Chapter Summaries

Su Tianyu overheard the Black Wolf Soul Hunting Team discussing how commoner Soul Masters were exploited by nobles and decided to join them for training. The team’s yellow-haired member doubted Su Tianyu’s claim that he was a commoner because of his fine clothes and appearance.

• Su Tianyu ordered the restaurant’s signature dishes and fruit wine, then listened to the guests in the hall.
• The Black Wolf Team’s members recalled losing a teammate during a noble’s Soul Ring hunt and complained that nobles had withheld their pay.
• Su Tianyu considered the hardships faced by commoner Soul Masters and decided to join the Black Wolf Soul Hunting Team to gain experience.
• Su Tianyu approached the team and asked to join, explaining that he was a commoner Soul Master who had graduated from an intermediate academy.
• The yellow-haired youth suspected Su Tianyu was a noble and warned him not to make fun of the team.

Su Tianyu joined the Black Wolf Soul Hunting Team under the name Tang San, while Gu San and Zhang Erjiang remained wary of him. Three days later, a hunting assignment turned into a trap when Huang Shan led the team to a Thousand-Year Fire Flame Lion King and admitted he had betrayed them for the reward.

• Su Tianyu claimed a Martial Soul Mutation had changed his appearance, introduced himself as Tang San, and joined Gu San, Zhang Erjiang, and Huang Shan's team.
• Gu San arranged for the team to meet at the Star Dou Great Forest in three days to hunt a Soul Beast for a six-hundred-Gold-Soul-Coin reward.
• Gu San and Zhang Erjiang discussed testing Tang San while agreeing to investigate his background later.
• During the hunt, Gu San and Zhang Erjiang discovered they had encountered a Thousand-Year Fire Flame Lion King, and Gu San accused Huang Shan of leading them into danger.
• Zhang Erjiang accused Huang Shan of conspiring with the client to steal the reward, while Gu San narrowly dodged the lion's attack.
• Huang Shan admitted he had betrayed the team because he was nearly sixty and had less than a hundred Gold Soul Coins to his name.

Su Tianyu watched from hiding as Huang Shan’s scheme turned the group against itself and Gu San wounded him. As the Fire Flame Lion King charged Gu San and Zhang Erjiang, Huang Shan searched the forest for Su Tianyu.

• Su Tianyu recalled noticing Huang Shan secretly tamper with the group and fleeing when he sensed danger near the Fire Flame Lions’ territory.
• Gu San and Zhang Erjiang realized Huang Shan had plotted against them and prepared to face the Fire Flame Lion King together.
• Gu San attacked Huang Shan with Slaughtering Baleful Saber Qi, shattering his barrier and severing his left arm.
• Huang Shan revealed that he had drugged Gu San to attract the Fire Flame Lion King and gloated that Gu San and Zhang Erjiang would die.
• Huang Shan searched the surrounding trees and grass for Su Tianyu as the Fire Flame Lion King charged Gu San and Zhang Erjiang again.

Gu San and Zhang Erjiang fought the Fire Flame Lion King, but their strongest attacks only wounded it before it killed Gu San. Zhang Erjiang was left alone, trembling as the lion approached him.

• Gu San and Zhang Erjiang's First Soul Skills failed to break the Fire Flame Lion King's fiery shield, and the beast created a flame clone.
• Zhang Erjiang destroyed the clone with his Second Soul Skill, then rushed to help Gu San evade the lion's bite.
• With their Soul Power nearly depleted, Gu San and Zhang Erjiang resolved to die fighting and unleashed their strongest attacks, wounding the Fire Flame Lion King.
• The enraged Fire Flame Lion King charged at Gu San and crushed his head with one paw.
• Zhang Erjiang trembled in terror as the Fire Flame Lion King approached him.

Huang Shan killed the wounded Fire Flame Lion King and began harvesting its valuable hide, but a multicolored glow revealed a possible Soul Bone. Su Tianyu ambushed Huang Shan, leaving him sprawled on the ground and demanding to know who attacked him.

• The Fire Flame Lion King killed and ate Zhang Erjiang, then charged at Huang Shan as he tried to escape.
• Huang Shan noticed the Lion King was weakening from blood loss and used Turtle Shell Shock twice to kill it, creating a Thousand-Year Soul Ring.
• While skinning the Lion King, Huang Shan discovered a crystalline, multicolored bone in its left leg and suspected it was a Soul Bone.
• Su Tianyu spotted the glow from his hiding place, rushed Huang Shan, and used Mental Shock to knock him face-first to the ground.
• Huang Shan cried out about his injured face and demanded to know who had ambushed him.

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.