Warning! Contains detailed spoilers for DD3 - Legend of the Dragon
As I read, I will try and summarize the chapters. If someone can follow on and edit this page to format, would be great. If anyone wants to read the raws directly, you can find them here or here. - Rumstein
Be prepared, this is going to end up really ridiculously long.
Note: DD2 chapters were split into 3-4 parts per chapter totalling 620 or so chapters, with each "part" the size of one DD3 chapter. This will likely be 2000+ chapters at this rate.
DOULUO DALU 3 - LEGEND OF THE DRAGON
Chapters 1-4
6-year-old Wuling is taken by his father - Tang Zi Ran - to Pass the Pagoda for spirit awakening. His spirit is awakened, and seems powerful with golden veins temporarily appearing, but sadly it's just blue silver grass and level 3 innate soul power. When he gets home, his mother - Lan Yue - makes lunch, but Wuling isn't hungry and instead goes to sleep. He dreams of a golden world while his body writhes in pain with a golden pattern spreading over his body. When he wakes up, he eats an enormous amount of food, then his dad asks whether he wants to go to normal school or spirit master school, with an obvious answer of spirit master school. The school is close to the house, so Wuling only attends during the day instead of staying in a dorm. On his first day, he gets teased for having a waste spirit by someone with a 2 edged knife, before the teacher starts teaching them about Spirit Masters (cue same info from DD1). Without looking closely you wouldn't notice, but Wuling's Blue Silver Grass had a slight golden tinge to the roots..
Chapter 5-10
Even the teacher is unenthusiastic about Wuling's BSG, but he declares that since his dad said success is 99% effort and 1% talent, he has to work hard! His appetite already gave him the nickname of "Big Eater", consuming more than 6 people's worth at lunch. Outside, he encounters a silver haired girl with amethyst eyes, she is dirty and looks like a beggar, but a group of men see her hair and comment that she could be worth a bit in the black market, before trying to abduct her. Wuling confronts them, but gets knocked down a few times, and then releases his spirit warning them. Not wanting the trouble of dealing with Pass the Pagoda for injuring a potential spirit master, the would-be kidnappers leave. Wuling comforts the girl, who reveals her name is Na Er.
Wuling asks about Na Er's parents, and she just shakes her head before her stomach grumbles. Wuling then takes her back to his place for his mum to make some food and tells her about what happened. While Lan Yue is making food, she has them take a bath and wash, afterwards, Wuling asks why he and Na Er are different, with his mum just laughing. Before lunch, they have some milk and cookies. Wuling doesn't eat as he is too curious about Na Er and gives her his biscuit. Na Er is 5.5y/o, so hasn't had any spirit awakening yet. While Lan Yue takes Na Er to the magistrate to see if she can find her parents, Wuling doesn't really know why, but his heart is fluttering a little, maybe because of Na Er's beauty. While Lan Yue takes her to the magistrate's office, he meditates and feels something from his BSG.
Wuling had entered a fairly deep meditation, absorbing a bit of energy from the surrounding BSG. When he wakes up, his dad is surprised that he learnt meditation so quickly, and then scolds him a little for foolishly running into the fight instead of seeking help, but protecting the girl was the right thing. Wuling then finds that Na Er has no family, and has a small argument with his parents to have Na Er stay with them instead of going to the orphanage, saying he always wanted a sister. Of course, the decision was up to Na Er in the end, and she agreed, becoming Wuling's little sister. They are all sitting to eat dinner, Na Er has an appetite as big as Wuling. That night, instead of sleeping, Wuling starts to meditate.
Tang Wuling's dad stops him before meditating and reminds his son about how spirit rings are gained at 10th rank. If the spirit and practice are exceptional, they may be gifted a soul from Pagoda, otherwise, they must buy it. With another child in the house, they may not have enough money to buy a soul for Wuling, so his dad recommends Wuling studying forging with his uncle to make some money, to which Wuling agrees. At school, Wuling is quite intelligent, being praised often by his teachers. After school, Lan Yue arrives and takes Wuling to see his uncle, Mang Tian.
Mang Tian warns Wuling that there will be no crying, and his job is to hammer a disk of metal 500 times on each side. Seeing the heavy hammer, Wuling feels a little bitter, however when he tries to pick it up he feels it is quite light, and quickly proceeds to forge the metal as he was told, with his arms becoming sore at 300 strikes but persisting through to the end. With his muscles sore and an unnoticed golden glow creeping from his spine, he tells Mang Tian that he is finished, to much surprise. Mang Tian is shocked, and after checking the metal tells Wuling to keep hitting until he says stop, seeing that there is no technique or leveraging, just pure force. He thinks he may have just found a genius.
After a while, Mang Tian tells Wuling to stop for the day, and prepares some ointment to give to Lan Yue for Wuling's swollen hands, impressed with his determination and sticking through it for so long. Sitting in the lounge while Lan Yue looks at Wuling's hands, Mang Tian explains forging to the child. At home, Na Er still hasn't recovered any memory, and the kids start eating dinner, but Wuling can't even lift his arms, so Na Er feeds him his dinner.
Chapter 11-15
At home, Lan Yue is crying to Tang Zi Ran about Wuling's hand injuries, but Zi Ran comforts her and tells her than Mang Tian told him Wuling was gifted, and that if he doesn't succeed as a spirit master he can definitely succeed as a soul mentor. When they go to dinner, they see Na Er feeding Wuling and smile. Before bed, Wuling shows Na Er his BSG, and tells her she will also have a spirit when she turns 6, before falling asleep on the bed and Na Er soon falling asleep beside him. Zi Ran comes in later to apply ointment to Wuling's hands, but they are completely healed, and an unnoticed golden pattern retreating into his eyebrows. He is confused, as this shouldn't be an effect of BSG.
3 years later, Wuling has grown much taller, taller than any of his peers, and is built well. Even with BSG, he has become quite popular. Wan Yun originally tried to bully Wuling due to BSG, but was swiftly beaten and eventually became his friend. Wan Yun was the first in the class to reach 10th rank to gain a soul, and Wuling is close behind, being gifted in meditation. Upon awakening, Na Er did not display any spirit, shocking everyone. As a result, she goes to college to learn normally, and Wuling spoils her, often getting into fights to protect her - generally a fight each day for some reason or another.
In the three years past, Wuling become an official forging apprentice of Mang Tian, being praised often while earning money for his soul ring, some for his family, and some to spend on Na Er. He finally saves up enough money to buy a soul ring from the Pagoda.
Having finally saved 30,000 spirit coins, he runs home to count it and make sure. His dad declares they will all go together to get his soul ring. That night, he is too excited to sleep and leaves the room after pulling Na Er's quilt over her properly. He leaves the room, and moonlight shines on Na Er - with her body responding with 7 colour lights and growing a little - she hadn't grown in size for 3 years. Wuling didn't see this, though, and is drawn to a garden he regularly visited with Na Er, which calmed him and he sat down to meditate.
This meditation shows golden lines patterned over his body temporarily, and finally causes Wuling to hit 10th rank, and tells his family, but Na Er looks like she's in a bit of a daze and not focused. The next day, Wuling tells his teacher and plans to take the following day off school to get his spirit ring. Na Er asks him to go to the beach with her after dinner, where she asks if he will still want her if she has to leave someday.
Chapter 16-20
Wuling responds that of course he still will want her, and tells her to move to his intermediate school's city when it's time. Since DD2, Star Luo Empire found an island continent and migrated, while Sun Moon Empire unified the Douluo continent while Pagoda developed artificial spirit rings. At the Pagoda, an impatient guru tells them the prices - 70,000 for a white ring, of which there are 73 options and 1,000,000 for a yellow ring of which there are only 11 options, but there is also a random ring option. At these prices, Wuling is shocked.70,000 is too much for Wuling, he chooses the random soul costing 30,000. His Dad suggests they wait and borrow money, but Wuling insists knowing how much he and Na Er cost to feed. There is a chance for the random ring to be a failure due to the process of creation for artificial souls. The Pagoda guru is a little impressed and tells Wuling to follow him to test his spiritual power. The spiritual force and size of their spiritual sea directly affect their communication with the spirit familiars and souls, for their relationship and the level of the soul. Wuling closed his eyes and the guru began testing him, with a look of surprise on his face.
The spiritual power measuring instrument gave Wuling a rating of 38. Spiritual Power ratings are between 1-130, with 38 being the best of the past year. The spirit ring comes from a roulette type machine and results in a 10 year Spirit Beast.
The spirit is a weak little grass snake, even fully grown is completely harmless to everything except insects. The Pagoda had been experimenting with artificial souls since the near-extinction of spirit beasts, and managed to create a soul from a regular non-spirit beast, but the result was weak and unwanted like this grass snake. Taking the ball with the grass snake home, he has 24 hours to absorb it before it dies. Wuling goes to his room, followed by Na Er. Looking at the grass snake, then his callouses on his hands, Wuling starts to cry. A waste spirit - BSG, but he has soul force so he has a chance. His family doesn't have enough money, so Wuling worked hard through blood and sweat so that he could have a chance, with no tears. He virtually gave up his childhood for this dream, but looking at the worthless grass snake, tears filling the ball, he wondered why God was so unfair to him. Na Er could only wipe away his tears and hug him.
Wuling gives up and chooses to fuse with the grass snake. A defective soul ring for a waste spirit. As he is meditating to fuse with it, a golden pattern spreads from his spine, covering his entire body and infusing his Blue Silver Grass merging with the grass snake with golden lines and becoming far tougher.
Chapter 21-25
Similar to the changes in his BSG, the grass snake grew and it's scales changed slightly in shape and took on a golden colour and light. A scale on it's forehead condensed into a golden diamond. Throughout this, Wuling experienced a lot of physical and mental pain, and his body covered in sweat. At the end, the snake entered into his palm, returning to normal, and the golden pattern covering Wuling seeped into his skin instead of disappearing entirely. Tang Zi Ran returns home and sees Na Er at the door, who tells him not to disturb Wuling as he is fusing with the spirit. Zi Ran is shocked, and puts down the money he had just borrowed. When Wuling woke up, it was the evening, and as he felt the changes in his body he waved his arms around, resulting in a loud sound through the air from the pressure of his arm swing. Before he can try again to see what that was, his family and Mang Tian rush into the room. After making sure Wuling was ok, Mang Tian asks him to release his spirit.
Wuling brings out his spirit, and everyone can see the white spirit ring. The BSG spreads through the room and Wuling can sense the surroundings through the plants outside. Mang Tian tries to stretch the BSG to snap it, but it is too tough. He drops the grass vine to the ground and it makes a sound as if it's very heavy. Surprised, he releases his spirit, Hammer of the Earth, and shows white, yellow, yellow and purple spirit rings together with his spirits - a white rabbit (10 year ring), a yellow hammer (100) and a brown bear (1000). Activating his first ring, he tries again, but instead of ripping it, the blue silver grass lights up.
With the blue light and touch of gold texture in the blue silver grass, Mang Tian is still unable to snap it, but when he puts in more force Wuling finds that his soul force has dipped a bit. Mang Tian declares that this must be a spirit variation, as he has seen a blue silver grass with a far stronger snake spirit for the first ring, and was able to snap it bare handed, while he couldn't snap Wuling's even while using his spirit. After everyone else has gone to sleep, Wuling went outside to the lawn and brought out his spirit. He talks to it, but it has low intelligence and doesn't respond much, but it wriggles and flashes a golden scale on its forehead. Seeing the golden scale shining Wuling calls it Jin Guang, meaning Golden Light.
When Wuling returned home, Lan Yue told him, crying, that Na Er disappeared. She left a note on the bed, telling them she remembered who she is, and that her family came to collect her as she has a lot of things to do, also thanking them especially Wuling. As Wuling starts frantically running around trying to find her, she was leaning against a wall, crying, holding a doll Wuling bought her that has purple eyes and silver hair like her, while another person commented to her that they need to leave. Na Er left behind a silver necklace with a precious gem in it for Wuling, but he puts it aside and keeps searching for Na Er every night. He is unfocused, so his forging work suffers, as well as his general temperament. After the graduation ceremony, Wan Yun wants to see Wuling's spirit, and provokes him to a fight. Releasing his two-edged knife spirit, a white spirit ring starts floating behind him.
Wan Yun's first spirit ring is another knife overlaid on his spirit, and massively enhances it's cutting strength, but Wuling releases his Blue Silver Grass and beats Wan Yun black and blue using it like whips. Afterwards, Wuling comments that Wan Yun should be using it as a melee style, but he's too fat. At Mang Tian's forge, he tells Wuling that he will keep training him at the East Sea City, where he has a studio and Wuling will go to school. But first, he has to teach Wuling a new forging method. He firstly gives a strength test to Wuling, as his failures up to now were from excessive strength since his spirit ring. At 7, Wuling's hitting strength was 140kg, at 8 it was 200kg, and he hasn't been tested at 9.
Chapter 26-30
When Wuling swings, a heat comes from his spine. His left arm reaches 483kg, while his right arm reaches 543kg. The technique Mang TIan teaches Wuling is called thousand refinement, and requires the person to be completely immersed with the metal in order to purify and sublimate it throughout the process.
Throughout the forging, Wuling projects his spirit power in order to analyse the heavy silver in front of him. After two hours of restrained forging to identify it's characteristics, Wuling begins using force. Starting from the calves, he projects power through his body increasing his strength per hit.
At the same time, a golden pattern spreads over Wuling's body, and his eyes have a golden glow, but Mang Tian doesn't notice this, too focused on the heavy silver chunk. After 4 1/2 hours, Tang Zi Ran enters, looking for his son, and seeing the forging. After 5 hours, the heavy silver is nearly completely forged, emitting a light, and Mang Tian cuts Wuling's wrist before quickly holding the wound to stop further bleeding, spraying blood onto the heavy silver chunk. The forging is completed.
Thousand refinement is successful! Everyone is stunned, and Wuling passes out from exhaustion. Mang Tian looks at him with pride while his dad carries him home. After Wuling wakes up, an entire day has passed. He looks over at Na Er's bed, which he refused to let be removed, and misses Na Er. Once he is awake, his parent's feed him dinner, and he eats for a full hour, more than any adult's share. His wrist has completely healed up. and Tang Zi Ran takes him to see Mang Tian, who shows him the result of his thousand refinement.
Seeing the refined heavy silver, Wuling senses an incredible vitality, and it feeling like it's almost a part of himself. Mang TIan explains that upon the first thousand refinement, the tradition is to sacrifice some blood to it, infusing it with part of themselves. He gifts the result to Wuling, and in the following days they forge the refined heavy silver into a new forging hammer, weighing many times that of his tungsten hammer.
Chapter 31-35
Upon tapping the metal with his heavy silver hammer, the sound echoes twice. He hits it again with his other hand, echo again. When he gives it a proper hit with force, the same echo occurs again. Mang Tian is astounded, and tells him that his hammer with the blood sacrifice has a special effect called "Stacked Hammer". This causes resonance in the hammer, and effectively hits the metal three times - the best possible ability. The effort and time required for thousand refinement have been reduced significantly! In order to not provoke jealousy from others, Wuling is told to hide this hammer's ability until he can protect himself. Afterwards, Mang Tian gives him two heavy silver rings.
These silver rings are storage spirit guides! Thinking they were too expensive, Wuling tries to refuse them, but Mang Tian insists, telling him that they are cheap ones anyway due to their small size. Wuling somewhat reluctantly accepts them before putting his new hammer in it. Mang Tian tells Wuling that the hammer is essentially a part of him now, as he and his blood get stronger, his hammer will also be nourished - the blood sacrifice has turned it into a semi-living thing. At home, Tang Zi Ran is talking with Lan Yue, discussing making a promise and helping Wuling.
Wuling steps off the train with his backpack, and looks around in awe. East Sea City is very strange! Someone calls out master, and Wuling looks, to find some black suited people, and in the other direction a brown haired green eyes boy in a blue sports suit. As he is looking, someone bumps him and he hits the blue clothed boy, who glares at him before continuing. One of the black suited men pushes Wuling hard in the chest, but Wuling barely feels it, only thinking arrogant city people. As he walks through, he reads a letter from his Dad, when a stranger tries to stop him. Reading the letter, it says "dont trust strangers" so Wuling walks away. He finds a police officer, who points him towards the school bus, where he finds a group of people in blue sports suits and seeing him run over, a brunette girl calls out to him.
The girl tells Wuling all about college, her name is Liu YuXin, and she is in charge of registering the new students. Once she has him registered, another boy mentions waste blue silver grass, and Liu defends Wuling based on his age and spirit rank. They get on the school bus, and most other students have their parents on bored, so Wuling is a little lonely. At the school, Liu Yuxin takes Wuling on a bit of a tour before showing him where to get his uniform.
Once he receives his uniforms, he is assigned a dorm where he meets Xiao Yun, a small boy with glasses, before a taller student tells him to clean up. Wuling looks around and agrees it's dusty, before putting down his items to go and get a wash basin. This taller boy's name is Zhou Zhangxi. When Wuling returns, he finds Zhangxi has emptied Wuling's bags all over the floor. Wuling demands he pick them up, repeats himself, then Zhangxi grinds his quilt into the ground. Wuling is stunned, and murmurs that it is the quilt Na Er embroidered for him...
Chapter 36-40
He repeats that his sister embroidered that for him, a silver edged quilt with purple flowers, and Zhou Zhangxi points at himself and tells Wuling he has to listen to him. Wuling charged, and Zhangxi acted to swat his fist away, but couldn't move it and got punched in the chest, before cannoning through the room and out the second floor window, to screams coming from outside. Xiao Yun knows Zhangxi has the hercules ape spirit, and his bones are many times heavier than an adults, but Wuling didn't even use soul power, just a pure punch. A black clothed man enters the room, and seeing the mess on the ground kicks it away. Wuling in a rage flies at him, but he dodges and hits Wuling in the back with his elbow. Wuling simply gets up and charges again, to his surprise - he had used a lot of force. The man dodges Wuling, and kicks him hard a number of times, before landing on the quilt. Wuling sees this and spits out that everyone in the town seems so bad, before releasing his spirit and filling the room with blue silver grass. The man releases his spirit, a short dagger with a hundred year ring, and cuts at the BSG, but it doesn't cut at all. He uses his rings ability to escape the grasses restraint, only for Wuling's fist to erupt in front.
Wulings fist crashes into the boys face, and he flies out embedding into the wall. 10 minutes later in the deans office, he reprimands both of the students who were injured, as well as Xiao Yun for not trying to stop it, punishing them by lowering them to the fifth class. While Wuling didn't get punished, he is only BSG so was naturally in fifth class, and had to pay to repair the damage. Once the boys had left, the dean requested Wulings records.
Back in the dorm, the black clothed youth demands Xiao Yun take the top bunk, while Wuling puts his items on the bottom bunk of the other bed. Zhangxi tells Wuling to take the top, but Wuling glares at him and says "Go!". Just as Zhangxi looks like he is about to start a fight again, Xiao Yun reminds him of further punishment. Teachers come to the room, and change out the broken bed - all of the repairs are going to cost Wuling 34,000 coins! After the teachers leave, the black clothed youth identifies himself as Xie Hou, with Wuling just replying "You're welcome". Getting angry again, he introduces himself again, and challenges Wuling to a fight off campus. It's the same boy that he ran into at the train station. Wuling tells him to get lost, he needs to work hard for the 34,000 - it took him 3 years of forging last time - and Xie Hou responds that he will pay it for the fight, the following day, before leaving. The remaining 3 head to lunch, there are 3 lunch buildings, with the lowest being free and highest being very expensive, so they head to the free one. Zhangxi is also from an average family, so that 34,000 is enormous to him, but Wuling didn't even ask him to pay any when it was his fault, so he is not so angry, and challenges Wuling to an eating competition, with the loser cleaning the dorm and if Zhangxi loses he also cleans Wuling clothes that he dirtied.
Shockingly, Wuling eats 80 meat buns and 5 bowls of vegetable soup, while Zhangxi only managed 20 meat buns, with the previous record being 43. After lunch, Wuling returns to the dorm, where Xie Hou thrusts a bag full of cash at him, and tells him to meet after school the next day. Wuling then heads out to the town, where he goes to the Forging Association to register.
At the Forging Association, the girl at the desk named Ling Yun Xiao takes Wuling to see Master Cen for the test. He takes him to a test room, and is a little surprised when he finds out Wuling is only 9.
Chapter 41-45
In front of Wuling are 5 different metals, each 1 cubic foot in size. He is given 1 hour to purify a metal, and the everyone's surprise, he chooses the heavy silver, the hardest to process. He lifts it and moves it to the forging bench surprising the evaluators - it weighs over 300kg! Wuling remembers that he is banned from doing 1000 refinement or using his silver hammer in public, and starts with the heat, perfect. Then starts lightly tapping to get a feel for the metal. Finally, he begins to refine it in full, Cen Yue is surprised as he is using a thousand refined tungsten hammer!
With every hit from Wuling, the evaluators can hear a perfect collision, he's a genius. As he continues forging, an 8 start Holy Carpenter named Mu Chen and his 14 year old daughter enter the building, she is testing in a different room. Hearing the sound of Wuling's forging, he asks about that room and goes to check it out, but without going inside.
Mu Chen returns to the desk and asks about the person inside, and finds he is only 9, before having to go to his daughters room for the test. Wuling finishes the refinement, and has to forge the metal into parts. He begins making a medium sized component.
Wuling completes the forging, and is awarded his 2nd level rank. He leaves, and was given 10,000 coins for his completed part. Cen Yue calls Mang Tian and complains that Tian was just showing off with his disciple. Back at school, Wuling enters the dorm, and is confronted by Xie Hou about avoiding the fight. Wuling tosses the 10,000 at him and says he'll pay it all back but needed the money up front for the repairs, and promises to fight the next day, before entering meditation. Xie Hou is seething with anger all night, and the next morning keeps glancing at Wuling while Wuling is enjoying his breakfast. From the competition before, he gained the nickname legendary big eater, and is eating an enormous breakfast once again.
Today is the opening ceremony. Wuling is standing up the back of the freshmen, as he is quite tall, and their classes are allocated. As expected, out of 100 students the four are in the fifth class - the worst class. Their teacher arrives to take them and the other 16 students to their classroom, he's 27/28, and incredibly handsome, with long blue hair and green eyes, and also gives off an air of strength. The female students are stunned, and Xie Hou is a bit disapproving. His name is Zhang Wukong, he starts introductions. Xiao Yun starts, his spirit is astrolabe, rank 12, and aims to be a support class spirit master. Next is Wuling, who introduces his blue silver grass, but has no real aim, resulting in someone snickering "Waste spirit, of course no aim". At that, Wukong throws a piece of chalk, which ends up down that student's throat causing him to retch, and declares there is no waste spirit, only waste people.
Chapter 46-50
The introductions continue - Zhou Zhangxi is an 11th rank Hercules Ape user aiming to be a power attack spirit master, and Xie Hou is an 18th rank with Light Dragon Dagger and aims to be an agility attack spirit master. Once class was over, Xie Hou reminded Wuling of the fight, and they left to go to the park. On the way, they ran into Liu Yuxin, who asks Wuling to take photos of his teacher Wukong for her, the girls all have a crush on him. Wukong is actually the strongest teacher at the school - he has 6 rings, and used to be her teacher, but for some reason or another he is now the class 5 freshman teacher.
When they reach the park Wuling felt that his BSG is reacting to the grass around him. He has no time to explore this though, it's time to fight. Xie Hou is too fast for Wuling, and his first spirit ring is able to cut his grass, though not entirely. Xie Hou doesn't want to kill Wuling, so he doesn't go for the throat when he has an opportunity, but he slices Wuling's cheek. Hou moves for the finishing blow, aiming to stab Wuling in the shoulder and make him unable to continue.
His aim is to teach Wuling a lesson with this strike to the shoulder - he could cut off his arm, but he won't. Surprisingly, Wuling's muscles are too tough - the knife can only stab in about an inch. Xie Hou twists the dagger, causing Wuling a sharp pain and falling to the ground, while calling for Wuling to admit defeat. Wuling refuses, and a light starts to come from his wound. Hou attempts to remove the dagger, but he can't and a deep fear spreads through his body. With an explosion of golden light, the dagger flies out of Wuling's shoulder, and Xie Hou is knocked back into a tree, unconscious. Wuling's body was incredibly hot, and he looked down and saw golden scales covering his arm from the wound to the fingertips, which formed sharp claws. The golden grass snake was wrapped around his wrist, completely golden with ruby eyes, and Wuling punched with his fist causing an enormous burst of force. As he wondered if the power came from the snake, all the golden colour and scales faded, and Wuling fell unconscious, with a golden grid pattern over his body again. Xie Hou woke up near the school, Wuling carrying him on his back. His face is swollen and numb and can't talk.
On return, Xie Hou asks what the golden light was, Wuling responds that it was his spirit - and shows the golden grass snake. Xie Hou says thats not what he meant, but Wuling answers that he doesn't know. In the dorm, Wuling realises that dinner is almost over, and sprints to the cafeteria. After finishing 16 bowls of noodles, the chef talks to him, and gives him the leftovers of the B dish - it's really good! Wuling returns to the dorm, and meditates, but no matter how he tries he can't bring the golden scales back out. He thinks it's when he's hurt, so he pricks his finger for blood, but nothing, so he suspects it's a harsher injury.
Xie Hou is pestering Wuling again on the way to breakfast, but Wuling is ignoring him - food is more important. Seeing this, Xie Hou states he will buy whatever Wuling wants to eat in return for a fight, resulting in Wuling eating 30 Phoenix Turtle Eggs from the A group, costing 30,000 and pretty much drying up Xie Hou's pocket money, but also having Wuling thank him. Class after breakfast was one on one duels, with Wuling vs. Zhangxi. Zhangxi releases his spirit, and charges at Wuling, his first spirit raises his strength. Wuling pushes out his hands, resulting in Zhangxi taking 3 steps back, followed by Wuling dashing in with a punch.
Chapter 51-55
Wuling punch knocks Zhangxi backwards, and Wukong calls a stop to the fight. Wuling passes to the next round, but is reprimanded for not using his spirit when he should have gone all out. Xie Hou is against Xiao Yun, and when he is about to strike Yun disappears. Hou is too fast though, and catches up, winning victory. After the whole class has fought, the next round starts. Wuling is against a girl with a white cat spirit, another agility type. As she closes in, Wuling releases his BSG and starts forming nets to catch her. While she tries to find gaps, Wuling keeps creating more nets, and his defense structure becomes more perfect.
Her soul force was running out, so she started moving closer, and as she went for the finisher, Wuling bound her with grass, then punched but stopped short of her face, winning. Next round, Wuling vs. Tao Lufan, who uses a willow spirit. His first ring is virtually the same as Wuling's and even has a snake type spirit, however willow and his spirit are higher than BSG. They fight by chasing each other with plants, and ultimately try to bind each other. Wuling let's it happen, and uses his grass to pull Lufan towards him. Lufan seeing this, turned the movement into an attack, but Wuling broke free of the binding, grabbed his leg, and pinned him to the ground. With 3 left, Xie Hou gets a bye, and Wuling fights Han Lan, who is rank 13 and uses an earth spirit.
Han Lan is a control class, and causes earth to erupt and imprison Wuling, while he just stands there patiently. Wukong begins counting down from 10, only to find that Wuling smashed his way out simply with physical force and his tungsten hammers, and he declares it Wuling's victory. The last fight is Xie Hou, but Wukong decides to make it fair by hitting Hou once himself. In a quick fight, he hits Xie Hou on the shoulder with his belt.
The final fight was Xie Hou vs. Wuling. Xie Hou dashed around while Wuling builds up a BSG net. Continuous hits from Xie Hou, while surprisingly unable to break the BSG, drained Wuling's soul force. As Xie Hou charged in for the final hit, Wuling blocked it with his tungsten hammer, then blocked another attack. His speed was much higher than expected.
Xie Hou does not want to use his first ability, the power is too strong for a mock fight like this, so keeps getting blocked by Wuling. He takes a step back and gathers his breath, focusing, and his speed jumps by 30%. Before Wuling can react, there is a slash and blood is drawn, with Wuling feeling heat from the base of his spine and the power rising, but then falls and no golden scales form. Wukong calls it Xie Hou's win, but now he owes Wuling a new set of clothes as he cut them. Sending the rest of the class on, Wukong takes Xie Hou and Wuling to his office, where he grills them for not going all out, and asks Wuling why he used the hammers, with Wuling responding he learned forging.
Chapter 56-60
Wukong asks why Wuling is learning forging, with the reply that he has a waste spirit so needs an alternative. Wukong gets angry, and convinces Wuling to focus on his spirit master training, Wuling agrees, but secretly will continue forging anyway since he enjoys it. Wukong then reveals that Xie Hou must have twin spirits, which is correct, but can't quite tell what the spirit is. He also tells them that there is a challenge tradition, where the fifth class can challenge up classes in order, and keep going every time they win. Whichever class they beat, their class will climb above in ranking, and then can also challenge senior classes for more rewards. Xie Hou is excited, but then Wukong tells him it has to be done as a duo. The fight is in a month, and Wukong will train them every night till then. Xie Hou afterwards tells Wuling not to hold him down, and Wuling just responds by asking about his swollen face.
They then agree to fight the next day, Wuling has errands to run. He returns to Liu Yuxin, and hands her the camera with photos, saying they weren't any good before walking off. Yuxin goes through them with her friends, and sees the photos of Wukong removing his belt and attacking, with the other girls salivating and starting a bidding war for them. Wuling then has lunch, before heading to the forging association to collect his badge. Outside of the school, he sees another group of black suited men escorting a blonde girl to a car and driving away. At the association, Mu Xi - the daughter of Mu Chen, who was having her forging test whjen Wuling did, and is now waiting for him to see what he is like, since he beat her record.
At the desk, Xiao Ling Yun escorts Wuling up to the top floor to collect his badge. There he meets Cen Yue, and is introduced to Mu Chen, with Mu Xi popping up and commenting that he is from her school, but then looking in disdain when he says 5th class. After being presented his 2 star badge, Mu Chen states that he hopes Wuling can contribute not just to forging, but also to creating life. Mu Xi comments showing that she is also a 2 star smith.
Cen Yue takes Wuling to teach him how to perform forging association requests, while Mu Chen scolds Mu Xi for being brash and challenging Wuling. Forging tasks "loan" the metals to the member, and taking a 10% commission. Any failure must be recreated by the member at their own cost. Cen Yue then gives Wuling a spirit guide communicator and a storage spirit ring.
The storage ring was 10m3, which is quite expensive and Wuling protests. Cen Yue tells him it's a loan - that it would be his to keep once he reaches 4th or 5th level, and that he can't neglect his spirit master studies as soul force is still required for strong forging. The next day, Wuling went to get breakfast, but was stopped by Mu Xi surrounded by high school students. As they surrounded Wuling, he released his spirit - binding them, and started to fight, kicking one in the chest.
Chapter 61-65
Shockingly, most of the students break out of the bindings, and Wuling's soul force suddenly drops. As the rest of the students surround Wuling again, Mu Xi releases her spirit and calls them to stop. She has two rings, with one of her spirits showing as a ball of fire. She tells Wuling to become her lackey, but he refuses. Xie Hou appears, with his second spirit released ready to kill Mu Xi, and she fears for her life and relents. Xie Hou's second spirit is the shadow dragon dagger, an invisible blade. Long Hengxu, the dean, appears and stops everything, and after asking Wuling why he fought to the response that he will always fight against bullies bigger than himself, Wukong appears, and takes the two away.
Their training is to run laps of the field with the entire class, however Xie Hou and Wuling are given incredibly heavy iron chains to carry around at the same time. Hou is much faster, but after the fourth lap his stamina is depleted and he struggles. The entire time Wuling is consistent, not even breaking a sweat, and he catches upto Xie Hou, but not overtaking him. When Hou almost collapses, Wuling picks him up by the shoulder and carries him further. A new girl named Gu Yue appears, staring at Wuling and Xie Hou, wanting to enter the academy but missed enrollment. In order to test her, Wukong tells Xie Hou to give his iron chains to Wuling for 10 laps, and for Hou to fight her. When Wukong tells Xie Hou that his strength isn't very good, Xie Hou replies that he is agility type and doesn't need that kind of strength, with Wukong shaking his head.
Wuling's speed wasn't exactly fast, but even with double the weight, it hasn't dropped at all. Xie Hou and Gu Yue start fighting, as Xie Hou closes in, she pushes Hou away with wind, before unleashing a fireball at him. Wukong is shocked, it's a dual element spirit. Xie Hou releases his first ring, and attacks Gu Yue with higher speed. She blocks with a blue light blade, and slightly retreats.
Xie Hou is still stronger than her, and moves to attack again, when Gu Yue attacks his feet, turning the ground to mud, with Xie Hou sinking in, and then freezing his feet in place. She then launches a fireball at him, but he cuts it in half, only to find her launching a burst of light at him. Wukong declares Gu Yue the winner, and telling her she can enroll. She reveals that her spirit is Elementalist, which while not having strong single element abilities like other spirits, it can use all of the six elements - fire, ice, earth, wind, space and light. This is an incredibly powerful spirit, and Wukong approves her entry into class 5.
Wukong tells them all to keep running, including Gu Yue and Xie Hou who has to put his chains back on, and along the way Gu Yue starts talking to Wuling and Hou. Wukong then goes to the dean's office and apologizes for his behavior in order to get the dean to process Gu Yue's application, which he promises to do. When reading through the application, he sees 15th level and spirit: Elementalist, and is wondering what Elementalist is.
Chapter 66-70
Long Hengxu questions Wukong, with Wukong only telling him that he is the only one who can teach her, and he will see her spirit after the challenges. After class, Wuling is teased a bit by his dorm mates as it seemed Gu Yue was interested in him somewhat. Xie Hou was concerned Wuling would get dropped from the duo for Gu Yue, but the others tease him saying he might be dropped and Wuling kept in, based on their fight record. They go off to get food, and after eating a ton of food, Gu Yue gives him another bun, and the rest of his room mates tease him again. After food, Wukong takes Xie Hou, Wuling and Gu Yue for more training.
The meet and are taken to an indoor arena, where Wukong tells Wuling that if he isn't strong enough in 3 months, then Gu Yue will enter the contest with Xie Hou instead. Gu Yue states that she won't take his place, but Wuling agrees with Wukong. They are to begin training in order to overcome their weak points, Xie Hou has good speed, but terrible endurance and strength, and that the next day he is going to take them to test their mental strength.
Wukong tells Gu Yue he wants her to practice using multiple elements simultaneously, and tells Wuling he needs to learn to control his BSG perfectly. His strength is a talent, and combining BSG with his hammer will have great results. Their challenge for today is all three to fight Wukong. Wukong brings out a simple wooden sword, and uses it to block their attacks. Wuling throws his hammer with BSG like a chain from behind, but still gets deflected. Gu Yue turns the ground to mud and sinks Wukong on, but he still deflects attacks, including Wuling's double hammers, and just steps out. Wuling then enters a state where he sees Wukong as metal to forge, and attacks with his thousand forged heavy silver hammer.
The hammer is thrown with BSG again, and Wukong blocks it with his sword. Unprepared for the strength and weight, the echos from the hammer shatter his sword and force him to dodge, before landing on the ground with an enormous crash, stunning Gu Yue and Xie Hou and causing Wukong to end the contest. Wuling picks up the hammer, explaining to Wukong about the heavy silver forging and stacked hammer effect, and Xie Hou takes it from Wuling's hands to look at, but the weight it far too much and he crashes to the ground. Wukong then tests Wuling's physical strength by having Wuling try to pull him. Everyone can see that Wukong is actually exerting himself a bit to resist. From then on, Wuling skipped the physical training as it was pointless for him, and instead focuses on his BSG control. Upon testing their mental strength, Xie Hou is rank 29, Wuling 44, and Gu Yue 119, Wukong suspects the elementalist spirit is actually a spiritual type.
In bed, Wuling's spirit guide communicator rings, it's Mang Tian calling and questioning him for not finishing the task yet. Hearing the conversation, his roommates are surprised and Xie Hou asks him about his forging level. Xie Hou's family is actually a famous family of Armour division spirit masters (users of spirit forged armour), and Wuling agrees to help him as a smith in the future, with Xie Hou declaring they are now brothers.
Chapter 71-75
The next day, Wuling visits Mang Tian, and finishes his forging task, collecting 20,000 coins for his work. Mang Tian was surprised when he was contacted by Mu Chen previously, as the holy carpenter had offered to help train Wuling. He tells Wuling to continue increasing his soul force at this time, and to complete his weekly forging tasks, so Wuling returns to the workshop 1 day a week to complete the forging, training at school every other day.
At this level, forging is easy for Wuling, and he just needs to focus on soul level. The stacked hammer effect makes forging very quick. Two months passed, and the first game of the tournament is up. Xie Hou is rank 19, Gu Yue is rank 17, and Wuling is rank 12. The first fight is against the 4th class, one rank higher than their own. Wukong tells them that if they win, they get rewards, but if they lose, they are punished, with Xie Hou reacting and Wukong threatening to put Gu Yue in instead of him.
The 4th class teacher named Konghan Wen approaches Wukong, and insults the 5th class. As the fight is about to start, Long Hengxu asks Wukong what type of fight, with Wukong replying 3v3. Since this is the lowest ranked fight, no one else is really paying attention, so the stadium is pretty well empty. At the start of the fight, the 4th class assumes a formation, with a wolf power spirit master in front, and a dual bladed dagger master and support spirit master behind. Without releasing their spirits, Wuling and Xie Hou attack, with Wuling charging straight at the power spirit master and simply punching. He tries to grab Wuling's fist, but his guard is broken and the punch directly hits his chest, launching him back 8 meters. Xie Hou had already eliminated the support spirit master, and the 13th ranked dagger spirit master was quickly dispatched. The 4th class had a 10 year ring each, but Wuling's team showed yellow, yellow and white. The fight ended in less than 10 seconds.
After the match, Long Hengxu went down and was a little confused. He knew Xie Hou's strength, and Gu Yue was somewhat expected when Wukong claimed her, but had no idea why Wuling was selected. He had arranged for Xie Hou to be in class 5, as his family had asked Hengxu to give Xie Hou a better temper, so used the fight as an excuse. After the match, Xie Hou offered to buy Wuling some snacks in return for a fight, and ignored Gu Yue. Gu Yue and Xie Hou did not get along at all, leaving Wuling to play mediator between the two. Xie Hou eventually relented, and they went to the market.
Xie Hou took them to a roadside stall for beef stew, cooked by a man he called Uncle Li. He ordered a lot for Wuling, and his backstory is explained. His mother named him Xie Hou (unexpected meeting) due to the way she met his father, and when she was sick and died his father was too busy to visit her - with her last wish being to see him before she died, he was too late and when he arrived she had already passed away. Xie Hou hates his name and his father due to this. His mother had often brought him to Uncle Li's kitchen to eat. Once they were finished, they visited other stalls and fed Wuling more delicious food, then noticed a commotion only to find Uncle Li's stall smashed and him on the ground beaten with 3 men standing over him.
Chapter 76-80
The three were gangsters, and Li had not paid protection money for this round due to his wife needing medical treatment, so they came to teach him a lesson. He tried to fight back, but they were all spirit masters, and so Wuling's trio stood up as spirit masters and started to fight. Wuling's strength surprised the leader, named Guang Long, and when Xie Hou held his knife to his throat he was not afraid to die, causing Xie Hou to hesitate. He released his spirit, armoured dragon, rank 27, 10 and 100 year rings.
Xie Hou's light dragon dagger was unable to pierce his scales, and he quickly threw him off. Wuling attacked with his thousand refined tungsten hammer, he couldn't retreat because Gu Yue was behind him. This had little effect, so he used his thousand refined heavy silver hammer with the echoing effect, but still did not have any significant effect. He was hit away, and Gu Yue stepped in front to protect him, but he got up and pulled Gu Yue back to fight himsef.
Guang Long hit Wuling hard, and Xie Hou got behind to try and catch him. They both rolled, and Xie Hou accidentally stabbed Wuling with his dagger. He apologised, and Gu Yue came around to help treat Wuling, but an immense force began to spread. Wuling's body heated up, and his right arm transformed to golden scales. He had almost forgotten all about this over the past few months. Wuling jumped up and rushed at Guang Long, Xie Hou called out to stop him by Gu Yue was just stunned. Wuling raised his hammer, and Guang Long charged, but was startled when he saw Wuling's eyes had transformed into golden with vertical pupils. Wuling attacked, and Guang Long's arms were instantly shattered. His partners attempted to catch him, but they went rolling backwards as well. Wuling felt his soul power increasing dramatically, but his soul force quickly depleted and the golden scales faded away. Xie Hou, who had also been afraid during the transformation, asked what the power was, but Wuling replied he didn't know. The gangsters had fled, and the other villagers were helping Li pick up his items. Xie Hou bid farewell, and they left. Xie Hou gave Uncle Li some protection money, and told Wuling the gangsters shouldn't be back any time soon.
On return to the school, Gu Yue had to return to the female dorm. Xie Hou and Wuling return to their dorm, but on the way Wuling stops, and tells Xie Hou that both times he transformed with Xie Hou's dagger. He suggests they need to see Wukong, but can wait till tomorrow, with Xie Hou guessing it is a recessive second spirit. Xie Hou says they need to go straight away, because he suspects there is a possibility of it also being a spirit fusion. They visit Wukong, who agrees with Xie Hou's suspicion of twin spirits, and gets Xie Hou to cut Wuling to release it. He sees the golden scales, and has Wuling contest with him again in strength.
After a while, Wuling's soul force is drained and he has to release his strength before he ends up in a coma again. Wukong is slightly confused, he can't tell what the power is. It's like a second spirit, but not fully released, and yet not like a spirit fusion because Xie Hou hasn't changed at all. It's also completely unrelated to BSG. It seems to function similar to spirit guide armour, it appears and greatly enhances strength, but quickly drains soul force to use it. He also mentions that if it was a spirit, it would be an absolute supreme spirit, even he felt oppressed when it was released. He tells Xie Hou and Wuling to keep practicing drawing it out so that Wuling can get used to it. It erupts because the light dragon dagger is similar and motivates Wuling's power, but Wuling should be able to control it eventually given enough soul force and strength. They leave and sleep, preparing for the fight the next day.
Chapter 81-85
Entering the next round, the 3rd class teacher is a very tall attractive woman with pale green hair named Ye Ying Rong. She greets Wukong, but he is apathetic to her. The 3rd class team comprises of 3 brothers, each with a flying spirit - Warhawk, and white ring. At the start of the fight, they release spirits and fly into the air, out of range. Wuling wraps Xie Hou with BSG, then grabs his waist, spins around a few times, and tosses him into the air at the brothers, surprising everyone. Xie Hou complains beforehand he is afraid of heights, but it's too late.
Gu Yue approaches Wuling, and he tosses her up as well. While in the air, Gu Yue throws out discs of ice, perfectly placed and timed so that Xie Hou uses them as stepping stones to chase after the brothers. He gets one, and Long Hengxu calls the brother out - he would be dead if it was a real fight. The brothers only have speed increasing abilities, no attack with their single ring. While she keeps Xie Hou moving chasing down the last brothers, one moves to attack her. She starts to fall, and Wuling leaps to catch her. Suddenly, the BSG that was wrapped around her waist is attached to the brother and pulls him to the ground. The fight was over. Seeing that Wukong wasn't exactly pleased, Wuling realised that he was hasty with the tactic, and should have waited for the brothers to attack - they would have had to come close where they could be defeated easily.
Ye Ying Rong calls her sister and tells her the 5th class works together too well. Her sister has resentment for Wukong since he rejected her. They return to the dorms, and as Wuling starts to meditate, they are interrupted by Zhangxi and Xiao Yun. A small army was at the entrance demanding them and Gu Yue. They get Wukong on the way, and head down. More than 200 men equipped with spirit guides are there, together with Guang Long on a stretcher and his older brother, Guang Biao. He is the East Sea City machine brigade captain.
While Long Hengxu delays him, Wukong arrives and blocks Guang Biao. Guang Biao releases his spirit, also armour dragon, but with 2 yellow and 4 purple rings. To everyone's surprise, Wukong releases his spirit - a blue sword, and 2 yellow, 2 purple and 2 black spirit rings.
Wukong is not focused on anything except his sword, gazing at it longingly. Guang Biao attacks, but Wukong blocks with the tip of his frost sword, sending a chill through Biao's body. Wukong's eyes emit a purple light still gazing at his sword, and he appears to split into two and attacking with two swords, piercing both Biao's hands. Trembling in cold and fear, he sees Wukong's eyes and stammers "you are from that place", with Wukong replying that he was kicked out because of his temper.
Chapter 86-90
Ye Ying Rong's sister comments that she will never catch up to Wukong, and Guang Biao takes his soldiers and leaves. Wukong orders his group to return and practice, so they scurry off.
When Wukong attacked Guang Biao, Wuling seemed to hear a dragon's cry in pain, followed by an angry roar within him. The burning feeling surfaced, but there were no golden scales this time. He enters meditation after the rest of his roommates, with a golden pattern erupting over his skin and a burning feeling surfacing, and after a short time finds himself within a black world. He sees a golden light getting larger and larger, before seeing a long snakelike body covered in golden diamond scales and large antlers. For some reason he knows it is a dragon, but it is entirely different from the mainland's dragons, with it's long body and no wings. He then sees 18 blue halos surrounding the dragon, and his first thought is his blue silver grass. A golden figure talks, tells Wuling that he has no memory, but he is just a soul and a part of Wuling. The essence of the dragon king is currently unable to be Wuling's spirit entirely because it's power was far too great, and is bound by 18 seals to protect Wuling. Wuling needs to open the seals to slowly absorb his power - he has started on one seal, otherwise the power will destroy all the seals at once and kill Wuling.
In order to release the first seal, Wuling needs 100 year Ice fruit and Flame fruit, together with 10 drops of 100 year dragon spirit beast blood, and he needs to do this before he is 10 (~6 months). The dragon aspect of Xie Hou's dagger stimulated Wuling's blood, temporarily releasing a part of the seal. He feels dizzy, and the dragon disappears as Wuling awakens. He runs through everything in his head, and decides that he first needs the fruit. He re-enters normal meditation until morning. On the way to breakfast, he asks Xie Hou about the fruit, finding out that they enhance ice and fire properties respectively with 10 year fruits being 20,000 coins, and 100 year fruits are only at the auction., while 1000 year is priceless. He estimates 100 year fruits are 800,000 to 1,000,000 coins. He makes Xie Hou promise to take him to the auction on the next rest day, then calls Mang Tian and arranges to meet him also on the rest day.
They win their next fight, and Gu Yue and Xie Hou have their typical fight when Gu Yue wants to come to the auction the next day. At the auction, they wander around a bit, before heading to the section where the spirit fruit will be sold.
Wuling sees the prices for some of the fruits, red fire fruit, 40 years - 180,000. There are no 100 year fruits, with Xie Hou pointing out that they would be on the next floor, and they can't go there yet. They don't have enough money or status, but could make it if Wuling was a 3rd rank smith. Wuling decides to do that, and is meeting with Mang Tian later that day. As they are leaving, they run into and are insulted by students from the first class.
Chapter 91-95
The male student insults them, and releases his rings, two of them at 9 years old! Wuling releases his, and the boy, Wei Xiaofeng, insults him further. As Xie Hou moves to attack, Wuling holds him back and tells him to fight in the arena the next day. Wuling goes to the studio, still annoyed at how weak he is. He asks Mang Tian about reaching 3rd rank smith, with Mang Tian questioning why. Wuling responds he needs to improve himself.
In order to improve himself, Wuling needs more money to buy good food and spirit rings. Mang Tian reluctantly agrees, he was withholding it from Wuling so that he wouldn't be defeated by jealousy in the industry, and wouldn't get arrogant. He tells Wuling that he focused too much on smithing, and not enough on spirit master, so couldn't become a holy carpenter. In order to break that level, you need rank 70 and spirit avatar. He hands Wuling a letter from his parents, which reads that his parents have gone far away. His father was a mech designer, but one of his designs drew too much attention so he hid. He decided that for Wuling, he would return to it, and attached Wuling's identity card and a bank card, which contains 1,000,000 credits, enough to buy a 100 year ring, and they will send him more as they can. They have his spirit guide details, and can contact him, but won't do until they are safe and settled. Wuling tries to run off after his parents, but Mang Tian stops him.
Wuling is suddenly so lonely. Na Er is gone, his family is gone, his whole home is gone. Mang Tian tells him that he needs to be stronger before he can see his parents, so Wuling resolves to practice. When he gets back to school, Xie Hou and Gu Yue tell him that all 3 of the 1st class members have 2 rings, and were considered for skipping up a grade. Suddenly, a warning is issued for a typhoon. Everyone is on lockdown for the next week, and the contest is suspended until then. Hearing this, Wuling's group is glad they have a week more to practice, but Wuling states that he has something he needs to do before the typhoon arrives and runs out of college.
Wuling calls Cen Yue, and requests to test for 3rd grade forging. Cen Yue was confused, until he realised it was Wuling, and he was eating with Mu Chen and Mu Xi. Cen Yue told Mu Chen, and he was shocked, telling him to come immediately to do the test. Mu Xi is confused at her fathers excitement, until she finds out it's Wuling. Back at the forging association, they meet Wuling, and he starts the test.
Mu Xi thinks Wuling is too arrogant - the 3rd grade test is not so simple. He needs to perform 1,000 refinement on any metal, with differing metals awarding more points based on degree of difficulty. Wuling is most familiar with heavy immersion silver, so he chooses it. Mu Chen and Cen Yue are surprised, and Mu Xi gets even angrier. Wuling is not distracted by them, his being entirely focused on the breath of the metal and the forging. He pulls out his heavy silver hammer, while Mu Chen and Cen Yue are set back as the weight of it must be enormous. Wuling starts forging the hammer, the echo of the stacked hammer effect stunning everyone. They realise it's a 1,000 refined hammer! Wuling wanted to ensure the success, so he went all out with this one. Mu Xi was just staring - she knew exactly what the triple stacked hammer effect and heavy silver meant. After 30 minutes, the forging is completed and Wuling's body covered in sweat. Cen Yue praised the hammer as a gift from Mang Tian, but Mu Chen corrects him stating that Wuling forged it himself. They don't need the score anymore, and immediately award Wuling 3rd grade. The 4th grade assessment is far higher - 1,000 refinement and fusion of three metals into a specific shape. After being awarded and Mu Chen telling Wuling he would help him grow in any way, Wuling asks for a cash loan, and tells him he needs the 100 year fire and ice fruits as well as dragon blood. Wuling was thinking he needs to finish this within a week so they can win against the 1st class! Mu Chen tells Wuling he will arrange for the items.
Chapter 96-100
After the items are delivered to Wuling within 30 minutes, Cen Yue is talking to Mu Chen about them, questioning his choice. Mu Chen saw that Wuling was very calm and knew exactly what he needed, planning to temper his body, and also saw it as an opportunity to win over Wuling. Wuling's talent was far too high, and Mu Chen saw him being capable of reaching God Carpenter, surpassing Holy Carpenter! He also knew that Wuling must have finished 1,000 forging before coming to the association, based on Mang Tian's secrecy and today's events. Wuling decides to go to the forging studio to consume the fruits and blood, as he doesn't know what will happen and wants to avoid the uproar at school. The studio should be safe from the typhoon as well. He opens the boxes, and feels the intense heat and cold from the fruits. He realises that he shouldn't eat them directly, so concentrates and tries to reach out to the golden figure he saw and ask how to take them. There is no response, and just as Wuling is thinking it was all a dream, a voice sounded in his mind.
Wuling delves into his mind, he's completely awake this time. The golden figure tells Wuling he can call him Old Tang, and that Wuling will suffer great pain when he breaks the seal and fuses with the GDK's power. Wuling needs to put the fruits into a sealed container with the dragon blood poured over, and then drink it. He needs to be in a good state for this though, so he takes some time to ensure the studio is secure and call Xie Hou to tell him where he is before meditating. He combines the materials as instructed, and they start to reject each other and merge with the dragon blood inside the container. He feels an intense energy coming from the container as the effects die down, and opens it, with the scent and energy almost causing him to sneeze.
Wuling drinks it, unexpectedly it doesn't taste that bad, just a bit fishy. He sits down and tries to meditate, but heat spreads through his body as if his entire being is on fire. His skin is all red, and the golden lines spread over his body. Just as he feels like he can't bear it, the heat dies down, only to be replaced with an intense cold. His skin turns blue, and his blood begins to freeze, while the golden lines grow brighter. He feels a little bit of relief as the cold dies down again, then remembers the blood. As he thinks that, an immense pain spreads throughout his body, like ants burrowing into every part. He screams, and wanted to scratch, but couldn't move his body. Old Tang tells him that if he gives up, he dies, and Wuling perseveres to the end of the pain. Wuling thinks it's over, but the cycle begins again.