Chapter Summaries

Lin Bai and Ji Juechen’s sword intents clashed after Ji Juechen defeated a challenger with a single sword stroke and called Lin Bai to fight. Ji Juechen offered to exchange sword techniques without using Soul Skills, and Lin Bai accepted.

• Chen Xin recognized the exceptional sword talent in both Lin Bai and Ji Juechen as others watched the Sky Screen.
• Ji Juechen’s challenger assembled a Thunderclap Cannon and fired, but Ji Juechen split its lightning with one stroke and defeated him.
• Ji Juechen invited Lin Bai to the arena, while Qian Renxue and Huo Yutong rushed over to Lin Bai and met Ju Zi and Keke.
• Ji Juechen released his deathly still sword intent, and Lin Bai answered with the Ruthless Sword and a killing sword intent that matched it.
• Lin Bai objected that Ji Juechen was a Soul Ancestor challenging a freshman, so Ji Juechen proposed a sword-only exchange without Soul Skills, and Lin Bai accepted.

Qian Daoliu confronted the Clear Sky Sect over Tang Hao and Tang San’s destruction of Spirit Hall and the Qian family, but agreed to let the Sky Screen battle speak first. In that battle, Lin Bai overwhelmed Ji Juechen with swift sword strikes, and Chen Xin recognized Lin Bai’s technique as the Chen Clan’s Cloud-Soaring Ambition Wind-Following Sword Art.

• Qian Daoliu brought Spirit Hall elders to Clear Sky Peak and demanded that Tang Xiao answer for Tang Hao and Tang San’s actions.
• Tang Xiao argued that events shown on the Sky Screen happened in a parallel world, but Qian Daoliu challenged the Clear Sky Sect’s claim to the continent’s strongest Tool Martial Soul.
• Lin Bai and Ji Juechen entered the arena as students from the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy cheered Lin Bai on.
• Ji Juechen attacked Lin Bai with his sword intent, but Lin Bai met him with a powerful killing intent and a series of increasingly fast strikes.
• Chen Xin watched Lin Bai’s swordsmanship and recognized it as the Chen Clan’s Cloud-Soaring Ambition Wind-Following Sword Art.

Lin Bai used the Cloud-Soaring Ambition Wind-Following Sword Art to defeat Ji Juechen in their swordsmanship contest. After revealing the art’s origins, Lin Bai offered to teach it to Ji Juechen.

• Chen Xin recognized that Lin Bai had grasped part of the Cloud-Soaring Ambition Wind-Following Sword Art and admired his talent.
• Meng Hongchen was shocked that Lin Bai was suppressing Ji Juechen, while Qian Renxue and Huo Yutong explained how diligently Lin Bai had trained in the sword art.
• Ji Juechen used his Self-Created Soul Skill, Sweeping Slash, to attack Lin Bai at great speed.
• Lin Bai stopped Ji Juechen with the defensive stance Dark Netherworld Protection, the iron sword unrivaled, and Ji Juechen admitted defeat.
• Lin Bai identified his sword art as the Cloud-Soaring Ambition Wind-Following Sword Art and offered to teach it to Ji Juechen.

Lin Bai agreed to teach Ji Juechen his sword technique in exchange for conditions they would discuss the next morning, while Bibi Dong and Shrek Academy watched the Sky Screen. Lin Bai praised Ji Juechen as the true example of the saying about Martial Souls, leaving Yu Xiaogang stunned after hearing the Sky Screen mock his legacy.

• Lin Bai set a meeting with Ji Juechen at the academy training ground to discuss the terms for teaching him the sword technique.
• Bibi Dong watched Qian Renxue on the Sky Screen and wondered whether Yu Xiaogang had been well.
• Lin Bai, Huo Yutong, and Qian Renxue received a house at the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and Lin Bai explained that teaching Ji Juechen was a worthwhile trade.
• Huo Yutong recited Yu Xiaogang's reputation as Tang San's teacher and the foremost theoretical Grandmaster, prompting Yu Xiaogang to celebrate his supposed future achievements.
• Lin Bai called Yu Xiaogang a counterexample to his own saying and declared that Ji Juechen was the person who truly fit it.

Yu Xiaogang tried to destroy the Sky Screen with Luo Sanpao’s Soul Skill, but the Sky Screen struck him down and left him badly injured. Lin Bai then explained how Ji Juechen overcame his low innate talent by dedicating himself wholly to the sword, leaving Meng Hongchen, Qian Renxue, and Huo Yutong stunned by the nature of his Martial Soul.

• Yu Xiaogang summoned Luo Sanpao and attacked the Sky Screen with his First Soul Skill, but the attack vanished against its golden barrier.
• The Sky Screen struck Yu Xiaogang with golden lightning for interfering with its broadcast, and Shao Xin treated his injuries while Flender watched.
• At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, Meng Hongchen asked Lin Bai how Ji Juechen had become so powerful despite his level-three Innate Soul Power.
• Lin Bai explained that Ji Juechen used his Soul Rings to amplify his Soul Power and fought with his sword and Self-Created Soul Skills.
• Lin Bai said Ji Juechen had spent more than ten years shaping a piece of meteoric iron, sublimating his Martial Soul into the concept of the sword itself.

Lin Bai’s account of Ji Juechen’s swordsmanship inspired Chen Xin to enter seclusion, while Qian Daoliu confronted the Clear Sky Sect and then left to capture Tang Hao and Tang San. Tang Xiao resolved to help save Tang Hao and his son.

• Lin Bai explained Ji Juechen’s devotion to the sword dao and suggested that the Illustrious Virtue Hall invest in him with a level-nine sword-type melee Soul Tool.
• Chen Xin praised Ji Juechen and Lin Bai after watching the Sky Screen, then left to enter seclusion after sensing his cultivation barrier loosen.
• Qian Daoliu rebuked Tang Xiao and the Clear Sky Sect elders, demanded they hand over Tang Hao, and denounced the Clear Sky Hammer’s claim to supremacy.
• A Spirit Hall cardinal reported that the Pope had found Tang Hao and Tang San, so Qian Daoliu and the other enshrined flew off to capture them.
• Tang Xiao declared that the Clear Sky Sect would save Tang Hao and Ah Yin’s son.