Recaps

The Chen Clan investigated the Crimson Church’s attacks and strengthened its defenses while Xiao Yi and her allies fought through the arena tournament. Chen Xinyi faced the Snow Empress and revealed her power, leaving both sides battered after their attacks collided.

• Chen Zhang rallied Soul Fighting City's families against the Crimson Church and arranged intelligence support, while the Chen Clan began rebuilding its transport security and intelligence network after suffering heavy losses.
• Chen Xiaojun gave Xiao Yi a beaded belt of powerful artifacts, and the Chang'an Duke Residence council reviewed casualties from Crimson Church attacks on medicinal-material convoys and the Star Luo City garrison.
• Xiao Yi supported her allies with Meteor Vines in the Body Sect battle, defeated Ji Lintong with a mental attack, and overcame Long Xiaoqian after his transformations and Silver Dragon techniques failed against her Seven Injuries Halo.
• Su Ningxia and Du Gu Fu defeated Chen Haokai and Tu Jin, while Chen Mu and Shan Wei fought to a standstill and Long Jing'an considered Yu Yongyuan's proposal for an alliance between their families.
• A disguised spectator identified Chen Xinyi as an SSS-class calamity seed, and Han Yiyu revealed that Zhan Ruoxi had formed a Soul Tether with her, prompting Yang Jingxue to challenge Han's involvement.
• Zhan Ruoxi, Ji Bingyan, and Bo Huaiyu fused their Martial Souls into the Snow Empress, which unleashed its Icebound Law Domain against Chen Xinyi's Five Elements Law Domain.
• Chen Xinyi revealed her Level 71 Soul Saint power and Twin Martial Souls, then met Hanbing's Emperor's Palm with a Subduing Demon Seal in a collision that shook the arena.
• The Snow Empress struck with Emperor Sword: Ice Extreme Unrivaled, and Chen Xinyi answered with the Five Elements Destruction Spear, splitting the sword's tip while both combatants suffered injuries and backlash.

The Chen Clan and Moon Palace repelled coordinated assaults on Moonlight City and the ancestral land, but suffered heavy losses and began rebuilding their defenses. Meanwhile, Chen Xinyi and Xiao Yi faced Wujian Team in the tournament, where Xiao Yi’s recovery turned the match into a fierce solo fight.

• Chen Xinyi shattered the Snow Empress’s Ice Yi Sword with her Five Elements Rotating Destruction Spear, defeating Ji Bingyan and leaving herself bloodied.
• Crimson Church cultists attacked the Moonlight Medicine Market, but local forces joined the moonlight guards and fought back against the Demon Dragon Legion.
• Leng Qingqiu reached the Titled Realm and helped repel Yan Wushuang and the Demon Dragon Legion, then announced that he had become a Chen family enshrined expert.
• The Demon Dragon Legion attacked the Chen ancestral land while its forces struck the Medicine Market, and Chen Hanxin and Xia Ruxin fought to hold the fortress.
• Xuan Zixian and Qing Yue arrived, turning the battle in the Chen Clan’s favor, and Qing Yue’s moonlight restored allies and purified the battlefield.
• The Chen Clan counted its casualties, accepted the Shentu line as its twenty-seventh Zhaowu house, and organized reinforcements for the ancestral land and Medicine Market.
• Chen Xinyi faced Wujian Team alone, while Xiao Yi recovered enough to enter the match and fought off the team’s assault with her vines and Moonlight Divine Light.
• Xiao Yi trapped five Wujian fighters in vines, then wounded Hua Nongying, who struck back with Seven Emotions Soul Separation before collapsing.

Xiao Yi defeated Naraku Academy and then led Chang'an Academy into a fierce match against Heaven Dou Team, revealing the breadth of her vine-based martial souls and skills. The arc left Heaven Dou’s fighters under mounting pressure as their Glazed Water Light Screen resisted Xiao Yi’s tribulation lightning.

• Xiao Yi broke Naraku Academy’s defenses with Moon Illusion Wolf Realm and Moonlight Divine Light, defeating all seven fighters and securing Chang'an Academy’s victory.
• The Chen Clan mourned its fallen defenders, including Ji Shuran, Yan Chengyi, and Jian Hesong, while Feng Min sought to protect Yan Xiaolai and Ye Xiuxin assessed Zhu Hongzhen’s chances of recovery.
• Xiao Yi covered the arena in Sky Azure Vines, but Heaven Dou Team combined its defenses and ice skills to carve a path toward her.
• Xiao Yi revealed the Sword Willow Vine and Ageless Evergreen Ivy, overwhelming Heaven Dou’s defenses as Xue Shiming raised the Honghu Sacred Beast to challenge her.
• Xiao Yi summoned the Silver Wolf True King, defeated Xue Shiming’s Honghu, and spread the Ancient Vine Barrier, strengthening her vines and restoring their power.
• Xue Shiming, Tang Chen, and Ning Zhongtian joined forces to unleash Thunderfall Heavenly Conquest, but Xiao Yi’s Silver Wolf True King was destroyed while protecting her.
• Xiao Yi’s Thunder Hell Vine devoured the team’s lightning attack, then struck Heaven Dou’s formation with Ninefold Purple and compressed Ning Zhongtian’s Glazed Sacred Domain.
• Xiao Yi formed the Five Thunders Peak · Hell Thunder Realm and sent three tribulation bolts against Heaven Dou’s Glazed Water Light Screen, which conducted some of the current into the earth.

Xiao Yi defeated the Heaven Dou Three Heroes and revealed herself as Donghuang Xiuyi, the Genius List’s top ranker and Shao Siming. As her victory prompted plans to rebuild the Wood Department, the Chen Clan considered an alliance with Si Baining and the Si Clan.

• Xiao Yi used her formations, vines, and lightning to exhaust the Heaven Dou Team, then healed her damaged vines and countered their combined attacks.
• Xiao Yi stopped Tang Chen’s Heavenly Emperor’s Hammer with her Spacetime Cage, shattered it, and revealed her blood-red soul ring and seventh vine.
• After the Heaven Dou Three Heroes conceded defeat, Xiao Yi revealed that Chen Xinyi was her alias and that she was Donghuang Xiuyi, Shao Siming.
• Donghuang Xiuyi’s identity and victory stirred the crowd and unsettled political observers, while Xue Shiming framed the defeat as honorable and strengthened ties with the Silver Plume Alliance.
• Bo Saixi and Chen Yanwu crowned Xiao Yi with wreaths, and the three women walked together from the arena as spectators watched.
• Xiao Yi told Chen Xiaojun she intended to rebuild the Wood Department, and he agreed to help find its living foundations and future cultivators while keeping it under her sole authority.
• Meng Wei brought Si Baining and his sister to Chen Lin Village, where Chen Xun offered resources and support in exchange for Si Baining serving as a Chen family Enshrined Elder.
• Si Baining’s sister proposed that the entire Si Clan pledge allegiance in return for Chen family support, and Chen Xun deferred his decision until that afternoon.