On the Canglan Continent, countless races stand side by side, and martial arts reign supreme. The young Lin Fu was born in a blacksmith's shop in a remote border town, where he made a living forging iron under the tutelage of his master, Old Xu. After an accident awakened his rare "Soulforging Talent," he discovered mysterious patterns on his ancestral anvil: the legendary "Heaven-Burning Soulforging Anvil," said to be capable of refining the souls of all things. When ordinary iron blooms with martial-soul radiance beneath his hammer, and the lost secret art of the "Nine Heavens of Body Tempering" emerges from a damaged ancient text, Lin Fu embarks on a heaven-defying path that combines forging with martial arts.
Starting from the lowest level, the Body Tempering Realm, he hammers his body into shape and tempers his soul in fire, breaking through his limits with every forge. Armed with the "Redscale Saber," the life-bound weapon he crafted himself, he progresses from a first trial slaying mountain bandits to venturing deep into the Demonic Beast Mountains to fight for rare mineral veins, then gets swept into the power struggles of the Four Great Empires. As the "Abyssal Rift" deep within the Canglan Continent continues to expand, the evil Abyssal Race arrives, bringing a dark power that corrodes souls. Lin Fu realizes that his Soulforging Talent is the key to resisting this soul corruption.
When he reaches the peak of the Body Tempering Realm and cleaves the stars, when the martial soul he forms in the Soul Condensation Realm manifests the phantom of an ancient God of Forging, and when he forges his soul power into Soul Crystal Armor that can both attack and defend in the Crystal Transformation Realm, the entire continent finally realizes that this once-humble blacksmith is writing a legend for soulforgers in the annals of Canglan, using his hammer as a brush and his blood as ink. His ultimate goal is to uncover the deepest secret of the Heaven-Burning Soulforging Anvil: the legendary "Eternal Realm," capable of reforging the world's origin, and the fragmented memories that haunt his dreams, memories of the "Forging Divine Court of the Predecessor Civilization."
Not bad. . .