Soul.
• Nan Feng replenished his Soul Power and planned to check on Shrek Academy before leaving for Heaven Dou City.

Nan Feng and Huo Wu discovered a sealed lower chamber beneath the Great Soul Arena, where a golden figure recognized his Primordial World Imprint but warned that he was not strong enough to open the seal. Four days later, Nan Feng reached Heaven Dou City, reunited with Ye Lingling, and settled into a guest room at Heaven Dou Royal Academy to recover.

• Huo Wu warned Nan Feng that Spirit Hall's Pei Yuan would investigate the Great Soul Arena, and Nan Feng decided to search beneath its stone chamber before Pei Yuan arrived.
• Nan Feng and Huo Wu used the jade talisman to reveal a staircase to a lower chamber containing a spatial seal and a golden humanoid lock that responded to Nan Feng's Primordial World Imprint.
• Old Huai warned Nan Feng that he could not yet open the seal safely, so Nan Feng memorized the chamber and concealed its entrance before leaving with Huo Wu.
• Four days later, Nan Feng arrived in Heaven Dou City, where Ye Lingling met him and arranged a guest room at Heaven Dou Royal Academy.
• Ye Lingling assessed Nan Feng's injuries from absorbing the Fierce Bear King Soul Ring and advised him to rest and suppress his Soul Power until level thirty-six.

Nan Feng showed Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng his unusually powerful Soul Rings at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, then accused Yu Xiaogang of stealing research from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan. Yu Tianheng left to investigate, while Nan Feng received his guest elder token and was invited to meet Dugu Yan’s grandfather, Poison Douluo.

• Dugu Yan met Nan Feng at the training ground and asked about his Soul Power, which had risen to level thirty-four.
• Nan Feng revealed his three Soul Rings, including a twelve-thousand-year black ring, shocking Dugu Yan and Yu Tianheng.
• Nan Feng told Yu Tianheng that Yu Xiaogang had taken clan research manuscripts and gave him specific details to verify the claim.
• Yu Tianheng left to investigate the missing scrolls, and Dugu Yan invited Nan Feng to visit her grandfather at the Dugu residence.
• Ye Lingling gave Nan Feng his guest elder token and told him she would show him the academy library the next morning.

Nan Feng fought Yu Tianheng, who wanted to test whether the Grandmaster’s Soul Ring theory was reliable after discovering that the Grandmaster had stolen Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan records. The battle showed that Nan Feng’s Tower Realm could devour lightning power; Yu Tianheng agreed to keep Nan Feng’s Soul Ring Configuration secret and let the clan’s elders handle the theft.

• Yu Tianheng confronted Nan Feng with evidence that the Grandmaster had stolen six years of Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon clan manuscripts and challenged him to test his Soul Ring Configuration.
• Nan Feng and Yu Tianheng fought, and Nan Feng used Tower Suppression and Tower Realm · Creation to slow Yu Tianheng and devour his lightning-attribute Spiritual Power.
• Yu Tianheng unleashed Thunderous Might, but Nan Feng’s phantom tower endured the attack, and Yu Tianheng acknowledged that Nan Feng’s Soul Ring ages disproved the Grandmaster’s theory.
• Yu Tianheng promised to keep Nan Feng’s Soul Ring Configuration secret and said the clan’s council of elders would deal with the manuscript theft.
• Old Huai told Nan Feng that the lightning power had strengthened Tower Realm · Creation and widened the gap in the third-floor gate, and Nan Feng resumed cultivating.

Ye Lingling assessed Nan Feng’s growing Soul Power and detected the Power of Creation leaking from the tower’s third floor. Nan Feng left a seed of that power in her Nine Heart Begonia, and as she promised to wait for him, the third-floor door continued to open.

• Ye Lingling recorded that Nan Feng’s meridians, Soul Power density, and bone density had increased, and detected a warm trace of the Power of Creation beneath his other powers.
• Ye Lingling told Nan Feng she chose to come closer to him rather than avoid the golden power in his soul.
• Nan Feng showed Ye Lingling that the Power of Creation had begun evolving her Nine Heart Begonia and said he could help it evolve further once the tower’s third-floor door opened fully.
• Ye Lingling said she would wait for Nan Feng and placed her hand in his, allowing a seed of the Power of Creation to settle in her Martial Soul.
• Ye Lingling offered to research Soul Beasts for Nan Feng’s future fourth Soul Ring, and Nan Feng later learned from Old Huai that her Martial Soul could evolve to the divine level.

On his fourth day at Heaven Dou Royal Academy, Nan Feng fought Dugu Yan and showed that Tower Realm could devour and convert her Jade Phosphorous Serpent Poison. The chapter left him planning to use combat to widen the crack in the third-layer door as he raised his Soul Power toward level forty.

• Dugu Yan challenged Nan Feng to a fight at the academy training ground.
• Nan Feng used Tower Suppression, his External Soul Bone, and Tower Realm to counter Dugu Yan’s attacks and devour her poison.
• Dugu Yan recognized that Nan Feng’s Tower Realm consumed both the Soul Power and toxins in her poison, and invited him to visit her grandfather.
• Nan Feng’s Power of Creation converted the poison and nourished his meridians, widening the crack in the third-layer door.
• Ye Lingling gave Nan Feng a Soul Beast distribution map and discussed possible Fourth Soul Ring targets and how combat accelerated his progress.
• Nan Feng decided to use future battles to stimulate the Power of Creation while raising his Soul Power from level thirty-four to forty.