Recaps

Su Tianyu killed Huang Shan, claimed the Fire Flame Lion King's Soul Bone, and left the Star Dou Great Forest for Treasure Sword City. He planned to raise his cultivation and begin forging Hidden Weapons, and he found Jerry's Blacksmith Shop.

• Su Tianyu killed Huang Shan with an iron nail after Huang Shan survived his Mental Shock.
• Su Tianyu took the Soul Bone from the Fire Flame Lion King's corpse, searched the bodies, and cut off the lion's hide.
• Su Tianyu abandoned plans to join another Soul Hunting team and traveled to Treasure Sword City to focus on cultivation and learn forging.
• Su Tianyu entered Treasure Sword City and explored its blacksmith district while planning to forge Hidden Weapons.
• Su Tianyu found Jerry's Blacksmith Shop, where a thin, dark-skinned middle-aged man came out to greet him.

Su Tianyu rented a forge from Jerry and learned that rare metals were sold through the Treasure Sword Auction House. After visiting the auction venue and learning its next auction was five evenings away, he settled into a nearby hotel to wait.

• Su Tianyu negotiated with Jerry to rent a forge for four hundred Gold Soul Coins a month.
• Jerry told Su Tianyu that he could look for rare metals like Heavenly Meteoric Iron and Deep Sea Cold Iron at the Treasure Sword Auction House.
• Su Tianyu went to the city center and saw the grand auction venue and its trading houses for Soul Masters from both empires.
• Su Tianyu paid five Gold Soul Coins to learn that the next auction would take place five evenings later.
• Su Tianyu found a nearby hotel and rested while he waited for the auction.

Su Tianyu attended the Treasure Sword Auction House, where he observed the city lord’s popularity among commoner Soul Masters and identified Deep Sea Cold Iron as vital for his Godly Zhuge Crossbow. The bidding for the iron climbed to six thousand Gold Soul Coins as two master blacksmiths competed, leaving Su Tianyu weighing whether to bid.

• Su Tianyu entered the auction hall after staff verified his Gold Soul Coins and gave him a bronze-colored card.
• The lord of Treasure Sword City arrived, and commoner Soul Masters greeted him with intense gratitude and admiration.
• Su Tianyu asked a young Soul Master why the crowd revered the city lord, and the young man praised the lord’s support for commoners.
• Auctioneer Su Mei introduced a piece of Deep Sea Cold Iron, which Su Tianyu recognized as useful for making Godly Zhuge Crossbow arrowheads.
• Two master blacksmiths drove the Deep Sea Cold Iron’s price up to six thousand Gold Soul Coins while Su Tianyu considered whether to bid.

Su Tianyu won Deep Sea Cold Iron at the auction and later bid on Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue. The auction’s final item was a three-thousand-year Ghost Leopard Left Leg Bone, setting up a bidding contest between He Dahai and Mo Hu.

• Su Tianyu rebuffed a blacksmith who challenged his bid and won the Deep Sea Cold Iron for eight thousand Gold Soul Coins.
• Su Tianyu bid on a piece of Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue as the auction continued.
• Su Mei unveiled a three-thousand-year Ghost Leopard Left Leg Bone as the auction’s grand finale.
• He Dahai and Mo Hu argued through Soul Power voice transmissions over who should obtain the Soul Bone.
• Mo Hu smashed a tea table and challenged He Dahai, but He Dahai insisted they compete fairly with their Gold Soul Coins.

He Dahai and Mo Hu competed for a 3,000-year-old Ghost Leopard Left Leg Soul Bone, while their bidding exposed the widening gap between the Heaven Dou Empire and Spirit Hall. He Dahai bid one million Gold Soul Coins, and Mo Hu backed down, leaving the Soul Bone to him.

• Mo Hu bid 550,000 Gold Soul Coins and challenged He Dahai to compete for the Ghost Leopard Left Leg Soul Bone.
• He Dahai raised the bid to 600,000 Gold Soul Coins, and auctioneer Su Mei announced that the bidder was Treasure Sword City's lord.
• Mo Hu mocked the Heaven Dou Empire's strength and bid 700,000 Gold Soul Coins, while He Dahai countered with 800,000.
• Mo Hu bid 850,000 Gold Soul Coins and disparaged the Heaven Dou Empire, deepening He Dahai's resentment over the empire's corruption and its treatment of commoner Soul Masters.
• He Dahai bid one million Gold Soul Coins in anger and despair.
• Mo Hu decided not to push He Dahai further and withdrew from the bidding.

After winning Deep Sea Cold Iron and Whale Rubber at the auction, Su Tianyu took the iron to Jerry's smithy to forge arrowheads for the Godly Zhuge Crossbow. He demonstrated a hammering technique that Jerry mistook for the Clear Sky Sect's Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer, then began cutting the softened metal to size.

• He Dahai won the three-thousand-year Ghost Leopard left leg Soul Bone with a bid of one million Gold Soul Coins, ending the auction.
• Su Tianyu settled his bill and collected the Deep Sea Cold Iron and twenty-thousand-year Whale Rubber he had won.
• Su Tianyu returned to his hotel and planned to forge arrowheads for the Godly Zhuge Crossbow the next morning.
• Su Tianyu went to Jerry's smithy, where Jerry recognized his Deep Sea Cold Iron and offered him a heated forge.
• Su Tianyu hammered the Deep Sea Cold Iron and explained to Jerry that his technique was not the Disorder Splitting Wind Hammer.
• Su Tianyu reheated the iron and began cutting it to size while Jerry watched.

Su Tianyu completed the Godly Zhuge Crossbow and, after a year and a half of cultivation, broke through to level thirty Soul Power. As he left Treasure Sword City to seek a Soul Ring, Jerry offered to take him to Gengxin City to meet divine blacksmith Lou Gao.

• Su Tianyu forged over three hundred Deep Sea Cold Iron arrowheads with a special bleeding effect, and showed Jerry the medicinal solution that stopped the wound.
• Over less than ten days, Su Tianyu forged and assembled a Godly Zhuge Crossbow that could hold more than a hundred arrowheads.
• A year and a half later, Su Tianyu used the twenty-thousand-year-old Whale Rubber to break through to level thirty Soul Power and planned to seek a third Soul Ring in the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Su Tianyu checked out of his hotel and prepared to leave Treasure Sword City without looking back.
• Jerry stopped Su Tianyu and offered to introduce him to Divine Blacksmith Lou Gao in Gengxin City.

Su Tianyu said goodbye to Jerry and traveled through Treasure Sword City’s working district to find a carriage to the Star Dou Great Forest. He rented the most luxurious package and prepared to leave with his personal driver.

• Su Tianyu waved goodbye to Jerry and headed for the western part of Treasure Sword City.
• Su Tianyu entered a carriage firm catering to Soul Masters and asked about renting a carriage to the Star Dou Great Forest.
• Su Tianyu chose the firm’s most luxurious carriage package, and the attendant arranged a carriage and driver.
• Su Tianyu found the laurel rosewood carriage outside the shop, where the driver welcomed him and set down a stool.

Su Tianyu traveled from Treasure Sword City to Star Dou Town, where he unexpectedly met Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er from Skywater Academy. After the sisters hurried away with their group, he headed into town.

• Su Tianyu rode a luxury carriage for five days from Treasure Sword City to Star Dou Town and paid the coachman four Gold Soul Coins.
• Su Tianyu entered Star Dou Town and saw a group of Skywater Academy girls led by their teacher.
• Shui Yue'er noticed Su Tianyu, blushed at his appearance, and called Shui Bing'er to look at him.
• Shui Bing'er met Su Tianyu's gaze, became flustered, and hurried away with Shui Yue'er and the Skywater Academy group.
• Su Tianyu watched the sisters leave, recognized them, and continued toward the center of Star Dou Town.

Su Tianyu searched the Star Dou Great Forest for a Soul Beast with a spatial ability, but the creatures he found did not match the Soul Skill he wanted. After a month of searching, he encountered an undocumented, translucent dragon-headed Soul Beast in a bone-strewn basin and prepared to fight it.

• Su Tianyu traveled to the Star Dou Great Forest and spent two days reaching a canyon where he found Void Beetles, whose Spatial Ray was not the ability he sought.
• He watched a Void Mantis kill and eat a Soft Boned Charm Rabbit, and noted that the mantis's Spatial Slash was powerful but that Void Mantises rarely reached ten-thousand-year cultivation.
• Su Tianyu spent the next month searching the forest's outer region for Soul Beasts with spatial abilities.
• He wandered into a misty basin filled with Soul Beast bones and saw a translucent, dragon-headed creature with tiger-like markings emerge from the fog.
• Su Tianyu realized the creature was absent from the records he knew, considered retreating, then decided to face it and drew Hidden Weapons from the belt he had taken from Flender.

Su Tianyu fought the Dimensional Void Beast, whose spatial powers let it redirect attacks, teleport, and distort space. He wounded it with the Godly Zhuge Crossbow, but the beast counterattacked with a spatial vortex that strained his shield.

• The Dimensional Void Beast warped space to redirect Su Tianyu's Hidden Weapons, then teleported close and slammed him through his shield, sending him crashing into the basin.
• Su Tianyu recovered, activated Golden Pupil Illusory Realm, and used Mental Shock to interrupt the beast's attack.
• Su Tianyu fired the Godly Zhuge Crossbow while the beast was stunned, striking it with forty-six Deep Sea Cold Iron arrowheads.
• The wounded Dimensional Void Beast unleashed a powerful spatial vortex around Su Tianyu, who poured Soul Power into his second Soul Skill to keep his shield from collapsing.

Su Tianyu defeated and killed the Dimensional Void Beast, then recovered enough Soul Power to begin absorbing its five-thousand-year Soul Ring. The ring’s energy overwhelmed him as he struggled to refine it.

• Su Tianyu overcame the Dimensional Void Beast’s spatial attack and struck it with a powerful mental shock.
• Su Tianyu fired the Godly Zhuge Crossbow, and its arrows killed the weakened Dimensional Void Beast, leaving a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• Su Tianyu rested and cultivated with the Mysterious Heaven Skill until his Soul Power recovered to forty percent.
• Su Tianyu summoned the Soul Ring and began absorbing its five-thousand-year energy, straining under its power.

After absorbing the Dimensional Void Beast’s five-thousand-year Soul Ring, Su Tianyu gained a powerful growth-type third Soul Skill and set off through the Star Dou Great Forest toward Heaven Dou City. He encountered a Soul Emperor fighting a twenty-thousand-year Violent Gold Bear, and the woman struggled to defend herself.

• Su Tianyu finished absorbing the Dimensional Void Beast’s Soul Ring and discovered that his third Soul Ring had become an Innate Soul Ring with two Spatial Distortion skills and Void Teleportation.
• Su Tianyu decided his new ability would let him bypass Dugu Bo’s poisonous mist and reach the Immortal Herbs at the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
• Su Tianyu cut through the Star Dou Great Forest toward its entrance and heard a battle after half a day of travel.
• Su Tianyu found a young married woman with six Soul Rings fighting a Violent Gold Bear in the forest’s outer region.
• The woman’s fifth Soul Skill failed to overcome the bear’s attack, so she activated her fourth Soul Skill to shield herself from its golden claw blades.

Su Tianyu watched a Skywater Academy teacher die fighting a Violent Gold Bear, then followed the fleeing students. The students hoped their teacher had survived, unaware that the bear had killed and eaten her.

• The teacher used her Sixth Soul Skill, Ice Cutting Storm, against the Violent Gold Bear, but it broke through her attack and charged her.
• The Violent Gold Bear killed the exhausted teacher and began eating her corpse while Su Tianyu watched without intervening.
• Su Tianyu used his spatial ability to catch up with Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and the other Skywater Academy students.
• Shui Yue'er worried that they had abandoned their teacher, while Shui Bing'er explained that fleeing had given the teacher room to fight.
• One of the girls reassured Shui Yue'er that their teacher could defeat the bear, and Su Tianyu silently recognized that the teacher was already dead.

Shui Bing'er and her four companions encountered a four-thousand-year Pink Fox in the Star Dou Great Forest and struggled to overcome its defenses. As the Pink Fox mocked them, Su Tianyu prepared to intervene.

• Shui Bing'er spotted movement in the grass and warned the other Skywater Academy students to prepare for battle.
• The five girls recognized the approaching beast as a Pink Fox and attacked it with their ice-based Soul Skills, briefly freezing it.
• The Pink Fox broke free, resisted the girls' second Soul Skills with a pink shield, and released its dangerous pink mist.
• Shui Yue'er grew angry when the Pink Fox mocked the group, while Su Tianyu watched from the treetops.
• Su Tianyu shouted at the Pink Fox and announced that he would deal with it.

Su Tianyu saved Shui Bing’er and her companions from a Pink Fox in the Star Dou Great Forest, then told them their teacher had been killed by a Violent Gold Bear. Shui Bing’er grieved but resolved to become stronger, while Su Tianyu stayed with the group.

• Su Tianyu used Spatial Wind Tunnel to divert the Pink Fox’s mist and protect Shui Bing’er, Shui Yue’er, and their three companions.
• Su Tianyu used Spatial Distortion to crush the Pink Fox into powder.
• Shui Yue’er and Shui Bing’er introduced themselves to Su Tianyu, who asked whether he could help them hunt Soul Beasts.
• Shui Bing’er revealed that their teacher had stayed behind to hold off a twenty-thousand-year-old Violent Gold Bear while the students fled.
• Su Tianyu told the five young women that the Violent Gold Bear had swallowed their teacher, and they broke down in grief.
• Su Tianyu urged the students to grow stronger, and Shui Bing’er wiped away her tears and resolved to protect her friends and family.

Su Tianyu led Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er, and the other Skywater Academy girls safely out of the Star Dou Great Forest after five exhausting days of travel. He brought them to a flower-filled valley to camp, where the group prepared to eat his grilled fish.

• Su Tianyu guided the girls through the forest until they reached its entrance five days later.
• Shui Bing'er checked on her exhausted sister, while the three older girls teased her about riding on Su Tianyu's back.
• Su Tianyu led the group to a flower-filled valley he said was safe from Soul Beasts.
• The girls pitched their tents and admired the valley as Su Tianyu grilled fish over a campfire.
• Shui Bing'er called Shui Yue'er and the other girls over to eat.

Su Tianyu comforted Shui Bing'er by taking her into the sky to admire the stars and the glowing flower valley, where she kissed him. The next morning, he left Star Dou Town while Shui Bing'er watched reluctantly, heading toward Haagen-Dazs City.

• Shui Yue'er rushed over to eat Su Tianyu's grilled fish, and he persuaded Shui Bing'er to be patient with her sister.
• Shui Bing'er told Su Tianyu that she had rarely enjoyed her childhood and said she would not be lonely with him beside her.
• Su Tianyu carried Shui Bing'er into the night sky, where she admired the stars and kissed him.
• Shui Yue'er and the other girls spotted Su Tianyu and Shui Bing'er flying above the flower valley, and Shui Yue'er realized she had missed their departure from the table.
• Su Tianyu left Star Dou Town the next morning and headed toward Haagen-Dazs City.

Su Tianyu attended the Starlight Auction House in Haagen-Dazs City, hoping to find treasures or valuable metals, but the first items did not interest him. The fifteenth item was a Hundred Treasure Purse that could keep medicinal herbs fresh, just what he needed for his planned trip to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

• Su Tianyu followed the crowds to the Starlight Auction House and passed the entry check with a balance of 230,000 Gold Soul Coins.
• Wang Qianqian opened the auction with a Three-Leaf Soul Grass, which an old man won after bidding from a private room.
• Su Tianyu grew puzzled as the auction offered several items without any metals he wanted.
• Wang Qianqian introduced the fifteenth item, a Hundred Treasure Purse that preserved medicinal herbs at their freshly picked potency.

The auction for the Hundred Treasure Purse escalated from a quarrel between Yang Tao and Qian Er to a hundred-thousand-Gold-Soul-Coin bid from a noble in a private room. When the commoner Soul Masters fell silent, Su Tianyu bid 120,000 Gold Soul Coins, drawing everyone’s attention.

• Yang Tao bid 40,000 Gold Soul Coins, and Qian Er answered with 51,000 before the two argued until Wang Qianqian warned them to stop.
• A young noble in a private room bid 100,000 Gold Soul Coins, and the commoner Soul Masters in the hall fell silent.
• Li Ergou criticized the commoners for praising the nobles, while Su Tianyu worried that Li Ergou’s outspoken words could put him in danger.
• Su Tianyu bid 120,000 Gold Soul Coins for the Hundred Treasure Purse, and the hall turned to stare at him.

Su Tianyu won the Hundred Treasure Purse at auction, then left the city knowing nobles might target him. Li Dabao and Hu Bing followed him outside Haagen-Dazs City and chased him for their own amusement.

• Li Dabao and Hu Bing planned to rob Su Tianyu after he left the city, intending to take the Hundred Treasure Purse and his other valuables.
• Su Tianyu won the Hundred Treasure Purse for 120,000 Gold Soul Coins when the nobles stopped bidding.
• An unnamed commoner Soul Master warned Su Tianyu that nobles might rob him outside the city, then left the auction.
• Su Tianyu collected the purse, tested it with a piece of fruit, and paid for it before leaving the auction house.
• Li Dabao and Hu Bing chased Su Tianyu outside the city as Li Dabao taunted him to keep running.

Su Tianyu lured Li Dabao and Hu Bing into the Soul Beast Forest, where Hu Bing exposed him with his Blood Bat Perception. After revealing his powerful Soul Rings, Su Tianyu attacked as Li Erbao tried to flee, leaving the forest covered by his illusion domain.

• Su Tianyu entered the Soul Beast Forest, turned invisible, and hid in the bushes while Li Dabao and Hu Bing pursued him.
• Li Dabao ordered Hu Bing to search for Su Tianyu, and Hu Bing used Blood Bat Perception to force him out of hiding.
• Hu Bing attacked Su Tianyu with Blood Bat Claw, but Su Tianyu dodged the strike and avoided the shattered tree.
• Su Tianyu revealed his yellow, purple, and purple Soul Rings, shocking Hu Bing with his Second Soul Ring.
• Su Tianyu saw Li Erbao try to run and activated Golden Pupil Illusory Realm, covering a five-hundred-meter area of the forest.

Su Tianyu killed Li Erbao and Hu Bing with Spatial Distortion, then continued toward Heaven Dou City. After resting in a small town, he went to a carriage agency to arrange transport.

• Li Erbao and Hu Bing defended against Su Tianyu's Mental Shock with their soul skills.
• Su Tianyu trapped the two with Spatial Distortion, immobilized them, and crushed them to death.
• Su Tianyu left the forest and walked two hundred miles toward Heaven Dou City before stopping in a small town to eat and sleep.
• The next morning, Su Tianyu asked the innkeeper where to find a carriage agency and went to one on the town's south side.
• Su Tianyu entered a relatively clean carriage shop and saw a middle-aged man asleep on a rocking chair.

Su Tianyu traveled to Heaven Dou City to gather information about Dugu Bo’s movements and find a chance to steal Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. After exploring the capital, he entered the lavish Heaven Dou Royal Restaurant by revealing his three Soul Rings.

• Su Tianyu rented a carriage from Yao Jie and reached Heaven Dou City after ten days of travel.
• Su Tianyu entered the capital, checked into a hotel, and planned to learn when Dugu Bo left and returned.
• Su Tianyu explored the city and asked a passerby where to find its most luxurious restaurant.
• A young attendant told Su Tianyu he needed a reservation or proof that he was a Soul Master to enter the Heaven Dou Royal Restaurant.
• Su Tianyu displayed three disguised Soul Rings, and the attendant let him inside.
• Su Tianyu admired the restaurant’s golden, palace-like interior.

Su Tianyu learned that Qian Renxue’s apprenticeship banquet would begin in ten days and planned to use Dugu Bo and Dugu Yan’s absence to steal the Immortal Herbs from the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. He then went to pay for his tea and was shocked by its price.

• Su Tianyu overheard Zhang Long and Wu Hao discussing the royal family’s five-day banquet for Xue Qinghe’s apprenticeship to Ning Fengzhi and speculating that it was meant to warn the nobles.
• Su Tianyu concluded that Dugu Bo would bring Dugu Yan to the banquet, giving him a chance to enter Sunset Forest and take the Immortal Herbs.
• Su Tianyu imagined how the herbs could improve his cultivation and talent, perhaps helping him awaken his Martial Soul again and pursue godhood.
• Su Tianyu went to settle his bill, then challenged the young woman at the counter when she said his tea cost five Gold Soul Coins.