Recaps

Chang'an Academy won its brutal matches while the Chen Clan secured cooperation with the Mystic Yellow Tang Family. The arc left Chang'an battling Skywater Academy’s Ice Phoenix, which had survived their strongest attacks and badly injured Ma Liang.

• Xiao Yi’s Thunder Forest overwhelmed Thunder Team’s combined attack, and Chang'an Academy won after Yu Zhijun admitted defeat.
• Chen Xiaojun warned Xiao Yi that her revealed abilities could make her a target, while he and Xia Yun discussed tournament rivals and qualification stakes.
• Chen Zhang negotiated forging contracts and a medicinal materials market with the Mystic Yellow Tang Family, which approved the proposals despite Tang Potian’s failed effort to involve the Clear Sky Sect.
• Chang'an defeated Blazing Fire Academy and Moon Bay Academy, while Five Mountains Academy eliminated Thunder Team and continued its run through the tournament.
• Chen Xiaojun led Chang'an into its match against Skywater Academy, where Shui Binglan and Xue Qingwu unleashed their Ice Phoenix fusion skill.
• Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi combined the Sun God Pearl and Big Dipper Star Swirl to challenge the Ice Phoenix, while Yuzuru Hanyu copied it with an Ice Soul Mirror.
• Zhu Wuneng trapped the copied phoenix, and Ma Liang struck the original with Rainbow Ash Pierces the Firmament Tribulation, but Yuzuru Hanyu and Qiu Ruoyi helped it recover.
• The Ice Phoenix broke free of Zhu Wuneng’s restraints and counterattacked, forcing Zhu Wuneng backward and severely injuring Ma Liang.

The Crimson Church attacked the Chen Residence, where the Chen clan and its allies fought off Soul Saints and Soul Douluo while Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Xi Xi faced Yan Chou Long. The arc left Yan Chou Long bound by Chen Xiaojun’s sword formation and Azure Lotus threads as the twin-turtle vortex weakened his attack.

• Zhu Hongzhen revealed himself as the Zhu Clan’s last surviving ancestor and a Rank 94 Titled Douluo, while Chen Hong arrived to intercept Ming Xiangyun and Yuwen Changtai slipped toward the Chen clan’s gifted youth.
• The defenders battled the Crimson Church’s Soul Saints, and Xiao Yi’s healing and Ice Soul Dream Illusion Vine helped the allies kill the halberd-wielding Soul Saint after Ma Liang struck him down.
• Chou Long ambushed the exhausted fighters, but Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Xi Xi weakened his attack and recognized him as Yan Chou Long of the Yan Family.
• Xi Xi, Chen Xiaojun, and Xiao Yi fought Yan Chou Long with water, lightning, summoned beasts, and shields, while the allied defenders killed several Soul Saints and pushed back Crimson Church forces across the residence.
• The Chang'an Team joined the Central Courtyard battle as the defenders rallied, and Lian Changzhi and Chen Zhang wounded or restrained several Soul Douluo despite their own injuries.
• Xi Xi used her Shield of Victory to block Yan Chou Long’s claw, while Xiao Yi’s Moonlight Divine Light damaged his wings and Chen Xiaojun’s Black Tortoise Shield protected him from the attacks.
• Chen Xiaojun and Xi Xi’s shields resonated into a twin-turtle vortex that countered Yan Chou Long’s Demonic Dragon Vortex and eased the strain on Chen Xiaojun.
• Chen Xiaojun wounded Yan Chou Long with Merchant Emperor’s Three Swords, then used the Three Powers Sword Formation and Azure Lotus threads to bind him and wear away his Nether Demonic Qi.

The Crimson Church’s assault on the Chen Residence ended with Yan Chou Long and Luo Derun dead, while the survivors faced a citywide pursuit and the Chen Clan began treating its wounded. As the family’s losses came to light, Xiao Yi returned to the tournament and led Chang'an Academy to victory over Heaven Spirit Academy.

• Chen Xiaojun, Xiao Yi, and Xi Xi cornered Yan Chou Long, but he used Dragon Soul Reincarnation to break free and drive Xi Xi into the ruins.
• Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi fused into the Dutian Sword Vine and wore Yan Chou Long down, while Long Ma’s Profound Nether Milky Way domain defeated Yan Wushuang’s attack.
• Chloe Russell and Ning Rui Ting helped bring down the Skynet, but Luo Derun detonated its nodes, and the blast devastated the defenses and Chen Residence.
• Yan Wushuang fled through a spatial rift, while Chen Xiaojun and Xiao Yi formed Ten Directions Extinction and annihilated Yan Chou Long.
• Xiao Yi treated Zhu Hongzhen with Chloe Russell’s help, while the Crimson Church’s survivors and informants faced pursuit and the Chen Clan’s allies hunted Luo Derun and Luo Ping.
• Zhang Xiaofan, the Magic Ape Emperor, and the Chen Clan’s experts surrounded and killed Luo Derun and Luo Ping, then concealed the battle from the Crimson Church.
• Chen Xiaojun woke to learn that Xiao Yi had exhausted herself treating the wounded and that the scythe’s divine power had destroyed their great-grandfather’s martial soul origin.
• Xiao Yi returned to the tournament and used her Meteor Vine to bind and break Heaven Spirit Academy’s Baxia, prompting Zhong Weiyun to concede the match.